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According to a new rumor making its way around the pro wrestling dirt sheets, the reason Roman Reigns lost to Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania is because he wasn't able to get over with the smarky WrestleMania audience, so Vince McMahon switched plans mid-match to push Roman's coronation to the Saudia Arabian Greatest Royal Rumble event, working[...]

I don't mind him." HE'S BACK!@fightbobby didn't want to hear @IAmEliasWWE's music any longer! #RAW pic.twitter.com/q9ehYn8leW — WWE (@WWE) April 10, 2018 Trump, a WWE Hall-of-Famer, has also kept his close connections with the pro wrestling industry, naming Linda McMahon to his cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration McMahon has thus far survived the frequent purges[...]

Paige officially announced her retirement on tonight's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw in what she said was the hardest thing she's ever had to do. Paige

As is tradition for the day after WrestleMania, WWE has revealed their latest WWE Network subscriber counts. WWE's subscriber numbers fluctuate throughout

Yesterday, the unthinkable happened at WrestleMania. No, we're not talking about Braun Strowman teaming with a small child to win the tag team titles. No, we're not talking about Asuka's streak ending. We're not even talking about Roman Reigns losing. The real shocker: we were wrong.

It could also be Cena's last match, or at least the last one for a while, as Cena's movie and children's television career seems to be picking up, and despite all that stuff Cena said about The Rock a few years ago, the only thing stopping him from leaving pro wrestling behind for Hollywood before[...]

His own wrestling geared emblazoned with his rainbow Balor Club logo, Balor was flanked by what the announcers described as the New Orleans LGBTQ community, all wearing Balor's 'Balor Club for Everyone' t-shirts Balor released the shirts last week, with a portion of proceeds going to benefit GLAAD. Will the luck of the LGBTQ help Balor[...]

WrestleMania has been one of the biggest wrestling events (if not the biggest) for years now — 34, to be exact So for today's Lauren Looks Back, I'll be taking a brief look back at the event that started it all: WrestleMania 1! WrestleMania 1 was held on March 31st, 1985 at Madison Square Garden WWE[...]

Sure, most wrestling fans would prefer just about anyone else, but you're what we're going to get, and we might as well get it over with. Yes, we know that WrestleMania hasn't taken place yet, but we figured there's no reason to wait Roman Reigns is set to face Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal[...]

He's actually managed to get fired by Impact Wrestling, a company who will literally hire anyone as long as they once worked for WWE and let them do whatever they want Jeff Hardy literally once wrestled Sting high out of his mind on soma at a TNA PPV and the company didn't fire him But[...]

At Friday's WWE 2018 Hall of Fame induction ceremony, pro wrestling fans saw something they might have thought they'd never see again: Jeff Jarrett on WWE television Jarrett left WWE in 1999, dropping the Intercontinental Title to Chyna Jarrett's contract had expired before the match, and rumor has it Jarrett demanded a huge sum of[...]

If you can't get enough wrestling this weekend (and who can blame you — you can never have enough wrestling), check out the videos below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_xiEFmPyIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Shawn Michaels on Daniel Bryan's emotional return to the ring: Exclusive, March 31, 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_xiEFmPyI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQENWDz-000Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Daniel[...]

It's WrestleMania weekend, which means it's time to hunker down in front of a TV (or several TVs) and take in as much wrestling content from WWE and other organizations as possible WWE's 2018 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony aired last night on the WWE Network, for an especially long time since it seemed Hillbilly[...]

On Friday night during WWE's 2018 Hall of Fame induction ceremony, WWE aired a commercial advertising all of the upcoming shows on the WWE Network. First and foremost, amongst the upcoming premieres, is a second season of The Edge and Christian Show that Totally Reeks of Awesomeness.

In a series of videos hosted by Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Sasha Banks, Carmella, and Naomi, WWE has given fans their first look at the set for tomorrow's WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans.

Along with WWE WrestleMania comes the biggest weekend of the year for many other pro wrestling promotions, as the audience for WWE's biggest show of the year draws tens of thousands of wrestling fans to a single city. One of the most exciting shows taking place in New Orleans this weekend is Ring of Honor's Supercard[...]

The man who should have headlined the evening was Mark Henry, whose WWE career spanned two decades and whose love and respect for the pro wrestling business was evident not only in his heartfelt speech, but in his everyday actions. At one point during his speech, Henry took a moment to advocate for another pro wrestling[...]

The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. The Weekly Static's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk' consists of myself, Rocky, Trejo, Bat-Murr, and Margo Staten.

This time, it's indie darling Zack Sabre Jr., who made the comments during an in-character interview for NJPW. "Suzuki-gun, we're taking over," Sabre said, according to a report from Pro Wrestling Sheet "We'll take over England We'll take over Japan Take over America Not Mexico … Mexico can fuck off!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44hDuUcTBUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is[...]

Well, that was unexpected. As the ten-o-clock hour approached on Monday Night Raw, John Cena came to the ring to call out The Undertaker one more time.

Braun Strowman finally revealed his tag team partner for his championship match against The Bar at WrestleMania on Sunday, and it wasn't one of our three

If you want to know who's there, read on… Former Impact Wrestling Champion James Storm is backstage at WWE Raw tonight, according to a report from 411 Wrestling Storm left Impact in November and the former tag team partner of Bobby Roode could be heading to WWE… but of course, he might just be visiting as[...]

Ryback took to his podcast, Conversations with the Big Guy, not this time to accuse Jinder Mahal of steroid abuse or to say female wrestlers should dress sexier, but instead to express his support for a Hogan return. "I think in WWE's eyes, I think it is a step in the right direction," Ryback said, as[...]

One obstacle to a Hogan return is the opinion of 2018 Hall-of-Fame inductee Mark Henry, who recently said that Hogan has not done enough to atone for the racist tirade, speaking on behalf of Black wrestlers throughout the wrestling world. "I'm sitting on the chair of the delegation and they're not ready," Henry said "I've had[...]

The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. So The Weekly Static's "Justice League" (myself, Rocky, Trejo, Bat-Murr and Margo Staten) makes you these three promises…

Professional wrestling may be fixed (don't tell anyone), but that hasn't stopped bookies from taking bets on sports entertainment In fact, gambling oddsmakers have become a major source of dirt sheet rumors in the buildup to every major wrestling event The biggest of those, of course, is WrestleMania, and betting odds have spawned rumors of[...]

Hogan is not scheduled to be at any upcoming WWE events. However, the recent the round of Hogan return rumors began last week with another statement from WWE admitting they had had talks with Hogan about a return. We have had discussions with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) about how he can help others learn from his[...]

In the latest conquest in its quest for global television domination, WWE has announced plans to air one-hour versions of both Raw and SmackDown on free-to-air Croation TV station RTL 2.

When in doubt, in the pro wrestling business, always assume it's a work. Congratulations to The Miz and Maryse! Unlike that total diva Birdie Joe Danielson, daughter of Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan, the newly born daughter of The Miz and Maryse was born ahead of schedule, leaving The Miz plenty of room on his schedule[...]

When the WWE Network launched in 2014, it promised access to WWE's vast library of classic pro wrestling, but for years, has failed to truly deliver on that promise While it's understandable that some more obscure wrestling shows would be missing, a lot of essential content has been conspicuously absent Superstars of Wrestling, for instance,[...]