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When 2024 Women’s Royal Rumble winner Bayley announced on RAW that she was undecided regarding her WrestleMania opponent, it turned more than a few heads around the professional wrestling world. Afforded a chance to challenge for any title she’d like in a main event spot at the “Showcase of the Immortals,” the choice really shouldn’t […]

After finally punching her ticket to WrestleMania with a massive win at the 2024 Royal Rumble, checking off one of the final boxes left on her career to-do list in the process, SmackDown Superstar Bayley, alongside her Damage CTRL teammates, were afforded a chance to address the WWE Universe on RAW and lay out how […]

When news broke that Jade Cargill had signed with WWE after exclusively spending her professional wrestling as a member of AEW up to that point, it felt like a massive deal. Sure, Cargill’s time in AEW could best be described as unique, as she won 50 straight matches and was booked like an unstoppable force, […]

When Bianca Belair debuted on the main roster all the way back in 2020, there was no guarantee she’d become a success, let alone the longest-reigning RAW Woman’s Champion in WWE history. A fun, fan-favorite performer who got very over as a member of NXT, folks in the know were well aware of Belair’s status […]

After taking some pretty serious bumps during Damage CTRL’s WarGames match at last year’s Survivor Series, you’d think Bayley would have taken things easy in Chicago, retreating to her locker room and cooling off just in case Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Byron Saxton and company needed her for the press conference or a digital medial […]

When Tony Khan took to social media to slander Jinder Mahal’s win-loss record in an unusual attempt to justify booking Hook against Samoa Joe for a televised AEW World Championship match, it turned heads around the wrestling world. To some, the decision was simply a young, social media savvy SEO having some fun online, garnering […]

Since returning to the WWE Universe at SummerSlam 2022, Bayley‘s time with Damage CTRL has been an absolute rollercoaster. After initially dominating the women’s division, with IYO SKY and Dakota Kai becoming tag team champions over two different reigns, the group really started to roll almost one year later in 2023, when the “Genius of […]

Since returning to WWE at SummerSlam 2022, IYO SKY has always had the rest of Damage CTRL in her proverbial corner. Granted, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, as SKY did cost Bayley a win at Money in the Bank, and the former Grand Slam Champion has routinely ignored her friend’s wishes to interfere in […]

In the lead-up to Fastlane, two very important things happened: Jade Cargill officially arrived at the venue in Indianapolis, Indiana, meeting with Paul “Triple H” Levesque as they presumably took their seats for the show, and IYO SKY explicitly asked Bayley to stay in the back and avoid interfering in her match with Asuka and […]

As the professional wrestling world prepares for Bray Wyatt‘s memorial ceremonies in the week following his untimely passing due to a heart attack, WWE decided to release a video where almost a dozen performers, announcers, and creatives alike sat down in front of a camera to tell some of their favorite stories from the life […]

When AEW panned the camera up into the stands in the pre-show of All In and made it abundantly clear that Mercedes Mone, aka Sasha Banks in WWE, was one of the 81,035 fans in attendance at the “biggest professional wrestling show of all time” – though she all but certainly didn’t pay for her […]

After failing to be booked for a match on the SmackDown after SummerSlam, IYO SKY and her Damage CTRL teammates, Bayley and Dakota Kai, made their presence known anyway, attacking Charlotte Flair and Asuka during their mid-show rematch and sending it to a draw in favor of another highlight reel moment by the “Genius of […]

When Bianca Belair found herself booked for a tag team match with Charlotte Flair on SmackDown, it put the “EST of WWE” in a precarious situation. On one hand, Belair has been dying to recapture her RAW Women’s Championship – now the WWE Women’s Championship – since she lost the title to Asuka at Night […]

After watching Bayley secure a relatively easy win on SmackDown in her first match against Zelina Vega since Money in the Bank, Shotzi took over the Titantron to deliver a message to the “Role Model” following a brutal assault that left her with a lock of hair sheered straight off. “When Bayley held me down […]

After spending the last decade together in WWE, working as a “best friends”-style tag team called “The Boss ‘n’ Hug Connection” on more than a few occasions, it must be incredibly weird for Bayley not to be working alongside Mercedes Moné, aka the “Boss” formerly known as Sasha Banks. Fortunately, professional wrestling is an ever-changing […]

After watching Damian Priest disappointingly win the Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder match, Shayna Baszler turn on Ronda Rousey, Drew McIntyre return, John Cena return, and Cody Rhodes defeat Dominik Mysterio one-on-one – though not necessarily in that order – the WWE Universe was treated to the second Money in the Bank Ladder match […]

After taking a loss to IYO SKY on SmackDown in a qualifying match to decide on a participant in the open contract Ladder match, Shotzi will not be wrestling at Money in the Bank, at least not unless she can book a title match with Rhea Ripley or pick up a shift as a referee. […]

After challenging any member of Damage CTRL to a match ahead of Money in the Bank, Zelina Vega took care of business against IYO SKY to pick up some crucial momentum heading into the show at the O2 Arena in London on July 1st. Discussing the win with Megan Morant in a special WWE Digital […]

Bayley has a lot of enemies in WWE. An OG Four Horsewoman who has been in the proverbial trenches for a decade and counting, the “Role Model” has feuded with Becky Lynch, Sahsa Banks, Bianca Belair, and pretty much every other major babyface star WWE has to offer, but when her career comes to an […]

After guaranteeing that both of the healthy members of Damage CTRL would qualify for Money in the Bank alongside Zelina Vega, Bayley, and IYO SKY were feeling pretty darn good after the second edition of SmackDown post-Night of Champions, with the duo both securing wins in matches against Mia Yim and Shotzi, respectively. Stopping by […]

With Money in the Bank rapidly approaching, Bayley and IYO SKY of Damage CTRL could soon find themselves competing as singles stars against each other with an open contract for any Women’s Title in WWE. Discussing the prospects of potentially going against each other and what it could mean for their future in the ring […]

When news broke that, after sustaining an injury in her match against Bayley and Dakota Kai, Liv Morgan was going to be out indefinitely with an undisclosed injury, it sent shockwaves through the WWE woman’s locker room, literally. Suddenly, the WWE Woman’s Tag Team Championships, which had been firmly held by Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez […]

Michael Cole loves working with Pat McAfee. Though their partnership was a marriage of convenience more than anything else, with the veteran Cole serving as the logical partner for an uber-charismatic yet wrestling naive announcer, from there, the bromance blossomed into something truly special, with the duo seemingly enjoying all 120 minutes they shared the […]

After struggling to find much success in the ring so far in 2023, things turned around seemingly overnight for Bayley and the members of Damage CTRL, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY, as they secured a huge win over the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions on RAW, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, in their final RAW […]

And then there were four; after working through the first three rounds of the WWE Draft, with 12 acts finding their way to either RAW or SmackDown, Shawn Michaels and Road Dogg came out to make the final four selections of the WWE Draft and helped to announce where four more acts, including some love […]

Lita has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2000, when she debuted on SmackDown in March following a short-yet-sweet tenure in ECW in 1999. Since her debut, she’s wrestled 328 matches for The Fed, won four singles championships, and became a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, […]

As things presently stand, Damage CTRL aren’t exactly in the best spot within the WWE Universe. They’ve lost every major match they’ve been in over the past two months, have no championship belts, losing the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships to Lita and Becky Lynch before WrestleMania 39, and could very well be broken up […]

While Bayley really should probably be focusing her time on her forthcoming match Dakota Kai and IYO SKY against Becky Lynch, Lita, and Trish Stratus, while discussing WrestleMania 39 on the Ring Wrestling Show, the leader of Damage CTRL just couldn’t help herself from bringing up her former best friend in WWE, Sasha Banks, and […]

Though Mercedes Moné is no longer a member of the WWE Universe, putting a decades worth of Sasha Banks’ legacy behind her to go out on her own as part of New Japan Pro Wrestling, that doesn’t’ mean the woman formerly known as “The Boss” doesn’t still keep up with her former employer’s on-screen product. […]

WWE has a ton of talented female superstars on the roster who don’t get the praise they deserve. In a division that’s so stacked, it’s hard for each superstar to get their shine. Unfortunately for them, there also aren’t many championships to fight for. They only have two singles titles and one set of tag […]

With WrestleMania season officially here, WWE fans are running around like a game of musical chairs looking to secure their spot on the biggest card of the year. Omos is calling out Brock Lesnar, Bray Wyatt wants Bobby Lashley, and even Drew McIntyre has gotten in on the fun, looking to take on GUNTHER for […]

When Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out on WWE during an episode of Raw last year, nobody knew what the future held for both superstars. Fans speculated whether they would eventually return to the company or be released from their contracts. After months of wondering what’s next, rumors circulated that Sasha Banks was officially done […]

Though she wasn’t booked for the Elimination Chamber, Bayley still made her way up to Canada to give WWE fans a celebration of her Damage CTRL friends, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY. Discussing their collective accomplishments on the RAW return of Ding Dong, Hello! – the second DDH of 2023 after debuting the show on […]

Heading into RAW, it looked like Bianca Belair was in for a relatively easy night. Sure, she might have to come out, say hello to the Brooklyn crowd, talk up the excitement surrounding Elimination Chamber and maybe even work a match for the fans against some performer looking to test their mettle against the “EST […]

When RAW came on the air, who but Becky Lynch – and Adam Pearce – stood in the middle of the ring with a message to deliver to the entire WWE Universe after securing a huge steel cage win over Bayley the previous week. “The Man has come around to Brooklyn,” Lynch said. “So that […]

After watching Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin fully come apart at NXT Vengeance Day, Bayley took it upon herself to get the Toxic Attraction gals back on the same page via an appearance on her much-loved talk show Ding Dong Hello! Though the Toxic twosome arrived at the PC separately, they walked to the ring […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, Becky Lynch and Bayley were finally afforded a chance to go toe-to-toe in a steel cage on RAW for the entire WWE Universe to see. Expecting a one-on-one match following a backstage beatdown on Dakota Kai on the previous edition of RAW, Lynch did find herself in a match […]

After eight by-the-books entrants into the Women’s Royal Rumble, with the biggest surprise probably being the return of Shayna Baszler, who was absent from television for much of January, spot number nine featured the first true bit of intrigue in the sixth-ever running of the female version of the show’s titular match, as Roxanne Perez, […]

After being advertised to wrestle in a cage match against Becky Lynch at RAW XXX, Bayley shocked the professional wrestling world by marching down to the ring with her Damage CTRL pals, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY, to put a beatdown on the former WWE champ. Fans gasped, Corey Graves and Kevin Patrick were shocked, […]