Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
Paul Heyman is very good at his job. On Monday, June 13th, WWE announced a return to Philadelphia for October’s Extreme Rules. This will be the second time in 13 iterations of the event that Philadelphia will host the so called ‘most extreme night of the year’ with the first time coming in 2019. More […] 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
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
Friday Night SmackDown has arrived! The “Road to WrestleMania” is now well and truly underway, with last week’s Saudi-hosted Elimination Chamber event now firmly behind us. At the event, Brock Lesnar overcame five other men to win the WWE Championship from Bobby Lashley and Roman Reigns retained his WWE Universal Championship in a match with […] READ MORE
Match Point is an ongoing series at Last Word on Pro Wrestling, where we look at intriguing matchups in indie wrestling and beyond. They may be dream matches, first-time matchups, or hotly anticipated rematches. Today we take a look at two former members of The Shield for a dive into Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins. […] 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
WWE‘s Friday Night SmackDown returns to Chicago, Illinois! Speaking of returns, tonight’s show is being billed as the return of the Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns, who had been off of television for the past couple of weeks. Whereas no other segments have been officially announced, we can take a guess at one or two which […] READ MORE
Dark Side of the Ring is here once more with yet another grizzly tale from the world of professional wrestling. The season is rapidly drawing to a close, with next week’s episode on the WWF steroid trials being the season grand finale. Last week’s episode was a look into the heartbreaking and tragic life (and […] READ MORE