Backlash Archives

The last match of Wrestlemania's Backlash was a showdown between Roman Reigns and the Swiss Superman, Cesaro Although fans the world over may still be reeling from John Morrison and Miz getting EATEN BY ZOMBIES, there still needed to be a conclusion against the bitter rivalry surrounding the Universal Championship belt All through the night,[...]

After a pre-match interview with MVP, the second triple threat championship match of WWE Backlash got underway Bobby Lashley defended his WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre and Braun Strowman. WWE WrestleMania Backlash match graphic: Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre vs Braun Strowman for the WWE Championship As one would expect based on the sheer mass involved, this[...]

Now that the army of the undead has been cleared from the Thunderdome in part by Johnny Drip Drips parkour moves, WWE's Wrestlemania Backlash can continue with its fourth match of the night The newest Smackdown Women's Champion, Bianca Belair, is set to defend her belt against its longest-reigning holder in history, Bayley. Bayley was a[...]

WWE went back to virtual crowds for their first pay-per-view after Wrestlemania for their 2021 Backlash Event Following the opening match of the night for the Raw Women's Championship, where Rhea Ripley retained her title after a well-timed Riptide on Asuka, was the Smackdown Tag Team Championship. Current reigning Smackdown champs Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode[...]

Damian Priest faced The Miz in a lumberjack match at WrestleMania Backlash In backstage chicanery before the the match John Morrison attempted to bribe the lumberjacks, but when he opened the lumberjack locker room door, it was filled with zombies He left the door open and they escaped into the building Don't ask why the[...]

Welcome to the Charlotte Flair show! WrestleMania Backlash on Sunday kicked off with a Triple Threat match for the Raw Women's Championship, with Rhea Ripley defending against Charlotte and Asuka Charlotte wrestled the match wearing ring gear made from the pelts of 101 cute dalmatian puppies Asuka and Ripley wore their usual outfits The expectation[...]

WWE WrestleMania Backlash takes place tonight, emanating from the WWE Thunderdome inside the Yuengling Center  on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa No live fans will be in the building for Backlash, a contrast from April's WrestleMania, which featured around 20,000 fans each night The show starts at 7PM Eastern time[...]

With less than a week to go before the big event, the card for WWE WrestleMania Backlash is… well, it's getting there.  Priest defeated John Morrison on WWE Raw to win the right to choose the stipulation for the match on Sunday, and Priest decided on a lumberjack match to ensure Miz can't escape his[...]

Ahead of WWE Smackdown tonight, the fed announced one more match for WrestleMania Backlash, taking place the Sunday after next Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio will get a shot at the Smackdown Tag Team Championships held by Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode, otherwise known as (ugh, we hate to say this), the Dirty Dawgs WWE[...]

Meltzer also reports that WWE will not have fans in the building for WrestleMania Backlash this month, but that the plan is to have fans at SummerSlam. WrestleVotes, a twitter account popular with clickbait wrestling news aggregation websites, takes things further, reporting that SummerSlam will be the beginning of a return to touring. WWE is looking to[...]

On the WrestleMania Backlash go-home edition of WWE Raw next week, Bobby Lashley will face another one of his opponents from the WWE Championship triple threat match at Backlash Next week, Lashley and Drew McIntyre will go head-to-head, following McIntyre's interference in Lashley's match with the other member of the triple threat, Braun Strowman, this[...]

Charlotte Flair will face Asuka and champion Rhea Ripley in a Raw Women's Championship match at WrestleMania Backlash, WWE revealed Monday The match was originally made as a one-on-one between WrestleMania opponents Asuka and Ripley, but Charlotte inserted herself on WWE Raw tonight. Charlotte Flair will face Asuka and Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania Backlash in a[...]

WWE added another match to WrestleMania Backlash on Friday Bayley will challenge Bianca Belair for the Smackdown Women's Championship at the PPV next month Belair won the title from Sasha Banks just a few weeks ago at WrestleMania, and Bayley had an altercation with the Bella Twins at WrestleMania, so there's plenty of opportunities for[...]

Drew McIntyre did such a good job opening Night 1 of WrestleMania this year, WWE is giving them another shot, this time at WrestleMania… Backlash Yes, Backlash has WrestleMania in its name this year for some reason But Backlash will have one big disadvantage over WrestleMania: it'll be in the Thunderdome, without live fans Well,[...]

Mahal appeared on WWE talk show The Bump ahead of Sunday's Backlash PPV, and he talked about the short-lived come back and when he'll be back in the ring. Jinder Mahal appears on WWE talk show The Bump ahead of the Backlash PPV. "Unfortunately, I had to have another knee surgery," said Mahal "It's on the same[...]

Edge and Randy Orton may not have had the greatest WWE match ever at WWE Backlash, but they did alright The in-ring work of both wrestlers was fantastic, actually, though the match as a whole was marred by WWE's use of piped-in crowd noise, which served as an annoying distraction throughout the night Unfortunately, it[...]

Well, I'm not sure what just watched in that last match between the Viking Raiders and the Street Profits, but now it's time for the main event of WWE Backlash: Edge vs Randy Orton in The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever! Orton and Edge come to the ring The announcements of both competitors are done weirdly,[...]

It's the penultimate match of WWE Backlash, and we all need a break after that hoss-fest we just witnessed between Bobby Lashley and Drew McIntyre. Street Profits vs Viking Raiders for the Raw Tag Team Championships at WWE Backlash Before the match, the Street Profits and Viking Raiders start a brawl in the parking lot[...]

MVP is seen backstage ordering party supplies for the post-Backlash WWE Championship match party tonight Lana interrupts his call to tell MVP she's the reason Lashley is successful, not him MVP tells Lana she should have this conversation with Lashley, but she won't because she's scared of what he'll say MVP heads off to hang[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE Backlash The third match of the night (second on the main card) is Jeff Hardy vs Sheamus. This is clearly WWE's hottest angle Well, warm, really Internal body temperature Jeff throwing a cup of urine at Sheamus on Smackdown on Friday is what really sold this PPV for[...]

Miz and Morrison finally got to debut their new music video on the WWE Backlash Kickoff show The tag team tried to debutt HEY! Hey Hey on Smackdown, but were rudely interrupted by Braun Strowman making his entrance Smackdown viewers' loss is Backlash Kickoff viewers' gain, however This song is a real banger! Hey hey[...]

WWE Backlash tonight features a loaded card, with five WWE championships on the line, a significant grudge match between Jeff Hardy and Sheamus, and a match being billed as The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever Former WWE Champion and one of my favorite wrestlers, The Modern Day Maharaja, Jinder Mahal, appeared on WWE talk show The[...]

WWE Backlash takes place tonight at 7 PM on the WWE Network, and Bleeding Cool will be covering the PPV live The Chadster has been assigned the task of writing this article to list the card for tonight's event, which will serve as a hub for our live coverage as it happens (with links to[...]

WWE Superstar Paige appeared on WWE's The Bump talk show ahead of Sunday's Backlash PPV, and she talked about two matches taking place tonight One is a match between Edge and Randy Orton being billed as the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever The other is the WWE Raw Women's Championship match between Asuka and Nia Jax. Paige[...]

Tonight at WWE Backlash, Bobby Lashley will challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship In his corner will be MVP, the man who has taken Lashley from the center of a cuckold angle with Rusev into the main event In an interview with WWE's The Bump, MVP discussed his relationship with Lashley and Lashley's relationship[...]

Sasha Banks appeared on WWE's The Bump on Sunday ahead of her triple threat match at Backlash Banks and her best friend, Bayley, will defend their Women's Tag Team Championships against Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross and The Iiconics During the interview, Banks talked about her relationship with Bayley and why people keep criticizing them[...]

WWE Superstar Edge has been less than enthusiastic about WWE's billing of his match against Randy Orton at Backlash on Sunday as "The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever," but on Saturday morning, Edge took to Twitter to post a definitive and more serious statement about the match. The match graphic for The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever happening[...]

Last night on WWE Raw, the go-home show for Backlash, WWE continued their promotion of Edge vs Randy Orton, billed as The Greatest Wrestling Match ever It's a pretty dumb way to promote a match that has no possible hope of living up to the hype Just ask Edge himself. The Rated-R Superstar was interviewed by[...]

On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said he heard the match was "really good" but that the purpose of filming it early was to be able to touch it up to live up to its tagline. The match graphic for The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever happening at WWE Backlash WWE has been pushing[...]

UP NEXT: #TheBigDog @WWERomanReigns looks to take his frustrations out on @SamoaJoe at #WWEBacklash! pic.twitter.com/oyYuZhAxtL — WWE (@WWE) May 7, 2018 Was Roman Reigns ready for Samoa Joe? After a string of awful matches against Brock Lesnar, it was nice to see Reigns square off with someone else This is Joe's first big match since being back from[...]