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In VM Era of the WWE Universe – aka the Vince McMahon Era – there wasn’t a hotter name that Theory. The prized pupil of Mr. McMahon who rose to prominence as a butt-kissing heel gimmick that was meant to – and ultimately succeeded in – drive fans crazy, Theory became the youngest WWE Superstar […]

The WWE are certainly no strangers to name changes when it comes to their expansive roster. Sure, sometimes a name change is necessary in repackaging a wrestler to get them over with a new crowd – just ask X-Pac if he still wanted to be known as The 1-2-3 Kid when he returned from WCW […]

Some matches are just supposed to mean something. Sure, occasionally, a match will rise above the rest and become a sleeper hit or even steal the show in a major way that changes a promotion’s booking indefinitely – think Daniel Bryan in the WWE – but as a general rule, companies typically want the main […]

Booking a big-time performer to lose a match is hard. Make them look too weak, and they’ll lose their mystique, book them too well, and it can make the WWE Universe lose confidence in the match’s winner; for a producer to make it work, they need to ride that fine line and perfectly split the […]

In this writer’s humble opinion, the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championship match at Money in the Bank between the Street Profits and The Usos was the match of the night. Sure, there were fun matches elsewhere on the card, like both involving Liv Morgan and both MitB Ladder Matches, but no one put on a […]

Logan Paul is a relic of a bygone era of the WWE Universe. Now granted, that era was about 10 days ago, as Vince McMahon just retired due to his infidelities one Friday before last but still, Triple H has turned the promotion’s gaze into the future, with NXT stars new and old like Io […]

Folks, after over a year away, Bayley is officially back in the WWE Universe, and it looks like she’s brought some friends. Yup, you read that correctly; after suffering a torn ACL in the leadup to Money in the Bank 2021, Bayley has returned to the WWE Universe with a new, all-white outfit – including […]

Bianca Belair has been champion of the WWE Universe for roughly four months. She rose through the ranks of NXT, wrestled on both the RAW and SmackDown brands, and after a successful title reign on the latter brand back in 2021, she finally became an undisputed champion with a win over Becky Lynch at WrestleMania […]

SummerSlam is here; the WWE Universe has descended onto Nashville for a night of grudge matches, tests of strength, and a test to see who will be the Last Man Standing. Surely the eyes of the WWE Universe are on the Premium Live Event, but one person has very different eyes on the prize: NXT’s […]

After months of buildup, card changes, and… oh yeah, the retirement of Vince McMahon after four decades on top of Titan Towers, SummerSlam is officially here. Fans will get to see who is the Last Man Standing, see if Judgement gets passed, and finally find out who will be the focal point of the RAW […]

It’s always weird to see wrestlers from the WWE, AEW, or another promotion appear on “normal” sports media. Sure, outside athletes will occasionally make their way into the squared circle, with Shaq wrestling for AEW in an ill-fated angle that berthed the streak of Jade Cargill, Ennis Kanter winning the 24/7 Championship in the WWE, […]

It’s officially been a week since Vince McMahon retired from the WWE, and frankly, not much has changed. Sure, Madusa returned to NXT to help out Roxanne Perez, Brock Lesnar maybe almost quit, and Goldberg was reportedly called to almost take his place, but since then, other than the absence of the 24/7 Championship and […]

With less than a week to go before WWE‘s SummerSlam, Kayla Becker delivered the following bad news about a highly anticipated match via The Bump. “Breaking news, and here it is: After that attack on Riddle by Seth Rollins on Monday, Riddle has suffered a brachial plexus injury, which is a really bad stinger that […]

Epic SummerSlam John Cena is now a skin on Fortnite. Here’s how you can play as John Cena on Fortnite. The Epic SummerSlam collaboration between Epic Games and WWE is well underway, and for Fortnite, we’re getting the sixteen-time World Champion John Cena as a new Fortnite Skin. The Epic SummerSlam John Cena Outfit will […]

When The Bloodline, Roman Reigns, and The Usos left the ring after thoroughly taking care of Riddle and The Street Profits in a six-man Main Event on WWE‘s RAW, a very familiar but sort of unexpected song hit the PA system and generated a massive pop among the fans in attendance at Madison Square Garden. […]

When an outside “celebrity” enters a WWE ring, things can go in a variety of different ways. On occasion, it’s a magical thing, like when Bad Bunny and Damian Priest took care of The Miz and John Morrison at WrestleMania 37, or even Sami Zayn’s bout versus Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew at WrestleMania […]

After weeks of back and forth tag team bouts with The Mysterios – Rey, and Dominik – on WWE‘s RAW, Judgement Day finally returned to full strength at Madison Square Garden, where, after dropping another match to the first father-son tag team champions in WWE history, none other than Rhea Ripley took to the backstage […]

Does any member of the WWE Universe get a harder time than Theory? Despite being a solid in-ring performer, a dedicated worker who can take a Stone Cold Stunner like a pro, and both the youngest Money in the Bank briefcase winner and the youngest United States Champion of all time, there’s just something about […]

*phew* what a day in the WWE Universe. It started normally enough, with your typical pre-SmackDown promotional material, before news broke that Vince McMahon had officially retired from the WWE at the ripe old age of 77, likely because of the heat generated from his ongoing scandals that were growing increasingly damning with each passing […]

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 […]

Happy Corbin really doesn’t like WWE’s newly-extended color commentator Pat McAfee. He doesn’t like how he “lucked” into his job, his popularity, or the fact that constantly calls him “Brokeass Corbin” despite having known each other going back over a decade thanks to their shared time as training camp competitors with the Indianapolis Colts in […]

You’ve gotta give it to the WWE – there’s never a shortage of news to read, write, and consume. Case and point, July 22nd, 2022; a day that will live on forever in the annals of wrestling history and may ultimately serve as an inflection point in the history of the sport(s entertainment). Not only […]

As you may or may not have read earlier this afternoon, Brock Lesnar has reportedly walked out of SmackDown after a meeting informed the talent that Vince McMahon had officially retired from the WWE amid an ever-expanding series of scandals. This, obviously, isn’t good, but hey, Lesnar probably just wants to let off some steam […]

Hot on the heels of the sudden announcement of Vince McMahon‘s retirement, a big-named WWE Superstar has reportedly vacated the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts before tonight’s SmackDown. That’s right, despite still being prominently advertised on the company’s website as ‘Returning to SmackDown’ – at least at the time of publication –  Brock Lesnar will […]

After weeks of anticipation, Logan Paul and The Miz finally had their face-to-face encounter on WWE‘s RAW, and the results were downright… fruity. That’s right, after Paul made it abundantly clear that he wasn’t going to tag with Miz moving forward in the pursuit of the Undisputed Tag Team Championships after the “Awesome One” double-crossed […]

Becky Lynch wants her WWE belt back, and she doesn’t care who knows it. Ever since she lost the RAW Women’s Championship all the way back at WrestleMania 38, Lynch has been devising ways to get in the ring with Bianca Belair with the belt on the line and though it hasn’t always worked out […]

When Randy Orton went down with a potentially career-threatening injury, it prematurely put to bed indefinitely one of the hottest tag teams in the entire WWE Universe, RK-Bro. While Riddle has attempted to keep his head above water and focused on bouts against Roman Reigns on SmackDown, a half dozen of his peers in the […]

As the WWE inches closer and closer to their biggest show of the summer, SummerSlam, matches for their Big Four Premium Live Event are going to be announced with increasing frequency. Angles will be set up on RAW, on SmackDown, and even potentially on NXT 2.0, and the storylines for each will grow increasingly more […]

When John Cena isn’t playing the Peacemaker, appearing in commercials, or making his way back to the WWE Universe for events like the Cena Celebration on RAW, he does normal things like you, me, and everyone else. He cooks dinner, watches TV, and when he feels up to it, relentlessly posts memes on his must-follow […]

As you may or may not have noticed, Bayley has been gone from WWE for quite some time, having suffered a torn ACL in the lead-up to Money in the Bank 2021. Though the last name-less superstar has still remained a fixture of the WWE Universe, with the occasional appearance on the company’s television programming […]

The Street Profits have been one of the best tag teams in the WWE for a very, very, very long time. Since initially debuting all the way back in 2016, when Montez Ford was then known as Kenneth Crawford, the duo have gone on to wrestle together on 403 occasions in every city imaginable as […]

For one reason or another, matches between The Usos and The Street Profits just can’t get a clean ending in the WWE Universe. At Money in the Bank, Jimmy and Jay secured the W despite failing to keep both of Montez Ford’s shoulders on the mat, and a few weeks later in Orlando, the Profits […]

The build to WWE‘s SummerSlam has been interesting. Riding high off of the momentum of a very successful Money in the Bank, folks were excited to see how the card would shake out and which new, fun, or exciting matches would be booked for the big-time show in Nashville, Tennessee. The Usos will wrestle The […]

Logan Paul and The Miz are on very different wavelengths in the WWE. Paul thinks Miz is a snake in the grass, a clout vulture, and public enemy number one when he makes his way to WWE to begin his career in the promotion. And as for The Miz? Well, he thinks Paul is a […]

Normally, WWE superstar Brock Lesnar isn’t a man of many words. He’s more of an ‘actions do the talking’ sort of guy, and has no problem solving his disputes with his fists, his legs, and a few F5s for good measure over a complex series of negotiations. So, when It was his time to address […]

When Logan Paul took to the WWE ring at WrestleMania, few expected to see anything special from the social media influencer. Sure, he has athletic experience, including three boxing bouts on Pay-Per-View, but hitting dudes for real doesn’t necessarily translate to hitting frog splashes off the top rope in the middle of a ring, as […]

Gunther is one of the most domineering forces in the WWE Universe. He can chop down a tree with his palm strikes, toss foes out of the ring with a release german suplexes, and can powerbomb a bigger performer through the ring with his incredibly explosive upper body strength. As a result, Gunther really doesn’t […]

At WWE‘s Money in the Bank, The Street Profits gave The Usos everything they had. They Angelo Dawkins hit top rope suicidas, Montez Ford connected on a frog splash, and yet, at every turn, Jimmy and Jay had a counter lined up to stop their long-time does in their tracks. Near-falls were counted, the crowd […]

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 […]