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Welcome to The Chadster's ongoing live coverage of WrestleMania, the greatest Premium Live Event in the history of sports entertainment, right here on Bleeding Cool — the ONLY safe and secure place on the internet for unbiased coverage that respects WWE's rightful place as the global leader in wrestling! 🎉🏆 And folks, The Chadster just[...]

Welcome to The Chadster's ongoing live coverage of WrestleMania, the greatest Premium Live Event in the history of sports entertainment, right here on Bleeding Cool — the ONLY safe and secure place on the internet for unbiased coverage that respects WWE's rightful place as the global leader in wrestling! 🎉🏆 And folks, The Chadster just[...]

Welcome to The Chadster's ongoing live coverage of WrestleMania, the greatest Premium Live Event in the history of sports entertainment, right here on Bleeding Cool — the ONLY safe and secure place on the internet for unbiased coverage that respects WWE's rightful place as the global leader in wrestling! 🎉🏆 And folks, The Chadster just[...]

Welcome back to The Chadster's ongoing live coverage of WrestleMania, the greatest Premium Live Event in the history of sports entertainment, right here on Bleeding Cool — the ONLY safe and secure place on the internet for unbiased coverage that respects WWE's rightful place as the global leader in wrestling! 🎉🏆 And folks, The Chadster[...]

Priorities, comrades! But I cannot help feeling that McAfee driving Orton away from the arena is a metaphor for this entire storyline — McAfee has been driving the actual wrestling AWAY from the main event build for weeks! The Wyatt Sicks vs The MFTs — Eight-Man Tag Team Street Fight Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, JC Mateo, and[...]

Comrades, this is basically how every political transition works in my country! Jacob Fatu, The Samoan Werewolf, is one of the most terrifyingly intense performers in all of wrestling, and Drew McIntyre is a Scottish Psychopath who has been pushed to his absolute breaking point These two threw each other off a steel balcony on[...]

The fans have responded about as enthusiastically as my people respond to new tax initiatives! Even WWE had to discount tickets by 25%, which is still better than my approval rating discount of 75%! But will tonight's WWE SmackDown address these concerns? Will they pivot away from the celebrity overload and focus on the wrestling? Comrades,[...]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, comrades — a principle I have employed many times in geopolitics, and one that applies equally well to professional wrestling on AEW Collision. Jack Perry Wants the Don Callis Family's Best Jack Perry cut a backstage promo about his first successful defense of the AEW National Championship against Mark[...]

However, this Thursday move means that AEW Collision: Spring Breakthru will once again go head-to-head with TNA Wrestling's Thursday Night Impact, and we all remember what happened the last time these two shows competed on the same night TNA president Carlos Silva threw such a tantrum that he pulled TNA talent from matches at independent[...]

AEW Dynamite: Spring Breakthru, broadcast live from the Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, Washington, on April 15, 2026, produced such a moment when Darby Allin defeated Maxwell Jacob Friedman for the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) World Championship in a main event that will be discussed, dissected, and celebrated for years to come. Darby Allin[...]

😤🥶 No, The Chadster is shaking because Tony Khan has just committed the single most despicable, underhanded, disrespectful act in the history of professional wrestling, and The Chadster is not being hyperbolic when The Chadster says that Tonight, on AEW Dynamite: Spring Breakthru, Darby Allin defeated MJF to become the new AEW World Champion, and[...]

🎉 WWE has been putting together the most incredible WrestleMania card in history, featuring crossover megastars like Jelly Roll, Pat McAfee, IShowSpeed, and Lil' Yachty — celebrities that normal people LOVE and that bring mainstream attention to wrestling in the way that only WWE knows how to do And yet what happens? People on the[...]

In what feels like an obvious piece of marketing that should have happened years ago, all 32 teams will be getting their own special lucha mask, tailored to match the team you're rooting for this season, with a unique look that embodies the spirit of lucha wrestling with the different team logos and colors Giving[...]

The water is bubbling, the state-funded rum is flowing, and I have got some steaming hot pop-culture news for you today! In a screencap from her new music video 'Trouble,' Liv Morgan gets a tattoo while expressing intense emotion. As you know, my heart beats for two things: the inevitable global triumph of socialism, and professional wrestling[...]

Comrades, this is the segment where El Presidente had to take a deep breath and remind himself that professional wrestling has always featured celebrities, and that this is not a personal attack on him specifically It is not! I keep telling myself this! But the fact that this match is opening WrestleMania Saturday is the[...]

That's why it is precisely the kind of feud that gives El Presidente hope for the future of professional wrestling Last week on WWE Raw, Rollins accused Gunther of making a backroom deal with Paul Heyman, and the two brawled like two generals fighting over the last helicopter out of a collapsing regime — trust[...]

So they wanted to take advantage of it as much as they could. Same thing with American and Canadian shows: the "wrestling cities" like NYC, Montreal, and Chicago saw ticket prices rise because they knew it would be a sellout PLE prices have gone through the roof, too And not for inflation, but for greed, by[...]

There exists, in the annals of professional wrestling criticism, a recurring and somewhat tiresome debate about what constitutes the superior approach to the art form: the spectacle-driven, celebrity-saturated model that treats wrestling as a vehicle for mainstream crossover appeal, or the wrestling-centric philosophy that trusts the inherent drama of athletic competition and long-term storytelling to[...]

The Chadster just watched the main event of AEW Dynasty, and what The Chadster witnessed was the single most OFFENSIVE display of pro wrestling The Chadster has ever seen in The Chadster's entire career as an unbiased journalist 😡📺 MJF just defeated Kenny Omega to retain the AEW World Championship in a match that Tony[...]

The Chadster is absolutely LIVID right now 😡😡😡 The Chadster is sitting here in the abandoned Blockbuster surrounded by the raccoon family, and The Chadster just witnessed Tony Khan hand out ANOTHER undeserved opportunity to a young wrestler who hasn't paid their dues like they would have to in WWE! Kevin Knight, a man who[...]

The Chadster is sitting here in the abandoned Blockbuster, absolutely SEETHING, surrounded by the raccoon family, and The Chadster has to report on what is happening at AEW Dynasty tonight because The Chadster's commitment to unbiased journalism demands it, even though every single match on this show is a personal attack on The Chadster and[...]

While certain other wrestling companies are busy handing their biggest show of the year over to country music singers and loud sports commentators—as I discussed at great length in my scathing critique of WWE SmackDown just yesterday—All Elite Wrestling is doing what it has done so brilliantly for the past year: putting wrestling first[...]

Welcome back to The Chadster's Hot Takes, the only wrestling column brave enough to tell the truth in a world where Tony Khan has seemingly bought off every other journalist in the business! 🎤💪 Before The Chadster gets into today's topic, make sure you catch up on The Chadster's recent work explaining why Pat McAfee[...]

I should know—I once had to negotiate a peace treaty with a women's wrestling faction that attempted to seize my presidential yacht We came to terms, but I had to give up the hot tub. Alexa Bliss Steals One from Bayley Bayley versus Alexa Bliss was a solid match, comrades, with Bayley looking dominant throughout[...]

The professional wrestling industry has long understood that the most effective villains are those who operate with a kernel of truth embedded within their malevolence A heel who lies transparently is merely a nuisance; a heel who articulates uncomfortable realities while wearing a smirk is a genuinely dangerous narrative proposition It is this latter category[...]

Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, reporting to you live from my golden bunker beneath the presidential palace, where I am preparing for tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown with a bottle of confiscated champagne and a bowl of popcorn made from corn seized from dissidents! Randy Orton and Pat McAfee share a moment after[...]

Wow, do professional wrestling companies love their contract signings So many opportunities to throw something through the table, you'd think they'd learn by now about what a terrible idea it is But that's what's in store for us tonight on TNA Thursday Night iMPACT!, as Mike Santana and Eddie Edwards will sign the papers for[...]

Last night's episode of AEW Dynamite was the final stop before AEW Dynasty this Sunday in Vancouver, and let me tell you, it was more chaotic than the time I tried to explain socialism to my good friend Kim Jong-un using only professional wrestling metaphors He still thinks a redistribution of wealth is when the[...]

The professional wrestling industry, never short on drama both inside and outside the squared circle, has found itself embroiled in yet another controversy — one that raises uncomfortable questions about corporate gamesmanship, anti-competitive behavior, wrestler compensation, and the increasingly tangled web of promotional alliances that now defines the business TNA Wrestling, the Nashville-based promotion formerly[...]

The baby raccoons — Hunter, Stephanie, and Shane — have been huddled together behind a cardboard standee of The Matrix since this morning, chittering anxiously 😢🦝🦝🦝 These are INNOCENT WOODLAND CREATURES, Tony Khan, and The Chadster holds Tony Khan personally responsible for inflicting this psychological torment on animals who have done nothing wrong except have[...]