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WWE Raw rang out the new year with the final episode of 2020 last night, and WWE has now released video highlights from that show, so if you spent three hours watching it yesterday, now you can relive it all again in shorter YouTube clips The Chadster, of course, loves watching Raw twice Who wouldn't?[...]

Now it's time to look forward to 2021 and the Royal Rumble, traditionally the beginning of the best part of the year for WWE. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Raw Recap for December 28th, 2020 "It's Monday and you know what that[...]

WWE has finally revealed what grand plans they had for shutting down everyone's Twitch channels: they're doing their own Shocking, right? Stealing the ideas from all the talent who were already doing it for well over a year, the company is launching a new show called the Superstar Gaming Series in which WWE talent will[...]

Former WWE star Ryback took aim at the makers of popular sports drink Gatorade on Twitter Ryback feels that the drinks falsely advertise health benefits while actually being why America is "so sick." Ryback also attacked athletes who promote Gatorade as sellouts. Screencap from "It's Feeding Time for Ryback: A Special Look at The Big Guy." "Gatorade[...]

Prior to his turn in AEW, Huber wrestling in the WWE under the name Luke Harper Teaming with Erick Rowan, Huber/Harper would go on to win the NXT tag team titles and the WWE SmackDown tag team titles As a singles wrestler, Huber also defeated Dolph Ziggler in 2014 to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.   View this post[...]

You know, The Chadster is an optimistic guy, but even I didn't really think Santa would come through and bring WWE the ratings Christmas miracle they so badly needed Maybe the entire past ten years were like the part of the movie where George Bailey sees what it would be like if WWE got terrible[...]

Eaglemoss has been doing WWE figures for some time now, and they have been doing a great job building a fan base around these Dubbed the WWE Championship Figurine Collection, the line has grown to encompass a great number of legacy and current superstars The figures are made of polyresin and feature the superstar posed[...]

Like raindrops or roses or whiskers on kittens or white claw on seltzer, an episode of WWE Smackdown on Christmas is one of The Chadster's favorite things And this year's Christmas Smackdown didn't disappoint, with four huge matches and an Intercontinental Championship win that The Chadster is gonna go ahead and say is tied for[...]

What could be more pathetic than watching WWE Smackdown on Christmas? Luckily, you don't have to because you've got me. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock]WWE Smackdown Recap for December 25th, 2020 Festive thunder and lightning usher in the Christmas Day episode of[...]

The NBA, MTV's The Challenge, and college football all topped AEW in the ratings. Chris Jericho uses his Dad Bod to inflict pain on Top Flight on AEW Dynamite [Credit: All Elite Wrestling] Neither AEW Dynamite Nor WWE NXT Affected Much By Time Change This week's episode of AEW Dynamite earned a .32 in the 18-49 demographic and[...]

Following last night's episode of WWE NXT, the card for New Years Evil is shaping up The special episode of NXT will air on the USA Network on January 6th in NXT's regular timeslot, and it's being booked like a mini-PPV Here's the four matches booked so far for the event. Dexter Lumis, host of WWE[...]

WWE NXT aired in its regular time spot on USA Network last night, unopposed on a rare night when AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT did not go head-to-head because Dynamite was pushed back to a 10PM start time by the NBA season opening NXT didn't take the night off from delivering great matches and setting[...]

Welcome to The Shovel: Wednesday Night Wars Edition, a column wherein usually I watch four straight hours of wrestling starting with AEW Dynamite and then following up with WWE NXT on DVR and tell you what happens so you can live a life that isn't insane But this week, Dynamite is preempted for a basketball[...]

WWE aired the 2020 Slammy Awards on YouTube Wednesday, hosted by R-Truth They also announced the winners on their website Here's who took home awards this year. Key art for the 2020 WWE Slammy Awards hosted by R-Truth Drew McIntyre won Superstar of the Year, beating the other nominees: Roman Reigns, Randy Orton, Braun Strowman, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt, Asuka, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Becky[...]

Following a disastrous week that traumatized the ol' Chadster with the lowest-ever ratings for WWE Raw, things turned around in a major way this week for the WWE TLC fallout episode of The Chadster's favorite show WWE Raw gained 170,000 viewers and .12 in the 18-49 demo for a show that featured Charlotte Flair, who[...]

We thought about writing an article about Dave Bautista tweeting about the article about Dave Bautista tweeting just to see if he would tweet about that, but we were afraid it would create one of those infinite reflections, and we'd be trapped in some kind of feedback loop for all eternity. Dave Bautista is not a[...]

After the worst ratings ever shocked WWE into action last week, the company delivered on solid TLC PPV last weekend But how did WWE carry that momentum into Raw the next night? The Chadster has gathered some video highlights from the show WWE posted to YouTube. The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. Retribution[...]

Welcome to The Shovel: WWE Raw Edition, otherwise known as the one where we get to find out whether or not Charlotte Flair is a ratings draw Here's how it works Nobody should have to sit through three hours of WWE Raw So I'll watch it and tell you what happened Then only one of[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. LITG: Bray Wyatt faces Randy Orton in a Firefly Inferno match at WWE TLC. Daily LITG: The ten most-read stories yesterday… WWE TLC Results: Randy Orton Murders Bray Wyatt Live on PPV Dave Bautista Wants to Know Why Men Cut Their Balls Off for Trump The Mandalorian: Mark Hamill[...]

WWE has thought long and hard about how to solve their ratings crisis, exhausted every possible avenue, and come to one singular conclusion: it's time to bring back Hulk Hogan Announced during tonight's Raw, Hogan, who WWE is hoping nobody remembers was captured on video delivering a virulently racist promo while banging the wife of[...]

Instead, I want to talk about the ratings for last week's episode of WWE Smackdown. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. I am filling in on the ratings today for Chad McMahon after his wife Keighleyanne and some of his friends and family members staged an intervention before he saw that Smackdown barely topped a[...]

Guardians of the Galaxy Star Dave Bautista has some questions for the Republican party: how could they cut their balls off and hand them over to President Donald Trump when he's rich a "spoiled whiny little pathetic diaper wearing bitch?" Bautista has long been involved in an ongoing feud with his fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer, but[...]

Last night, WWE aired its final PPV of the year, WWE TLC, on the WWE Network Emanating from the Thunderdome inside Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, Florida, the show featured just six matches (plus one on the pre-show) and delivered some really solid wrestling and even storytelling in all of them There was a surprise[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE TLC and what should be the last match of the night It's a bold choice to go with the Firefly Inferno match as the main event tonight, considering how bad the last cinematic match these two had was Then again, if it's anything like the Firefly Funhouse[...]

Kevin Owens has long been the man to take megalomaniacs down a peg or two, and he vowed to humble Roman Reigns once and for all and in the WWE's TLC fifth match of the night For the past few weeks, the two men have gone blow for blow, and if not for Roman's family[...]

Hey, WWE actually put the tag team titles on Hurt Business Now we just need MVP to beat Drew McIntyre to everyone can have a belt Or maybe R-Truth Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live WWE TLC coverage Why do these things still exist? I don't know In the modern age, you can pretty much just[...]

The Raw Tag Team Championship followed the epic showdown between Carmella and Sasha Banks, with Sasha retaining the belt in the second match of the night for the WWE's TLC pay-per-view event Although the evening at the ThunderDome so far saw the belts staying with their current owners, the third fight of the night introduced[...]

Oh boy, Drew McIntyre is still the WWE Champion I think it's finally been long enough that it will click with viewers, and the Raw ratings will go back up, right? Good match, though Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE TLC I'm Jude Terror, and I spent the entire opening match eating nachos,[...]

AJ Styles and Drew McIntyre kicked off WWE's final pay-per-event of the year in the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs showdown The ThunderDome was finely decorated in a plethora of its namesake's weaponry lining the ring and up the WWE's Florida center's ramp Past match-ups between titleholders like Randy Orton and the Fiend, Kevin Owens and[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE TLC WWE advertised six matches for the show tonight, and then at the last minute, I guess they decided to add a big eight-man tag match to the pre-show So here we are, kicking off this coverage 15 minutes earlier than expected. WWE TLC emanates from the WWE[...]