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This week, another mixed bad to topics and targets that include the WWE, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Boys, Cobra Kai, Stranger Things, The Orville, BTS, a possible Jude Law sacrifice, and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden– and that's not even close to being all. A look at The Boys Season 2 (Image: Prime Video-screencap) The[...]

Using new data from a poll commissioned by them and conducted by YouGov, Variety has released a new article lat week using lots of math, science, and fancy statistics to prove what everyone already knew: the reason people have stopped watching WWE over the past twenty years is that WWE has sucked The article, written[...]

With the eyes of America glued to the television to watch the ongoing trainwreck at the coronavirus hot spot known as The White House, and with the NBA finals happening besides, Smackdown dropped slightly in ratings and viewership but, under the circumstances, actually performed pretty well and managed to keep viewership above 2 million people. The[...]

In that latest ridiculous update to an already totally insane story, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has broken the latest news about WWE's plans to reign in all independent Twitch streaming, and Cameo video making by talent and force them to perform both as job duties, with WWE keeping all the profits According to[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown, so you don't have to! You're welcome. In the final part of our Smackdown report, Lucha House Party continues to disintegrate, Sasha Banks speaks, and Jeff Hardy gets a rematch with Sami Zayn. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE Smackdown Report for October 2nd, 2020[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown, so you don't have to! You're welcome In part two of our Smackdown report, Otis makes a bad decision, Shorty G gets squashed, and KO wants answers from Alexa Bliss! The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE Smackdown Report for October 2nd, 2020 Part 2 John[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE Smackdown report We watch Smackdown, so you don't have to! You're welcome In the first part of our Smackdown report, Roman Reigns issues a challenge, Jey Uso fights AJ Styles, and Sami Zayn throws a belt in the trash! The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE Smackdown Report for October[...]

It looks like WWE is hotshotting the Sasha Banks vs Bayley match Revealed on Friday Night Smackdown tonight, Sasha will challenge Bayley for the Smackdown Women's Championship on next week's episode of the show That show also features the first part of the WWE draft, so it could be that WWE is hoping more people[...]

As the internet had already figured out after examining a tattoo glimpsed in one of the mysterious promo videos that have been airing on WWE Friday Night Smackdown for weeks, Carmella was revealed as the mystery woman this week Sporting a confrontational new attitude and a weird gimmick that somehow involves a polaroid camera, Carmella[...]

Tonight on WWE Smackdown, WWE booked what will presumably be the main event of the upcoming Hell in a Cell PPV Roman Reigns will once again put the WWE Universal Championship on the line against his cousin, Jey Uso, but this time, it will be inside Hell in a Cell The match was made during[...]

WWE isn't taking the one year anniversary of the Wednesday Night Wars with AEW Dynamite, which the show has lost the vast majority of the weeks, sitting down The ratings beating WWE has taken by putting their Black and Gold brand up against Dynamite has prompted the company to change plans For the foreseeable future,[...]

In addition to Major League Baseball and the usual Fox News programs that top the cable charts, wrestling also had to compete with the season premiere of South Park, advertised as a "Pandemic Special." Last week's episode of Dynamite drew 835,000 viewers. Dynamite also increased its 18-49 number to a .33 this week, up from .32. The[...]

Of course we're talking about professional wrestler and Hollywood megastar Dave Bautista, a longtime opponent of the president whose ongoing public Twitter feud with his fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer has long been documented here on Bleeding Cool, not because I like writing about it so much, but because click-loving Bleeding Cool Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Booth once broke[...]

It's interesting that a story came out this week that WWE was trying to push their cuckold angle with Rusev, Lashley, and Lana even farther than they did by giving Rusev erectile dysfunction because it turns out that it's WWE getting cucked this month by Major League Baseball MLB will be all up in WWE[...]

A new report has offered an update on the situation with WWE looking to cut down on "third party engagements" by their talent, who are nominally independent contractors but are treated in every way that matters like employees According to Wrestling Inc., WWE is moving forward with taking over the Twitch accounts of its wrestlers[...]

With the possible exception of the storyline where Sheamus became addicted to drinking urine after Jeff Hardy threw a cup of it in his face (at least, in our headcanon, that's what happened), the greatest WWE storyline of the past several years is clearly the cuckold story between Miro, formerly known as Rusev, his real-life[...]

For most people watching this week's Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, it was a frustrating and stressful experience that demonstrates exactly how broken America is and leaves little hope that, regardless of the results of the upcoming election, things will ever return to "normal." But WWE wrestler and Hollywood megastar Dave Bautista[...]

Announced on Twitter and last night on NXT, Tegan Nox has torn her ACL and will be out of action for the foreseeable future, according to WWE WWE blamed the injury in kayfabe on an attack prior to last week's number one contender battle royal by Candice LeRae, though in fact, the attack was created to[...]

In the second hour of WWE NXT this week, Adam Cole puts Austin Theory in his place, Kayden Carter takes on Xia Li, and Damian Priest and Io Shirai face the Garganos! Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE NXT report, where we watch wrestling, so you don't have to! The official logo for WWE NXT. WWE NXT Report for[...]

For one thing, it would be another two years before his arch-nemesis and fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer Donald Trump became president What did Bautista even tweet about then? For that matter, what did Bleeding Cool even write about back then? But also it was the year he made an ill-advised return to WWE and found himself[...]

In the first hour of WWE NXT this week, Shotzi Blackheart takes on Dakota Kai, Ridge Holland takes on Cameron Grimes, and KUSHIDA murders Tony Nese! Welcome to Bleeding Cool's WWE NXT report, where we watch wrestling, so you don't have to! The official logo for WWE NXT. WWE NXT Report for September 30th, 2020 Part 1 Shotzi[...]

At the beginning of 2020 (which feels like ten years ago), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (WWE superstar, Ballers, The Titan Games, Jumanji: The Next Level) and NBC announced a straight-to-series order for Young Rock, and now we're learning who's been tapped to play Johnson and his family during the early, formative years of the WWE star-turned-movie-star-and-more's[...]

It looks like Retribution is successful in its mission of destroying WWE after all Since the debut of the Thunderdome, every episode of Monday Night Raw has heavily featured Retribution Every episode has lost a significant number of viewers, culminating in last week's Thunderdome Era low point for the episode in which we Retribution debuted[...]

But maybe things will pick up for Drew McIntyre's WWE Championship open challenge? Well, we can dream, right? The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. WWE Raw Report for September 28, 2020 Part 3 Dominik Mysterio and Murphy head to the ring to fight over the honor of Aalyah Mysterio, who WWE really, really wants[...]

But business is about to pick up because it's time for some trashy Mysterio family drama! The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. WWE Raw Report for September 28, 2020 Part 2 Jerry Lawler is in the ring for King's Court King brings out the Mysterio family Rey says it's obvious that he's Dominik and[...]

With Clash of Champions in the record books, it's time for WWE to take stock of the past, look forward to the future, and… give us a bunch of rematches from the PPV last night and the previous several months of Raw Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly Raw report We watch it, so you don't[...]

Meanwhile, Cyclops, Jean, and Cable activate the space bridge, and apparently, it reactivates S.W.O.R.D.'s ortbital station, The Peak, or something like that. So if I'm getting this right, X of Swords is basically going to be… a fight between two teams of five champions of Krakoa and Arakko? My god, X of Swords is… WWE Survivor[...]

WWE Clash of Champions limps to a conclusion with Roman Reigns vs Jey Uso The show has been hampered by featuring a few matches that we've seen too many times recently, as well as a few unexplained absences, with Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, and Nia Jax out for unspecified reasons and unable to compete in[...]

Match six at the Clash of Champions in the ThunderDome was the long-awaited ambulance match between Randy Orton and current WWE Champion, Drew McIntyre The two men have gone back and forth relentlessly for the past few weeks, with Orton breaking Drew's jaw who then responded in kind with THREE CLAYMORE KICKS IN A SINGLE[...]

At Clash of Champions tonight, WWE announced a brand new draft to shake up the rosters of Raw and Smackdown The draft will kick off on Smackdown next Friday and will continue on Raw the following Monday The draft will apparently include all of the champions, so anyone is up for grabs. WWE announced a new[...]