Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
As we speculated in our weekly SmackDown preview, Sasha Banks has tonight returned home to the blue brand. SmackDown Women’s Champion, Bianca Belair – who won the title from Banks at this year’s WrestleMania – has been in desperate need of a rival ever since Bayley got injured last month. With “The Role Model” on […] READ MORE
Friday Night SmackDown is here! In typical WWE fashion, very little has been announced for this show. In fact, as of this writing, we only know about a certain Universal Championship feud becoming more complicated after last week’s conclusion. Therefore, this preview will mostly consist of speculation over some of the bigger things to expect […] READ MORE
When her NXT UK nemesis Rhea Ripley departed the Capitol Wrestling Center for Monday Night Raw, Toni Storm declared that it was “Toni’s time to storm” NXT’s women’s roster. With current NXT women’s champion Raquel Gonzalez having slid into Ripley’s niche as the dominant force on the women’s roster, Storm’s efforts were diverted to a […] 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
Neither Liv Morgan’s recent singles push, the ruthless aggression she showed on July 16’s Friday Night SmackDown, nor her impassioned Money in the Bank pre-show interview proved to be either a spoiler or a prediction. The narrative looked set for Morgan to be the winner of the eight-woman ladder match: she had proved herself as […] READ MORE
On Friday, it was announced in a special vignette that Toni Storm is officially “coming soon” to Friday Night SmackDown. She joined Tegan Nox and Shotzi Blackheart, who debuted earlier in the night, as the newest editions of the brand. IT'S (almost) TONI TIME on #SmackDown! 🔥🤘😮#ToniStorm pic.twitter.com/pOEKSsNzXl — WWE (@WWE) July 10, 2021 Toni […] READ MORE
Free agent Tommy End, known to the World Wrestling Entertainment audience as Aleister Black, has found a new life as a Twitch streamer after being released by WWE for the second time. Since the day of his release, he has been speaking openly to his streaming audience about his experiences with, and views about, the […] READ MORE
Kay Lee Ray won the NXT UK Women’s Championship back on August 31, 2019 at NXT UK Takeover: Cardiff but the global pandemic turned what could’ve been a star-making reign into months (and months) of not defending the championship and then, later, into a series of awesome matches to reestablish Ray as a main player […] READ MORE
NXT on Tuesday night was another one with high stakes as Johnny Gargano would be forced to put his NXT North American Championship on the line against Bronson Reed. The twist, of course, was that it would take place inside a Steel Cage. That isn’t all, however, as it was a special night on the […] READ MORE
Zoey Stark is a recent acquisition to the Black and Gold brand, an electrifying performer with a principled babyface persona. Toni Storm is her antithesis, an internationally known veteran and former NXT UK Women’s Champion, whose hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners style has been overshadowed by constant rival Rhea Ripley since arriving stateside. Since Ripley’s call-up to the […] READ MORE