Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
On this week’s edition of Friday Night SmackDown, Apollo Crews defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against King Nakamura. Both men had their respective allies in their corners; while Crews was backed by Commander Azeez, Nakamura was backed by his energetic guitarist, Rick Boogs. Going into this match, Crews seemed to be the dominant competitor. However, […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown is here once more! The clouds have parted; the skies are blue and there is a descending light heading down to earth as, for the first time in weeks, we have a preview with more than one announced segment to preview. As the title suggests, this week’s SmackDown will see John Cena […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown is here once again and we have just the one match announced so far. This seems to be a return to the ThunderDome era of WWE tradition of announcing very little in advance of these shows. Thankfully, we are well versed in filling up these previews with what we think might happen. […] 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
Friday Night SmackDown returns for a split show edition! A majority of the show will be live from Cleveland, Ohio at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, whilst – presumably – smaller portions of the show will be broadcast from the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami, Florida. The first blue brand episode since last Sunday’s successful Money in […] READ MORE
This week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown is the go-home edition ahead of this Sunday’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. It is not every day that we get to preview a Hell in a Cell match taking place on SmackDown, but tonight’s show will have just that – with two competitors facing off in the […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown continues to gallop at a brisk pace towards Hell in a Cell, laying the groundwork for their contributions to the match card. Most of the roster is embroiled in tightly focused and refreshingly written conflicts, and June 11’s installment of SmackDown did its best to showcase each of these storylines in differnt […] READ MORE
Following last night’s tag team defeat (with Sami Zayn) against Kevin Owens and Big E, Apollo Crews announced that on next week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, he would be replacing Zayn with his devoutly loyal, Commander Azeez. Before you get too excited, we would like to remind you that though Commander Azeez and, indeed, […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown returns once more! On last week’s show, Roman Reigns absolutely demolished Dominik Mysterio – with the junior Mysterio feeling the full wrath of the Tribal Chief in a brutal display of what Roman is capable of. It no doubt sent a message to anyone – especially the dissenting Jimmy Uso – willing […] READ MORE
The recent list of WWE releases demonstrate a profound lack of booking acumen by the company. The release of Aleister Black, especially, made little sense. He had just returned from a lengthy hiatus – debuting a refined and rejuvenated version of his character. Black had just began a feud with Big E; the man widely tipped […] READ MORE