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Mick Foley can't wrestle anymore but in the brave new world forged by a Boneyard Match at WrestleMania 36, that may not stop him from returning to the WWE.

The first night of WWE's "WrestleMania 36" ends with the Boneyard Match Between The Undertaker and AJ Styles, and it was the highlight of the night.

After the WrestleMania 36 rumors of Roman Reigns dropping out of the Universal Championship match against Goldberg were confirmed, WWE gave us our

Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins met in the antepenultimate match of WrestleMania 36 Night One on Saturday. Will Owens finally get his revenge on the "Monday

After weeks of back and forth, it's time for Daniel Bryan and Sami Zayn's feud to reach its conclusion at WWE's "WrestleMania 36".

Becky Lynch and Shayna Baszler finally faced off at WrestleMania 36 for Lynch's Raw Women's Championship. Lynch made her way to the WWE Performance Center

Drew Gulak and Cesaro kicked off WWE "WrestleMania 36" Saturday with a pre-show match. Who won? Who took the loss? Check out our thoughts and results.

With "WrestleMania 36" set to kick off Saturday night, turns out WWE alum and now "Backstage" pundit CM Punk isn't a big fan of it happening at all.

WWE is looking to make the best of a tough situation when it comes to "WrestleMania 36," treating the taped event more as a film-going experience for fans.

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[...]

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. https://youtu.be/ZUkAuoNx4zoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Miz & John[...]

Less than a week after the WWE announced Wrestlemania 36 will take place over two nights (Saturday, April 4, and Sunday, April 5, with Rob Gronkowski hosting) over coronavirus concerns and announcing a deal with ESPN to air classic WrestleMania events over three Sundays, a chunk of the WWE Network library is being made available[...]

This week has been huge in the wrestling world — so did WWE finish the week out strong? WWE SmackDown started with former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski coming out to the ring Now, as a Baltimore Ravens fan, I'm naturally dispositioned to dislike everything associated with the Patriots But Gronk is oddly charming and[...]

WWE has confirmed that this year's WrestleMania will no longer take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, due to concerns over the coronavirus

In an unexpected twist spinning out of Thursday's Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia, the script for tonight's WWE Friday Night Smackdown will need to be hastily rewritten at the last minute once again This time, however, it's not because Vince McMahon didn't feel there was enough "good sh*t" on the show and felt like[...]

WWE Smackdown #1 is in stores from explosive publisher BOOM! Studios next week (and how appropriate, with the wrestling company rumored to be bringing back pyro starting with next week's shows) A story from Kevin Panetta, Kendall Goode, and Serg Acuna will focus on Becky Lynch, and we've got a preview below. And the preview begins[...]

WWE's Jeff Hardy was arrested and booked in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday, on allegations of public intoxication and impairment.

In October, WWE Smackdown Live will move from USA to Fox's broadcast network, airing on Fridays and potentially exposing the company a new audience (but also to the threat of cancellation by the notoriously trigger-happy Fox) To celebrate, explosive publisher BOOM! Studios will publish WWE Smackdown Live #1, a special comic written by Kevin Panetta[...]

It looks like WWE chairman Vince McMahon is going back to "The Attitude Era" well again, tapping former rivals Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff as executive directors to help oversee Raw and SmackDown Live brands The executive director will be the creative "stop-gap" before final authority goes to McMahon. WWE provided the details via ESPN[...]

Out of all the complaints about WWE's weekly televised programming — and there are a lot of them — probably the one most people can agree with is that there simply isn't enough of it! With just three hours of Raw, two hours of Smackdown Live, one hour of NXT, one hour of NXT UK,[...]

Taking to the social media platform on Saturday, Polinsky alleged that Graves was having an affair with WWE Smackdown superstar Carmella aka Leah Van Dale Along with the message (transcribed below), Polinsky also posted a picture of her family as well as a sample of a text coversation Polinsky allegedly had with Graves. The posts have since been[...]

Ass" Gunn as producer, SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky), Britt Baker, and many more – and let's not forget "The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla'" himself, Chris Jericho. All-in-all, a great day for to be a wrestling fan – unless you plan on wearing your Pro Wrestling Tees AEW shirt to the WWE Smackdown[...]

Professional wrestler Becky Lynch is a revolution of her own making by doing something no other woman has done in WWE: become its top star…"The Face That Runs The Place." WWE On the January 1st edition of WWE's SmackDown, Lynch crashed John Cena's return to the company, declaring an open challenge to anyone in the back[...]

Following several years of putting on more entertaining shows than its red-brand counterpart, WWE Smackdown Live has finally beaten Monday Night Raw in the ratings Of course, this feat required the birth of Jesus Christ, the Roman Reigns of Christianity, to make it possible, but that shouldn't lessen the accomplishment. According to Wrestling Inc., Smackdown pulled in 1.9[...]

Viewerwhip for both Monday Night Raw and Smackdown Live hit lows this week For Raw, just 2.29 million people watched the show on average over the course of three hours, which Dave Meltzer called the all-time lowest for "the modern era," I.E since the mid-nineties, before ratings exploded during the Attitude Era This week's 2.9 million[...]

WWE opened Smackdown Live tonight with a real bummer, but they went out on a high note Kicking things off at the beginning of the show, WWE confirmed reports that Becky Lynch would not be medically cleared to compete on Sunday thanks to a concussion and a broken… er… face. Due to a broken face, #SDLive[...]

Though an appearance on TV hasn't been confirmed, a major superstar with the star power to rival the Dead Man and the Heartbreak Kid is in the same town as Smackdown tonight, so speculation is running rampant that they could make a surprise return. Scroll below if you want to find out who it is.   That's right,[...]

WWE sent out a press release today promoting the 1000th episode of SmackDown Live, which takes place on October 16th at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC Tickets for the event go on sale on Friday, August 17th at 10 a.m via all the usual sources. WWE didn't reveal details on what to expect from[...]

On WWE SmackDown Live earlier this week, viewers who've long suffered through the torture of WWE's main commentary teams were treated to a moment of hope when The New Day came to ringside to provide commentary for the Tag Team tournament match between The Usos and The Bar. Sure, we've learned to tolerate the mind-numbing boredom of[...]

WWE Superstar and probably the next mayor of Knox County, Tennesee, Kane, returned to WWE Smackdown Live Tuesday Night to save his former tag team partner Daniel Bryan from a beatdown by the WWE Tag Team Champions, the Bludgeon Brothers Kane won his primary to become the Republican nominee back in May, and still has[...]