Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Plans for World Wrestling Entertainment’s August 21 pay-per-view SummerSlam continue to take shape. Rumors have swirled for months about big names that might return to WWE for marquee matches at the event, to be held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. While John Cena has recently returned to the WWE fold, there is nothing new […] READ MORE
Fictionalized portrayals of the World Wrestling Entertainment universe are few and far between. In 2020, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson launched his autobiographical sitcom “Young Rock”, a whimsical take on his childhood, with actors portraying WWE Golden Age notables like Andre the Giant. The 2019 biopic “Fighting With My Family” covers the upbringing and rise of […] READ MORE
Speculation has swirled for months around the big names World Wrestling Entertainment is trying to lure back to the fold in time for 2021’s SummerSlam. High on the list was John Cena, but anyone who has seen a trailer for the latest sequel to “The Fast and the Furious” knows that he is a bit […] READ MORE
When her NXT UK nemesis Rhea Ripley departed the Capitol Wrestling Center for Monday Night Raw, Toni Storm declared that it was “Toni’s time to storm” NXT’s women’s roster. With current NXT women’s champion Raquel Gonzalez having slid into Ripley’s niche as the dominant force on the women’s roster, Storm’s efforts were diverted to a […] READ MORE
The sports entertainment rumor mill has been kept busy all 2021, so far, with speculation about what World Wrestling Entertainment has planned for its SummerSlam 2021 event. 2020’s global pandemic ceased all touring and crowd shows for WWE, and beginning with WrestleMania 36, its pay-per-view events were filmed crowdlessly in insular locations. While 2020’s WrestleMania 36 […] READ MORE
July 20’s installment at NXT ended with Karrion Kross upping the ante in a major way in his feud with management. At the top of the broadcast, enforcer to management Samoa Joe furiously called out Kross for his recent anarchic behavior. Kross did not come to the ring. The episode ended with Samoa Joe finding […] READ MORE
Monday Night Raw was always meant to be different than previous World Wrestling Entertainment television products. Broadcast live, rather than pre-taped, and aimed at a more mature audience, Raw was the breeding ground of WWE’s change in tone towards spontaneous, edgy content in the 90s; the “Attitude Era”, and gritty acts like D-Generation X and […] READ MORE
Karrion Kross met his first appearance on Monday Night Raw, with a surprise debut that ended in an even more surprise victory for his opponent, Jeff Hardy. Wins, and memorable matches, have been few and far between for the Triple Crown and Grand Slam champion, who has been featured sporadically across Raw and Main Event throughout […] READ MORE
Neither Liv Morgan’s recent singles push, the ruthless aggression she showed on July 16’s Friday Night SmackDown, nor her impassioned Money in the Bank pre-show interview proved to be either a spoiler or a prediction. The narrative looked set for Morgan to be the winner of the eight-woman ladder match: she had proved herself as […] READ MORE
Its been a cruel summer for the women’s division at World Wrestling Entertainment. Budget cuts sent Mickie James, Chelsea Green, Ruby Riott, Peyton Royce, Billie Kay, and Lana off, wishing them well in their ‘future endeavors’. This left a skeleton crew of female WWE superstars heading into the build-up for the women’s Money in the […] READ MORE