Payback Articles - Page 2

After announcing that John Cena would be appearing at the Giant Center for the go-home edition of SmackDown before Payback – his first of eight announced SmackDown appearances thus far –  Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Adam Pearce, and company didn’t make the fine fans in Hershey, Pennsylvania wait long to see “The Face that runs […]

Despite asking for his release, founding the first legitimate challenger brand in nearly 20 years, and even having an exorcism to rid himself of the demons of his past, at his heart, Cody Rhodes has always been a WWE guy. A second-generation wrestler who has a father in the Hall of Fame and a brother […]

Seth Rollins is a performer who, as the oldheads would say, knows a thing or two about drawing money. In his decade in WWE and time on the indies before it, Rollins has headlined shows all over the world, become one of Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s go-to house show main eventers, and has been a […]

After watching Rhea Ripley slowly but surely take away everything she cared about within the WWE Universe, from her tag team partner Liv Morgan, to her WWE Woman’s Tag Team Championship belts and even her own health, Raquel Rodriguez has returned to in-ring action with on thing on her mind for her match at Payback: […]

After weeks of back-and-forth beatings, intense posturing, and more than a few surprise beatdowns at the hands of the “King of Strong Style,” Seth Rollins was afforded one final chance to address the WWE Universe before his match with Shinsuke Nakamura at Payback; a match not just for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship but potentially […]

Though it’s been over a month since the WWE Tag Team Champions, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens, defended their straps on WWE programming, successfully beating Finn Balor and Dominik Mysterio on RAW in Atlanta, Georgia, the PWG standouts are going at it again against two of their least-favorite members of The Judgment Day at Payback, […]

One way or another, Trish Stratus has been working a program with Becky Lynch since all the way back in February, when she linked up with the then-WWE Woman’s Tag Team Champions to further their feud with Damage CTRL. Since then, the trio of Stratus, Lynch, and Lita have wrestled a match together at WrestleMania […]

After working over a wonderful match with Finn Balor in a touching tribute to Bray Wyatt, the victorious LA Knight was riding high; he got an incredible reaction from the crowd, cut a fantastic promo that put over Wyatt as much as it buried The Miz, and is now set to ride into Payback in […]

When the story of Bray Wyatt‘s career is written, the final chapter will feature one wrestler extensively: LA Knight. Now granted, the two performers didn’t have much, or really anything in common other than a comfortability on the microphone, as Wyatt’s entire schtick was built around his love of horror movies, cults, and general spookiness, […]

Becky Lynch really doesn’t like Trish Stratus. After coming together as an impromptu faction alongside Lita in the lead-up to WrestleMania 39, the duo split apart in April to an incredible degree, with Stratus turning on Lynch after the pairing lost a WWE Woman’s Tag Team Championship match to Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez on […]

LA Knight is on a certified roll in the WWE Universe. In less than a year on the main roster, at least under his current moniker, the “Megastar” has gone from undesirable to undeniable, to paraphrase Cody Rhodes, getting booked against some of the biggest stars in the promotion and becoming the sort of performer […]

There was basically no downside for Chad Gable when he took the ring against Gunther on RAW. If he won the match, Gable would earn his first-ever singles title win as a member of the promotion, an improbable yet true distinction, and finally prove to folks the world over that the Alpha Academy breeds champions. […]