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It's hard to decide which Total Divas, Paige or Eva Marie, produced the best off-screen drama in 2017, so we're glad to see that both of them shared top billing in the most-read wrestling post of the year This one focused mainly on the saga of Paige and her boyfriend, Albero El Patron, who spent[...]

But what a half year of delicious Total Divas drama it was! You loved it so much, Eva Marie drama played a part in three of the top five wrestling posts of 2017! Interior image credit: Miguel Discart (CC BY-SA 2.0) During her all-too-brief tenure in WWE, Eva Maria was often derided by wrestling fans for her[...]

We didn't write this one ourselves, but we posted it on behalf of Bleeding Cool correspondent Kody William Schmitt, who was on the scene at Wizard World St. Louis and managed to catch WWE Superstar Randy Orton making salacious comments about his entrance at Wrestlemania 33.

If there's one universal rule that defines pro wrestling, it's that the salacious drama that occurs behind the scenes always eclipses the salacious drama and athletic competition that occurs in the ring One man who delivers both in and out of the ring is Scott Steiner, whose loose cannon attitude and looser grip on reality[...]

Not only does it contain more drama per minute than any other program on the company's roster, but it also treats the actual in-ring action with more respect than WWE's actual wrestling programs, going out of its way to make it seem like the matches matter and are motivated by the aforementioned drama on the[...]

Pro wrestling legend Sid Vicious canceled an appearance in Cleveland this weekend, and no, it wasn't so that he could play in a softball league According to Absolute Intense Wrestling, Sid claimed he couldn't make the flight to Cleveland due to President Donald Trump's travel ban. "We have some bad news to report," Absolute Intense Wrestling[...]

No time to worry…Tonight I'm in NYC at #WWEMSG #WitnessMe https://t.co/sfdiCpsV5u — Roman Reigns (@WWERomanReigns) December 26, 2017 This behavior comes as a shock from Roman Reigns, who has previously been considered a fan favorite, but these kinds of drastic character swings seem to happen often in the high stakes environment of pro wrestling, with wrestlers changing[...]

Can you dig another politician stepping foot in the wrestling ring, suckaaaaa?! Booker T, retired pro wrestler, WWE Raw announcer, and Houston mayoral candidate is teasing a return to the wrestling ring at January's Royal Rumble PPV event. T joins other superstars who have successfully found a balance between pro wrestling and politics, including Knox County[...]

Knox County mayoral candidate Glenn Jacobs, better known to fans of pro wrestling as WWE Superstar Kane, has been spending a lot of time lately not discussing the issues at the heart of his campaign A Libertarian endorsed by Senator Rand Paul, Kane ostensibly an enemy of big government and high taxes, and has mentioned[...]

Bryan didn't take any bumps in the segment, but on the other hand, he didn't get injured from running the ropes either, which has got to count for something. Bryan has long expressed a desire to get back to wrestling, even saying that he'll do it somewhere other than WWE if WWE refuses to clear him. Bryan[...]

Ultimately, football fans decided that they preferred to keep their wrestling and their football separate, but McMahon apparently sees a new opportunity to revive the brand. Rumors kicked into high gear earlier this month that McMahon was looking at rebooting the league, and WWE officially responded by admitting that McMahon had started a new business entity called Alpha[...]

WWE superstar "The Big Dog" Roman Reigns laughs at a $5000 fine! Reigns shoved referee John Cone during his Intercontinental Championship match against

In what some might call a Christmas miracle, Matt Hardy finally regained the ability to use his Broken character developed during his time in Impact Wrestling, just in time for the holidays Hardy's new character isn't exactly "Broken," however Instead, Hardy is "Woken," though it's basically the same thing Hardy took to YouTube to post[...]

And, of course, President Donald Trump himself has a multi-decade association with pro wrestling and even participated in the main event of WrestleMania 23. So it's not surprising that Jacobs views his wrestling heritage as a positive in his political campaign. "It's sort of cool because your sort of entrenched political class is going to think that,[...]

In a world where the ratings for both professional Football and professional wrestling are on the decline, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has a plan to save both industries: he's going to relaunch the XFL, an alternative football league that the WWE tried once before as a joint venture with NBC that lasted for one season,[...]