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When news broke, in the middle of AEW All In, that CM Punk and Jack Perry – and maybe CM Punk and Miro – had gotten into a physical altercation before he took the ring at Wembley against Samoa Joe, it left more than a few fans rolling their eyes. After having to deal with […]

While everyone and their wrestling-loving mother is seemingly falling in love with the idea of Edge jumping ship from WWE to AEW, with fantasy bookings ranging from the “Rated-R Superstar” taking the belt off of MJF, to serving as a much-needed locker room leader, to even another title reign alongside his life-long best friend Christian, […]

After weeks and weeks of being worn down by Matt Riddle‘s unquenchable desire to find a new tag team partner, it looks like Drew McIntyre is finally starting to warm up to the idea of McRiddle; a tag team named after the famous McDonald’s breakfast sandwich that fans are just loving. Stopping by RAW TALK […]

After watching Rhea Ripley slowly but surely take away everything she cared about within the WWE Universe, from her tag team partner Liv Morgan, to her WWE Woman’s Tag Team Championship belts and even her own health, Raquel Rodriguez has returned to in-ring action with on thing on her mind for her match at Payback: […]

After securing a roll-up victory on Bronson Reed in the middle of RAW, Tommaso Ciampa was feeling good. Sure, he’s not quite where he wants to be just yet, as this marked his first televised win since all the way back in June, but as Byron Saxton reminded the “Blackheart” on RAW TALK, it must […]

After wishing farewell to Bray Wyatt on social media like many of her fellow WWE Superstars, Becky Lynch wore a special armband down to the ring on RAW to celebrate her fallen friend’s memory before beating the you-know-what out of Trish Stratus and Zoey Stark in the (presumably) penultimate match of this six months-spanning feud. […]

When looking back at Bray Wyatt‘s professional wrestling career, one of the true highlights was his career has to be his interaction with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson at WrestleMania 32, where the duo exchanged words on the mic before “The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment” squashed Eric Rowen in six seconds in what is […]

On the first episode of Foley is Pod since the passing of Bray Wyatt and Terry Funk, Mick Foley had a lot to say. A lifelong disciple of professional wrestling who has been in or around the business for five decades and counting, Foley has a unique perspective on the careers and passings of both […]

Kurt Angle looks pretty darn good for 54. Now granted, maybe that’s because he’s more or less had the same look for his entire run in professional wrestling, and in 2023, wrestlers like Sting are continuing to work regularly into their 60s, but even now, four years after his last match, Angle still gets asked […]

Folks, it’s official, it’s legitimately official: John Cena is returning to WWE, and he’s sticking around for a two-month tour as a member of the SmackDown roster. Soon, Cena will become a regular on FOX for (almost) every Friday in September and October, and, considering he’s booked to wrestle a match with Seth Rollins at […]

While Cody Rhodes has wrestled for dozens of different promotions over his professional wrestling career, working matches all over the world between 2016-2022 when he was on his tour through the indies, in the end, the “American Nightmare” always felt like a WWE guy. He carried himself like a WWE Superstar whether he was working […]

After weeks of back-and-forth beatings, intense posturing, and more than a few surprise beatdowns at the hands of the “King of Strong Style,” Seth Rollins was afforded one final chance to address the WWE Universe before his match with Shinsuke Nakamura at Payback; a match not just for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship but potentially […]

Though it’s been over a month since the WWE Tag Team Champions, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens, defended their straps on WWE programming, successfully beating Finn Balor and Dominik Mysterio on RAW in Atlanta, Georgia, the PWG standouts are going at it again against two of their least-favorite members of The Judgment Day at Payback, […]

With Payback rapidly approaching, fans of WWE in Tennessee were treated to something special on RAW when, after watching Sami Zayn and Damian Priest work a solid opening match, the music of the “Megastar” hit, and they all started cheering on their favorite performer, LA Knight. … only, it wasn’t LA Knight who appeared in […]

As MJF prepared for the biggest match of his career, wrestling Adam Cole in the main event of All In at Wembley Stadium in front of 81,035 paid fans, he stopped by Busted Open Radio with fellow New Yorkers Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer to discuss the emotions surrounding the journey from All In 2019 […]

One way or another, Trish Stratus has been working a program with Becky Lynch since all the way back in February, when she linked up with the then-WWE Woman’s Tag Team Champions to further their feud with Damage CTRL. Since then, the trio of Stratus, Lynch, and Lita have wrestled a match together at WrestleMania […]

When AEW panned the camera up into the stands in the pre-show of All In and made it abundantly clear that Mercedes Mone, aka Sasha Banks in WWE, was one of the 81,035 fans in attendance at the “biggest professional wrestling show of all time” – though she all but certainly didn’t pay for her […]

The reason Cody Rhodes left WWE in 2016 is common knowledge, right? After being unhappy with his spot in WWE following a gimmick change to Stardust, the second-generation WWE Superstar decided to bet on himself against the cream-of-the-crop independent wrestling had to offer, all the while launching his own wrestling promotion, AEW, along the way […]

After working over a wonderful match with Finn Balor in a touching tribute to Bray Wyatt, the victorious LA Knight was riding high; he got an incredible reaction from the crowd, cut a fantastic promo that put over Wyatt as much as it buried The Miz, and is now set to ride into Payback in […]

Hulk Hogan is a lot of things; he’s arguably the most instantly recognizable professional wrestler of all time, arguably the most successful professional of all time across a wide range of subjects, and a certified shooter who is willing to tell tails about his historic run in the ring, even if on occasion, he doesn’t […]

There’s a reason why fans call Bryan Danielson the greatest wrestler in the world. No matter what promotion he works for, from Ring of Honor to WWE and now AEW, the “American Dragon” has found a way to get himself over, get himself on top, and stay there despite from bigger, stronger, and more athletic […]

While watching Michael Cole lead an expansive tribute show to honor the memories of Bray Wyatt and Terry Funk, with dozens of WWE Superstars standing in unison as the promotion rang a ten-bell solute to their fallen alumni, one face notably missing from the assembly was Alexa Bliss, the do-it-all diminutive former champion who worked […]

After being the subject of heavy speculation following the final match of his current contract with WWE, with some suggesting that the promotion turned down his contract request and, as a result, he’s AEW-bound, Edge decided to take to Twitter to clear everything up, making sure that, for as much uncertainty lies ahead, he could […]

When the story of Bray Wyatt‘s career is written, the final chapter will feature one wrestler extensively: LA Knight. Now granted, the two performers didn’t have much, or really anything in common other than a comfortability on the microphone, as Wyatt’s entire schtick was built around his love of horror movies, cults, and general spookiness, […]

Though WWE committed the vast majority of the final SmackDown of the month of August to the untimely passing of Bray Wyatt, who suffered a heart attack the day before, the “Eater of Worlds” wasn’t the only Superstar who passed away in the days after Monday Night RAW, with the hardcore legend Terry Funk also […]

Becky Lynch really doesn’t like Trish Stratus. After coming together as an impromptu faction alongside Lita in the lead-up to WrestleMania 39, the duo split apart in April to an incredible degree, with Stratus turning on Lynch after the pairing lost a WWE Woman’s Tag Team Championship match to Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez on […]

As SmackDown rapidly approaches, WWE fans the world over are preparing for the sort of all-encompassing tribute show that will all but surely push all previous plans aside in favor of celebrating the life and career of Bray Wyatt. Matches will be wrestled, likely with tributes to Wyatt and fellow fallen former Superstar Terry Funk, […]

As seemingly the entire professional wrestling world across promotions mourns the loss of one of the sport’s most indelible performers, Bray Wyatt, fans have openly wondered how this has affected those closest to the third-generation pro, with Erick Rowan, Bo Dallas, and Braun Strowman, the most notable members of the Rotunda and Wyatt families, all […]

The wrestling world is mourning the tragic passing of Windham Rotunda, who is best known to audiences as WWE’s Bray Wyatt. After health issues kept him out of action since February, he was reportedly gearing up for a return to the ring. He died at just 36 years of age Thursday. With his trademark cryptic […]

Bray Wyatt, The Fiend, the Eater of Worlds, Husky Harris; no matter what you called Windham Rotunda during his decade and a half in the WWE, it’s clear he made a name for himself in professional wrestling with his chameleon-like commitment to character, his willingness to innovate, and for better or worse, his willingness to […]

WWE superstar Bray Wyatt, whose real name is Windham Rotunda, tragically died on Thursday at age 36. No official cause of death has been released yet, but condolences are pouring out to his family, including his fiancée, JoJo Offerman. While Offerman hadn’t posted anything on social media as of Friday about Bray Wyatt’s death, it […]

For how polarizing a performer Bray Wyatt may have been in the professional wrestling ring, with some fans hating his otherworldly personas, spooky vignettes, and quite possibly the most controversial character in WWE history, The Fiend, it’s hard for even the most old-school, by-the-books wrestling fan to not see the passion he brought to his […]

When Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced to the WWE Universe that Windham Rotunda, the Superstar widely known to fans as Bray Wyatt, had unexpectedly passed away at the way-too-young age of 36, it left folks shocked. Sure, it was fairly widely known that Wyatt had been dealing with an illness for quite some time, leading […]

Windham Lawrence Rotunda, known to his fans as the enigmatic cult leader Bray Wyatt, died aged 36 on Thursday, August 24, 2023, from a sudden heart attack. We want to honor him by acknowledging his legacy in wrestling video games, looking back at his appearances all the way back to his first one. To date, […]

The Undertaker has revealed during WrestleMania Axxess that he wishes former WWE Superstar Bray Wyatt would someday return to the company. Update: Windham Lawrence Rotunda, known to fans as Bray Wyatt, passed away on August 24, 2023, from a student heart attack. He was 36. Bray Wyatt WWE Return Wanted? Speaking out of character during WrestleMania […]

The WWE world was shaken to its core on Thursday when it was announced that Bray Wyatt had passed away unexpectedly. Wyatt, who joined the WWE fourteen years ago, was just 36 years old. The news was first announced by fellow WWE star Paul “Triple H” Levesque on social media. Just received a call from […]

Today, the wrestling world lost one of its best performers. Windham Rotunda, a.k.a Bray Wyatt in the WWE, passed away today, according to CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque. Rotunda’s father, WWE legend Mike Rotundo, was the first to tell Triple H the news. “Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who […]

When news broke that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson‘s daughter was going to be making her NXT debut under the Ava Raine moniker, linking up with Joe Gacy, Rip Fowler, and Jagger Reid as part of Schism, it made more than a few fans turn their heads. Sure, it made sense to put Raine in a […]

With AEW All In rapidly approaching, it seems like all 100 of the promotion’s wrestlers – that’s actually a conservative estimation – have been lining up interviews to help promote what is being billed as the biggest show of all time. Some are using this expanded external interest to hype up their matches in London, […]