With the WWE‘s Royal Rumble kicking off in hours, John Cena has found himself storyline-sidelined with "injuries," and Braun Strowman taking his place.
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But recent developments, including holding a giant PPV in a country where women aren't allowed to wrestle and filming backstage segments where former women's champion Alexa Bliss is walked in on by an intern while topless, seem to indicate that WWE is interested into returning to its roots of using women as sexy props rather[...]
Originating from Ontario, Canada, in 1988, the Royal Rumble is one of the professional wrestling company's more popular PPVs and features Men's and Women's Royal Rumble matches, with Superstars from Raw and SmackDown LIVE competing for a World Championship opportunity at WrestleMania.
https://youtu.be/WSCMQHArlsQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Royal Rumble 2019 – Streaming live[...]
For years, pro wrestling fans have clammored for the days of "The Monday Night Wars," when legit competition between wrestling companies brought out some of the best ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin!!!!), worst (David Arquette as WCW Champion?!?!), and bizarre (Mae Young gave birth to a…hand?!?!) in the battle for top of the pro wrestling food[...]
Just when it seemed like All Elite Wrestling's rally in Jacksonville Florida was coming to a close, the fledgeling promotion pulled out one last surprise Closing out the show, founders Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks took the stage again, agreeing to make one last announcement.
"The announcement is, our second show is going to be[...]
In 2019, I will be the first All Elite Wrestling Champion."
That was the cue for PAC, the wrestler formerly known as Neville in WWE to take the stage.
"A champion on 2019 huh?" PAC said "Well, I've got a little bit of bad news for you I am here in AEW I am already a champion[...]
Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes took the stage at All Elite Wrestling's big rally in Jacksonville, Florida Tuesday night to lay out some of the core philosophies of the new promotion According to Rhodes, wrestlers will be very well paid in AEW Additionally, wins and losses will matter more than they ever have before, and[...]
Following the opening featuring Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks, All Elite Wrestling Chief Brand Officer Brandi Rhodes made her way to the stage to reveal that AEW will indeed feature a women's division.
"We want it to be a strong women's division with the best female wrestlers in the entire world," Rhodes said, before talking[...]
All Elite Wrestling's Double or Nothing Rally is off and running in Jacksonville Florida, but we've already had one major announcement before the livestream even started! Announced on AEW's Twitter, legendary wrestler The Ass Man has joined the new promotion as a producer Everyone in AEW's ass game had better be on point!
#AEW #DoubleOrNothing Rally @AEWrestling[...]
Tonight, competing for attention with both WWE Smackdown Live and WWE Hall-of-Famer Donald Trump's prime time presidential address, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), the new wrestling promotion founded by Cody Rhodes, the Young Bucks, and billionaire money mark Tony Khan will hold a rally in Jacksonville, Florida (home of Khan's Jaguars NFL franchise) which will reveal[...]
The wrestling world was on fire this weekend, debating the morality of a controversial booking decision No, we're not talking about WWE using the death of beloved personality Mean Gene Okerlund as an excuse to further their goal of cleaning up Hulk Hogan's image We're talking about Priscilla Kelly pulling a bloody tampon out of her[...]
Just days after the death of legendary interviewer Mean Gene Okerlund, WWE has announced that disgraced former star Hulk Hogan will return to Monday Night
Beloved WWE announcer and Hall of Fame member "Mean" Gene Okerlund, created some wonderful memories for wrestling fans through his near five decades in the grappling world.
WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Gene Okerlund, the most recognizable interviewer in sports-entertainment history, has passed away at age 76 https://t.co/DyPiEiVLoV
— WWE (@WWE) January 2,[...]
Major casting news for the new season of Total Bellas has been broken by news organization Us Weekly. Artem Chigvintsev, who previously played Nikki
Following the official announcement of the launch of All Elite Wrestling, the new wrestling organization headed by Money Mark and President Tony Khan and featuring Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks as Executive Vice Presidents and Brandi Rhodes as Chief Brand Officer, the new promotion has sent out a press release with details on next[...]
Not only did she stand out for her wrestling ability, she's grabbing the torch and exerting her authority as the top star – regardless of gender As masterful as she is in the ring and on the mic, she's become just as vicious on social media.
That was a pleasure @JohnCena You're welcome back on my[...]
On last night's New Years Day edition of WWE Smackdown Live, a returning John Cena teamed up with The Man, Becky Lynch, to defeat Andrade Cien Almas and
Discussing the flack writers get, Zayn said (as transcribed by Wrestling Inc.):
Man, people don't know and you don't know unless you're there Not to do with nothing, but I want to take this time to actually give the writers a little bit of a break because they get crapped on the most People don't understand[...]
Legendary pro wrestling interviewer Mean Gene Okerlund has passed away at the age of 76, WWE announced Wednesday Okerlund, who got his start in the AWA in the 1970s, became the most well-known interviewer of all time in the 1980s, where he interviewed the top stars of WWE such as Hulk Hogan and Macho Man[...]
Is it time for the Looney Tunes to enter the world of pro wrestling? There's a precedent, after all…
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The world is still getting ready for LeBron James to star in a sequel to the 1996 classic film Space Jam, but on Twitter, the seeds are already being sown for a threequel that could really[...]
WWE may not be allowed to have men and women fight each other in the ring due to contracts with toy manufacturers, but the company's superstars are
If you're waking up this morning with a slight hangover, a sense of looming dread about how 2019 can possibly top 2018, and the strange recollection that a brand new pro wrestling promotion was announced last night, that's not the champagne talking.
FRIENDS: [general mirth and merriment on New Year's Eve]
ME: so what do YOU think[...]
It's been more than two years now since wrestling legend Chyna passed away, but despite WWE's major promotion of its women's division under the banner of the "Women's Evolution," a marketing campaign that praises WWE for finally treating its female performers with respect as a remedy to… decades of WWE treating its female performers with[...]
For the main title-holder on WWE Smackdown Live, despite reigning over the objectively superior show, there must be something of an inferiority complex
Rollins is feeling nostalgic, and while touring the city where he got his start in Ring of Honor as Tyler Black, Rollins decided to take a trip down memory lane.
Driving around this city before the United Center gig tonight and I can't help but be flooded with Chicago independent wrestling memories Can't tell you how[...]
But in the case of Shad Gaspard, formerly of the WWE tag team Cryme Tyme with partner JTG, it's actually a good thing, because the blacklist in question isn't a literal blacklist, but rather The Black List, a list of unproduced screenplays that someone should make into movies.
On Wednesday, The Black List featured a script by Gaspard[...]
Next week, the 24th issue of explosive publisher BOOM! Studios' ongoing WWE comic hits stands, featuring a story about former WWE Champion AJ Styles and
Of course, this feat required the birth of Jesus Christ, the Roman Reigns of Christianity, to make it possible, but that shouldn't lessen the accomplishment.
According to Wrestling Inc., Smackdown pulled in 1.9 million viewers on Tuesday night, airing a taped Christmas episode The night before, on Christmas Eve, Raw drew just 1.7 million viewers[...]
As we near the end of the horror show that was 2018 and approach what's sure to be an even worse year in 2019, Twitter has taken to commemorating some
When choosing our top selections, it felt like we were trying to find ten needles in a pile of needles–and nearly as painful when you see later in the countdown what didn't make the cut.
But Bleeding Cool prefers an embarrassment of programming riches to our television cupboards being bare; so here's a look at the ten shows we feel[...]