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With WWE WrestleMania XL (WrestleMania 40) set to be unleashed throughout Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia this Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, April 7, we're getting our first official look at The Grandest Stage of Them All – courtesy of The Ninja Kidz, Kayla Braxton, and Jackie Redmond – and who can forget sponsor WWE 2K24?[...]

Set to premiere on April 1st and narrated by Mark William Calaway (The Undertaker), Peacock and WWE's Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal spotlights the life & times of Windham Rotunda/Bray Wyatt, professional wrestler, skillful & creative visionary, and family man – including his remarkable career, personal life, and the highs and lows he traveled along the way[...]

Jakks Classic Superstars are, for many people, still the ultimate collection of WWE action figures, but the history of the line and just how special it was had mostly been lost to time Not so anymore, as action figure aficionado and popular YouTuber Kyle Peterson took it upon himself to create The Complete Guide To[...]

Mark Calaway, better known to wrestling fans as The Undertaker, took to his podcast Six Feet Under on his March 18th episode to explain why his match with Sting (Steve Borden) never happened during his five-year run in WWE The World Championship Wrestling legend was the last major holdout superstar amassing two impressive runs with[...]

According to excerpts from the book published by Inside the Ropes, Rousey unleashed a devastating verbal assault on her former boss, disgraced former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon McMahon was forced to resign from WWE and parent company TKO earlier this year after a bombshell lawsuit named McMahon, former head of talent relations John Laurenitis, and[...]

A little more than six months after the tragic passing of Windham Rotunda/Bray Wyatt, the skillful & creative visionary is the subject of Peacock and WWE's Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal Set to premiere on April 1st and narrated by Mark William Calaway (The Undertaker), the upcoming documentary spotlights his remarkable career, personal life, and the[...]

With less than a month to go until WWE unleashes WrestleMania Weekend upon us, tonight's SmackDown has a pretty impressive lineup as the road to the big event rolls on We have the return of Rey Mysterio, Bayley looking for more than a pound of flesh from Dakota Kai, Randy Orton looking to introduce Grayson Waller[...]

During a WWE event, Naomi and Zelina Vega performed the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z as a tribute to Toriyama, who passed on March 1st at the age of 68 The maneuver is used to fuse the participants involved into a single being to help in a fight It's hardly the first time pro-wrestlers[...]

Welcome to our weekly WWE SmackDown preview – and things are getting interesting between Cody Rhodes & World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns as we inch closer to WrestleMania weekend Last week, The Rock acknowledged Reigns as his Tribal Chief – but he[...]

After all, it seems like the current white whale of wrestling dream matches is if the 64-year-old Steve Borden and the 58-year-old Mark Calaway, aka WWE's The Undertaker, could battle for a one-off epic final match As far as in-ring legacies go, Sting has done it all wrestling for almost every single major US promotion[...]

Just so we're clear? Tonight's edition of WWE SmackDown on FOX would be stacked if you didn't have The Bloodline stuff going down We have Bayley & Dakota Kai wanting their pound of flesh from The Kabuki Warriors, Carlito looking to beat some respect into Santos Escobar in a Street Fight, and Naomi looking for[...]

Image screencapped from YouTube courtesy of WWE. Ole was part of the famous Anderson family founded by Gene Anderson, the wrestler with that actual last name He joined the Minnesota Wrestling Crew along with Lars (Lars Heiniemi) and Arn (Martin Anthony Lunde) in 1968 for Crockett – which was the time Rogowski adopted "Ole" as his[...]

2k Games revealed more of the WWE 2K24 roster this morning, as we now know all of the playable Legends and Alumni who will be in the game at launch The team dropped the full roster list, which we have the Legends portions for you below, giving us a full scope of everything we can[...]

Okay, we're doing things a bit differently with this week's WWE SmackDown on FOX (at least, for now) preview Right off the bat, we want you to know that The Miz and Logan Paul are set for an Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match – as are Kevin Owens and Judgement Day's "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio On the[...]

WWE's WrestleMania XL appears to be ready to live up to that "XL" part when it hits Philadelphia on Saturday, April 6th, and Sunday, April 7th If you had a chance to check out the press conference late last week for the long-running annual event, then you know that things got a lot more "family-friendly"[...]

Wow – it feels like it's been years since everyone was celebrating the rebirth of the WWE – what with CM Punk back with the company and a sweet deal with Netflix moving WWE Raw to the streaming service to kick off 2025 But this is the WWE – the company with a track record[...]

Welcome back to our weekly preview for FOX's WWE SmackDown, with this week's edition coming post-Royal Rumble – and we all know what that means That's right, we have a lot of roads to WrestleMania getting started later tonight Could we find out if the second chapter of Roman Reigns/Cody Rhodes will happen at this[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WWE Royal Rumble 2024, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds: Evolution, Adult Swim SMALLS' Camp Bucktooth, Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revolution, NBC's Saturday Night Live, AEW, NBC's True Detective: Night Country, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Paramount+'s HALO, Peacock's Community: The Movie, Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: Netflix, Paramount+, SNL,[...]

After an impressive WWE Women's Royal Rumble Match that set a pretty high bar when it came to action and surprises, the Men's Royal Rumble Match had a lot to live up to ahead of the first entrant After a not-so-friendly reunion between Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso – and Grayson Waller getting the live[...]

The WWE Women's Royal Rumble Match set a pretty high bar for the Men's Royal Rumble Match to clear late on tonight, with big-time action and some headline-making debuts & returns Fitting those two categories were Jade Cargill and Liv Morgan For the former, it was the culmination of weeks of promoting Cargill's debut –[...]

The return of Naomi (Trinity) wasn't the only presence that TNA had during tonight's WWE Royal Rumble 2024 Following up on last year's cooperation between the companies that saw IMPACT/TNA Knockouts Champion Mickie James appear in the Women's Royal Rumble match, current champ Jordynne Grace made her way into the match at number five –[...]

In the two years after Naomi and Sasha Banks left the WWE, a lot has changed Banks would become Mercedes Moné, restarting her wrestling career with a debut in NJPW Meanwhile, Naomi would change her name to Trinity and join the Impact!/TNA roster in April 2023 – going on to win the Knockouts World Championship[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Babylon 5, SAG-AFTRA/Taylor Swift, Vince McMahon/WWE, Erin Moriarty/Megyn Kelly, AEW/WWE, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, Max's Peacemaker/Creature Commandos, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rob Huebel/Childrens Hospital, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, Prime Video's Wytches, George Carlin, Kit Harington, and more! Images/Screencaps: Image Comics, Warner Bros., Netflix, Adult Swim, Max, Max,[...]

Soooooo… how's your week been? For the WWE, it's been a pretty Jekyll/Hyde run From a multi-billion-dollar deal with Netflix that sees USA Network's WWE Raw move to the streaming service for at least five years (it's a ten-year deal, with a mid-deal opt-out for Netflix) to a bombshell lawsuit hitting Vince McMahon, the pro-wrestling[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Prime Video's Reacher, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds: Evolution, Jensen Ackles/Supernatural, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Warhammer 40,000/Henry Cavill, WWE/Vince McMahon, Paramount+'s Wolf Pack, HBO's The Last of Us, TBS' AEW Dynamite, DGA/WGA, Adult Swim's Royal Crackers, FX's Shōgun, BBC's Doctor Who, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Rob Huebel/Night Court, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]

We think it's safe to say that the WWE, Netflix, TKO Group Holdings, Inc (Endeavor's WWE/UFC merged company), and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had a pretty big Tuesday – from a major streaming deal and a board of directors appointment to Johnson finally gaining ownership of his name To make sure that they got the word[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WWE/Netflix, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Netflix's Squid Game, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Stephen A Smith/Donald Trump, Stephen A Smith/Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Adult Swim's Checkered Past, Prime Video's The Consultant, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Apple TV+'s Constellation, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: WWE,[...]

(Endeavor's WWE/UFC merged company) hasn't wasted a whole lot of time when it comes to making major moves over the past few months in terms of the WWE But the biggest moves yet were a double-whammy that hit earlier today Netflix will now be the home to WWE Raw beginning in January 2025 in the[...]

Well, that's one way to make sure that you get a title shot against your cousin, WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns, at WrestleMania Okay, we'll pause on the jokes until the end On the same morning that the pro wrestling company announced that Netflix would be the new home to Raw beginning in January 2025,[...]

Well, those rumblings were answered this morning, with WWE (now part of TKO Group Holdings, Inc) and Netflix announcing a long-term deal that will see WWE Raw leave linear television for the first time, premiering on the streaming service in January 2025 in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Latin America, and other territories (with additional[...]