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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… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnToZYGAoY       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[...]

The man: acclaimed wrestling and football promoter, and genetic jackhammer, Vince McMahon, a personal friend of President Donald Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXe-qhWyHfQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: "Mr McMahon-ta Claus" announces the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Raw, Dec 24, 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXe-qhWyHfQ) Dressed as the jolly Christmas icon Santa Claus on Monday's Christmas Eve edition of Monday Night Raw,[...]

As if closing out the year by pinning WWE Champion Daniel Bryan weren't enough of an accomplishment for 205 Live turned Smackdown superstar Mustafa Ali,

Smackdown also has the benefit of featuring the hottest star in pro wrestling today, Becky Lynch, though the three-way feud between Lynch, Asuka, and Charlotte Flair doesn't feel quite as compelling as it should Regardless, Smackdown was, as it has been recently, a faster-paced, more interesting, and infinitely more enjoyable show than Monday Night Raw[...]