Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Friday Night SmackDown is here once more and this week it is live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The Road to WrestleMania is in full throttle, with this week’s SmackDown being the final episode before next week’s go-home edition ahead of what is shaping up to be one hell of yet another […] READ MORE
On Wednesday 12th January, Roman Reigns reached a new milestone – by reigning as WWE Universal Champion for 500 days. It is a highly impressive feat, one which has only occurred one other time on the main roster (we had to specify with “main roster” as WALTER was NXT United Kingdom Champion for a remarkable […] READ MORE
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “the only constant in life is change.” That holds true even for the WWE’s plentiful yearly pay per view schedule. In lieu of another installment of its TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs series, WWE is debuting a new event, Day 1 on January 1. The event will be broadcast from the […] READ MORE
2021 continued to be a banner year for Roman Reigns, capitalizing on the Cinderella story of his heel transformation in 2020. Following a quiet first half of the latter year, Reigns returned to World Wrestling Entertainment at August 23, 2020’s SummerSlam, interrupting Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt’s match for the Universal Championship. Reigns captured the title […] READ MORE
November 21’s Survivor Series event marks another installment in one of World Wrestling Entertainment’s longest running pay per view series. However, its received little build up or fanfare on WWE’s flagship shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown, until two key match-ups to be featured at the event were announced this week. True to […] READ MORE
From The Fabulous Freebirds and the Von Erichs, to The Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian, tag team rivalries throughout pro wrestling history have produced some of the most memorable and innovative matches in the medium. World Wrestling Entertainment has leaned heavily on its tag team division in recent months, especially the most decorated tag […] READ MORE
October 4’s Monday Night Raw continued the 2021 draft, which began on October 1’s Friday Night SmackDown. SmackDown’s draft featured some smart choices, such as retaining Roman Reigns, Jimmy, and Jey Uso, who’ve been such a boon for the brand throughout latter 2020 and 2021 so far, but also some surprises like drafting NXT stable […] READ MORE
For a year and a half, World Wrestling Entertainment has insisted that it does not view All Elite Wrestling as serious competition, in the same way that WCW dogged them throughout the 1990s. However, 2021 has seen a subtle but palpable shift in tactics and, presumably, perspective. When launching NXT on USA Network in 2019 […] READ MORE
Monday Night Raw hasn’t always been kind to Roman Reigns. On the one hand, it’s where he first rose to the top of the heap of the WWE universe as a member of the wildly popular stable The Shield. On the other it was where he struggled to resonate as a singles competitor, saddled with […] READ MORE
Monday Night Raw had its most newsworthy episode all year last week when Big E cashed in Money in the Bank to become the new WWE Champion. This week will feel the ramifications of that as a massive main event has already been made with the biggest star of SmackDown makes their way to Raw […] READ MORE