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Thank you, Sasha Banks… and long live Mercedes Moné! Confirming what had become one of the worst-kept secrets in professional wrestling, Mercedes Varnado made her departure from the WWE official with her debut at NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 17 After a successful title defense of her IWGP Women's Championship against Tam Nakano, KAIRI was confronted (and quickly dropped)[...]

Ever since WWE Superstars & Women's Tag-Team Champions Sasha Banks & Naomi walked out on a live edition of WWE Monday Night RAW over reported creative differences, reports have been all over the map as to what Banks (Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado) would do next Would she go to AEW? Would she return to the WWE?[...]

WWE Raw returned to live action after a break for a clip show last week Did anything exciting happen? Bleeding Cool has got you covered in our Raw recap that reduces the three-hour behemoth to less than 600 words of a listicle and a couple of YouTube videos You're welcome! Dominik Mysterio relates his prison experience[...]

WWE is kicking off the new year with two big title matches on tonight's episode of WWE Raw Bianca Belair will defend the Raw Women's Championship against Alexa Bliss on tonight's show Plus, Seth Rollins will challenge Austin Theory for the United States Championship. WWE Raw promo graphic For Belair, she won't just have to contend with[...]

WWE's women's revolution that opened up a slew of female talent to actively compete on weekly basis elevated the industry as a whole from separate belts on each brand, dedicated tag titles, and even separate event-centric matches like Money in the Bank, Wargames, and Royal Rumble You can also look at the company's previous serious[...]

While tomorrow night's New Year's Eve will see fireworks worldwide, WWE is planning for their last show of 2022 to go out with a bang!  And just how are they planning on pulling that off?  By promising a huge main event match on tonight's SmackDown on FOX with today's biggest star in the industry, the Undisputed[...]

 After winning the NXT Tag Team Championship as a member of MSK on WrestleMania weekend, he was forced to forfeit the title when his tag team partner Nash Carter was released by WWE just a week later due to domestic abuse allegations and inappropriate pictures that had surfaced  Lee was left to figure out how to navigate on his[...]

If you forgot about Cody Rhodes during his more-than-six-month absence from WWE, you could be forgiven Rhodes leaving AEW and returning to WWE as a bonafide main event star was amongst at least a half dozen completely mind-blowing wrestling stories in 2022, including Vince McMahon being forced to retire from WWE, Sasha Banks and Naomi[...]

One of the biggest stigmas in professional wrestling, specifically the WWE since the company has largely been synonymous with the industry, is the physical lack of a hall of fame where fans can celebrate their heroes in a museum setting It became a point of contention among the company's harshest critics, like Bruno Sammartino, Ultimate[...]

WWE has a strange history with the Christmas holiday  While sometimes you get an all-time classic segment like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stunning a nasty drunken Santa Claus who was mistreating one of the then-adolescent Usos, much of the other Christmas episodes are dominated by food fight shenanigans  So which side of the spectrum will we get[...]

Last week we saw the WWE NXT Women's Championship surprisingly change hands in an exciting main event  Now tonight on the USA Network, we will see if the men's and women's Tag Team Titles will follow suit, as both will be on the line on tonight's episode of NXT  Triple Crown Champions The New Day will[...]

Last night's episode of WWE Raw was the final new episode of the year What went down? Find out below via YouTube highlights and snarky analysis. Rhea Ripley challenges Akira Tozawa on WWE Raw Rhea Ripley Beats Akira Tozawa in WWE Raw Intergender Match WWE typically does not to matches between men and women, presumably because of the[...]

For what may be the final WWE Raw of 2022 — with next week's show rumored to be a "best of" episode — WWE is heading into tonight's show with… well, pretty much exactly the same level of enthusiasm as usual Thus far, there are two matches advertised for Raw tonight on WWE.com: Bayley vs[...]

This past July, the unthinkable happened when longtime mastermind and CEO Vince McMahon was forced to step down from his position of leadership at WWE in the wake of mounting sexual misconduct accusations and evidence that he had used company money for numerous hush payments While the idea of Vince stepping aside or "retiring" was once thought[...]

WWE has had quite a week, which my colleague Ray Flook addressed well in an op/ed a few days ago I have literally nothing to add to that, except perhaps to point out that Prince Albert is a tattletale, and that Triple H once had sex with a corpse on live television But Ray's article[...]

The Bloodline continues to ride high as the leading force in WWE, and the same can be said of their leader, the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns  We last saw the Tribal Chief at WWE Survivor Series when his team was victorious in the War Games match against The Brawling Brutes, Kevin Owens, and Drew McIntyre, and confirmed[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar (Paramount+'s Wolf Pack) addressing the "extremely toxic male set" during the show's run, The CW's The Flash drops a teaser for Barry's (Grant Gustin) "Final Run," Amazon's The Boys taking on Donald Trump's third-rate Homelander (Antony Starr) knock-off, Netflix's The Sandman[...]

I'm not quite sure what happened with the WWE this week, but in terms of "perception is reality"? Well, this week, the WWE started to look a little like its old self Yeah, that's not a good thing And it's a dramatic change from the waves of love and hope that Paul Levesque (Triple H),[...]

In some shocking news this afternoon, we are learning that Mandy Rose, who just hours ago last night on NXT lost the NXT Women's Championship to Roxanne Perez, has been released by WWE  Rose had held on to the title for 414 days before shockingly losing it to Perez in the main event of last night's show on[...]

 In tonight's main event, Perez defeated Rose clean for the Women's title, becoming the new Champion and ending Rose's historic 414-day reign. Roxanne Perez defeated Mandy Rose to become the new NXT Women's Champion tonight, courtesy of WWE. Roxanne Perez has been a big babyface hit with fans since debuting in NXT in April 2022[...]

Vince McMahon believes he received bad advice when he stepped down as Chairman and CEO of WWE and is plotting a return, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal The paper, which also broke the news earlier this year about internal investigations into hush money payments for sexual misconduct accusations that forced[...]

The New Day are already etched in stone as one of the greatest and most decorated tag teams in WWE history  While they certainly did not need any more hardware to solidify their greatness, that did not stop them from heading down to Orlando, Florida this past Saturday night and defeating Pretty Deadly for the NXT Tag Team[...]

WWE Raw has been a better show since Vince McMahon retired (At least according to everybody but Vince McMahon) It's an indisputable fact But that doesn't mean it's a great show There's still plenty of filler Luckily, we watch it so you don't have to Here are all the important things that happened on Raw[...]

For the fiftieth time this year, WWE Raw is on the air tonight What exciting matchups does WWE have planned for viewers this week? We'll let you know in roughly 300 SEO-optimized words. This week on WWE Raw, there will be two number-one contender matches to determine the next challengers for the show's two top titles[...]

Even when he's not in the title picture, Brock Lesnar is still a major attraction for WWE  So while he may not be (again) facing Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns for the title in the main event of April's WrestleMania in Los Angeles, his match will still be a big part of the card and is sure[...]

As a developmental brand, NXT serves as the minor league (and I don't mean that in a derogatory way) to WWE's major league brands of Raw and SmackDown respectively  As such, if everything is working as it should, young wrestlers fine-tune their craft down in Orlando, and then when they are deemed ready, they get the call-up to the main[...]

It's looking more likely than ever that Sasha Banks is done with WWE and could be headed to AEW, according to the latest dirt sheet rumors Banks and then-tag-team-partner Naomi walked out on WWE earlier this year, as then-reigning Women's Tag Team Champions, in response to the company's perceived lack of respect for the titles[...]

There's only one thing The Chadster needs to get into the holiday spirit: a viewing of the greatest Christmas movie ever made, Santa's Litle Helper. Image: Santa's Little Helper YouTube Trailer Screencap Released way back in 2015 by 20th Century Fox and WWE Studios, Santa's Little Helper stars the all-star cast of The Miz as cold-hearted businessman Dax "The Axe"[...]

Earlier this week, The New Day (Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston) shocked WWE NXT Tag Team Champions Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) when they showed up on the USA Network series with one thing in mind Making sure that Prince and Wilson have those NXT Tag Team titles in their stockings well before[...]

 Now, normally any card featuring the NXT Championship on the line would see that match as the main attraction, but that's not the case tonight, as we will see the debut of a brand new match type for WWE, the Iron Survivor Challenge It had better work, too because we're not getting one but two[...]