wrestling Archives

And others claim that politics shouldn't be the provenence of the pro wrestling section of an entertainment news and opinion site, even though a former wrestler is literally president of the United States right now We can't answer all of those claims, but we can aim to be more fair and balanced in our coverage[...]

Dave Bautista called on fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump to "act like a man" and accept the results of the 2020 election.

[Photo: All Elite Wrestling] Dynamite Crushes NXT in Ratings and Viewership Dynamite drew 995,000 overall viewers for TNT on Wednesday, with a .45 rating in people 18-49, according to Showbuzz Daily That was enough for Dynamite to rank number two for the night, behind MTV's The Challenge, but The Challenge had fewer viewers The Challenge also did[...]

Tony Khan booked a massive match for next week's episode of Dynamite on TNT following a clash between Inner Circle and Best Friends.

The New Day will defend their Raw Tag Team Championships against The Hurt Business for a third time at WWE TLC on Sunday, December 20th.

Plus, as a lifelong wrestling fan, Snoop Dogg knows WWE sucks, and AEW is better He just has to WWE, however, can't possibly be happy about it. Bleeding Cool, of course, will have reports on all these shows the morning after they air (and breaking news live if anything crazy happens) We don't really take breaks[...]

Punk made this point right in the midst of taking credit for the success of half of WWE's current roster (and some of AEW's as well). CM Punk, master of social media [Screencap from WWE Broadcast]"Yeah, the more they change, the more they stay the same for ego purposes," said Punk when asked if he achieved[...]

With the ending of last week's AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming special, AEW kicked off a crossover with Impact Wrestling, expanding the battlefield of the Wednesday Night Ratings Wars to Tuesday Nights as well and giving Impact a major boost in viewership Tonight's episode of Dynamite promises new champion Kenny Omega, NBA star Shaq, and[...]

With the ending of last week's AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming special, AEW kicked off a crossover with Impact Wrestling, expanding the battlefield of the Wednesday Night Ratings Wars to Tuesday Nights as well and giving Impact a major boost in viewership Tonight's episode of Dynamite promises new champion Kenny Omega, NBA star Shaq, and[...]

With the ending of last week's AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming special, AEW kicked off a crossover with Impact Wrestling, expanding the battlefield of the Wednesday Night Ratings Wars to Tuesday Nights as well and giving Impact a major boost in viewership Tonight's episode of Dynamite promises new champion Kenny Omega, NBA star Shaq, and[...]

With the ending of last week's AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming special, AEW kicked off a crossover with Impact Wrestling, expanding the battlefield of the Wednesday Night Ratings Wars to Tuesday Nights as well and giving Impact a major boost in viewership Tonight's episode of Dynamite promises new champion Kenny Omega, NBA star Shaq, and[...]

Impact Wrestling saw a big rise in viewership this week thanks to a crossover with AEW and the heavily-promoted first appearance of Kenny Omega since winning the AEW Championship from Jon Moxley at AEW's special episode of Dynamite, Winter is Coming, last week Impact, which broke into the top 150 for the first time in[...]

And CM Punk wasn't done with this podcast pipe bomb heard around the world (thanks to the dozens of clickbait articles produced from this interview per wrestling website) He also took aim at WWE's selective and unevenly applied rules. "So this is where I'll get controversial, and I'll piss a lot of people off," said Punk[...]

Goldberg called out Roman Reigns for a match today... but can the 53-year-old former champion stop pooping long enough to get in the WWE ring?

Kenny Omega may have stolen the show on Impact Wrestling last night, but the company has also built to a stacked quasi-PPV event this Saturday Here's all the matches set for Final Resolution, airing for subscribers on Impact Plus on December 12th. The logo for Impact Wrestling's Final Resolution special, taking place on Saturday, December 12th. The[...]

I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, recapping Impact Wrestling a huge night for the promotion In addition to being the go-home show for Final Resolution on Saturday, this week's Impact will also feature the first time new AEW Champion Kenny Omega speaks since winning the championship by nefarious means on last week's AEW[...]

I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, recapping Impact Wrestling a huge night for the promotion In addition to being the go-home show for Final Resolution on Saturday, this week's Impact will also feature the first time new AEW Champion Kenny Omega speaks since winning the championship by nefarious means on last week's AEW[...]

As promised, Kenny Omega appeared on Impact Wrestling on Tuesday with his newly-won AEW Championship Omega won the belt from Jon Moxley on last week's episode of AEW Dynamite, a special event dubbed Winter is Coming, with help from Impact's Don Callis Callis and Omega fled the building "like scalded dogs," according to Jim Ross,[...]

Those of us in the comic book community are well aware of the readership/viewership drawing power of a good old fashioned crossover event, but the early numbers for Impact Wrestling tonight may shock wrestling fans Impact, which draws 2-4 thousand viewers on Twitch on a good night (anecdotally from this reporter's observation while watching it[...]

In addition to the advertised first appearance by Kenny Omega since winning the AEW Championship, Impact Wrestling also featured more guest stars from another promotion this week: AEW President Tony Khan and commentators Tony Schiavone The pair appeared on the show under the guise of a paid commercial, knowing that Omega's appearance will draw attention[...]

Fox Sports correspondent Ryan Satin says he never meant to imply that a baby should be swung around by its umbilical cord and was only joking.

Those of us who base our entire identities on how well pro wrestling performs in the ratings can finally rest easy this Tuesday Night ahead of Impact After an excruciating delay, Showbuzz Daily has finally released the Monday cable rankings WWE Raw came behind Monday Night Football, and Sportscenter to take the fourth, fifth, and seventh[...]

It looks like Impact Wrestling is looking to maximize a potential viewership increased coming out of the ending to last week's AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming event In addition to the regular airings of Impact on AXS TV and Twitch tonight, the show will also replay for free on YouTube and Facebook, ensuring pretty much[...]

Poor Pat Buck was violently assaulted by Drew McIntyre and Sheamus on WWE Raw, but will he ever get justice? Probably not.

DeSantis gave the orders back in April to classify pro wrestling as an "essential" business, overriding local officials and essentially making Florida into the place to film wrestling during the pandemic Both WWE and AEW have filmed all of their shows in the state since then. But for Dave Bautista, the only loyalty that truly matters[...]

Shaq will address AEW on Wednesday's episode of Dynamite in an interview with Tony Schiavone, adding to an already stacked card.

Earlier this year, Morgan Hertzan, Vice TV's EVP & General Manager, made it pretty clear: they wanted more seasons of Dark Side of the Ring, and they wanted to expand the franchise beyond professional wrestling The first part was accomplished in October with the original series receiving a 14-episode, third season order (its largest episode[...]

WWE quietly reintroduced Jaxson Ryker as a lackey for Elias during a segment taped for Main Event before WWE Raw last night.

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock][MULTINAV] WWE Raw Recap for December 7th, 2020 Part 3 Commentary informs us that Lana will face Nia Jax one-on-one next week on Raw Backstage, Lana, hanging out with[...]

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock][MULTINAV] WWE Raw Recap for December 7th, 2020 Part 2 The Miz and John Morrison are in the ring for Miz TV Their guest tonight is AJ Styles, who[...]