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Ahh, the WWE's Royal Rumble! Every January, there is at least one thing all wrestling fans can agree on: we love us some Rumble 30 men and 30 women (sometimes 40!) come to the ring in timed intervals one at a time for the ultimate shot at immortality: main eventing the granddaddy of them all,[...]

Mattel have revealed promo shots of the upcoming wave 67 of their WWE Elite line of figures, and it is one of the strongest sets they have done in a while Since introducing their new True FX face scan technology last year, the figures for the most part have taken on a whole new level[...]

WWE has talked a big game about the Women's Evolution, a WWE branding opportunity that touts the company's accomplishments in treating its female performers as equal to its male ones, an accomplish notable only because the company spent decades making its female performers compete in bra and panties matches or get on their hands and[...]

With the WWE's Royal Rumble claw-holding its way to Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, the WWE Universe now knows the names of the voices in their heads when the first bell rings this Sunday, January 27th Originating from Ontario, Canada, in 1988, the Royal Rumble is one of the professional wrestling company's more popular PPVs and[...]

He also explains to the Chinese audience how WWE is not real, it's an enacting of stories of good guys vs bad guys In WWE, he's a good guy and audiences learn about good guys by seeing bad guys. This has led many of his Chinese fans on social media to say, "Hey, he's actually pretty[...]

Would you like a million dollars just for playing a video game? 2K Games has sent out a final call for entries for the WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge Along with the video below, the company sent out info about a chance to play against AJ Styles and earn a million bucks by beating the Million Dollar Tower[...]

This week, a lot of stores did their big toy resets and stocked the pegs full of new Marvel Legends waves, Funko Pops, WWE, Transformers, and more Let's dive in, shall we? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Funko as always[...]

WWE fans and collectors have had a real treat these past couple years with the Mattel Retro line Modeled after the Hasbro WWE figures from long ago, the figures are some of the best the team at Mattel has released With waves consisting of current Superstars and Legends alike, there is something for everyone here[...]

WWE wrestler Peyton Royce might be hot water with management after responding to Naomi's tweet sporting an all-yellow ensemble. Naomi (Trinity Fatu) tweeted how excited she is for the 30-woman Royal Rumble match: "I'm ready to rumble baby The glow is coming to the #RoyalRumble and I'm bringing it all the way to #Wrestlemania" I'm ready to rumble[...]

Mattel's WWE line has had waves of exclusive figures in many stores over the course of their time with the license, but none are cooler than their Target exclusive line of NXT figures They have made both Basic and Elite figures, with the Elites being the most popular It is really cool to be able[...]

Ass" Gunn as producer, SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky), Britt Baker, and many more – and let's not forget "The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla'" himself, Chris Jericho. All-in-all, a great day for to be a wrestling fan – unless you plan on wearing your Pro Wrestling Tees AEW shirt to the WWE Smackdown[...]

No, we're not talking about WWE using the death of beloved personality Mean Gene Okerlund as an excuse to further their goal of cleaning up Hulk Hogan's image We're talking about Priscilla Kelly pulling a bloody tampon out of her tights and shoving it in an opponent's mouth. The incident occurred in December at an event for[...]

This week we found new Captain Marvel dolls and Hot Wheels, new Funko (of course), WWE figures, Venom jack-in-thebox, and more! Let's take a look. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ On the Funko kick this week, two Jim Lee special[...]

Just days after the death of legendary interviewer Mean Gene Okerlund, WWE has announced that disgraced former star Hulk Hogan will return to Monday Night Raw on January 7th to pay tribute to his friend and former co-worker The move, according to WWE's announcement, has everything to do with honoring the late Okerlund, and presumably[...]

Beloved WWE announcer and Hall of Fame member "Mean" Gene Okerlund, created some wonderful memories for wrestling fans through his near five decades in the grappling world. WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Gene Okerlund, the most recognizable interviewer in sports-entertainment history, has passed away at age 76 https://t.co/DyPiEiVLoV — WWE (@WWE) January 2,[...]

Major casting news for the new season of Total Bellas has been broken by news organization Us Weekly. Artem Chigvintsev, who previously played Nikki

Professional wrestler Becky Lynch is a revolution of her own making by doing something no other woman has done in WWE: become its top star…"The Face That Runs The Place." WWE On the January 1st edition of WWE's SmackDown, Lynch crashed John Cena's return to the company, declaring an open challenge to anyone in the back[...]

On last night's New Years Day edition of WWE Smackdown Live, a returning John Cena teamed up with The Man, Becky Lynch, to defeat Andrade Cien Almas and Zelina Vega in a mixed tag match which saw Lynch toss her own partner out of the ring before submitting Vega with the Dis-arm-her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNNWD0QOZAVideo can't be loaded because[...]

WWE Superstar Sami Zayn appeared on a recent episode of Talk is Jericho, and he used the opportunity to defend WWE's oft-vilified writers from fan criticism Discussing the flack writers get, Zayn said (as transcribed by Wrestling Inc.): Man, people don't know and you don't know unless you're there Not to do with nothing, but I[...]

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[...]

That's because the official Twitter account of Looney Tunes has gone all in on the Becky Lynch. Lynch posted a photo of John Cena in all his hairy glory on Twitter New Years Eve… pic.twitter.com/thKAIBKDQH — The Man (@BeckyLynchWWE) December 30, 2018 Prompting a comparison to a popular Looney Tunes character, Foghorn Leghorn, which got the attention of the[...]

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 starting their own intergender feuds on social media Things kicked off when WWE's Twitter account posted a tweet celebrating its female performers in 2018… well, some of them[...]

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

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 knowing that the champion of rival brand Raw is the champion of the entire universe It also doesn't help that Raw's Universal Champion is Brock Lesnar, who enjoys the benefit of only[...]

WWE Superstars will compete tonight at a WWE Live event at the United Center in Chicago For former Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins, however, it's more than just a simple house show Rollins is feeling nostalgic, and while touring the city where he got his start in Ring of Honor as Tyler Black, Rollins decided to[...]

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 Shinsuke Nakamura In a scene taking place after Styles' match against Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series 2017, Nakamura reveals what match he'd like to see happen every week… AJ Styles vs[...]

Following several years of putting on more entertaining shows than its red-brand counterpart, WWE Smackdown Live has finally beaten Monday Night Raw in the ratings 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[...]

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 2018 highlights in "moments." One such "moment" commemorated Wednesday was WWE handing out championship belts to pretty much every major sports star on the planet…[...]