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With Clash at the Castle rapidly approaching, there’s no member of the WWE Universe, not even Cody Rhodes, who is more of a focal point in the promotion than Drew McIntyre, the first-ever Superstar to come from the country. On paper, it makes sense, right? McIntyre will almost certainly be headlining the show next weekend […]

After months and months and months of speculation, Drew McIntyre finally signed a new contract with WWE, ending any speculation about jumping to another promotion like AEW or even the possibility that he could leave and take a break from wrestling altogether after relentless years and years on the road. But why did it take […]

Though Drew McIntyre has spent the vast majority of his adult life living in America while pursuing his professional wrestling dreams in the WWE and beyond, in his heart, he is a son of Scotland through and through, with his gimmick, song, nickname, and presentation all built around his country of origin. So, when news […]

Before Noam Dar was the Heritage Cup Champion, the leader and founder of Meta-Four, or even a standout member of NXT UK, Noam Dar was a member of the WWE main roster, working some of 2016 and most of 2017 as a member of the RAW roster. Now granted, was Dar’s run particularly memorable? For […]

After getting into it a bit with Adam Pearce, you’d think Drew McIntyre could drive off into the sunset, enjoy the rest of his night, and reload for the final RAW of May, where plenty of his co-workers will be coming off of a direct flight from Saudi Arabia. … but if you expected that, […]

Though Drew McIntyre already has his big match lined up at WrestleMania 40, throwing down with Seth Rollins in one of his two matches of the weekend for the World Heavyweight Championship, the one match WWE fans want to see more than any other is the “Scottish Warrior” versus CM Punk, the “Second City Saint” […]

Ahead of Giovanni Vinci’s scheduled match with Chad Gable on RAW, the “Ring General” himself, Gunther, decided to ascend to the top of the WWE  announce table to send a message to the Alpha Academy and the rest of the WWE Universe about who has a legitimate shot at ending his Intercontinental Championship reign and […]

Roman Reigns has been the WWE Universal Champion for 1,073 days and counting, with 492 of those days coming as a double-champion with the OG WWE Championship also around his waist. How many times, you may wonder, has Reigns defended his title since securing the strap at Payback in August of 2020? 30, or once […]

At SummerSlam, Drew McIntyre is going to either secure a very big win the likes of which alters the WWE record books forever, as Gunther will be just 33 days away from overcoming Honky Tonk Man’s 454-day record with the Intercontinental Championship, or he will drop the ball, drop the match, and drop down the […]

Drew McIntyre is WWE’s workhorse. Though he hasn’t held a title since February of 2021, when he was brutally beaten down by Bobby Lashley before The Miz cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase, McIntyre has remained a steady contributor to WWE’s weekly television, “Premium Live Event,” and even house show circuit, having wrestled […]

WWE matches typically get a tough rep from Dave Meltzer. Despite being in business since all the way back in 1953, when Vincent J. McMahon ran the first show under the name Capitol Wrestling Corporation, the company now known as WWE has produced thousands upon thousands upon thousands of matches, and yet, over that near-70-year […]

Do you recall how WWE’s Clash at the Castle ended? No, not when Roman Reigns defeated Drew McIntyre for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship; after that, when Tyson Fury took to the ring, congratulated McIntyre for working hard in front of his home crowd, and then began singing acapella classic rock karaoke songs in the […]

After finally, officially turning his back on his father Rey and Edge at Clash at the Castle, Dominik Mysterio has made his intentions clear on the fallout episode of RAW: Dom has officially thrown his hat in with Judgement Day to fully come into his own in the WWE Universe freed from his father’s long, […]

When Drew McIntyre took the ring in Cardiff, Wales, for a bout with Roman Reigns for a match at WWE’s Clash at the Castle, the odds were always stacked against him, Sure, McIntyre had 60,000 fans cheering him on, hoping for nothing more than to see the hometown kid come away from the first UK […]

Deep in the thralls of an absolute slugfest between Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre that felt like it might go on forever, who would appear to shake up the match but Austin Theory, the current holder of the WWE Money in the Bank briefcase and the contract it holds? Oh no, was Theory seriously going […]

Seth Rollins and Matt Riddle really don’t like each other. Since entering into a feud following Cody Rhodes’ brutal victory over the man formerly known as the “Monday Night Messiah” at Hell in a Cell, Rollins has had it out for Riddle, and their interactions have only grown more and more contentious with each passing […]

After being bullied up on by the heelish Shayna Baszler the for the better part of a month, Liv Morgan came into WWE’s Clash at the Castle with everything to lose and nothing but legacy points to gain. Facing off against a submission specialist who continued the work Ronda Rousey started at SummerSlam on her […]

Gunther is an imposing force in the WWE Universe. Since slimming down considerably from his days in NXT UK and cashing out his given first name, Walter, for a more menacing – and WWE copyright friends – moniker, the “Ring General” has been on a tear, winning the Intercontinental Championship from Ricochet on a June […]

When the trio of Bayley, Dakota Kai, and IYO SKY debuted as a trio at SummerSlam, it felt like an inflection point in the WWE women’s division. Sure, none of these performers were necessarily new to the WWE Universe, as Bayley is a member of the Four Horsewomen, and both Kai and SKY had prolific […]

Fresh off the heels of one of the most exciting SummerSlams in recent memory, WWE is set to run its next “Premium Live Event” in Cardiff, Wales, where the stars of RAW and SmackDown will wrestle at Clash at the Castle. Fans will finally be afforded a chance to see the trio of Dakota Kai, […]

As you may or may not have noticed, Paul Heyman has been curiously absent from WWE television since he suffered a slam from Brock Lesnar at when things broke down outside the ring during the main event of SummerSlam. Granted, he has made a few verbal cameos, including an off-camera promo at the start of […]

Edge has wrestled a ton of matches in the WWE. He’s been a fixture of “Premium Live Events” back when they were called Pay-Per-Views, has won titles both singles and tag team, and has taken part in some of the most prolific matches in the promotion’s history, like the original TLC match and the “The […]

WWE’s Seth Rollins and Riddle don’t like each other. They’ve been feuding for the better part of the summer for one reason or another since the latter fell into the former’s crosshairs following Hell in a Cell, and they’ve come to blows more than a few times in the weeks proceeding their scheduled match at […]

In a little less than a week, Drew McIntyre will be wrestling the most important match of his WWE career, nay his wrestling career, period, when he throws down in the main event of Clash at the Castle versus the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns. Taking the ring in Cardiff, Wales, on the very […]

Though Liv Morgan has officially been the SmackDown Women’s Champion since June 2nd, 2022, she’s only defended the belt once, at SummerSlam, in a Money in the Bank rematch against Ronda Rousey. Granted, Morgan hasn’t exactly pulled a Roman Reigns and left WWE entirely, as she’s been a fixture of SmackDown, house shows, and even […]

After securing a massive win over Natalya and Sonya Deville on SmackDown, Aliyah and Raquel Rodriguez have officially secured themselves a spot in the finale of WWE’s Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament, where they will wrestle Dakota Kai and IYO SKY for the vacant titles. While their path to the finals wasn’t particularly fraught with […]

When Roman Reigns took care of business against Brock Lesnar at WWE’s SummerSlam, it cleared the way for the biggest roadblock in the way of the “Head of the Table’s” match to two-straight years with the WWE Universal Champion. As he often points out in his promos, Reigns has pretty much taken care of every […]

With Toxic Attraction officially out of the tournament to decide the next Women’s Tag Team Champion due to an injury suffered in the ring by Gigi Dolin, WWE had to get creative to keep the show on track and the final match on schedule. But what would they do? Toxic Attraction were already called up […]

When Drew McIntyre pulled out a win over Sheamus in WWE’s first-ever Good Old Fashioned Donnybrook Match ahead of SummerSlam, fans had to know that one way or another, WWE was going to get “The Celtic Warrior” on Clash at the Castle. Sure, he isn’t the same performer he once was, when he won the […]

Sheamus and Drew McIntyre have wrestled about a dozen times since joining the WWE Universe. … actually, that isn’t correct. No, the duo have wrestled dozens of times, plural, with 74 recorded contests as either friends or foes, according to the fine folks over at Cagematch. They’ve wrestled in teams, wrestled solo, and even taken […]

When news broke that Drew McIntyre was booked for a match with Sheamus to decide who would get first dibs against the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at Clash at the Castle, it felt weird. Why line up another contender for a pair of belts that are already being wrestled for at SummerSlam? Why do so […]

Just when you thought that this week’s edition of SmackDown couldn’t be any more must-watch, as it presents the first chance for Vince McMahon to put himself on WWE television in a riotous attempt to counter-program against his most recent allegations of impropriety, the promotion – which is still having its on-screen/in-ring product booked by […]