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The power of song has helped WWE Smackdown rebound from a record-low showing last week to top the ratings charts once again Fueled by excitement all night for a Karaoke Showdown between Lacey Evans, Dana Brooke, Tamina Snuka, and Naomi, Smackdown grew its viewership by more than 100,000 people It took the top spot in[...]
This Monday's upcoming episode of WWE Raw is being billed as "The Night of Grudge Matches," with a commercial saying so running repeatedly during WWE SmackDown on Friday.
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Here's the grudge matches in question First, and most importantly, Sasha Banks and Bayley will defend their WWE Women's[...]
WWE Superstar Jeff Hardy has been involved in an angle with Sheamus on SmackDown for the past couple of months The premise is that Sheamus is tormenting Hardy over Hardy's history of addiction and relapse Oh, and also that Sheamus drinks urine, but that's not necessarily relevant here.
Jeff Hardy vs The Miz: SmackDown, July 10,[...]
In the first half of WWE SmackDown, Jeff Hardy fought The Miz as punishment for a really long Miz TV segment to open the show and Sasha Banks and Bayley took on Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross Read about that here When we left off, WWE was about to replay the Braun Strowman vs Bray[...]
Another week of pro wrestling comes to a close with WWE SmackDown, the show that's both two thirds as long as Raw but often just as bad Michael Cole and Corey Graves welcome us to the show, which will feature a tag team championship match between The New Day and Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro There's[...]
Keith Lee made history last night at NXT Great American Bash Night 2. Read all about it in our recap of the second half of the show.
Mia Yim took on Candice LeRae, Robert Stone got run over by a tank, and more in the first part of WWE NXT Great American Bash Night 2.
Rey Mysterio's challenge to Seth Rollins for an Eye for an Eye Match at WWE Extreme Rules means one man must rip out the other's eyeball.
It's champion vs. champion as Asuka takes on Bayley, plus: is Randy Orton forming a new Legacy stable? Here's our WWE Raw report, part three.
On WWE Raw, Rey Mysterio brought back the bra and panties match, but instead of underwear, it's your opponent's eye you have to remove.
Heath Slater made his triumphant return to WWE Raw to job out in ten seconds. Kairi Sane also returned, and so did Kevin Owens.
Since WWE Superstar Alexa Bliss brought up the fabled "Bra and Panties Match" era, we're offering up 5 Superstars we'd like to see in one.
This week's BCTV Sunday Slices looks at Lili Reinhart, Colin Kaepernick, The Brides, Scrubs, Ozark, WWE, "animation invasion 2.0," and more.
The ratings are in for this week's edition of Friday Night Smackdown, and it's not looking good Smackdown fell to its lowest-ever viewership on Fox The 18-49 demographic rating was also down from the previous week's episode What happened to cause Smackdown's ratings to suffer like this? The answer is that WWE is disrespecting The[...]
The first hour of WWE SmackDown unexpectedly featured two really good matches, one between Matt Riddle and the first of five jobbers assigned to face him by King Corbin, and one between Drew Gulak and AJ Styles After that, we got a tribute to Sasha Banks and Bayley created by Sasha and Bayley It was[...]
Michael Cole, Corey Graves, and Progressive Insurance welcome us to WWE SmackDown WWE SmackDown is coming to us taped from the coronavirus hotspot of the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, where if you ignore it hard enough, it will eventually just go away Tonight, we'll get a video package recapping the feud between Bray[...]
In a shocking turn of events, WWE Superstar and Knox County Mayor Kane voted against mandatory public coronavirus masks for Knox County, TN.
Roderick Strong was strapped to Dexter Lumis and Sasha Banks took on Io Shirai in the main event of NXT: Great American Bash night one.
Renee Young revealed her big announcement, which was, as predicted, a new cookbook featuring over 70 recipes. Release date and title unknown.
Dolph Ziggler is really living his heel gimmick, threatening fans with a 30 to 40-minute match against Drew McIntyre at WWE Extreme Rules.
WWE's ratings and viewership fell this week, as Monday's edition of WWE Raw was the third least-watched ever. But is that really so bad?
Sasha mocks Ziggler for losing to Mandy Rose and Otis on Smackdown Bayley tells Dolph not to screw this up for Sasha Raw takes a commercial break.
Not even Sasha Banks and Bayley believe Dolph Ziggler's not a jobber to the stars.
After the break, Tom Phillips plays a video of the contract signing from the beginning[...]
Phillips promises us an Undertaker tribute after the commercials.
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After the break, Tom Phillips pretends he believes The Undertaker is retired and plays a recap of last week's episode of Smackdown, which was a tribute to the Undertaker When that's over, Lana approaches Ruby Riott backstage Lana says the Iiconics were[...]
Ric Flair was heavily featured in the first hour of WWE Raw, as two contracts were signed and one championship changed hands.
R-Truth has played Vince McMahon his music and Vince likes it. Could this pave the way for the greatest supergroup the world has ever seen?
Despite a company outbreak due to lackluster safety measures, Roman Reigns thinks WWE is handling COVID-19 well. His co-workers? Not so much.
As a result, Banks and Bayley are able to appear on all three brands every week, a schedule that might have been overwhelmingly grueling before the Pandemic Era, but which is entirely sustainable thanks to the filming schedule that normally films an entire two weeks worth of shows in two days.
Banks and Bayley have been[...]
On a night when WWE heavily focused on The Ratings King of Friday Nights, Smackdown rose in viewership even though half of the episode was filled with a bunch of reruns of old Undertaker matches Smackdown tied for first place for the night in ratings with Shark Tank and 20/20 on ABC, and hopefully, WWE[...]
Renee Young was the first to go public with her COVID-19 diagnosis, and reportedly WWE really, really wishes she hadn't done that.