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When Bianca Belair found herself booked for a tag team match with Charlotte Flair on SmackDown, it put the “EST of WWE” in a precarious situation. On one hand, Belair has been dying to recapture her RAW Women’s Championship – now the WWE Women’s Championship – since she lost the title to Asuka at Night […]

As crazy as it may sound, Dominik Mysterio is on a pretty prolific run in the WWE Universe right now as the NXT North American Champion. Winning the title on NXT television on July 18th, the second-generation WWE Superstar has successfully defended his title twice, once on SmackDown versus Butch and against on RAW versus […]

Though it may not often seem like it, Drew McIntyre actually has a great deal of respect for Gunther. Two members of the Intercontinental Championship fraternity, a group that features 184 different title reigns since the belt was introduced in 1979, including three by the strap’s lone female holder, Chyna, Gunther has helped to elevate […]

Cody Rhodes is a professional wrestler in WWE. Now granted, it certainly feels like he does a whole lot more than just that, as he does a ton of media for the company, makes charity appearances for Make-A-Wish and others, and even runs a wrestling academy on the side with his former AEW coworker QT […]

Whether they wrestle one more match, 100 more matches, or never wrestle again, Ilja Dragunov and Gunther will forever be linked for one reason and one reason alone: NXT UK. Working on one of the most criminally overlooked brands in the WWE Universe, Dragunov, and Gunther – then wrestling as Walter – went to absolute […]

In professional wrestling like in life, nobody stays at the top forever; even the greatest WWE Superstars will eventually start to show their age, and in their place, young stars like Grayson Waller who are hungry to establish their own legacy will make their main roster debuts in the hopes of taking one of those […]

The Street Profits haven’t won a match on WWE television since all the way back on May 19th. Since then, they’ve wrestled all of two matches, taking Ls to The Brawling Brutes in the SmackDown Tag Team #1 Contenders Gauntlet and then again to Pretty Deadly in singles action one week later. Is this the […]

After initially making his bones as a heel on the WWE main roster alongside his fellow Legado del Fantasma faction mates Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro, Santos Escobar has found himself working babyface as a member of Rey Mysterio‘s LWO and is reaping the benefits of that partnership almost immediately, as the son of […]

After challenging his uncle Roman Reigns to “Tribal Combat” at SummerSlam, Jey Uso was eager to address the WWE Universe in the opening segment of SmackDown. Soon, fans in New Orleans would know exactly what Uso had planned for the fans in Detroit, he’d explain why winning the match means so much to him, and […]

After a week of anticipation and literally decades of preparation, Santos Escobar was finally afforded a chance to wrestle his lifelong idol and current LWO faction-mate Rey Mysterio for a spot in a United States Championship match versus Austin Theory. Finally, fans would know if the apprentice was about to become the master and if […]

After trying to establish NXT as its own brand with its own Superstars and its own championship ecosystem under the 2.0 moniker, Shawn Michaels has decided to turn back the clock and take a different approach to developmental, looking back on the days when Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were on top of the black […]

If there’s one thing Hulk Hogan knows a thing or two about, it’s professional wrestling. A borderline-unflappable member of the WWE Mount Rushmore, Hogan was the biggest star during the most important period of WWE history, and while he moved over to WCW during the mid-90s when “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was running the ship […]

After being drafted onto RAW two years ago, shortly after signing with WWE on an NIL deal, Gable Steveson is finally set to make his WWE debut at NXT’s The Great American Bash, where he will wrestle Baron Corbin in what is shaping up to very fun effort for the fans in Austin, Texas and […]

With 1,926 professional wrestling matches and counting on his resume, 1532 in WWE, 394 in AEW, and other promotions around the world, Cody Rhodes has wrestled almost every top-tier professional wrestler on the planet right now. He’s wrestled AEW’s top guys like Kenny Omega, Sammy Guevara, Chris Jericho, and his brother Dustin in his first-ever […]

Though it feels like they’ve been teaming up forever as members of the WWE Universe, Chad Gable and Otis only began working together in 2020, when the former incorporated his own wrestling school, the Alpha Academy, and named the former member of Heavy Machinery as his new top pupil. Over their shared tenure together, Gable […]

Though Grayson Waller has wrestled exactly two matches on the main roster in WWE, three if you count house shows, the 0-3 Superstar had title matches on his mind when he stopped by the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, going so far as to name off some very famous people that he would like in […]

From leaving then coming back to the WWE, Vince McMahon has had a tumultuous run recently the company’s former figurehead. But beyond the squared circle and anything related to WWE, McMahon was dealing with a pertinent medical issue. McMahon recently underwent major back surgery to fix an issue in his spine, per TMZ. While the […]

When every other match is in the books at SummerSlam, fans from Booker T to you and me will be afforded a chance to see something they’ve wanted to see since all the way back in 2021, the rubber match between Jey Uso and Roman Reigns, this time held under Tribal Combat rules, in the […]

As crazy as it sounds, it has officially been over a year since the three members of New Day, Xavier Woods, Big E, and Kofi Kingston, were on television together. While all three performers in the faction have continued to find success since, with Kingston and Woods winning the NXT Tag Team Championship belts late […]

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 […]

If you’ve seen a commercial advertising for the new Peacock documentary American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes, you might recall seeing Kevin Owens declare, “Vince McMahon flew to his house to get him back, not many people can say they did that.” Now, for savvy wrestling fans, this conversation was common knowledge, as let’s just say […]

For months and months, Rey Mysterio refused to mix it up in the ring with his son Dominik Mysterio, sticking to his moral code that a father should never hit their child… at least until he didn’t. That’s right, after Mysterio got particularly rude with his mother and sister in the lead-up to WrestleMania 39, […]

LA Knight finds himself in a very interesting spot in the WWE Universe. On one hand, he’s arguably the most over babyface on SmackDown, which, considering Jey Uso also calls the Blue Brand home, is a pretty significant compliment, and while he isn’t pushed like, say, Seth Rollins or Cody Rhodes, he remains one of […]

When Cody Rhodes came up short versus Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39, the 80,000-plus fans at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, were at a loss for words. Now sure, some fans were stoked on the continued dominance of the “Tribal Chief,” with more than a few shouting out “We the 1s” as they exited the […]

What do LeBron James and Gable Steveson have in common? Well, besides being Olympic gold medalists, both decided to go on television during a pivotal period in their lives in order to publically announce their “Decision” on what to do next in their careers. For James, the show was broadcast on ESPN, and while there […]

When Cody Rhodes returned to WWE, it was to wrestle Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 38. On paper, the pairing was perfect; Rhodes has desperately wanted to be an old-school Hulk Hogan-style babyface for years now, and he was tasked with standing opposite a man so comically committed to being a villain he would routinely rip […]

Dominik Mysterio has had a very busy week in the WWE Universe. After taking a loss to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a match with his fellow The Judgment Day partner in crime, Damian Priest on RAW, Mysterio became the 15th Superstar to hold the North American Champion under this current lineage and was […]

While Seth Rollins has been a professional wrestling fan for as long as he can remember, getting into the sport at the tender age of 18 and grinding his way to the very tippy top of the industry, for the kid from Davenport, Iowa, there’s another athlete he looked up to as a child that […]

When did Cody Rhodes know he was leaving AEW to return to the WWE Universe? Did he go through the flaming table versus Andrade in Georgia? Or how about when he won the TNT Championship at the 2021 Holiday Bash? When he suited up as Fuego II to wrestle a dark match as Too Fast […]

Matt Riddle finds himself in an interesting place in the WWE Universe at the moment. On one hand, he’s still feuding with Gunther, the leader of an Imperium faction that has consistently gotten his goat over the past few months, but now he has Drew McIntyre by his side, and after a few months away, […]

“Big” Bronson Reed has been on a tear since returning to the WWE Universe, winning five of his last six matches and pretty much plowing through any opponent who gets in his way with his signature maneuver, the Tsunami, a finisher that is incredibly protected for seven months and counting. Though he remains stuck in […]

After foreshadowing a future one-on-one match dating all the way back to the 2023 Royal Rumble, Logan Paul finally accepted Ricochet‘s call for a match at SummerSlam, and the duo will be facing off in Detroit as a result, likely in the opening match of the show because his brother Jake has a boxing bout […]

If there’s one thing you don’t want to do in the WWE Universe, it’s getting on the wrong side of Rhea Ripley. The deFacto leader of The Judgment Day, who has matured the faction from an unsuccessful late-career vehicle for Edge to a faction that can say it runs RAW with a straight face, Ripley […]

After watching from the sidelines as about a third of the RAW roster got injured one way or another by the hands of The Judgment Day, Seth Rollins was finally afforded a chance to sit face-to-face with Finn Balor to make their match at Summer Slam official once and for all a meeting made all […]

After taking an absolute beating at the hands of Brock Lesnar on the previous edition of RAW, Cody Rhodes decided to address the WWE Universe once more, this time knowing that the “Beast Incarnate” won’t be charging the ring to make another meme at his expense. With his match at the biggest show of the […]

After making it abundantly clear that he wanted to address Logan Paul in the middle of the ring in Tampa Bay on the previous edition of RAW and all week since, Ricochet curiously found himself alone during his allotted time in the Amalie Arena, despite calling out the “Maverick” repeatedly to start the segment. “Logan, […]

Though his status in the WWE Universe remains incredibly up in the air, as, despite getting into it with Grayson Waller, there appears to be no tentative plans for a storyline, let alone a match any time soon, that hasn’t stopped Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from using his expansive resources to give back to entertainers […]

Though Tiffany Stratton has only been the NXT Women’s Champion for 58 days and counting, it feels like the pride of Prior Lake, Minnesota, has been on top of the division for much longer than her abbreviated resume would suggest. Despite having only worked 51 matches as a member of the WWE Universe, 28 of […]

2022 was a year of ups and downs for Wes Lee. A tag team specialist dating all the way back to his time on the indies, Lee and his partner Nash Carter saw their second reign with the NXT Tag Team Championship belts dashed due to the latter being released from the promotion due to […]