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As the Roman Reigns and Jey Uso feud caused a slew of exaggerated flashbacks to every fight ever had with one's siblings, WWE's Hell in a Cell pay-per-view launched into the second match of the night following Roman's victory With the Roman and Jey feud hardly utilizing the cell at all, the brutal and accessorized[...]

Jey Uso opened WWE Hell in the Cell Did Uso win the belt or lose his legacy? Find out in our recap. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, Bleeding Cool's weekly wrestling recap column where we watch this crap, so you don't have to The crap in question this week is WWE Hell in[...]

Tragedy struck the world of pro wrestling Friday when WWE Smackdown was moved from Fox to FS1 to make way for the World Series of baseball, causing Smackdown to lose out on millions of viewers For months, Smackdown has been struggling to stay about 2 million in overall average viewership, taking steps like introducing the[...]

Hopefully, you'll laugh, get pissed, shed a tear, and even learn a little something along the way- but no matter what, the thoughts and opinions you're about to read are all mine and don't necessarily reflect on what the collective Bleeding Cool thinks (like how I slid that legal stuff in there as smooth as[...]

In any normal year, Halloween would be about embracing scariness, but this year, with election day coming less than a week after Halloween, do we really need additional scariness added into the mix? Luckily, we have WWE wrestler and Hollywood elite Dave Bautista to come to our rescue with a tweet. WWE Star Dave Bautista is[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown so you don't have to And we'll tell you all about is too! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Smackdown Edition This recap is broken into three parts, and you're reading part three So if you wanted to be reading part one or[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown so you don't have to And we'll tell you all about is too! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel: Smackdown Edition This recap is broken into three parts, and you're reading part two So if you wanted to be reading part one, then[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown so you don't have to And we'll tell you all about it too… but first: I just read your incredible piece on the mjf Jericho dinner segment, and wowowow This was an excellent job in showing how little you know about pro wrestling. While I can agree that[...]

In case anyone didn't get the message the first time, WWE has canceled WWE Backstage for a second time, making sure once and for all that the show once hosted by Renee Paquette and featuring CM Punk is really and truly totally canceled for good Even more insultingly, in the modern-day version of the 1990s[...]

Someone like WWE Hall-of-Famer and Magic Mike star Big Sexy Kevin Nash, for example. Kevin Nash is outspoken about his dislike of fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump. Proving why he would make a great debate moderator, Kevin Nash took to Twitter to demand that Republicans explain their health care plan to him "All my Republican friends[...]

In particular, this tactic proved of particular frustration to one of the greatest political analysts of our time; former WWE wrestler turned Hollywood megastar, Dave Bautista. Dave Bautista is involved in a long-running feud with fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump. On Twitter, The Animal had just one comment on Trump's performance during the debate[...]

He seemed to think he could just pick a guy up and just slam him through the mat as hard as you could and that was good wrestling." If Bill Goldberg hadn't ended his career before WCW folded, Bret Hart would have never needed to reconcile with WWE. Surprisingly, Bret Hart said he always liked Golberg as[...]

AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT lost viewers again this week, unable to compete against the World Series of baseball airing on Fox as well as Tucker Carlson and all of his friends on Fox News The World Series topped Wednesday night in viewership and ratings across all of television, while Tucker Carlson topped cable With[...]

In the second hour of WWE NXT, the most promising rookie since Tom Magee finally makes his long-awaited return But will Adam Cole turn out to be Bret Hart? Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE NXT Report We watch NXT, so you don't have to You're welcome! The official logo for WWE NXT. WWE NXT Report for October[...]

In the first hour of WWE NXT, Austin Theory loses twice and then ends his career Plus: a bunch of other stuff of mild interest Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE NXT Report We watch NXT, so you don't have to You're welcome! The official logo for WWE NXT. WWE NXT Report for October 21st, 2020 Part 1 The[...]

Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter and his wife Laura Perlmutter led donations to America First Action, a Super PAC dedicated to the reelection of Donald Trump headed up by former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, in the month of September alone Bleeding Cool recently reported on the Perlmutters' efforts to reelect Donald Trump, with donations totaling $2.5-3[...]

For the third time this year, WWE has declared a stock dividend that will pay investors, including Vince McMahon, enough money to have paid all of the dozens of workers WWE laid off at the start of the pandemic citing cost-cutting concerns Despite posting record profits this year and bragging at the time of half[...]

Unsurprising to anyone who has followed WWE's months-long bungling of the coronavirus pandemic, even in Florida, a state that has itself led the world in bungling of the pandemic, WWE facilities in the state are apparently being investigated as potential "hotspots," locations from which the virus may be spreading throughout the community. A news report from[...]

The ratings and viewership for WWE Raw were down this week thanks largely to a much lower presence of WWE Superstar Lana on the show For the Season Premiere of Raw, viewership fell nearly 100,000 people thanks to a Lana-less main event The 18-49 demographic number also tumbled with only a single Lana segment on[...]

In the event that proves we are living in some kind of alternate timeline fueled solely by irony, WWE has won "Best Corporation" in awards in the PRNEWS CSR & Nonprofit Awards, the theme of which stresses, "in the midst of a global pandemic and social unrest, corporate social responsibility has never been more important."[...]

WWE is bringing back WWE Backstage, at least for one special episode, to air on FS1 following Smackdown this week Smackdown itself has been moved off Fox and onto FS1 to make way for the World Series, an annual event that's like the WrestleMania of baseball but shorter Game three of the World Series rudely[...]

In the fourth and final part of our WWE Raw report, Mustafa Ali tries to salvage Retribution's reputation, and Otis salvages an old gimmick Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Raw Report We watch Raw… for three goddamn hours… so you don't have to You're welcome! The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw[...]

In part three of our Raw report, Elias rocks out with a concert with a full band, while New Day reveals plans to spread their seed all over WWE Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Raw Report We watch Raw… for three goddamn hours… so you don't have to You're welcome! The official logo for WWE Monday[...]

In the second part of our WWE Raw report, Lana faces Asuka for the Raw Women's Championship after main-eventing last week's show and boosting ratings, but she loses in under a minute and gets put through a table again Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Raw Report We watch Raw… for three goddamn hours… so you[...]

In the first part of our WWE Raw report, Retribution has one match, but they lose twice Plus: AJ Styles has a new bodyguard Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Raw Report We watch Raw… for three goddamn hours… so you don't have to You're welcome! The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw[...]

WWE Hall-of-Famer Big Sexy Kevin Nash took to Twitter over the weekend to extoll the virtues of Joe Biden's tax plan Nash, an accomplished pro wrestler, and movie star, joins The Animal Dave Bautista and The Hardcore Legend Mick Foley in the field of retired pro wrestlers actively campaigning against another retired pro wrestler and[...]

Former WWE wrestler and Hollywood megastar Dave Bautista has long been a proponent of the democrats and a critic of fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer, President Donald Trump, but now the DNC has finally put a ring on it In a new video ad tweeted out by Bautista Sunday night and paid for by the DNC, The[...]

We can't wait to see what the series will throw down in the third round." Some of the topics expected during the season include Grizzly Smith, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rockin' Robin, Sam Houston, the 1995 WCW/NJPW event "Collision in Korea" event, and the death of Brian Pillman. The second season of Vice's Dark Side of[...]

You don't get to play nice-nice in the sandbox now- go suffer in the misery that was Doomsday Clock. AEW Dynamite – MJF Wants to Join the Inner Circle… Maybe: I smell MJF pulling a Kevin Owens, as Chris Jericho proves to us all yet again why "Le Champion" is a walking masterclass in jumping between[...]

The WWE Draft took place last week, an event advertised as "forever changing the landscape of Raw and Smackdown." And it was that very overuse of corporate buzzwords to drive absurd hyperbole about the importance of a "special" event that made me think about comics, where every super-mega-crossover event will rock the comics universe to[...]