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And then there were four; after working through the first three rounds of the WWE Draft, with 12 acts finding their way to either RAW or SmackDown, Shawn Michaels and Road Dogg came out to make the final four selections of the WWE Draft and helped to announce where four more acts, including some love […]

With eight picks in the books for the WWE Draft, including the RAW Women’s Champion, Bianca Belair, heading to SmackDown, and the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther, heading to RAW alongside the rest of Imperium, JBL and Teddy Long were tasked with announcing the picks in Round 3 and providing – spoiler alert – seven performers with […]

After watching Paul “Triple H” Levesque announce the first four picks in the 2023 WWE Draft, with Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, Solo Sikoa, and Bianca Belair heading to SmackDown and Cody Rhodes and Becky Lynch staying put on RAW, WWE took a page from the WWE’s playbook and brought in special guests to announce the […]

After breaking down the festivities of the 2023 running of the WWE Draft, Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced the four picks in the first round, which saw six performers find their new homes. First came Roman Reigns, who, unsurprisingly, was selected first overall by the SamckDown brand alongside The Bloodline, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman. […]

As the WWE Universe prepares for the 2023 Draft, where Roman Reigns’ fate will be decided, and the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship will find its brand home, fans, pundits, and wrestlers alike have discussed the forthcoming brand split and how the company has handled the effective desolation of the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, even […]

As WWE prepares to take on a lawsuit from former writer Britney Abrahams regarding toxic working conditions, racism, and wrongful termination, another former writer, Dave Schilling, decided to sit down with Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl for their In The Weeds show to discuss his own time in the trenches for WWE and provide his […]

Ronda Rousey is arguably the baddest woman on the planet. She excelled in the international arena, while representing Team USA in Judo. Furthermore, that translated to success in the UFC Octagon before dominating the WWE squared circle. With a stellar fighting career by Rousey, have you ever wondered what kind of home the decorated fighter […]

While the mainstream sports world is currently enthralled by the NFL Draft, with Round 1 featuring tons of intriguing angles and Night 2 set to take place at the same time as SmackDown and Rampage, the WWE Universe is preparing for a draft of their own, with Night 1 set for the final Friday of […]

Since Triple H introduced the new World Heavyweight Championship, fans have wondered who the first superstar to hold the title will be. This is a fascinating time for WWE since the company will get a new world champion. While Roman Reigns has cemented his legacy as one of the most dominant superstars in history, the […]

WWE is ready to shake things up again. The WWE Draft kicks off Friday on SmackDown and is set to usher in a new era in the company. Since Triple H took over creative last year, fans have wondered if a WWE Draft would happen in the future. After announcing its return a few weeks […]

The WWE Draft is an exciting time for the WWE and its fans. The Draft signals a new era in the company and a fresh start for each brand and many superstars. Not only is this an exciting time for superstars on the main roster, but it’s also exciting for NXT superstars. NXT superstars will […]

Brock Lesnar is a force to be reckoned with as a prize fighter. Whether it’s in the WWE squared circle or in the UFC Octagon, Lesnar has racked up the accolades and dominated most of his opponents. He is a one time UFC Heavyweight Champion and a 10 time WWE World Champion. Given Lesnar’s accomplishments […]

When Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced the christening of a brand new WWE World Heavyweight Championship, it effectively shut the door on anyone ending Roman Reigns’ Universal Championship reign before it would reach the 1,000-day mark at the end of May. Now granted, to some, this decision was met about as well as The Usos […]

Nia Jax hasn’t been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in November of 2021. A three-time champion, once with the Raw Women’s Title and twice with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship as a partner of Shayna Baszler, the cousin of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rapidly established herself as one […]

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin knows more about professional wrestling than 99 percent of fans will forget; he’s wrestled all over the world, taken part in some of the biggest bouts of all time, and near-singlehandedly launched a WWE revolution that garnered some of the biggest rating numbers the company has ever seen or will ever […]

Folks, it’s official: Roderick Strong is #AllElite, leaving WWE and NXT to rejoin his Undisputed Era partner Adam Cole on Dynamite. That’s right after unsuccessfully lobbying for his release from WWE for what felt like years, first when the rest of Undisputed Era left the brand and then when he was working with The Creed […]

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 […]

With Backlash headed to Puerto Rico for a weekend of Bad Bunny-approved fun in the sun in the Atlantic Ocean-based American territory, the fine folks over at The Bump wanted to provide the WWE Universe with some history of the territory to help contextualize the significance of the show. But who, you may ask, would […]

In what has become an increasingly common occurrence over the past year, Vince McMahon and WWE as a whole have been sued by a disgruntled former writer for “alleged discrimination and retaliation” against a Black female writer for “offensively racist and stereotypical jargon” used in the scripts for Black wrestlers including Bianca Belair and Apollo […]

After being thrown into an impromptu match with Bron Breakker at NXT Spring Breakin’, Andre Chase knew he was in for one of the toughest tests of his NXT career. Win, and he might just set the bedrock for the biggest W of his career, dating back all the way to his time on the […]

Heading into NXT’s Spring Breakin’, Pretty Deadly, and The Family, Tony D’Angelo, and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, had a pretty big bone to pick. The two teams clearly didn’t like each other, and after the Boss and Underboss of NXT decided to kidnap Kit Wilson following an alleyway beatdown in Orlando, feelings reached a fever-pitch heading […]

Lita has been a member of the WWE Universe since all the way back in 2000, when she debuted on SmackDown in March following a short-yet-sweet tenure in ECW in 1999. Since her debut, she’s wrestled 328 matches for The Fed, won four singles championships, and became a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, […]

Heading into the final SmackDown before the WWE Draft, Xavier Woods was feeling pretty darn good about himself. He’d secured a major win over LA Knight on the previous edition, was booked for his first-ever shot at the Intercontinental Championship, and found himself three seconds away from earning his first-ever singles title as a member […]

When WrestleMania 39 came and went without so much as a cameo from “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, fans wondered why the “Rattlesnake” opted against making his return to the ring at “The Showcase of the Immortals.” Was he too busy with his new television “Stone Cold Takes on America?” Could he not get in shape […]

With All In II officially on the books for Wembley Stadium this July, wrestlers from inside the company and from around the world alike have been evaluating the AEW landscape in the hopes of working their way onto the card and into a match at what’s shaking up to be a historically significant card. Some, […]

With the WWE Draft rapidly approaching, stars from RAW, SmackDown, and even NXT have begun to look at the landscape of the promotion they cash checks from in order to predict where they will land moving forward. With Paul “Triple H” Levesque already announcing that Roman Reigns will have his titles merged on whatever brand […]

When Triple H took over WWE creative from his father-in-law, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, he found himself in a precarious situation. After spending the better part of half a decade building up the brand’s developmental system, filling out the Performance Center in Orlando with a potent combination of NIL athletes and indie darlings, Levesque found […]

After unsuccessfully requesting their release from WWE, the Grizzled Young Veterans, aka Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler of The Schism/The Diad, have finally addressed their future on NXT and beyond, as they noted on social media. “As of today, WWE has denied my request for my release,” Reid, aka James Drake, wrote. “I want to […]

After taking care of business against Damage CTRL in an impromptu trio match on Monday Night RAW, Bianca Belair was feeling pretty good hanging out with her tag team partners, Liv Morgan, and Raquel Rodriguez. All three women secured wins over prospective challengers for their straps, and for Belair, specifically, she got valuable reps against […]

When WWE announced that Seth Rollins was going to be wrestling Omos at Backlash in Puerto Rico, it was largely met with confusion, including from the former WWE Champion himself. There was no build-up to the feud, no previous interactions that signaled bad blood one way or another, or even an inkling that MVP wanted […]

After securing a six-man tag win over Legado Del Fantasma alongside his brothers, Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa, Jey Uso was riding high. He was on the phone with another member of The Bloodline, either Roman Reigns or Paul Heyman, celebrating the win, he was ordering some mahi mahi with extra soy sauce, and he […]

Where, oh where, has Becky Lynch been on RAW? It’s a worthwhile question to ask, as, after losing the WWE Tag Team Championship belt on RAW and then being double-crossed by Trish Stratus in the ring, fans haven’t seen heads or tails of the seven-time champion. Heading to the back in the hopes of finding […]

After nearly 400 days as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns’ reign is over… at least kind of. That’s right, after teasing a “major announcement” for RAW on social media, Paul “Triple H” Levesque walked down to the ring to thunderous applause from the Chicagoland crowd and proceeded to announce that, after nearly 1,000 […]

With the final RAW before the WWE draft officially booked for Chicago, fans expected plenty of interesting angles and even more intriguing goings on, but one thing fans didn’t get to see was a backstage interaction that might just be the most interesting and intriguing storyline of them all: CM Punk being backstage at the […]

With the WWE draft rapidly approaching, Elias was afforded a chance to address his future in the WWE Universe and whether or not he would like to roll into the forthcoming proceedings as a solo act or as part of a tag team with his sort of friend Rick Boogs. Elias, to his credit, put […]

With WWE preparing for the final edition of RAW before the WWE draft, seemingly every member of the WWE Universe has been looking for ways to stand up and stand out, heading into what could be an inflection point in the promotion’s storytelling. One of those performers is Mustafa Ali, who, after hearing Byron Saxton […]

Chad Gable is one of the more entertaining and talented wrestlers on the WWE roster. Gable has been able to get over with almost every gimmick he’s been given and is, without a doubt, one of the premier athletes in the company. Despite losing more matches than winning, he’s proven that he’s one of the […]

Ever since Goldberg announced that WWE did him dirty and refused to give him the retirement match Vince McMahon promised him before his contract expired, fans have been speculating like crazy over who would wrestle the WCW legend next. Announcing an unofficial retirement tour that could feature as many as four retirement matches on an […]