Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
This week’s WWE SmackDown is set to emanate live from the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. Superstars advertised to appear include the Usos, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Gunther, and the newly crowned WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. Rodriguez and Morgan are set to make their first title defense since winning […] READ MORE
It’s the final Monday Night Raw before WrestleMania as WWE sets itself up for the biggest event of the year. It’s a packed edition of WWE Raw tonight, live from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Formerly the Talking Stick Resort Arena, it’s been WWE’s go-to stop for Arizona since 1993. It housed the 2017 […] READ MORE
Another work week is almost at an end, meaning that FOX and WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown is here once more with a show based around the fallout from Elimination Chamber. Last Saturday, we saw an interesting Elimination Chamber PLE (premium live event) which set the stage for WrestleMania 39. As we all know, the SmackDown […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown has come around once again! The blue-branded, grappling extraordinaire will be live from Uncasville, Connecticut and will no doubt leave fans feeling something. Tonight’s episode of SmackDown is being largely built around the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship, which the team of Braun Strowman and Ricochet (team name suggestion: the “Flounderers”) last […] READ MORE
WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown returns with its first show after what was a very mixed bag of a Royal Rumble premium live event last Saturday. Whereas the Royal Rumble matches themselves were won by worthy and rightful competitors in Cody Rhodes and Rhea Ripley, the matches themselves felt rather lackluster outside of a couple of […] READ MORE
After the December 16 edition of WWE SmackDown, the roster taped a second episode which will air on December 23, 2022. Let’s take a look and see what is going down on Friday Night SmackDown tonight as we run down the WWE SmackDown spoilers. WWE SmackDown Spoilers for December 23 NEXT WEEK on #SmackDown: 🏆 […] READ MORE
This week presented an interesting conundrum that created a split in opinions for wrestling fans. Following this past Friday night, SmackDown recorded one of the biggest ratings in the program’s recent history. When examining the quarter hours, one can see it wasn’t exactly the “Head Of The Table” that moved those numbers. It was, in […] READ MORE
WWE ratings for last week’s SmackDown saw the blue brand hit a number that no WWE programming has touched since December, 2020 as SmackDown eclipsed 2,500,000 viewers in nearly two years. It is worth offering a caveat there though as that Christmas night show benefited from an NFL lead-in, evidenced by the fact that the […] READ MORE
Can you believe it is Friday already? Heck, can you believe we are almost in October? We’re missing Summer almost as much as SmackDown fans are missing Roman Reigns, who has apparently been away long enough for a SmackDown appearance to be considered a return. Weird. We’ll be covering that and some strange thing involving […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown is here once more! Though it feels like an eternity has passed in the days since, we are now six days removed from a largely successful Clash at the Castle premium live event, which saw Roman Reigns successfully overcome Drew McIntyre to retain his WWE Universal and WWE Championship in the main […] READ MORE
Niklas George is a Welsh historian, teacher of religious education and freelance journalist covering professional wrestling and European football.