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A lot has happened tonight, very little of it has been wrestling, and Bobby Lashley is getting a divorce Dominic Mysterio conducted a guerilla attack on Seth Rollins R-Truth got Drew McIntyre into a bad situation when he agreed to put both of their titles on the line in a match against MVP and Lashley[...]

Christian agrees to one more match, the Iiconics demand another title shot, and R-Truth screws up big-time in part two of our WWE Raw recap.

Last night, we witnessed what may have been THE GREATEST WRESTLING MATCH EVER May have been, but wasn't It was okay The match was dragged down by WWE's hype and by the weird and distracting decision to pipe in crowd noise And then, to make matters worse, Edge tore his tricep… while filming reshoots! Reshoots![...]

In fact, Impact Wrestling star Joseph P Ryan had a suggestion for the two stars while they're on the injured list Ryan tweeted, "I vote for you and  @RealBrittBaker to do a cinematic match in wheelchairs at a hospital." You know, it could probably work If the Stadium Stampede match worked, why not that, right? In[...]

And so, when Randy Orton came out in support of Black Lives Matter last month after previously aligning himself with the All Lives Matter camp, it was both a surprise and not really a surprise. Randy Orton poses after winning The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever at WWE Backlash The Viper recently gave an interview to CBS Sports[...]

Just a few weeks ago, the wrestling world was on the brink of a badly-needed comeback by one of WWE's greatest superstars, the Modern Day Maharaja, Jinder Mahal Unfortunately, that comeback was shortlived as Mahal required knee surgery after just a single match, hindering the era of Jinder Mahal for now Mahal appeared on WWE[...]

Jinder Mahal discussed what puts his and Drew McIntyre's Championship runs in the history books and has a request of Heath Slater.

We're just one match away from "The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever"! Wouldn't it be something if the Street Profits and Viking Raiders stole the show and put on the greatest match ever instead? Hahaha, just kidding It's the penultimate match of WWE Backlash, and we all need a break after that hoss-fest we just witnessed[...]

Braun Strowman defended his WWE Universal Championship at Backlash against both Miz and Morrison in a handicap match. Here's what happened.

Jeff Hardy finally got his hands on Sheamus at WWE Backlash. Who came out on top? Did anyone get pee thrown at them? Find out in our report.

Apollo Crews defends his U.S. Championship against Andrade on the WWE Backlash kickoff show, and here's how it all went down.

WWE Backlash tonight features a loaded card, with five WWE championships on the line, a significant grudge match between Jeff Hardy and Sheamus, and a match being billed as The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever Former WWE Champion and one of my favorite wrestlers, The Modern Day Maharaja, Jinder Mahal, appeared on WWE talk show The[...]

Prediction: it'll be all of them! The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever: Edge vs Randy Orton (WWE) The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever: Edge vs Randy Orton Edge vs Orton at WWE Backlash: The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever? Edge takes on Randy Orton in The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever, and The Chadster has got a prediction for you: Randy Orton walks[...]

One is a match between Edge and Randy Orton being billed as the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever The other is the WWE Raw Women's Championship match between Asuka and Nia Jax. Paige appears on WWE talk show The Bump ahead of the Backlash PPV. Paige has special connections with superstars from both matches When it comes to[...]

In an interview ahead of WWE Backlash, MVP discussed his relationship with Bobby Lashley and Lashley's relationship with his wife, Lana.

WWE Superstar Edge has been less than enthusiastic about WWE's billing of his match against Randy Orton at Backlash on Sunday as "The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever," but on Saturday morning, Edge took to Twitter to post a definitive and more serious statement about the match. The match graphic for The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever happening[...]

WWE's leaked storyline about Jeff Hardy's leak on Sheamus propelled Friday Night Smackdown to the number one ratings spot.

Bleeding Cool: we do wrestling now Hope to see you there. We're right in the middle of an epic contest between Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles for the Intercontinental Championship here on WWE Smackdown If you haven't read the first half of this recap, trust us, you want to It involves Jeff Hardy, Sheamus, and[...]

All of this, of course, is just a warmup for the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever at Backlash this Sunday Styles makes the mistake of going for a Phenomenal Forearm, which Bryan interrupts to retake control of the match He hits a Frankensteiner and starts to hulk up The crowd struggles to provide the required enthusiasm[...]

Corey Graves quit Twitter earlier this week but now he's back like nothing happened. Is Graves trying to pull a Costanza?

WWE Superstar Nia Jax has a response for "a small percentage on Twitter who have nothing better to do than hate on somebody."

The big news in the wrestling world this week is a creative shakeup at WWE that has seen Paul Heyman removed as creative director of WWE Monday Night Raw and the entire creative team of both shows consolidated under Bruce Pritchard, who was previously running just Smackdown More alarmingly, a report from the most recent[...]

However, in the latest issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer puts the changes and fallout in perspective as affecting more than just the writing teams of Raw and Smackdown, but also the overall state of things in WWE. Triple H at NXT (Image: WWE) According to Meltzer, pretty much anything that was a long-term plan[...]

Total Bellas continues to be one of WWE's most consistently-booked shows, with storylines playing out multiple episodes logically and feuds ending with proper payoffs.

It may have been quite rude for WWE to fire Paul Heyman as Creative Director of Raw and put the entire creative process under the control of Bruce Pritchard, but on the other hand, Vince McMahon was at least polite enough to do it on a Thursday, right before the latest issue of the Wrestling[...]

Though both Raw and SmackDown have suffered from declining, record-low ratings in recent months, McMahon seems to continue to have faith in Pritchard, probably because Pritchard is one of professional wrestling's longest-running yes-men who even promotes the WWE spin on things on his podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOEsmivnxV0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Paul Heyman getting beaten[...]

AEW was ranked 14th for the night, up from 27th place last week. The official logo for AEW or All Elite Wrestling. WWE NXT Rises to 35th Place NXT was down too, with a .16 rating compared to last week's .20 and a drop of just 42,000 viewers from 715,000 to 673,000 NXT was ranked 35th for the[...]

Charlotte Flair says the reason she appears on every WWE brand is because she's the hardest-working woman on the roster.

Styles bravely took a stand by saying it's not his job to take a stand on things and that he doesn't respect Punk anyway. CM Punk, master of social media [Screencap from WWE Broadcast]"Lotta people snitching on themselves," Punk subtweeted last week, calling out others in the wrestling industry who haven't spoken out in support of[...]

Things kicked off when the beloved wrestling journalist, a frequent critic of WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump, criticized Trump's attempts to force CNN to apologize for the latest overnight ratings on Trump's presidency, which showed him losing the demographic rating and viewership number to Joe Biden "Legal threats over a poll result," Meltzer wrote on[...]