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Did Grimes prove he isn't a coward in this brutal brawl? WWE NXT WarGames 2020 official key art (Image: WWE) Emanating from the COVID Wrestling Center (CWC) in Orlando, Florida, on December 6th, NXT Takeover WarGames is the final NXT PPV event of 2020 There are just five matches scheduled for the show Timothy Thatcher will face[...]

Find out who won the bloody fight. WWE NXT WarGames 2020 official key art (Image: WWE) Emanating from the COVID Wrestling Center (CWC) in Orlando, Florida, on December 6th, NXT Takeover WarGames is the final NXT PPV event of 2020 There are just five matches scheduled for the show Timothy Thatcher will face Tommaso Ciampa in an[...]

Who came out on top: Team Shotzi or Team Candice? WWE NXT WarGames 2020 official key art (Image: WWE) Emanating from the COVID Wrestling Center (CWC) in Orlando, Florida, on December 6th, NXT Takeover WarGames is the final NXT PPV event of 2020 There are just five matches scheduled for the show Timothy Thatcher will face Tommaso[...]

Ahead of NXT Takeover WarGames, Sam Roberts and Wade Barrett hosted a relatively uneventful pre-show, and Cameron Grimes cut a promo. Emanating from the COVID Wrestling Center (CWC) in Orlando, Florida, on December 6th, NXT Takeover WarGames is the final NXT PPV event of 2020 There are just five matches scheduled for the show Timothy Thatcher[...]

Two wrestling dirt sheets competing for clicks on gossip about former Impact Wrestling World Champion Tessa Blanchard may have created a paradox that could swallow the universe and end reality as we know it The trouble began when Dave Meltzer wrote in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that AEW was not interesting[...]

Former WWE star Ryback had some harsh words for WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon regarding McMahon's responsibility to former stars.

And no, as much as I love 80s cheese and whoring oneself out for reality TV, I am not counting the television legacy of Hulk Hogan (or any other reality wrestling shows for that matter). The Big Show Show (Image: Netflix) The Big Show Show is about recently retired wrestler Big Show learning how to be retired[...]

Dave Bautista is bitter enemies with President Donald Trump, but is he secretly in love with Trump's star election fraud witness?!

Smackdown may not have won the night in ratings or viewership, but The Chadster is trying to keep things positive after his mental breakdown.

Hello, ladies… can we interest you in some batshit craziness? Former fake porn star and WWE wrestler Val Venis is absolutely livid on Twitter, aiming his fury at wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer because Meltzer doesn't support the conspiracy theory that widespread voter fraud cost WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump the election But Venis's disagreement with[...]

Two more matches are on the card for WWE's December PPV, TLC, following last night's episode of Friday Night SmackDown on Fox.

With the enemies at the gates after AEW and Impact teamed up for a wrestling super-mega-crossover event, WWE looks to build toward the TLC PPV on WWE Smackdown tonight How will they answer the challenge? Probably by doing the same old shit they were already doing This is WWE we're talking about, after all I'm[...]

With the enemies at the gates after AEW and Impact teamed up for a wrestling super-mega-crossover event, WWE looks to build toward the TLC PPV on WWE Smackdown tonight How will they answer the challenge? Probably by doing the same old shit they were already doing This is WWE we're talking about, after all I'm[...]

WWE executive, NXT showrunner, and Jared Kushner to Vince McMahon's Donald Trump, Triple H, took aim at rival pro wrestling organization Impact in a recent interview after Impact became publicly involved in a wrestling super-mega-crossover event with NXT's biggest rival, AEW Dynamite Triple H was speaking with paid shill Ryan Satin, who shamelessly begged clickbait[...]

Who will have the highest rating for a wrestling show that Wednesday? That's right NXT will The numbers don't lie. And that win will come just in time, as The Chadster has been having a rough go of it lately First, there's the fact that NXT lost nearly every week this year in the ratings against[...]

AEW shocked the world on Wednesday when the ending to the main event matchup between Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley ended with the start of a super-mega-crossover event with Impact Wrestling The Young Bucks spoke about the crossover in a recent interview with Jon Alba in his podcast, Living the Gimmick But what lessons should[...]

Twice, it's a pattern. Vince McMahon: "Yeerrrrrrrrr fiiiirrrrrreeeeddd! Now do you mind if we shoot something in your backyard?" WE first heard of Vince McMahon's strange fetish on an episode of Matt Cardona and Brian Myers' Major Wrestling Figure podcast, where Cardona, known in WWE as Zack Ryder, described Vince wanting to film a vignette featuring Otis[...]

The 2020 Wrestling Wars between WWE and AEW have left wrestling fandom bitterly divided, with nary a social media post or comment section about one company free from attack by marks from the other one WWEbronies and AEWbronies may never see eye-to-eye, but now the conflict may have claimed its first relationship as the tag[...]

Just when you thought Dave Bautista's feud with Donald Trump may have run its course, The Animal shows he still has gas in the creative tank.

Britt Baker enjoys a ratings trouncing from Dynamite to NXT almost as bad as the one she gave Leyla Hirsch (credit: All Elite Wrestling) Normally, Bleeding Cool ace reporter "The Chadster" handles these ratings updates, but I'm filling in for him against his will this week because A) he had a complete mental breakdown yesterday after[...]

In a stunning display of the power of the "AEW bump," Impact Wrestling broke into the top 150 cable shows for the first time in recent memory Amazingly, Impact aired on Tuesday night; nobody had any idea that AEW would run a crossover with Impact starting the following day, Wednesday, on Dynamite at Winter is[...]

That honor belongs to the ending of the AEW Championship match that saw Kenny Omega defeat Jon Moxley to win the belt with help from Don Callis, who then swiftly fled the building with Omega, leaving viewers with a promise to explain everything… on next week's episode of Impact Wrestling! @AEW screwed @AEW Hear[...]

WWE tends to book their matches an hour before the show. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, the column where I watch wrestling, so you don't have to And this is part two of the WWE NXT recap (split into two parts, one for each hour so that I can[...]

WWE tends to book their matches an hour before the show. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, the column where I watch wrestling, so you don't have to And this is part one of the WWE NXT recap (split into two parts, one for each hour so that I can[...]

Unlike most television title matches, I kinda sorta maybe believe it might change hands tonight. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, the column where I watch wrestling, so you don't have to And this is part two of the AEW Dynamite recap (split into two parts, one for each hour,[...]

Unlike most television title matches, I kinda sorta maybe believe it might change hands tonight. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars edition, the column where I watch wrestling, so you don't have to And this is part one of the AEW Dynamite recap (split into two parts, one for each hour,[...]

After a hard-fought, roughly half-hour match, Omega seemingly feigned an injury as Don Callis, visiting from Impact Wrestling to do guest commentary for the match, came to ringside and pleaded with the referee to stop the bout Moxley punched out Callis, but Callis dropped a microphone into the ring Omega picked it up and hit[...]

But we're all thinking it. Watch the video below: .@STING HAS ARRIVED IN ALL ELITE WRESTLING! Watch #AEWDynamite NOW on @TNTDrama pic.twitter.com/NMLGKqdQtX — All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 3, 2020 After speculation earlier this year following his contract expiring with WWE, Sting has finally made good on that rumor he'll show up in AEW[...]

 And when I saw that Raw did even worse in the 18-49 demographic, down from a .56 last week to a .52 this week with hours of .56, .53, and .49, it was really more than any man who loves WWE could reasonably be expected to KEIGHLEYANNE WOULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP I KNOW[...]

Bad news for wrestling journalists who can only perform sexually when NXT defeats AEW in the ratings: last week's big viewership win for NXT over AEW Dynamite has been changed to a tie Updated numbers now put Dynamite and NXT both at 712,000 overall viewers, which means that, since Dynamite did significantly better with viewers[...]