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As WWE attempts to push all sorts of different natives in the lead-up to WrestleMania 40, from the ever-escalating feud between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Cody Rhodes, to the ridiculous levels of hate both Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre share for CM Punk despite the “Best in the World” being unable to wrestle at […]

Heading into the 2024 Elimination Chamber, Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch found themselves on opposite sides of the WWE contender spectrum. After winning the then-SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 39 in a co-main event match against Charlotte Flair, Ripley has proven herself one of the top in-ring performers in the entire WWE Universe, defending her […]

After securing the biggest win – literally – of her WWE career in Perth, Australia, at the Elimination Chamber, Rhea Ripley was riding high, with the first segment of Monday Night RAW set aside for her to address the audience in San Jose, California about her incredibly productive homecoming down under. But what would Ripley […]

The 2024 Elimination Chamber was a mixed bag for Rhea Ripley. On one hand, she secured the biggest title defense victory of her reigns with the WWE Women’s World Championship thus far, defeating Nia Jax in front of her hometown crowd with some 50,000 Aussies cheering her on, but it wasn’t all roses for the […]

After spending the vast majority of her professional wrestling career as a heel, what happens when Rhea Ripley is tasked with wrestling a universally reviled heel in front of 52,000 of her home country fans in the main event of the Elimination Chamber? You make her into Australia’s hottest babyface and lean all the way […]

Though she has her own match to prepare for at the 2024 Elimination Chamber, with besting the “Irresistible Force,” Nia Jax, no small task for even the most dominant of champions, Rhea Ripley will also be keeping a close eye on the Women’s Elimination Chamber match at the Perth Premium Live Event, as it will […]

Ever since she joined Damian Priest as a member of Edge’s Judgment Day – which, frankly, feels like a decade ago – the WWE Universe has known Rhea Ripley as one thing and one thing alone: a heel. Now granted, the exact flavor of heel Ripley has filled on the menu has changed from time […]

When Rhea Ripley outlasted the field and won the 2023 Royal Rumble, it left fans with one obvious conclusion: Mami was going to main event Night 1 of WrestleMania 39. On paper, the assumption made sense, right? Since WrestleMania expanded to two nights instead of a one-day tour de force, female performers have always had […]

2K Games put Mami on top when they revealed the WWE 2K24 ratings for Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio today through co-superstar Xavier Woods aka Austin Creed’s UpUpDownDown channel. As part of a series of WWE 2K24 ratings reveals today, Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio, members of the heel stable The Judgment Day, got their […]

After punching her ticket to Perth later this month with a big win over Shayna Baszler on the previous edition of RAW, Becky Lynch used her newfound status as a Premium Live Event lock to her advantage in Lexington, Kentucky, booking some in-ring promo time to talk up her desire to go 1-0 in the […]

When Liv Morgan returned in the 30th slot at the 2024 Women’s Royal Rumble match, it felt like a big deal. A true fan favorite coming off of a fantastic 2023, Morgan was taken out of action on July 17th in a tag team match against Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville with the WWE Women’s […]

When Rhea Ripley won the 2023 Woman’s Royal Rumble, it marked a major moment in her WWE career. Sure, Ripley has won titles in the past, both on the main roster and in NXT, but this mattered maybe more than any other because it allowed her to quite literally shoot her shot at whomever she […]

Damian Priest has been the Money in the Bank briefcase holder – Señor Money in the Bank, if you will – since July 1st of 2023. Afforded a chance to challenge for any (men’s) title across any of the promotion’s three brands, you’d think Priest would be the most dangerous man in the entire WWE […]

In the wake of Seth Rollins becoming the second WWE Superstar to publically go on the record about the allegations surrounding Vince McMahon, disavowing his actions and hoping that his victims get justice, Bret Hart added his name to the growing chorus of wrestling voices speaking out against the long-time booker. Setting down for an […]

With Bayley and IYO SKY officially paired off for a match against each other at WrestleMania 40 in the most prominent battle of the Damage CTRL Civil War, Rhea Ripley finds herself the lone main roster women’s champion without a challenger for WrestleMania 40, which isn’t an ideal spot to be, even for a performer […]

With 2023 officially passed, Sean Ross Sapp And Denise Salcedo decided to celebrate the occasion with the annual Fightful Awards, where performers across the sport were honored for their hard work and efforts, including Rhea Ripley, who was the big winner this year with not one, not two but four awards heading home to Adelaide, […]

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 […]

When news broke that Bianca Belair and Montez Ford were pulling double duty, working as two of the top stars in the WWE Universe while also filming their own reality television show, Love & WWE, few fans were particularly surprised. As two of the most charismatic performers in the entire WWE Universe, fans have long […]

After being a fixture of WWE television for much of 2023 fans, pundits, and even some wrestlers alike have been asking the same question: whatever happened to former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Raquel Rodriguez? Once upon a time, Rodriguez was positioned as quite possibly the biggest new babyface on the RAW roster, with a […]

As of Christmas Eve, it has officially been one year since Dominik Mystero was sent to prison, and his character, both in Judgment Day and in WWE as a whole, was changed forever. Though it wasn’t always pretty, with a few very unfortunate missteps along the way, Mysterio has now fully come into his own […]

When Dominik Mysterio officially decided to turn on his father and become his own man, or at least a Mami’s boy as a member of the Judgment Day, the move was largely met with a meh reaction from fans across the WWE Universe. Despite having the most prominent last name in Lucha Libre, Mysterio didn’t […]

When news broke that Deonna Purrazo was set to become a free agent in 2024, it left fans around the professional wrestling world, from WWE to AEW, Impact, and everywhere in between, fans started to imagine where “The Virtuosa” would land next. Would she stick around in Impact, becoming the new face of TNA as […]

When news broke that not only was Randy Orton going to be making his much-anticipated return to WWE television for the first time since May of 2022 but would be opening up the show with a very special promo, it got fans stoked. What would Orton have to say? Who would come out to greet […]

In professional wrestling, even on a Premium Live Event like Survivor Series, some matches are more predictable than others. Sure, technically, anyone can win at any time in wrestling, as a booker can throw a curveball to keep his audience engaged, or an in-ring injury can result in a surprise finish even the referee doesn’t […]

When WWE announced that not one, not two, not even three, but four women would be vying for Rhea Ripley‘s Women’s World Championship at Crown Jewel, it felt like a perfect opportunity to take the belt off of “Mami,” regardless of whether or not that was the “right” trigger to pull. Now granted, it wasn’t […]

When Nia Jax thundered back to the WWE Universe with a bang, leaving a string of bodies in her wake and putting the most dominant female performer in the entire promotion, Rhea Ripley, on the shelf for close to a month, it got folks talking around the professional wrestling world. Sure, when booked correctly, Jax […]

After watching Rhea Ripley seemingly get a bit too close and cozy with Drew McIntyre in the lead-up to Crown Jewel, signifying that the Scottish Warrior may, in fact, be in cahoots with the Judgment Day ahead of his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match, Seth Rollins found himself face-to-face with the “Eradicator” backstage in Monday […]

Though he may be forever remembered by a segment of the professional wrestling world as the leader of the “Yes! Movement” – not to be confused with the “Yeah! Movement” of 2023 – Bryan Danielson is also widely regarded as one of the greatest technical wrestlers of his or any generation, with the Wrestling Observer […]

When Jade Cargill and Charlotte Flair locked eyes for the first time ever on the season premiere of SmackDown, it turned heads around the professional wrestling world. Finally, after making the jump from AEW to WWE, fans would get to see one of the most highly-anticipated matches around, with the potential for the two women […]

After two incredibly impactful weeks away from the WWE Universe following the rare physical beatdown at the hands of Nia Jax, Rhea Ripley returned to RAW in a big way on the second day of October, disrupting the first match on the card between the “Irresistible Force” and Shayna Baszler before demanding the rest of […]

Though it looks like Rhea Ripley is about to enter into a feud with none other than a returning Nia Jax, fans have already begun to look past the “The Irresistible Force” in order to find the sort of run-defining foe that folks will remember long after her WWE World Heavyweight Championship run comes to […]

Late Wednesday night, mere hours after Excalibur ran through the cards for Rampage and Collision on Dynamite, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful reported that Jade Cargill, the longest-reigning TBS Champion in history, was planning to leave AEW for WWE very, very, very soon. To pretty much every fan of professional wrestling, this news, if true, […]

When it comes to female wrestlers in WWE, there is Rhea Ripley, and then there’s everyone else. The “Eradicator” of the Judgment Day with 34 straight singles victories in 2023 alone, Ripley doesn’t just defeat opponents in the ring; she dominates them with wicked efficiency, with the vast majority of those defenses coming in under […]

After making a surprise appearance in Finn Balor and Damian Priest’s match with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships, Rhea Ripley still had business to attend to herself in the penultimate match of Payback in order to keep her WWE Woman’s World Championship alive and The Judgment Day’s undefeated […]

It’s here, it’s finally here; after four long weeks of waiting, WWE has another Premium Live Event for fans to enjoy in Payback, the first PLE to come to Pittsburgh since Extreme Rules in 2018. Soon, fans will find out if the four belts being put on the line will stay with their original holders, […]

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: […]

YouTubers Michael and Danny Philippou (RackaRacka) recently made their feature-length directorial debut with Talk to Me. The film has been a hit for A24, But they got their start doing WWE recreations of famous spots. Speaking to the duo, it appears that Michael was the one taking the bumps, but the two both grew up […]

After securing a technically legal victory at The Great American Bash versus Wes Lee and Mustafa Ali, Dominik Mysterio returned to NXT with the North American Championship over his shoulder and his “Mami” Rhea Ripley by his side. Taking the ring to celebrate their win – keyword their – Ripley complimented her “Latino Heat” for […]

Things have been going pretty well for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson since he started beefing with Grayson Waller on Twitter; he captured a ton of goodwill by donating seven figures to SAG-AFTRA, the largest donation to the union in history, landed a “record-breaking payment” for his upcoming movie, Red One, and remains incredibly popular in […]