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Ever since WWE officially became part of the Endeavor oeuvre, merging with UFC to become a work/shoot fighting juggernaut, fans have had one question that has risen above all others: who is in charge of WWE’s creative output moving forward, Vince McMahon or Paul “Triple H” Levesque? During the first RAW after WrestleMania 39, the […]

Folks, it’s official: WWE has new Women’s Tag Team Champions. That’s right, after the thrown-together duo of Becky Lynch and Lita secured the belts from Damage CTRL on an episode of RAW and held the belts all the way through WrestleMania 39, the slightly less improvised duo of Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez secured the […]

After finding themselves without championships for the first time in years, literally, The Usos have one thing and one thing only that they want to accomplish in the WWE Universe moving forward: regaining their Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships. Fortunately, the brothers have been afforded a chance to remedy that very situation in two weeks’ […]

After securing his most important singles win of the year so far in a SmackDown dub over “The Megastar” LA Knight, Xavier Woods was riding high, so much so that he decided to poke the bear, in this case, Imperium, with his trombone to effectively lay down the challenge for Gunther’s Intercontinental Championship. While didn’t […]

With rumors swirling that CM Punk could rapidly return to AEW in the next few months, the wrestling world has been ablaze discussing how Tony Khan could re-incorporate him onto weekly television and who he could end up feuding with down the line, from “Hangman” Adam Page to The Elite. In one fell swoop, AEW […]

After bouncing around the main roster following a dominant run in NXT, Rhea Ripley found herself in an interesting spot in the later spring and summer of 2022, when she officially joined Edge and Damian Priest in The Judgement Day. Sure, she’d already had a successful run as the RAW Women’s Champion and found success […]

After effectively taking the first three and a half months of the 2023 calendar year off away from WWE, Shinsuke Nakamura officially made his return to the WWE Universe on SmackDown, where he made quick work of Madcap Moss despite some outside-the-ring quarterbacking from Emma. Afforded a chance to discuss his time away, Kayla Braxton […]

While Xavier Woods was riding high after securing a surprise win over LA Knight on SmackDown, “The Megastar” was walking to the back feeling dejected… at least until Megan Morant of the SmackDown LowDown decided to ask the former Million Dollar Champion why he wasn’t able to “get the job done” in his match. Needless […]

After officially winning the AEW World Championships on Dyamite, spurning free agent interest from WWE in order to re-up with Tony Khan’s company for four more years, FTR decided to take to the ring on the April 14th edition of Rampage in order to address their legion of fans and lay down their plans for […]

With WrestleMania 39 firmly in the rearview mirror, Rhea Ripley was invited into After The Bell with Corey Graves and Kevin Patrick to discuss her main event-caliber match with Charlotte Flair on Night 1, even if it technically landed the penultimate spot on the card instead of the main event. While Ripley understood the decision […]

After backing up his words on Twitter with a surprising win over LA Knight on SmackDown, Xavier Woods was riding high, so much so that, when he saw Gunther conversing with the rest of Imperium in German backstage, he decided to interject with his instrument of choice: the trombone. “So you clearly want my attention,” […]

Though they don’t talk, walk, wrestle, or act in even remotely similar ways, the heel-ish heat MJF and Dominik Mysterio draw from both live audiences and online fans have created a bit of an unofficial rivalry between fans of AEW and WWE, with each side going to bat for their company guy. WWE fans believe […]

After making a name for herself in professional wrestling on the biggest stage of them all, working through pretty much every role a non-wrestler can fill in WWE, Renee Paquette has found a second berth in AEW, where she largely fills a backstage interviewer role in addition to the occasional sit-down with stars like Britt […]

While most fans wanted nothing more than to see “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes pull out the win at WrestleMania 39 and end Roman Reigns’ run as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, Kevin Nash, the supersized muscle of nWo and The Kliq had other ideas. Despite fan interest being firmly in Rhodes’ corner, the man […]

When Jeff Hardy returned to an AEW ring for the first time since June of 2022, it turned heads around the professional wrestling world, from WWE, to Impact, and beyond. Finally, after throwing his life and another Hardy Brothers run off track with a mid-2022 DUI charge, the master of the “Swanton Bomb” was back […]

Dolph Ziggler is one of the most accomplished yet underrated WWE superstars of this generation. In his career, Ziggler is a two-time World Heavyweight Champion, six-time Intercontinental Champion, four-time Tag Team Champion, two-time United States Champion, NXT Champion, and Money in the Bank winner. Despite all he has accomplished, he never got the push that […]

LA Knight is among the most charismatic and entertaining superstars on the WWE roster. His mic skills are second to none, and even at 40 years old, he has a bright future with the company. Formerly known as Eli Drake in Impact Wrestling, LA Knight signed with WWE in 2021, joining the NXT brand. Since […]

Whether you like him or not, Logan Paul is staying put in WWE. After speculation whether WWE would re-sign Paul to a new contract after WrestleMania, Triple H and Paul announced that he signed a multiyear deal with the company. Logan Paul made his debut for WWE at WrestleMania 38, teaming with The Miz and […]

On screen, the leader of the Alpha Academy, Chad Gable, really doesn’t like the Maximum Male Models or what they have been doing with his number one guy, Otis. For… reasons, the proprietor of the MMMs, Maxxine Dupri, has taken a unique interest in Otis, maybe for his unique look, maybe for his commercial-worthy hands, […]

Do you know which wrestler has the most five-star matches in professional wrestling, according to “The Rodger Ebert of Professional Wrestling,” Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer? No, it’s not Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Booker T, or even Kenny Omega; it’s Will Ospreay, the high-flying international superstar who cut his teeth in his native England […]

After watching Darby Allin turn in a fantastic, come-from-behind victory over Swerve Strickland in the opening match of AEW Dynamite, MJF walked down to the ring to run “The Living Dead Boy” through another gauntlet, this time with his words, not his fists. Holding his own fairly well on the mic, pointing out how “The […]

After allowing Xavier Wood to have a moment in the sun for cutting a fun and impassioned promo on Twitter ahead of his match on SmackDown, LA Knight decided to bring a bazooka to a knife fight and put the former G4 host in his place ahead of their Friday night fight. “Let me talk […]

Though she arrived in AEW after Cody Rhodes had already re-debuted in WWE as “The American Nightmare” – instead of the horror show remembered “fondly” as Stardust – Saraya is apparently a massive fan of the former EVP, telling Josh Martinez on Superstar Crossover podcast that she not only love him and his wife but […]

When Rey Mysterio gave Santos Escobar one of his masks and even personalized it with an inscription on the side, it signified a pretty important moment of respect from one of the best luchadors in the game today and one of the best who ever did it. This act of kindness effectively turned Escobar and […]

With WrestleMania 39 officially in the record book, fans of the WWE Universe waited with bated breath for reviews to roll in for the “Showcase of the Immortals,” with one reviewer’s opinion, in particular, taking importance above all others: Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer. A stalwart of wrestling journalism ever since he began his […]

Roman Reigns has been on top of the world since returning to WWE as a heel at SummerSlam in 2020. Quickly after returning, he regained the title that he had never lost, the Universal Championship. Since then, Reigns has been nearly unbeatable. He hasn’t been pinned or submitted since December 2019, and it doesn’t look […]

After watching Eric Bischoff and WCW sell about a billion nWo shirts off the star power of “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash, WWE knew they needed an answer, specifically one who could catch on with the younger crowd who liked easily-recognizable merchandise, sophomoric humor, and an easily replaceable hand gesture that would […]

After finding a unique way to get onto the WrestleMania 39 card via an UpUpDownDown tie-in with WWE 2K23, Xavier Woods was in a good spot on the first SmackDown of the “new” WWE calendar year. Sure, both of his New Day teammates remain on the shelf while recovering from surgery, but the man known […]

When Bron Breakker lost his match to Carmelo Hayes at NXT Stand and Deliver on WrestleMania 39 weekend, most fans assumed it meant one thing and one thing only: “Baby Steiner” was heading to the WWE Main Roster. On paper, it made sense, right? WWE loves to bring in new stars from free agency and […]

When news broke that the Grizzled Young Veterans, aka the Dyad of Schism, had asked for and were granted their release from NXT, it sent mixed feelings to members across the WWE Universe. Now granted, it makes at least some sense that the team wouldn’t be too jazzed about their current role in NXT, as […]

In the vast and long-winding career of Hulk Hogan, few moments are as hotly contentious, and wholly discussable to this very day as his match – if you want to call it that – with Jeff Jarrett at Bash at the Beach 2000. Hogan’s final match in WCW, and arguably the moment where the promotion […]

The main event of Night 2 of WrestleMania 39 effectively came down to one question that Paul “Triple H” Levesque and the rest of WWE creative had to answer: creating a new Mega-Babyface Superstar in Cody Rhodes or keeping Roman Reigns’ Universal Championship win streak alive as he inches closer and closer to 1,000 days […]

Since Tony Khan founded the promotion in 2019, the pipeline between AEW and WWE has largely flowed one way. Sure, there have been notable defectors from the black and gold brand to Titan Tower, with Cody Rhodes, Gigi Dolin, and Blair Davenport all turning in their All Elite badges in favor of runs for The […]

Brock Lesnar is coming off a massive win at WrestleMania over “The Nigerian Giant” Omos. The next night on Raw, Lesnar turned on his tag team partner Cody Rhodes in brutal fashion. He beat down Rhodes for nearly ten minutes and closed the show by giving him the middle fingers at the top of the […]

2022 was an incredibly weird year for Matt Hardy. It began well enough, with his brother Jeff leaving WWE to join him in AEW, and the duo found near-immediate success, with the team no longer legally allowed to be called the Hardy Boys securing a win at Double or Nothing over the Young Bucks and […]

Though it wasn’t always pretty, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez entered Monday Night RAW as the number one contenders with a match booked against Lita and Becky Lynch in the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, and left the Emerald City as the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions after the former pinned Hall of […]

After boldly declaring that he would “address his future” on Monday after being absolutely demolished by Brock Lesnar in the main event of the RAW after WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes was finally afforded a chance to speak openly to the members of WWE Universe to discuss how his recent losing streak has affected him, and needless […]

Despite losing their Fatal Fourway Showcase match at WrestleMania 39 to Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, there wasn’t a hotter tag team than Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez heading into RAW. They got a win over Damage CTRL to secure the number one contendership for Becky Lynch and Lita’s WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships on […]

When Saraya began spouting her dissatisfaction with how she was being treated in AEW and convinced Toni Storm to set aside her babyface ways to form The Outcasts, it left fans feeling a certain type of way. Sure, Saraya began her run in AEW as a face, with fans celebrating her return to professional wrestling […]