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With the WWE Draft officially over, fans, pundits, and performers themselves have begun to comment on which Superstars went where, with some questioning why Paul “Triple H” Levesque broke up the feud between The Judgement Day and lWo, while others complimented the decision to bring Imperium over to RAW, as Gunther will now be afforded […]

After wrestling his final match on NXT before being assigned to RAW on May 8th, a match he won against Dragon Lee with a little help from Noam Dar, JD McDonagh sat down in the locker room with a WWE camera to reflect on the journey that brought him the indies in the UK to […]

On this day 51 years ago, Dwayne “The Rock Johnson was born. That’s right before his feuds with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Kurt Angle, his time in the Rock and Sock Connection and the Nation of Domination, and even his time playing college ball at the University of Miami, Johnson was born into the […]

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 […]

Last month, Cody Rhodes failed to dethrone Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at WrestleMania. This was a defining moment for Rhodes because he failed to finish the story that he came back to WWE to complete. After his defeat, WWE made it seem as if we’d see a rematch between the two […]

Since returning to WWE following a few months off to begin the year, Shinsuke Nakamura has been dipping his toes back into the WWE Universe. He’s worked a few televised matches, made fun of The Miz’s, get this, manhood, and was drafted onto RAW, where he can wrestle the likes of Gunther, Drew McIntyre, Seth […]

Cody Rhodes is a wrestler who is driven by passion, not cold calculation. When a fan suggested that an indie show couldn’t do 10,000 tickets sold on Twitter, Rhodes took that as a personal challenge and helped to put together All In, the show that eventually launched AEW and effectively flipped the professional wrestling world […]

With the WWE Draft in the rearview mirror, rosters for both Raw and SmackDown have been permanently set. Superstars such as Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, Gunther, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, and The Judgement Day have been drafted to Raw. On the other side, superstars such as Roman Reigns, Austin Theory, Bianca Belair, Bobby […]

Size matters when it comes to the WWE. While most wrestlers usually need the size, others have found a way to make a wrestling career despite their size differential. In fact, some of them would even go on to become world champions in the WWE. For this piece, let’s take a look at the 10 […]

Though things are currently going swimmingly onscreen for World Wrestling Entertainment, with the WWE Draft widely considered a resounding success for RAW and SmackDown, even if Grayson Waller isn’t stoked on when he was selected, behind the scenes, the company is gearing up for another lawsuit, this time from a former writer, Britney Abrahams, claiming […]

After struggling to find much success in the ring so far in 2023, things turned around seemingly overnight for Bayley and the members of Damage CTRL, Dakota Kai and IYO SKY, as they secured a huge win over the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions on RAW, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, in their final RAW […]

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 […]

And in the 2023 WWE Draft, Mr. Irrelevant is… Grayson Waller. That’s right, despite being the most polished prospect in all of NXT, Waller had to watch as a half dozen of his former fellow developmental recruits heard their names called on television, the SmackDown LowDown, or ultimately on RAW Talk before Matt Camp said […]

As improbably as it may sound, Rick Boogs was drafted onto SmackDown despite being largely absent from WWE over the 2023 calendar year… as a solo act. That’s right, despite being connected to Elias since returning from injury, SmackDown decided to bring him in as a solo act, with Elias left to fend for himself […]

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 […]

And last but not least, in the sixth round of Day 2, the 10th overall round if you count the first four rounds and 16 acts picked on Day 1, JBL and Teddy Long announced the final four selections in the 2023 WWE Draft, filling out the RAW and SmackDown rosters before WWE announces the […]

After working through the first four rounds of Day 2 of the WWE Draft, with Trish Stratus, Karrion Kross, Shayna Baszler, Ronda Rousey, and LA Knight all coming off the board in the fourth round, Molly Holly and Road Dogg came to the ramp for the penultimate round of the proceedings, with two picks each […]

After watching the final set of champions hear their names called in the third round of Night 2 of the WWE Draft, with Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, coming off the board alongside Asuka, New Day, and The Brawling Brutes, Eric Bischoff and Rob Van Dam, holding his card […]

After having to sit through a minor interruption that featured Brock Lesnar and Cody Rhodes going to war ahead of their forthcoming match at Backlash, the WWE Draft continued on, with four more acts finding their new WWE homes. First came the final champions available in the draft, with Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, the […]

After watching Paul “Triple H” Levesque announce the first four picks of Day 2 of the WWE Draft, two-time Hall of Famer and NXT color commentator Booker T and his wife, Queen Sharmell, called the next round of picks, and unsurprisingly, it featured even more star power than the round before it. For RAW, Booker […]

After announcing the first 16 picks in the 2023 WWE Draft plus a slew of more selections on the SmackDown LowDown on Saturday morning, Paul “Triple H” Levesque kicked off the show yet again, when Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead strongly encouraged the rowdy RAW crowd to “Bow Down to the King.” But before Trips could […]

Paul Heyman is one of the greatest non-wrestlers in wrestling history. When you think of non-wrestlers who have influenced the business the most, Heyman is one of the first names that comes up. He was one of the founders of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and has managed some of the biggest names in wrestling history. […]

Since officially becoming a tag team earlier this year, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez have rapidly become the premier babyface women’s tag team in all of WWE, a bar that admittedly wasn’t particularly hard to clear, what with there being no named teams on the roster, but remains impressive none the less. They’ve found ways […]

After watching 14 main roster acts hear their names called during the first day of the 2023 WWE draft, Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn sat back in awe with the rest of their NXT class as “The Heartbreak Kid” himself, Shawn Michaels, announced that with their final pick on Day 1, SmackDown was taking the […]

Night 1 of the WWE Draft has come and gone, but plenty of superstars are still without a permanent home. Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Gunther (with Imperium), Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, Drew McIntyre, and Edge were drafted on last week’s episode of SmackDown. Monday night on Raw, the remaining eligible superstars will be drafted. Some […]

Roman Reigns is closing in on 1,000 days as the WWE‘s Universal Champion. Fans haven’t seen a championship reign this historic in decades and probably won’t see another one like this for another few decades. What we are witnessing is genuinely historic. Since returning to the company at SummerSlam in 2020, Reigns has been one […]

The Kansas City Chiefs and Travis Kelce are fresh off of another Super Bowl title. However, as Kelce looks to make the most of his offseason, the Chiefs star is looking to make a move into the WWE. Kelce watched as San Francisco 49ers tight end Georgia Kittle took part in WrestleMania 39. Now, Kelce […]

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 […]

After watching the first four rounds of the 2023 WWE Draft on SmackDown – which, curiously enough, featured four acts selected in each round instead of one per brand – fans tuned in to the SmackDown LowDown on Saturday morning to see where the performers who weren’t selected, about a dozen names, plus a few […]

Heading into WrestleMania 39, fans wanted nothing more than to see “Stone Cold” Steve Austin get in the ring with one of the top stars on RAW or SmackDown in order to provide the fans in SoFi and watching on Peacock an optimized experience filled with fun, cheers, and more than few Broken Skull IPAs […]

After watching Bianca Belair get drafted onto SmackDown despite being the current holder of the RAW Women’s Championship, fans, announcers, and wrestlers alike wondered what that meant for Rhea Ripley, who is the current SmackDown Woman’s Champion following a huge WrestleMania 39 win over Charlotte Flair. Would Ripley and Belair switch belts Becky Lynch-Charlotte Flair […]

To some, landing in WWE is just the next logical step after a successful career doing something else; Top Dolla signed with WWE after his time as a journeyman defensive tackle in the NFL, the Cavinder twins have effectively left their basketball-playing careers in the past in favor of two one-way tickets to Orlando, and […]

When Ricochet and Braun Strowman started tag teaming together on SmackDown, it was unusual. Sure, WWE has thrown tag teams together in the past, and, weirdly enough, Ricochet and Strowman even sort of look similar with their long beards/no hair combos, but stylistically, the former is one of the most physically gifted high flyers in […]

When Roderick Strong made his debut in AEW, it was a pretty big deal. Last seen in the hospital demanding that Ivy Nile and the Creed Brothers, Brutus and Julius, “win” their feud with former Diamond Mine faction member Damon Kemp, Strong’s surprise arrival in AEW made fans pop and got folks very excited about […]

Since being introduced in 2018, the Women’s Tag Team Championship has been all over the place. There have been 19 different reigns since Sasha Banks and Bayley won the titles at Elimination Chamber in February 2019, with only seven of those teams holding onto the championship for over 100+ days, making some of the reigns […]

When Dustin and Cody Rhodes shared the ring at the inaugural running of Double or Nothing, it was a pretty darn big deal; AEW placed two former WWE stars in the center of the ring for a match Vince McMahon would have never placed in a main event, and Dusty’s sons went on to deliver […]

After helping to announce that two acts from NXT, the NXT Woman’s Champion Indi Hartwell and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions, Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn, were heading to RAW and SmackDown, respectively, in the WWE Draft, Road Dogg headed to the back to discuss the matter further with Megan Morant for a WWE […]

After watching Paul “Triple H” Levesque announce Bianca Belair as the third pick in the WWE Draft, with “The Est of WWE” heading to SmackDown in the first true twist of the proceedings, the current RAW Women’s Champion called into SmackDown to deliver a message to the WWE Universe and may have let it slip […]

After officially being drafted to SmackDown in the WWE Draft, and providing fans of the Blue Brand with the first whiff of their unique brand of smoke in a win over lWo and Ricochet/Braun Strowman, the Street Profits, Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, were feeling good. Though it’s been a minute since they were regularly […]