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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 was a shooting star press by Marc Quen. Johnson, artist of Murder Falcon and the upcoming Wonder Woman:[...]

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

In response, WWE issued the following statement, according to Wrestling Inc.: Congratulations to AEW on a successful premiere The real winners of last night's head-to-head telecasts of NXT on USA Network and AEW on TNT are the fans, who can expect Wednesday nights to be a competitive and wild ride as this is a marathon, not[...]

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 wrestling[...]

The story of World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) Paige, become a rare exception in the world of professional wrestling that it showed authenticity and achieved what it wanted with hardly any filtering. Lack of Dramatization When you look at another acclaimed film in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler where the protagonist in Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) going[...]

And by his own turf, of course we mean in the wrestling ring. Donald Trump is the wrestlingest president the United States has had since accomplished grappler Abraham Lincoln, and not just because his ramblings are as deranged and incoherent as an Ultimate Warrior promo Trump actually has a long association with pro wrestling, with his[...]

With NBC's "The Good Place" set to return for a fourth and final season, WWE legend "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has a special message for our Eleanor...

We're coming back for a fourth and final season! pic.twitter.com/FPLiAzLdZ5 — GLOW (@GlowNetflix) September 20, 2019 The award-winning series focuses on the fictionalized world of real 1980's syndicated women's professional wrestling via the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) – and in the third season, the wrestlers made their way to Las Vegas for a unique professional opportunity. With[...]

In a move we are still totally, absolutely, 116% certain has nothing to do with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) airing a new weekly show on TNT on Wednesday nights beginning October 2, 2019, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and USA Network just happened to also pick Wednesday nights to expose NXT to a national audience –[...]

Set in the world of independent professional wrestling, the eight-episode series will be written by Michael Waldron (Loki) with Mike O'Malley serving as showrunner STARZ gave an official "thumbs up" on the project once Amell was signed. Viking Raiders would be too obvious of a joke to go for… we're better than that, people… History Here's an official[...]

Cover Superstar Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Bayley, and Sasha Banks – the Four Horsewomen – describe the journey to bring women's wrestling to the forefront of WWE in their own words with exclusive live action footage. 2K Showcase includes 15 playable instant classic matches spanning the group's meteoric rise over that last five years Players will[...]

It would a righteous understatement to say things haven't exactly been boring for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since they officially announced their national weekly television deal with TNT They had a sell-out run of taping dates for the show, only to lose Jon Moxley to a staph infection and nearly lose Fenix to a leg[...]

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[...]

In a move we are totally, absolutely, 116% certain has nothing to do with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) airing their show on TNT on Wednesday nights beginning October 2019, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and USA Network blindfolded themselves and threw a dart at the wall to randomly pick a night to air NXT to a[...]

Set in the world of independent professional wrestling, the eight-episode series will be written by Michael Waldron (Loki) with Mike O'Malley serving as showrunner STARZ gave an official "thumbs up" on the project once Amell was signed. WWE No stranger to professional wrestling himself, Amell has competed for the WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH) – in[...]

And I think that Ruth needs to break free from Debbie in order to be truly free." GLOW GLOW season 3 follows the "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling" as they take up residency in Las Vegas with a performance contract It's a season of female empowerment in 1986, a time when sexism in the workplace was as massive[...]

Oh, 1980s sexism in the business world, how you suck. But! Their in-ring rendition of A Christmas Carol goes over incredibly well, with a surprise ending – Carmen is Cherry's secret santa, and she gets her exactly what she wanted: Keith in a Santa costume – live and in person! Everyone's presents are thoughtful and adorable and[...]

It's midnight, which makes it officially Friday, which means GLOW season 3 just dropped on Netflix! Yes… I, your fearless reviewer, have taken the "burden" of staying up late and covering the first firecracker of an episode, so that you can be well rested for work and well versed in new shows! We left off with our[...]

With Netflix releasing the entire third season of their "Girl Power!" 80s-tastic wrestling drama GLOW this Friday, the stars of the show can't keep quiet about what we have to look forward to. So pull on those legwarmers and geometric leotards, because we're about to get like, totally radical! Netflix In an interview with EW, Geena Davis talks[...]

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 — Harley Race (@8XNWAChampion) August 1, 2019 Race was hospitalized on July 12th after experiencing difficulties, where he remained for eleven days before being reportedly released on July 23rd At that time, Race's[...]

Lashley has also dabbled in MMA, and is a collegiate wrestling champion Lashley has gone on the record defending the President, saying back in February of 2017, shortly after Trump took office: I think it's kinda funny that everybody is flipping the script now because at that time and the other times I've seen him do[...]

According to Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer, and all of the wrestling news sites whose daily clickbait mostly comes from repeating what he says in his newsletter and podcasts, Ziggler and Goldberg is set for SummerSlam. Goldberg was openly disappointed in his most recent match against the similarly geriatric Undertaker in Saudi Arabia, so it's no surprise[...]

Let's not forget feature film Fighting With My Family, which blended the wrestling/entertainment and real worlds even further. Netflix That said, let's also not short-change the mic work he's done over the years – from his pre-WWE days to his time on Raw and SmackDown – that require a decent amount of improv and thespian skill[...]

Looks like "The Monday Night Wars II!" is going to have to stay more of a "metaphorical thing" (though if FOX gets its hands on NXT and uses it as counter-programming, we'll definitely have to shift the day of battle), with TNT and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) set to take over Wednesday nights starting October[...]

We can't wait to tell more of these stories." – Guy Slattery, President, Viceland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TAUzyHSjSQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: DARK SIDE OF THE RING (Trailer) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TAUzyHSjSQ) "DARK SIDE OF THE RING hails from VICE Studios' Canadian production team and there's a huge wrestling fan base here in Canada, so partnering on this specific series is[...]

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. https://twitter.com/StarrcastEvents/status/1151923037400436737 Punks appearance at the convention all[...]

Jeff Hardy – Ladder Match (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ANV_KiB9Q) In an August 2018 interview with The Kingston Whig Standard, Hardy opened up about his life after wrestling – one that involves him stepping away from the squared circle for good… "That's more something that Matt would most likely do[...]

And by "epic brawl" we mean danced around as if they were going to fight but never actually fought. Apparently, the feud stems from comments Janella made in April on Twitter in what appeared to be an attempt to get Amore to appear at one of "The Bad Boy's" Spring Break wrestling shows. Just saying this, straight[...]

Donald Trump may be the wrestlingest president since Abraham Lincoln, and if Fox executives get their wish according to a rumor floating around the pro wrestling dirt sheets, he could be returning to the ring when Smackdown Live debuts on Fox in October According to the rumors, which must be taken with a grain of[...]

In October, WWE Smackdown Live will move from USA to Fox's broadcast network, airing on Fridays and potentially exposing the company a new audience (but