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McMahon's WWE has continued to produce three weekly televised wrestling shows throughout the crisis, even returning to live broadcasts this week To do that, all McMahon had to do was get WWE declared as an "essential" business by the Governor of Florida If McMahon can show Trump how to make that happen for every other[...]

Mayor Jerry Demmings said that local authorities initially did not consider WWE essential, but after "conversations" with the office of Governor Ron DeSantis, WWE was added to the list of essential businesses. https://youtu.be/5k9K3yq5ENQ?t=1911Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Orange County Coronavirus Update | April 13, 2020 (https://youtu.be/5k9K3yq5ENQ?t=1911) WWE and Donald Trump's Long Association Now, a new[...]

After the announcement was made that WWE was essential entertainment (no doubt a historic win for wrestling in general) we had a new episode of Monday Night RAW Was it essentially good? This week's RAW opened with the new WWE Champion Drew McIntyre It's still a little surreal that McIntyre didn't get the pop he[...]

Legendary pro wrestling manager, promoter, and commentator Jim Cornette has come out in the defense of fellow legendary wrestler, promoter, and commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler after Lawler came under fire for a racist joke made on WWE Monday Night Raw last night Referring to a diving senton performed by Japanese wrestler Akira Tozawa against[...]

Gunn, who also served as a trainer on WWE Tough Enough, is a WWE Hall-of-Famer. Gunn signed with All Elite Wrestling in 2019 and has wrestled a few matches since then His size and star power lend legitimacy to anyone he's in the ring with Gunn has recently been featured in the "audience" of AEW episodes[...]

Hollywood megastar and legendary wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has weighed in on All Elite Wrestling, the upstart wrestling league taking on Johnson's former employers, WWE In a Q&A session on his Instagram page, Johnson revealed that he does indeed watch AEW, and he thinks the company is a good thing for the wrestling business. Of[...]

It turns out that WWE partially owned the football league after all, despite claims that it would be completely separate from the wrestling company. The world learned last Friday that the XFL had ceased operations and laid off its staff, with no plans to return in 2021 That marked the end of Vince McMahon's second attempt[...]

The Mayor says he "assumes" WWE, which he likens to a "small family," is taking the right precautions to protect employees.

Impact Wrestling has revealed that its upcoming Rebellion PPV is, in fact, too big for just one night Impact will film Rebellion on a closed set with no audience and air in two parts The show will be broadcast on free television instead of offered as a PPV special Somewhere, Don West is shouting into[...]

Ad Council and WWE have teamed up to produce PSAs starring WWE superstars to teach people the importance of good hygiene.

In a rare double breaking of kayfabe, Ronda Rousey has straight-up admitted that her recent comments breaking kayfabe by calling wrestling "fake fighting" are indeed themselves a work Rousey took to Instagram to post a photo of herself beating up a Hulk Hogan wrestling buddy while quoting Hogan's 2011 tweet, "Goodnight #ROWDYONES and jabronie marks[...]

In many ways, the show was the precursor to the formation of AEW itself, helping catapult its stars to the top of the wrestling industry through sheer social media prowess It was on Being the Elite in January of 2019 that the formation of AEW was announced, and the show has continued to drive forward[...]

Eight competitors will split into groups of four for the round-robin tournament to crown the Interim NXt Cruiserweight Champion.

AEW has added Shawn Spears "in action" along with Kip Sabian vs. Chuck Taylor to the lineup for AEW Dynamite on TNT this Wednesday.

A pro wrestling homecoming of sorts will be taking place soon Jake "The Snake" Roberts will be allowed to move back into the home of his friend and recovery mentor, Diamond Dallas Page Page posted the news on Twitter, specifying that there is one condition According to Page, Roberts will need to complete six days[...]