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Following up on earlier reports that Rhodes and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) met with Turner Network officials over Super Bowl weekend, The Wrap is reporting that All-Elite Wrestling (AEW) is heading to Turner – most likely to TNT, but with a multiplatform presence across Turner Network – but that a deal[...]

Viceland's professional wrestling documentary, Dark Side of the Ring, finally aired Wednesday, kicking off a 6-episode series looking at tragic stories from wrestling's past When first announced, Viceland was going to air the Killing of Bruiser Brody episode first, but plans changed since then and the first episode is The Match Made in Heaven, telling[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live-blog of WrestleMania 35 – as the WWE's annual professional wrestling tradition comes crashing into MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, like someone who hasn't slept in three days driving a rental they paid the extra insurance for We're here to offer you our perspective on the good, the bad,[...]

Join us Sunday night, April 7th for Bleeding Cool's live-blog "experience" of WWE's WrestleMania 35 - beginning at 5 p.m. ET with the Kickoff Show.

Ring of Honor Chief Operating Office Joe Koff was interviewed by Wrestling Inc Friday, and he addressed the recent criticism of ROH as a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the right-wing television conglomerate which is known for pushing a conservative message across its network of affiliates Check out this report about Sinclair from renowned wrestling[...]

Kurt Angle will wrestle his final match at WrestleMania this week, and that combined with the fact that Angle will apparently really be wrestling Baron Corbin for that match, the Olympic Gold Medalist appears to have reached "gives no @#$%s" territory and has started dropping spoilers for the biggest wrestling show of the year willy-nilly[...]

Triple H appeared on First Things First on the Fox Sports Network to announce that WWE will launch a studio show covering WWE's wrestling product on FS1 in October That same month, Smackdown Live is set to begin airing Fridays on the Fox broadcast network. Uproxx transcribed Haitch's description of the show: Because of the sports-entertainment aspect[...]

Tickets are available to pre-order right now for what's sure to be the hottest pro wrestling event of the weekend, at least by somebody's metrics Joey Ryan is hosting a photo op at WrestleCon called "You Can Touch It," where ticket-holders will apparently be allowed to touch his penis in their photos The event is[...]

The Immortal Hulk Hogan will induct Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake in to the WWE Hall of Fame, a press release from WWE revealed Thursday. The announcement

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, the biggest wrestling promotion in Mexico, is set to take over Madison Square Garden this September, the company revealed in a press release Thursday The event will take place on September 15th, the eve of Mexican Independence Day, with tickets going on sale on Cinco de Mayo AAA hopes to attract[...]

If Che and Jost have a hope of competing against Strowman, then there's no reason Jeong wouldn't be an asset in Bautista's corner this Sunday. It should also be noted that Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has an open invite to attend WrestleMania in response to his expose on WWE's treatment of its independent contractors,[...]

WWE has announced a partnership with A&E to produce five two-hour documentaries branded with A&E's Biography title. The company named Macho Man

In a shocking turn of events nearly as shocking a turn of events as last year, when Rey Mysterio shockingly suffered an injury right before he was rumored

It's official: Jim Ross has signed a three-year deal with All Elite Wrestling to become a Senior Advisor in what the company is calling "the most lucrative deal in pro wrestling commentary history." Ross will appear at AEW's Double or Nothing event, and will also "work closely with the senior leaders at AEW on their[...]

In a bit of good news that must surely have WWE officials sighing with relief, independent contractors Ronda Rousey, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte Flair have

Remember, anything you see on TV is probably a work when it comes to wrestling, so this could all theoretically be part of the build-up to the most epic swerve of all time, with Oliver ending the broadcast next Sunday by hugging McMahon in the middle of the ring after tearing up a contract that[...]

For 23 minutes, Oliver ran through the high rate of early deaths for professional wrestlers, Vince McMahon's leverage of WWE's status as a virtual monopoly in the United States wrestling business to force his employees to work as "independent contractors" without health insurance, paid leave, or other benefits that could improve their health and expand[...]

In a stunning revelation that sent shockwaves throughout the internet wrestling community this weekend, former WWE Superstar Chris Jericho announced on the Jim Norton and Sam Roberts SiriusXM radio show that he's about as welcome in WWE these days as Norton and Roberts' former broadcast partners (and former XFL kickoff hosts) are welcome at SiriusXM[...]

Out of all the complaints about WWE's weekly televised programming — and there are a lot of them — probably the one most people can agree with is that there simply isn't enough of it! With just three hours of Raw, two hours of Smackdown Live, one hour of NXT, one hour of NXT UK,[...]

Pro wrestling moguls Vince and Linda McMahon were amongst the biggest donors to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and when the dust settled and the WWE Hall-of-Famer was elected, Linda McMahon was rewarded with a spot on the Cabinet as the head of the Small Business Administration McMahon will now step down from that role,[...]

The triple threat match for the Raw Women's Championship between Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Ronda Rousey will be the official main event of the biggest wrestling show of the year, WWE announced Monday The occasion will mark the first-ever WrestleMania event headlined by women. "For the first time in WWE history, a women's match will be[...]

There's a lot going on at C2E2 this weekend, but one event that pro wrestling fans won't want to miss is the first meeting between former WCW announcer Tony Schiavone and former WCW President Eric Bischoff since the end of WCW back in 2001 To promote the event, Schiavone decided to sneak attack his former[...]

Earlier this week, we reported on the burgeoning feud between Arrow star Stephen Amell and Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista, over the latter's upcoming No Holds Barred match with Triple H at WrestleMania, with Amell tweeting: Just landed and found out about @DaveBautista v @TripleH — Really pumped for the match but also don't[...]

Last night saw the full-fledged return of Dave Bautista to WWE Monday Night Raw in a segment that will live in pro wrestling infamy, as the Guardians of the Galaxy star delivered a promo which consisted of nothing but a nonstop string of future memes, telling rival Triple H, "GIVE ME WHAT I WANT!" and[...]

Back in January, rumors surfaced on pro wrestling dirt sheets claiming that WWE superstar Dean Ambrose would leave the company after his contract ends in April Shortly afterward, WWE confirmed Ambrose's departure, leading many to speculate whether or not the whole thing is work, like Roman Reigns' Leukemia Confusion continued as Ambrose was seen to[...]

Bundy wrestled for then-WWF from 1986-1988 and again from 1994-1996, wrestling Hulk Hogan in a steel cage for the main event of WrestleMania II In fact, Bundy brutalizing Hogan after interfering in Hogan's Saturday Night's Main Event match with Don Muraco in the lead-up to that WrestleMania match, injuring Hogan's ribs by repeatedly avalanching him,[...]

Just kidding! WWE gave the information to ESPN as an exclusive, but they like to act like ESPN broke the story, as if who WWE is inducts into their Hall of Fame is a matter of intense interest for mainstream media outlets, allowing WWE to show off the ESPN article on Monday Night Raw. Starting her[...]

"Live! From New York! It's…" It Doesn't Matter Who You Are Or Where You're From! Yup, that's right: the worlds of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NBC's Saturday Night Live are ready to collide once again with news that SNL's "Weekend Update" anchors Michael Che & Colin Jost are joining the superstars of WWE Raw this Monday night[...]

The Honky Tonk Man is the next wrestling legend to join WWE's 2019 Hall of Fame Class WWE announced the news on their website, claiming that CBS Sports "reported" it first, but as all of the reveals of Hall of Fame members on mainstream media outlets are arranged PR EX-X-XCLUSIVES so that WWE can act like[...]

Later in the night, Reigns even came out to the ring with Seth Rollins to save Dean Ambrose from a beatdown, delivering several Superman punches and a spear. But the show ended on the lowest note possible when Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista assaulted septuagenarian wrestling legend Ric Flair, preventing the sixteen-time champ from attending his[...]