Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown is here once more! Tonight’s episode is the go-home edition of SmackDown ahead of this weekend’s Hell in a Cell pay per view – which will feature Raw and SmackDown superstars entering the famed, infamously hellish structure in front of thousands of adoring fan-wait, there are no SmackDown matches booked for […] READ MORE
On last night’s episode of AEW Dynamite, Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) returned to our screens and cut arguably the greatest professional wrestling promo of the past decade – one which will, in the opinion of this writer, stand the test of time alongside the greats of Dusty Rhodes‘ “Hard Times”; Stone Cold Steve Austin‘s “Austin 3:16”; […] READ MORE
After much speculation over the past few days, controversial professional wrestler and top All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star, Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF), will be in the ring (live) during tonight’s AEW Dynamite broadcast. In a graphic bearing the simple caption “we hear from MJF”, AEW’s social media team has confirmed his appearance on tonight’s show. pic.twitter.com/sRHhA3wEmo — […] READ MORE
WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown is here again! Did anything important happen this week? Well, our WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions (Sasha Banks & Naomi) are currently AWOL (fight the power!) with no certain time-frame on when they are returning, if at all. Speaking of tag team champions, our sole announced match for tonight’s WWE SmackDown […] READ MORE
Friday the 13th has become a date synonymous with hard luck, misfortune and hockey masks. Whereas we may be safe from any machete wielding, hockey mask-wearing, undead (only from Part VI, of course – lay off me, nerds) creatures of death, SmackDown is sure to provide its viewers with a fair dose of hard luck […] READ MORE
It is Friday once more! Of course, this means the WWE brings Friday Night SmackDown to our screens for yet another episode of blue branded professional sports wrestling entertainment. We have just the one match announced in advance this week (there was set to be a match between Sheamus & Ridge Holland and the New […] READ MORE
WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown is here once more! This week, the show is live from the MVP Arena in Albany, New York. In addition to tonight’s episode of SmackDown, next week’s edition of SmackDown will also be filmed tonight, as the WWE roster heads overseas for a schedule clashing London show next Friday (why they […] READ MORE
WWE brings Friday Night SmackDown back to our screens with the promise of two guaranteed matches for tonight’s show. One of them will be contested for the Intercontinental Championship – a title which the WWE has cared little about for much of the past decade, with an especially blasé attitude as of late. With WrestleMania […] READ MORE
It is Friday already and the WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown returns not even a week removed from a pretty well-received WrestleMania 38. As is typically the case post-WrestleMania, the WWE is building tonight’s SmackDown as the beginning of a “new era” though, as we all know, it’s really not. Indeed, each of SmackDown’s champions retained […] READ MORE
The WrestleMania go-home show has finally arrived, as SmackDown prepares us for the weekend’s two-night WrestleMania 38 event. As has become a recent tradition, the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal will take place alongside an Intercontinental Championship match and an interview with a sword. Yes, you read that last part correctly. Let’s dive right […] READ MORE
Niklas George is a Welsh historian, teacher of religious education and freelance journalist covering professional wrestling and European football.