WWE Backlash Articles - Page 2

Though Zelina Vega didn’t leave Puerto Rico as the SmackDown Women’s Champion at the end of Backlash, she accomplished the next best thing: becoming a certified legend on her familial home island. Taking the ring against Rhea Ripley wearing a Puerto Rican flag dropped across her wingspan, Vega received an incredible reaction from the crowd […]

At Night of Champions, the WWE Universe was treated to the newest chapter of “The CodyVerse” and like any good trilogy – or at least like the original Star Wars trilogy – this chapter ended in defeat, with the hero’s camp wondering if he will ever be able to overcome the big, bad boss after […]

A lot has been said, discussed, and written about Bad Bunny and his performance at WWE Backlash, and for good reason: it was really, really, really good. Dubbed one of the best celebrity wrestling matches of all time featuring maybe the greatest celebrity wrestler the WWE has ever seen – which, considering the long and […]

Since officially returning to WWE in December of 2022, Bronson Reed has been slowly building up momentum toward becoming an upper-mid card player. Reunited with Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the man who booked him to win the North American Championship in 2021, Reed has won (almost) every match he’s wrestled on RAW, had an impressive […]

In officially less than two weeks, Cody Rhodes will be taking the ring opposite Brock Lesnar for a fight against “The Beast Incarnate” at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. After entering into a program on the RAW after WrestleMania and then getting into a short, bloody affair at Backlash one month later in Puerto […]

Heading into Backlash, Rhea Ripley knew she was going to be the heel in her match with Zelina Vega. Not only is Mami aligned as a heel regularly, as  The Judgement Day are bad to the bone, but she was facing off against a hometown hero in Vega, who considered the event to be her […]

Though he didn’t work a match at Backlash or the SmackDown preceding it, Mia Yim, like many fans of the WWE Universe, sat back and watch a white-hot crowd in Puerto Rico turn good matches into great ones and Bad Bunny’s match with Damian Priest into one of the true highlights of the Paul “Triple […]

To say Backlash in Puerto Rico was anything other than a resounding success for WWE would be disingenuous. The promotion did fantastic numbers both in terms of ticket sales and streaming numbers, and the fans who funneled into the Coliseo De Puerto Rico in San Juan were some of the loudest WWE has been graced […]

“Booker T” rapper Bad Bunny turned in the performance of the night at Backlash when he worked an absolute heater of a match opposite Damian Priest in a San Juan Street Fight. Dubbed the “co-main event” of the show despite going on third-to-last, Bunito and Priest went to war for the better part of half […]

Savio Vega hasn’t wrestled a match in WWE since all the way back in December of 1999, when he lost a match to the Ministry of Darkness – Mideon, The Undertaker, and Viscera – as part of a team with Miguel Perez Jr. and Kane in Mexico. Though he wrestled for the promotion for an […]

On Saturday night, WWE held its annual Backlash event, to which earned big numbers across the board, in front of an electric San Juan, Puerto Rico crowd at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot. The Puerto Rican musical artist, Bad Bunny, was one of the highlights of the show and competed against, and […]

After taking an absolute beatdown at the hands of Brock Lesnar during his opening round battle against The Miz and Finn Balor in the WWE World Heavyweight Tournament, Cody Rhodes was approached by Cathy Kelley to see if he had any intentions to accept “The Beast Incarnate’s” challenge to “fight” at Night of Champions in […]

After securing a bloody-yet-abbreviated win at Backlash over Brock Lesnar, Cody Rhodes was riding high; he was booked for the opening segment of RAW, scheduled to face off with Finn Balor and The Miz for an opening match in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament, and looked like a favorite to represent the Red Brand […]

Whether he’s been watching WWE programming for all of your life, or you’re one of the thousands of fans who saw their first “Premium Live Event” on the first Saturday of the month of May, it’s hard to argue that any performer looked like a bigger star at Backlash than Bad Bunny, the Grammy winner/Kardashian […]

With Backlash officially in the books, WWE fans – and Bad Bunny fans – the Universe over have celebrated the successful outing, with some calling it the most compelling crowd the promotion has wrestled for since Sami Zayn called the Bell Centre in Montreal “his f**ing house” before the Elimination Chamber. The atmosphere was hot, […]

After securing a massive win over Omos at Backlash, Seth Rollins was riding high. He had almost 18,000 fans cheering him on, was able to outsmart Omos and MVP with his innovative Super Stomp off the top rope, and, with his night over, “The Visionary” was ready to party up and down the island of […]

In a somewhat curious decision, WWE decided to book Cody Rhodes versus Brock Lesnar – named a co-main event of Backlash before the show – as the final match at Backlash, with the San Juan Street Fight between Bad Bunny versus Damian Priest booked fifth, and Sami Zay, Kevin Owens and Matt Riddle versus The […]

Kevin Owens, Matt Riddle, and especially Sami Zayn wanted nothing more than to beat Solo Sikoa and The Usos at Backlash in order to finally finish off The Bloodline. While the Undisputed Tag Team Championships weren’t on the line, what with it being a trios match, delivering another loss to Jimmy and Jey might have […]

A lot has been said, written, and discussed about how cool it would be to see Zelina Vega win a match against Rhea Ripley at Backlash in Puerto Rico to become the new SmackDown Women’s Champion. It would be a full-circle moment from the Superstar of Puerto Rican decent, would legitimize her as a top-tier […]

Theoretically, WWE set things up perfectly to take the United States Championship off of Austin Theory at Backlash. They booked a pair of supersized opponents in Bronson Reed and Bobby Lashley, who really don’t like each other, and could have had one pin the other to take the strap without Theory having to take the […]

Seth Rollins is a big, bad dude; he’s secured wins over basically every performer on the WWE main roster over the last decade or so via his impressive in-ring efforts, his wits, and his brutality, and might just be the favorite to win the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Night of Champions in Saudi […]

Typically, when a member of a tag team wrestles a singles champion at a “Premium Live Event,” their chances of securing the win are rather low. Sure, there have been plenty of champions who came from the world of tag team wrestling, with Shawn Michaels leaving Marty Jennetty behind to become an all-time great singles […]

After a month of pomp and circumstance, Backlash is officially here, and for Zelina Vega, that means one thing and one thing only: wrestling Rhea Ripley for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Fortunately, Vega hasn’t completely let the moment pass her by, as, while talking to Megan Morant of the SmackDown LowDown, she noted just how […]

After watching from the sidelines as the rest of his The Judgement Day faction-members, Dominik Mysterio, Finn Balor, and Rhea Ripley, got their moments in the sun at WrestleMania 39, Damian Priest has finally been afforded his own chance to shine when he wrestles none other than Bad Bunny, his former tag team partner at […]

After dropping their WrestleMania 39 rematch against Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships, The Usos really need a win in San Juan, Purto Rico to get back in the good graces of The Bloodline’s leader, Roman Reigns. Fortunately, the Brothers Fatu have a not-so-secret weapon they’re ready to deploy […]

Bianca Belair is effectively one win away from making WWE history. If she can secure the dub against IYO SKY at Backlash and WWE doesn’t pull some 24/7 Championship/Money in the Bank-type behavior, Belair will wake up on Sunday as the longest reigning Women’s Champion of the modern era, with her 401-day reign exceeding all […]

Though he isn’t technically booked for a match at Backlash, Rey Mysterio got his big moment in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the night before, where, after fully embracing a feud with his son, Dominik Mysterio, he and fellow lWo member, Zelina Vega, wrestled a match against “The Eradicator of The Judgement Day” and her Kayfabe […]

Though WrestleMania 39 has long since passed, the Backlash is officially upon the WWE Universe, with grudges to be settled, feuds to be renewed, and even a few surprising potentially planned along the way by Paul “Triple H” Levesque. Could fans see a new champion crowned in Puerto Rico? Potentially so; though there isn’t a […]

After hinting at his plans for SmackDown during WWE’s Backlash press conference earlier in the day, Cody Rhodes was finally afforded a chance to address a live crowd with a hot microphone in his hand in the lead-up to his match against Brock Lesnar in San Juan, and as he often does, “The American Nightmare” […]

In the lead-up to Backlash, WWE decided to pull a page from the UFC handbook to have joint interviews with a few of the acts on the card, with Zelina Vega and her “manager” Rey Mysterio sitting opposite Rhea Ripley and her Dom Dom, Dominik Mysterio, in front of a white-hot Puerto Rican crowd who […]

For a time, Damian Priest and Bad Bunny were thick as thieves in WWE; they’re both from Puerto Rico, both have loved wrestling from a young age, and both found unlikely success in America, with the former signing with WWE deep into his 30s at the suggestion of Matt Riddle and the latter largely rapping […]

When Dominik Mysterio took the ring on the go-home edition of RAW before Backlash, he was booed to a degree that would make MJF blush. Standing alongside his best friends The Judgement Day, Damian Priest, Finn Balor, and Rhea Ripley, Mysterio attempted to talk some smack on the lWo ahead of Backlash, but his efforts […]

When Bad Bunny challenged Damian Priest to a Puerto Rican Street Fight at Backlash in his native San Juan, it seemed like a pretty good idea for the international recording superstar; while fans of WWE know Bunny can go, it’s a whole lot easier to go to war against a performer like Priest when you […]

By announcing the new World Heavyweight Championship, WWE extensively handed themselves an out; an opportunity to have their Cody Rhodes cake and eat it two. At WrestleMania 39, Paul “Triple H” Levesque had a chance to turn “The American Nightmare” into a certified star; the moment was there, 80,000 fans were cheering “The Grandson of […]

After delivering an absolute beatdown on an enhancement talent on RAW, Omos, one of WWE’s free agents who are allowed to travel between either show, and his handler, MVP, stopped by RAW Talk to discuss why they agreed to this match on RAW and why it should make Seth “Freakin’” Rollins very nervous indeed for […]

After officially being drafted onto SmackDown along with his United States Championship belt, Austin Theory stopped by RAW Talk, potentially for the last time, to discuss his feelings about switching brands with Byron Saxton. “How does it feel for everyone else that’s on SmackDown?” Theory asked. “They’ve go to be excited to have the greatest […]

After securing a shockingly clean win on The Usos in a rematch of the main event of Night 1 of WrestleMania 39, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were in relatively good spirits, or at least as good spirits as a certified curmudgeon like KO can get at this stage in his career. Sitting down for […]

When Rey Mysterio not only linked up with Legado Del Fantasma but did so under the Latino World Order moniker, or lWo for short, it earned a massive pop from fans from across the professional wrestling world. Suddenly, after months of ugly, lopsided efforts where Mysterio was outnumbered by his son Dominik Mysterio and the […]

At Backlash in Puerto Rico, Zelina Vega has a chance to make WWE history. Taking the ring in front of her friends, family, and fellow countrymen against “The Eradicator” of The Judgement Day, Rhea “Bloody” Ripley, the do-it-all wrestler/manager/commentator, has a chance to become the first-ever Puerto Rican woman to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship […]