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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[...]

In a barrage of press releases sent out over the last half hour, WWE revealed the details of their upcoming TV deals with Fox and NBC Universal for SmackDown Live and Raw respectively Amongst the details was an explicit confirmation that SmackDown Live will begin airing on Fox's broadcast network, as well as a premiere[...]

Presidential Election… and for someone to explain to Kevin Smith that Avengers: Infinity War isn't even the best Marvel Studios film, let alone best super-hero movie of all time. https://youtu.be/6j7aBci69noVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: NFL Owners Take a Knee, Watchmen "Remix", Who's on Twitch and More [The Weekly Static s01e41] (https://youtu.be/6j7aBci69no) Report: WWE's Deal[...]