Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Nashville – in the 35th annual summertime spectacle that is SummerSlam, WWE and its first official premium live event without Vincent Kennedy McMahon holding down the creative duties. Paul Levesque a.k.a. Triple H has officially taken the helm as head of WWE creative. So in the first official show of the Levesque era, we have […] READ MORE
The Triple H era is off to a good start, seemingly bringing the focus back on the women’s division, midcard, and Raw‘s top title, the United States Championship. When Vince McMahon retired and Triple H was named head of creative, fans instantly wondered how quickly and impactfully the product would change. It didn’t take long […] READ MORE
WWE’s first show following a rather game-changing Summerslam, takes place from Houston, Texas’ Toyota Center. Coming a day after Triple H’s rather loud proclamation that now we’re watching HIS WWE, we return to the venue that housed what was probably the biggest exhibit of his rather infamous “Global Localization” plan. On January 25, 2020, the […] 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
Creating a genuinely beloved and successful babyface champion is no easy task in the current pro wrestling climate. So far, the nascent decade of the 2020s has seen the heralded rise and ignominious flame-outs of the respective championship reigns of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Kota Ibushi and WWE’s Big E. Both were fan favorites whose actual […] READ MORE
The writing was long on the wall. It was a surprise to few that Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar would stage a reprisal of their 2021 Crown Jewel bout at April’s upcoming WrestleMania 38. In the ensuing months between Crown Jewel and the ‘Road to WrestleMania’ Lesnar became WWE champion, upping the stakes of his […] READ MORE
With 2022’s Royal Rumble event imminent, reports have circulated in the pro wrestling industry that former Monday Night Raw women’s titleholder Ronda Rousey is possibly in talks to return to WWE. First reported by Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, speculation was later elaborated by other sources. Bryan Alvarez asserted on Wrestling Observer Live that Rousey […] READ MORE
WWE is a strange animal in 2022. Somehow with five hours of weekly content across two national TV channels, WWE has managed to not really make any stars in the last year. WWE has a massive deficit of any kind of star power, and with the 2022 Royal Rumble almost here it shows. There are […] READ MORE
In professional wrestling, betting odds are usually a sign of things to come. In the lead-up to massive Premium Live Events, they are often treated as outright spoilers and more often than not get the Royal Rumble winners predicted before the event. With that in mind let’s take a look at who the betting odds believe […] READ MORE
The entire run of Finn Bálor on the WWE main roster has been one negatively impacted by a number of factors and it has failed to meet the immense potential demonstrated on a weekly basis during the glory days of NXT. Flashback to 2016 and Bálor’s initial call-up from NXT – where Bálor was most successful […] READ MORE