In a move that admittedly won't do much to shatter the longstanding advertising industry stereotype that pro wrestling fans don't have any money, WWE has launched a new line of prepaid debit cards The company partnered with Netspend to release the line of cards, which offer luxurious amenities such as "no credit check" and "no[...]
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The Monday Night RAW after WrestleMania is always a big deal for the WWE We celebrate the victories of newly-crowned champions, and we also welcome new superstars to the show Last year, we celebrated "Two Belts" Becky Lynch's win; this year, it's Drew McIntyre's Universal Championship win Of course, we have to mention that this[...]
Sinclair Broadcast Group and Ring of Honor will sell ROHStrong t-shirts benefitting The Salvation Army to aid those impacted by the current health crisis.
The voice of WWE is now also a Vice President According to PWInsider's Mike Johnson, Michael Cole has been promoted to Vice President of Announcing at WWE The change was reportedly made a few weeks ago Cole now adds Vice President to his list of accomplishments that already includes an undefeated record at WrestleMania.
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WWE Champion Drew McIntyre just defeated Brock Lesnar for the title last night at WrestleMania 36, but already, McIntyre is looking forward to his next challenge The Chosen One has chosen Heavyweight Boxing Champion Tyson Fury as his next opponent McIntyre made the challenge on UK talk show SportsTALK Breakfast, asking co-host Ally McCoist to[...]
WrestleMania 36 comes to a close with the WWE Championship match Drew McIntyre, the winner of this past January's Royal Rumble, takes on maybe the most dominant title holder of all-time, Brock Lesnar Much has been made of how McIntyre is not worthy of this opportunity by Lesnar's advocate, Paul Heyman The two have traded[...]
Now at WWE WrestleMania 36, their story comes to a conclusion – and a conclusion that none of us could've seen coming As Cena enters the ring, Firefly Fun House cuts in in epic fashion As a confused Cena stands in the funhouse, Ramblin Rabbit directs him to go out the door Alone, in the[...]
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WrestleMania 36: Sasha Banks vs Lacey Evans vs Tamina vs Naomi vs Bayley
With five women in the ring, this will be a tough one to recap, but I'll do my best Bayley and Sasha teamed up on Tamina to start, but were rebuffed Lacey and Naomi tried next with the same degree of success[...]
Both teams are capable of high-flying action in the ring, so that is the expectation here.
It's the Street Profits versus Angel Garza and Austin Theory competing for the titles at WrestleMania 36, photo courtesy of WWE.
WrestleMania 36 RAW Tag Team Title Match
Lots of faced paced action to start All four men are throwing themselves around[...]
From there WWE gave us a passionate and ongoing storyline between Edge and his one time friend Randy Orton This storyline got personal, with Beth Phoenix (Edge's wife) getting involved, and Orton telling her he loves Edge more than she does And finally, at this years WrestleMania, we got a payoff.
Edge makes his entrance at[...]
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Dolph locked a chinlock on Otis and wrapped legs around Otis's midsection Otis powered up to his feet and escaped with a punch to the stomach Ziggler kicked him in the shin twice, but got caught and monkey-flipped into the corner.
Ziggler got to his feet first and kicked Otis in the gut, but Otis[...]
WWE WrestleMania 36 Night 2 is underway, and in the second bout of the night, Aleister Black and Bobby Lashley squared off The build for this match in the last couple weeks is mostly centered around how this is their first meeting Sometimes that is enough, but going into the match it doesn't feel like[...]
The fight never got truly ugly though, and they managed to keep most of the match within the ring.
Charlotte Flair at the mercy of Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 36 / WWE
But then we saw that typical Flair mean streak, where she focused on a specific thing and went in In this case, is was Ripley's[...]
Liv Morgan came second, looking just a little unhinged.
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WrestleMania 36 Pre-Show Match – Natalya vs Liv Morgan
The women circled each other, and Natalya took early control with a headlock when Morgan tried to shake her hand in a show of WrestleMania sportswomanship Morgan fought her way out and both women[...]
The WWE Hall of Fame is generally held the night before WrestleMania, but recent events have had an effect on dozens of shows and events – including WrestleMania 36 Once scheduled to be in Tampa, FL, WWE effectively moved all television across the way to their performance center in Orlando and held matches without a[...]
The two have been building to this for weeks now, starting when The Undertaker came out and destroyed Styles at the last WWE event in Saudi Arabia Following that, the challenge was laid out by Styles, saying he would retire Taker at WrestleMania Invoking Michelle, the Undertaker's real life wife and calling him Mark Callaway[...]
After the WrestleMania 36 rumors of Roman Reigns dropping out of the Universal Championship match against Goldberg were confirmed, WWE gave us our replacement; Braun Strowman This seems like a cheap cop out, but ok Fine I'm sure this will be a quick match With almost no build up between the two, it's hard to[...]
Just get going.
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WrestleMania 36 Match 6: Kevin Owens vs Seth Rollins
Rollins went for the hug to start the match, begging off Owens when he tried to attack After a sucker punch from Rollins, things spilled outside for a brief exchange Rollins got back in first and went for the Stomp on Owens, but Owens dodged[...]
WrestleMania is always unpredictable, but the WWE has had to fly by the seat of its pants lately Case-in -point is tonight's SmackDown Tag Team Championship match Because The Miz had been ruled out of the match for health reasons, the titles were defended in a one-on-one-on-one ladder match John Morrison defended against Kofi Kingston[...]
After weeks of back and forth, it's time for Daniel Bryan and Sami Zayn's feud to reach its conclusion at WWE's WrestleMania 36 I've been mostly invested in this due to Bryan's excellent character work – from face to heel, and back to face Zayn himself is also an excellent heel The two are exceptional[...]
Lynch made her way to the WWE Performance Center driving her "The Man" truck, leaving it parked in the driveway and then walking the rest of the way to the building While Lynch made her way to backstage, Baszler made her entrance Lynch then made the short walk to the ring in a gold studded[...]
This match hasn't had the months-long build that others on the card have, with the match being made by WrestleMania 36 host Rob Gronkowski just a little over a week ago on WWE SmackDown King Corbin viciously attacked Elias and pushed him off a balcony to the concrete floor Some were not sure Elias would[...]
After a fun opening montage with a narrator trying to make this as over-the-top as only WWE can, our first match of this historical WrestleMania started Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross faced off against Asuka and Kairi Sane (Kabuki Warriors) for the Women's Tag Team Titles.
I have to hand it to these ladies Their costumes[...]
In addition to giving us our first taste of WrestleMania without an audience, and our first look at the set, the match also proved that even though WWE may have split WrestleMania into two different nights, there's still room for someone to be relegated to the pre-show Michael Cole did commentary alone for the match.
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Former WWE Superstar and current occasional WWE Backstage pundit CM Punk thinks WWE made the wrong decision by deciding to move forward with WrestleMania 36 instead of postponing it, and he's not afraid to say so Punk dropped another one off his "pipe bombs" on the No-No Show podcast on Stitcher On the podcast, Punk[...]
Knox County, Tennessee Mayor Glenn Jacobs, better known by his WWE ring name Kane, is not happy with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee's methods in enforcing the state's recommendation that residents remain at home except for nonessential business.
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"Over the last few weeks, we have seen decreases in movement around the state as Tennesseans socially distance and[...]
WWE is looking to make the best of a tough situation when it comes to WrestleMania 36 Normally the biggest wrestling event of the year, held in a stadium with tens of thousands of audience members, WrestleMania 36 has been taped at the Performance Center, and matches have been changed around thanks to some wrestlers[...]
Thanks to restrictions on gatherings, WWE has been filming its television shows in an empty WWE Performance Center for weeks, and all of WrestleMania is already taped and in the books In addition to that, some plans have had to be changed at the last minute, with The Miz falling ill before he could tape[...]
WWE has announced some segments for tonight's edition of SmackDown on FOX, the "go-home" show for WrestleMania 36 Featured on the event are John Cena, who is set for a Firefly Funhouse match against Bray Wyatt aka The Fiend, and Miz and Morrison – who are set for a triple threat tag team ladder match[...]
Ring of Honor announced a series of upgrades to Honor Club, their pro-wrestling video subscription service - and we've got the details here.