After months of buildup, Bray Wyatt has finally dropped the WWE Universal Champion to an up-and-coming star who can really use the rub. That's right, Goldberg has defeated The Fiend at WWE's Saudi Arabian blood money event Super Showdown, winning the Universal Championship and becoming a four-time world champion. It's unclear at this time whether […]
Great news for fans of AEW Dynamite, which is to say the most discerning and intelligent fans of the best pro wrestling show on the planet in our objective, unbiased opinion. AEW announced today that it has extended its deal with TNT through 2023 and that TNT has greenlit a straight-to-series second AEW show as […]
Legendary pro wrestling personality and even more legendary online curmudgeon Jim Cornette has found himself at the center of yet another controversy that, this time, has cost him a job. Cornette resigned from his role as commentator for NWA Powerrr after the company received backlash for comments Cornette made on the most recent episode of […]
AEW Dynamite won the Wednesday Night War for the sixth week in a row as the go-home show for AEW Full Gear went head to head with the first episode of NXT since WWE launched its Survivor Series invasion storyline. Both shows had the benefit of avoiding competition with the World Series, though they did […]
In a Vince Russo level swerve, WWE today announced an expansion of their partnership with the government of Saudi Arabia following a tense weekend that saw many of its wrestlers mysteriously stranded in the country after Thursday's Crown Jewel event. It all started with reports prior to Crown Jewel that WWE had not yet been […]
WWE superstar Xavier Woods may be out of action for a year after getting surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon, but he seems to be making the most of it. Woods and his New Day partners Kofi Kingston and Big E are at Big Easy Con this weekend in New Orleans, and they're cosplaying […]
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 has invested decades into the idea that they don't have to give the fans what they want, but when those fans are the Saudi royal family and they're offering large sums of money, it's a different story. WWE enraged its fanbase at Hell in a Cell earlier this month with a nonsensical DQ finish […]
WWE announced the shocking news Wednesday: just a few months after bringing on Eric Bischoff as Creative Director of Friday Night Smackdown and just two weeks after the show launched on Fox, Bischoff is out and Brother Love is in as the new Creative Director. WWE sent out the following press release: Stamford, Conn., October […]
Daniel Warren Johnson's latest Inktober sketch takes its inspiration from Wednesday's edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT. The opening bout on the hot new pro wrestling show saw Private Party take on The Young Bucks in the first round of the Tag Team Championship tournament, and one of the most awe-inspiring moments of the match […]
Finally, the truth has come out. Following WWE's disastrous Hell in a Cell PPV, in which the referee stopped the match out of concern for the supernatural monster The Fiend after WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins inflicted objectively less violence than seen in many other Hell in a Cell matches, the company kept both Rollins […]
The first results are in, and AEW Dynamite's debut show on TNT beat NXT in the overnight Neilsen ratings, scoring a .7 in the 18-49 demographic vs. NXT's .5. AEW also drew 1.4 million viewer compared to NXT's 891K. In response, WWE issued the following statement, according to Wrestling Inc.: Congratulations to AEW on a […]
AEW's first weekly television show, Dynamite, is in the books, and the wrestling has already been changed for the better. I'm old enough to have watched Nitro on TNT (and WCW Saturday Night on TBS, and ECW Hardcored TV on MSG), which is not a brag — being old sucks — but something about watching […]
As a field of Democratic hopefuls vies for top spots in the presidential primaries, one question on everyone's mind is: who can defeat Donald Trump in the general election? And while quite a few candidates have made cases for that based on contrasts with Trump in terms of policy, intelligence, and simple human decency, one […]
Tomorrow, IDW will release Jim Cornette's Behind the Curtain: Real Pro Wrestling Stories, a graphic novel anthology in which "Pro-Wrestling's secrets and greatest moments are immortalized" in tales told by the legendary wrestling promoter and manager. But rather than promote the book (or maybe to him this is the same thing), Cornette has spent the […]
Legendary wrestler Harley Race has passed away, Race's official Twitter account confirmed on Thursday. Today at 12:50, we lost the man that fought up until the very last of his existence. More information will be released soon, but just know that he loved pro-wrestling and the fans that loved him. Harley Race, we love you […]
Every time he makes a slam, opponents turn around and cry. Vince asks himself why, oh why? But see, Vince must understand, he can't work at stars of 5. So he'll be gone 'til November. Said he'll be gone 'til November. He'll be gone 'til November. Yo, tell Vince McMahon that he'll be gone 'til […]
Fans watching Dolph Ziggler's recent segments on WWE programming may have been thinking it was all building to a match between Ziggler and WWE Hall-of-Famer Shawn Michaels, but it looks like it's Hall-of-Famer Bill Goldberg that will face the Show Stealer at SummerSlam later this month. According to Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer, and all of […]
CM Punk will officially appear at Starrcast 3, the wrestling convention happening in Chicago on August 31, the weekend of All Out. Starrcast advertised Punk's appearance in a video posted to their Twitter page Thursday, for which they even apparently obtained the rights to us Living Colour's Cult of Personality. Get To STARRCAST 8/31https://t.co/VShyAsTu00 pic.twitter.com/a02NJdqWNV […]
On the mean streets of Holmdel, NJ, AEW wrestler Joey Janella and former WWE Superstar Enzo Amore clashed in an epic brawl Tuesday. And by "mean streets of Holmdel, NJ," we mean by a concession stand at a Blink 182 concert. And by "epic brawl" we mean danced around as if they were going to […]
