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Never get involved with a radio host in a wrestling show We all know how this ends A year from now, you're banging McAfee's wife, and someone leaks audio of you dropping the n-word from a secretly recorded sex tape It happened to Hulk Hogan It can happen to you. In all seriousness, I think WWE[...]

As Damian Priest, Oney Lorcan, and Ridge Holland battled for a shot at the NXT NA Championship, Keith Lee made an example of Cameron Grimes.

After a killer two-hours of AEW Dynamite, many ordinary wrestling fans might need a break But that's not the life of a wrestling TV recapper at Bleeding Cool Oh no, Dynamite is just the beginning on Wednesday Nights, because as soon as it's done, it's time break out the DVR and recap NXT It's a[...]

Onward to next week! Onward to All Out! But first, onward to NXT, because I'm only halfway through all the wrestling I need to watch tonight. On an exceptional night for AEW Dynamite, we've already seen a chaotic twelve-man tag match, the death of a minivan, the murder of a Hardy, the return of Eric[...]

After the Libertarian version of the Juggalo Gathering was canceled, Tennessee Mayor Kane lashed out by demanding school reopenings.

Jericho is shocked. Next question: why is Orange Cassidy so popular? Jericho says he's the epitome of everything wrong with wrestling and every smart mark fan watching the show He's a pimple on the ass of the pro wrestling business, and next week, Jericho is gonna pop him Jericho is gonna beat him next week and make[...]

The overnight cable ratings are in and it was a good night for wrestling, and for sports in general, all around The NBA took the two top spots for the night and dominated in the 18-49 demo and in men 18-49, but that didn't mean less viewers or a lower rating in the demo for[...]

WWE star Daniel Bryan wants Hollywood megastar and new XFL co-owner Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in a wrestling ring because he has a serious score to settle with the former WWE Champ Bryan took to Twitter to demand he go one on one with The Great One, and Rocky accepted And it looks like, against[...]

Khan's hiring was announced earlier this week after Vince McMahon realized the presence of multiple Khans in the management structure of rival pro wrestling organization AEW might give the competition an advantage "They think they're the only ones who can have a Khan, goddammit," McMahon said in the press release, or at least that's how[...]

I guess they have a lot of flexibility due to having control of the Daily's Place facility during a pandemic, but MJF's campaign office looked like people could actually be doing work in there, as opposed to a couple of props thrown into a curtained-off backstage area like you'd see on some other wrestling shows[...]

I feel a four-pager coming on tonight for this recap, and that's not even counting NXT! Recapping wrestling shows forces you to pay more attention to the structure of the show and the structure of matches, and from that perspective, you can really see just how different Dynamite is When I recap WWE's shows, or[...]

During the inaugural Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament on Monday, AEW played a video package narrated by Brandi Rhodes for AEW Heels, a "female-focused wrestling community" that's a play on the word "heels" as both the wrestling slang term for a villain and, of course, women's shoes Today, AEW sent out a press release announcing[...]

Many thought the technical glitches were due to a storm in the area, but security footage revealed later in the night told a different story. Video showed a group of masked assailants tossing Molotov cocktails at the WWE Performance Center's power generator, setting it on fire. WWE.com has learned that the faction behind the attack is calling[...]

It's been a couple of months since an insane Facebook post by Marty Jannetty made headlines in the wrestling world, but the 1980s wrestling star allegedly made up for it this morning with a homophobic post seemingly bragging about committing murder when he was thirteen years old The post was not available on Jannetty's Facebook[...]

Upstart wrestling promotion has a Khan Two of them in fact So it couldn't hurt for WWE to try one, right? In a press release this morning, WWE announced that a Khan will take over the vacant role of WWE President and Chief Revenue Officer, reporting directly to Vince McMahon But the name on the[...]

Impact Wrestling's first episode in a post-Raw-Underground wrestling landscape is struggling to find its way in a world much different than 48 hours ago Can Impact succeed? We'll see her in part two of our Impact report We get a promo for Brian Myers, and then Eddie Edwards comes to the ring Looks like his[...]

Impact Wrestling airs tonight, but it's got a lot to live up to Shane McMahon changed the world yesterday when he brought the exciting new concept of "Raw Underground" to WWE Monday Night Raw last night Will any other form of pro wrestling be able to compete again We'll find out tonight, I guess. Previously on[...]

WWE Raw saw a rise in both ratings and viewership with the introduction of Raw Underground, non-political Antifa protestors, and poison.

But Vince McMahon is apparently getting bored with that and hoping for a change of scenery for SummerSlam. The oficial logo for WWE SummerSlam. According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, McMahon is eying Atlantic City, New Jersey, as the location for the biggest pro wrestling event of the Summer In addition to a change of[...]

WWE star Dave Bautista took to Twitter to cut a shoot promo on fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump again this week.

Impact Wrestling's next PPV, Bound for Glory, will be taking place in October, but fans will still have something more than regular episodes of Impact to look forward to in August Impact announced Emergence, a PPV-like special event that will air in Impact's usual spot for two weeks starting August 18th. The news was first reported[...]

In a true measure of their grittiness, last night's Raw Underground segments were plagued by Kevin Dunn's trademark nonstop camera cuts.

Erik beats the crap out of him with a combination of this worked fight club style and traditional wrestling moves Shane calls the match after a headbutt from Erik and declares him the winner Erik's opponent is knocked out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iux8CM5xrxAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Erik fights in Raw Underground: Raw, Aug[...]

Right before things went to hell, Raw featured an awesome match between Shayna Baszler and Sasha Banks, plus: Nia Jax took Pat Buck to school!

As a seemingly great episode of Raw continued, The Riott Squad reunited and Drew McIntyre cut an amazing promo. But soon, it would all go bad.

But rumors swirling around the toilet that is the internet wrestling blogosphere indicate this should be an interesting night Will it live up to the promise. Hold on, I have a message from Future Jude, the one at the end of this article: "Yes Yes, it did." WWE Raw 8/3/2020 Part 1 – No Idea of the[...]

Credit: WWE. We knew something like this was coming, because Ryan Satin, purveyor of Pro Wrestling Sheet and former correspondent for WWE Backstage, published an article telling us about it earlier Satin pushed out an article earlier today claiming that WWE was planning to debut a new faction on the show tonight and that the faction[...]

In a bizarre turn of events, all of the hype and rumors swirling around the toilet that is the internet wrestling blogosphere today have apparently led up to something called Raw Underground Raw Underground, is, as far as we can tell, an unsanctioned fight club taking place in a back room of the WWE Performance[...]

Since I was already in the neighborhood to recap WWE Raw tonight, I figured, what the heck, I might as well recap this one too. The official logo for AEW or All Elite Wrestling. AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament Night 1 Tony Schiavone and Veda Scott are handling the commentary for the debut show Ring announcer Shaul[...]

A new report on the wrestling internet today claims that WWE's television tapings for tonight's episode of Raw are in chaos, more so than usual, with Vince McMahon changing the direction of the show on the fly and no direction at all heading into SummerSlam The report has come from several legit sources, but another[...]