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Last night on Friday Night Smackdown, WWE celebrated 25 years of Triple H's career The show ended with a touching tribute from Haitch's best bro, Shawn Michaels, and father-in-law, Vince McMahon But that wasn't the highest honor That came the next morning, when Triple H received the blessing of the President of the United States[...]

Last week, WWE laid off or furloughed more than fifty wrestlers and backstage talent The layoffs were part of cost-cutting measures made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, even though WWE boasted of $500 million in liquidity the morning of the layoffs and announced dividends for shareholders the following day totaling $9.3 million, enough to keep[...]

The second week of WWE's nonstop barrage of bad publicity kicked off this week when a comment was read at an Orange County Florida meeting earlier this week from a person claiming to be a WWE employee who said the company was forcing people to work despite an inability to maintain social distancing WWE denied the[...]

WWE's popularity and ratings have been steadily declining since the late 1990s In fact, there are only three things you can count in life: death, taxes, and the slow but inevitable decline of the ratings of WWE Monday Night Raw Since the coronavirus pandemic began, ratings have been down for everything other than cable news,[...]

WWE Superstar and corporate executive Triple H is known for a lot of things Hour-long promos that took up the entire first half of Monday Night Raw during his reign of terror Burying opponents in his ruthless quest to conquer the industry That one bodybuilding photo from WWE magazine where he's making "the Haitch face."[...]

WWE is taking extreme measures to protect their workers from potential COVID-19 infection Well, not so extreme as letting them stay home in quarantine instead of making them come to Florida every two weeks to film wrestling shows, but about as extreme as you can get without that According to WWE executive Triple H on[...]

Good news or bad news today, depending on the kind of WWE fan you are right now, as there will be no WWE 2K game this year If you haven't been following the news lately, being a fan of the company, in general, is getting harder each passing day First by forcing talent to work[...]

Last week, WWE chose to increase profits for their investors over keeping their own workers employed during a pandemic That decision appears to have paid off Investors, recognizing a company that will clearly do anything to make the rich richer, rewarded WWE by buying more stock, pushing prices up 12% after WWE released their first-quarter[...]

WWE has released its first-quarter financial report, and it somehow makes the laying off of dozens of wrestlers and backstage talent along with countless office and live event staff seem even more coldhearted The company reports revenue of $291 million, up 60% from last year, operating income of $53.3 million (as opposed to a loss[...]

These shows have a leg up on WWE simply because of the talent watching from the sides It adds to the atmosphere and helps the fans feel like things are still somewhat normal If you've been skipping AEW, don't This is one promotion that can't be missed. Week after week AEW Dynamite has been giving[...]

WWE Superstar R-Truth has no problem with WWE 24/7 Champion Rob Gronkowski moonlighting as a football player But he wants The Gronk to return his championship belt, please and thank you The rapper/wrestler posted a video to Twitter congratulating Gronkowski on his return to the NFL to join his BFF Tom Brady on the Tampa[...]

WWE Backstage on FS1 failed to chart at all on the Top 150 cable shows on Tuesday, according to a ratings chart released by Showbiz Daily And yeah, that's not great But there's a bright side to this thing, and I'm going to do my best to find it. The official logo for the WWE. The Bright[...]

Digging deeper into the numbers, episodes of Dark Side of the Ring's first two seasons make up five of the network's most-watched broadcasts among viewers 18-49 and 25-54 as well as 8 of the top ten P2+ viewers. The second season consists of ten episodes and focused its investigative spotlight on a wide range of subjects, beginning[...]

Plans for WWE SummerSlam are still going forward, according to TD Garden, the Boston arena where the event is scheduled to take place this August A fan asked the arena about the event and received a response, posting it to Twitter The number of coronavirus cases in Massachusettes has decreased to just over 1500 as[...]

AEW has released an update to their rankings, and Cody Rhodes is now the number one contender for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship.

There are some nods and jokes to other WWE superstars, which while broad and generic enough might go over some people's heads But the heart and humor are there This was an enjoyable episode and gives the show its legs The acting is still largely over the top, but that's to be expected with these[...]

Most WWE wrestlers might feel a little self-conscious after dangerously dropping a co-worker on their head in a botched attempt at a turnbuckle bomb Most pro wrestlers aren't related to The Rock, though, and besides, we all know what Nia Jax's theme song says: she's not like most girls Jax was criticized on social media[...]

WWE Chairman Vince McMahon was in so many headlines last week for shenanigans surrounding WWE that it's easy to forget his second attempt at launching an alternative football league also crashed and burned But unlike the WWE wrestlers and backstage talent who were laid off or furloughed by the dozens even as WWE declared a[...]

The former WWE tag team formerly known as The Revival have released a teaser video all but confirming that their new tag team will be called The Revolt The former Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson are now going by the names Cash Wheeler and Dax Hartwood, and they've been teasing a career resurgence now that[...]

Once again reaffirming Vince McMahon's decision to resume live broadcasts, this week's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw came in first place in the ratings this week WWE took both the first and second places in the charts for the people 18-49 demo for its first and second hours, which scored a .59 and a[...]

But what about Gronk's WWE career? The excitable host for this years WrestleMania looked to be getting his feet wet in professional wrestling Gronkowski had been flirting with WWE for a few years now He wouldn't be the first athlete to cross over into the kayfabe world of sports entertainment, nor will he be the[...]

Welcome to the first post-massive-layoffs-and-furloughs edition of WWE's Monday Night RAW It seemed no one was safe from the cuts that came, and our heads are still spinning from the news We opened with Drew McIntyre greeting the audience with a topical "Hey there, all you cool cats and kittens." It's simply impossible to hate[...]

An employee of WWE has spoken out about working conditions at the company's weekly television tapings and broadcasts, asking the government in Florida to shut the company down so employees can practice social distancing without fear of losing their jobs The news was first reported by journalist Jon Alba, who notes the employee, going by[...]

WWE Superstar Ron Killings, perhaps better known as R-Truth, has released a music video for his latest rap track, Hit Em Up The song was created in collaboration with J-Trx With a career that began in the 1990s, Killing made his WWE debut as the terribly-named K-Kwik in 2000 But after being released from WWE[...]

Global entertainment superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to Instagram Live this week to answer a question about what many WWE fans would consider the ultimate dream match Wait, did we say dream match? We meant a nightmare Johnson discussed facing off against his cousin, Roman Reigns. "I think anything is possible," The Rock said, as[...]

Dwayne Johnson aka WWE wrestling superstar The Rock (Jungle Cruise, Ballers), Issa Rae (Insecure), and Dany Garcia are set to tag-team on Tre Cnt ("Tre Count"), a half-hour series for HBO set in the world of backyard wrestling Created by writer Mohamad El Masri (Here and Now, upcoming Brie Larson/Apple TV+ series), Tre Cnt shines[...]

Maria and Mike Kanellis were amongst more than fifty wrestlers and backstage talent unceremoniously laid off or furloughed by WWE in the middle of a global pandemic WWE made the decision to drop the couple and others despite boasting of $500 million in reserves and despite announcing dividends for shareholders the following day totaling $9.4[...]

WWE is adding more episodes of Superstars, the syndicated television show launched as Superstars of Wrestling in the 1980s but shortened to Superstars in 1992 due to a trademark issue Before the launch of Monday Night Raw, Superstars was WWE's flagship show, airing on Saturday mornings at least for some U.S viewers, though the show[...]

Respect for the legends of pro wrestling is a touchy subject in the business, so it's no surprise that WWE superstar Sami Zayn found himself involved in an internet kerfuffle after tweeting about one proud member of the WWE Hall of Fame: President Donald Trump Trump's association with WWE goes all the way back to[...]

WWE Superstar The Miz blasted his former coworker Matt Cardona, otherwise known as Zack Ryder, on Instagram Sunday Cardona, along with his tag team partner Curt Hawkins, was one of 50 or more wrestlers and backstage talent released by WWE last week on the same day the company boasted of having $500 million in reserves and the[...]