The first night of WrestleMania 36 Night One wrapped up with the Boneyard Match between The Undertaker and AJ Styles. The two have been building to this for weeks now, starting when The Undertaker came out and destroyed Styles at the last WWE event in Saudi Arabia. Following that, the challenge was laid out by […]
Former WWE Superstar and current occasional WWE Backstage pundit CM Punk thinks WWE made the wrong decision by deciding to move forward with WrestleMania 36 instead of postponing it, and he's not afraid to say so. Punk dropped another one off his "pipe bombs" on the No-No Show podcast on Stitcher. On the podcast, Punk […]
WWE is looking to make the best of a tough situation when it comes to WrestleMania 36. Normally the biggest wrestling event of the year, held in a stadium with tens of thousands of audience members, WrestleMania 36 has been taped at the Performance Center, and matches have been changed around thanks to some wrestlers […]
WWE has announced some segments for tonight's edition of SmackDown on FOX, the "go-home" show for WrestleMania 36. Featured on the event are John Cena, who is set for a Firefly Funhouse match against Bray Wyatt aka The Fiend, and Miz and Morrison – who are set for a triple threat tag team ladder match […]
Another week of home lockdown, another week of "live-ish" wrestling – and to AEW's credit, this young company has done an excellent job of navigating Dynamite through both the wrestling world as a new company, and in these trying real-world times. Every week we've gotten some amazing matches, and some downright amazing surprises. Cody Rhodes […]
WWE Superstars The Miz and John Morrison have laid the verbal "smackdown" on their WrestleMania opponents. The tag team champions dropped a rap video dissing The New Day and The Usos. Called "Hey Hey," the video is available to watch on WWE's YouTube channel. In one scene, Miz and Morrison rap and dance as they're […]
Ring of Honor announced a series of upgrades to Honor Club, their pro-wrestling video subscription service which a press release boldly calls "the best subscription service in professional wrestling." Honor Club, which features two tiers of service, will now include all PPVs on both tiers in the biggest change. The company is also adding past […]
It's hard to believe that WWE's WrestleMania 36 is this weekend. So much has happened over the past few weeks that it's frankly easy to forget that the biggest WWE show of the year is this weekend. So needless to say, I was curious to see what we would get from this week's "go-home" edition […]
WWE EVP Triple H visited ESPN this past Sunday to not only confirm that a pretty big name will be missing this weekend's WrestleMania shows, but also share his thoughts on that decision as well as the decision to move forward with the annual event. The company had taken the unprecedented step of having RAW, […]
Vice's Dark Side of the Ring returns this Tuesday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT, when AEW star and WWE alum Chris Jericho narrates a look at the controversial life and professional wrestling career of hardcore legend New Jack. Though having wrestled for numerous promotions and won nine championships throughout his career, it would be the "Mass […]
If there are any silver linings that can be taken out of the mass self-isolating and quarantining taking place across the country and around the world, it's that we're seeing everyone from across the pop culture landscape putting aside their differences for the a greater good. In fact, its made for some downright special moments […]
After a mostly disappointing WWE Monday Night RAW last week, this week's episode took a little from last week's RAW and SmackDown and found ways to improve – a little. RAW opened with Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar in an empty ring, within an even emptier performance center. Heyman gave a passionate promo to hype […]
One of the most tragic stories in professional wrestling is Chris Benoit. Known for his monikers as "The Canadian Crippler" and "Rabid Wolverine," Benoit was one of the most intense and talented performers in the industry in the 90's and 2000's. Vice posted the first part of their season two premiere of Dark Side of […]
Earlier this week, the WWE announced that this year's Wrestlemania will be spread out over two nights (running on Saturday, April 4, and Sunday, April 5, with ex-New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski hosting) due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Now, it looks like ESPN has foud a way to help them get the word […]
WWE NXT – the darling show of the WWE Universe – opened with Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano reflecting on their careers in NXT thus far. They took a deep introspective look into their relationship with each other, both in the ring and out of the ring. This was a good way to start a […]
Cody Rhodes opened last night's AEW Dynamite with a passionate, and powerful speech. Cody implored us to stand together — even if it means at a distance. In times like these his words are comforting, humbling, and also important. He understands the importance of his job. AEW understands how important escapism is now more than […]
Less than 48 hours after the WWE confirmed that this year's WrestleMania had been moved from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay to its Performance Center in Orlando over concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, another history-making decision about "The Show of Shows" has been made. For the first time, Wrestlemania will be spread out over two […]
Heels star Stephen Amell started the new year off dedicated to his upcoming STARZ series: getting into spandex-shape and welcoming new members to the cast – even sharing a meal with on-screen sibling Alexander Ludwig (Vikings). But then the coronavirus pandemic exploded across the pop culture landscape, resulting in shows having to shutter productions and a […]
Let's be clear: Heels star Stephen Amell's life hasn't just been filled with spandex-shape training and welcoming new members to the cast (though as you can tell from reporting, there's been a ton of both going on over the past few weeks). Every now and then, the Arrow alum gets a chance to get out, decompress, […]
Heels star Stephen Amell is back at work training to get himself into spandex shape for his upcoming indy pro-wrestling-set STARZ series. If you're been keeping up on our coverage, then you also know that he's been impressed by what he's seen from the cast, too – and now we're learning that Chris Bauer (The […]
