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We're an hour into WWE Monday Night Raw, but it feels like it's been four hours There's a slight possibility I'm a little burned out after recapping three wrestling shows this weekend And oh god, there's another PPV next weekend! The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. WWE Raw Report for August 24th, 2020[...]

SummerSlam is in the record books, but WWE Monday Night Raw carries on It's the first night in the Thunderdome for Raw And it's the debut of Keith Lee tonight It should be interesting And also long But maybe we'll finally get some kind of reveal for Retribution, right? The official logo for WWE Monday[...]

WWE superstar Baron Corbin is the Ratings King of Friday Nights and an accomplished meat smoker, but almost as impressive as his drawing power and cooking abilities are his skills in a Twitter flamewar Corbin took to the social media platform to respond to a post made by another person on the WWE payroll, Ryan[...]

The wheels are starting to roll on Stephen Amell's upcoming pro-wrestling series for STARZ, as he welcomes us to Heels Gymnasium.

Last night at SummerSlam was Renee Young's last appearance in WWE The news broke last week that Young had given her notice to the company, and that news was confirmed on the SummerSlam pre-show panel where Young discussed the upcoming show and received a tribute from Charly Caruso right before the PPV started Young's future[...]

With the shocking return of WWE star Roman Reigns at SummerSlam last night, it's all anybody in the wrestling world wants to talk about But just as a major star returned last night, there was also an equally shocking departure Of course, we're talking about Roman Reigns' old teeth, which were clearly replaced by new[...]

I won't be happy. WWE SummerSlam Report Part 5 There's one more match for SummerSlam tonight, the main event I'm actually pleasantly surprised this is the main event It's definitely the longest-built of the feuds playing out tonight I don't foresee it being a long match though. We see a video package for Braun Strowman vs Bray Wyatt[...]

Bleeding Cool's live coverage of WWE SummerSlam continues We've just finished watching two hardcore matches in a row If you haven't been following along, you can scroll down to the bottom for links to the previous three parts of this SummerSlam report The Women's Championship match is up next. WWE SummerSlam Report Part 4 After some more[...]

WWE SummerSlam continues After a somewhat lackluster opening, the next hour of SummerSlam features two big grudge matches Will things pick up? Let's find out. WWE SummerSlam Report Part 3 We see a video package and Michael Cole promotes Payback in two weeks Then Corey Graves introduces a video package for Mandy Rose vs Sonya Deville[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's ongoing WWE SummerSlam live coverage The tagline of the show tonight is "You'll never see it coming." That's a bold claim from WWE, which traditionally has been extremely predictable over the last twenty years Can they really pull off a surprise? And what is that surprise about? A swerve in the[...]

So instead of match-by-match articles, I'm going to submit hourly reports like I do for our weekly television show reports, except instead of publishing them the next morning, they'll be published tonight as soon as they're done. WWE SummerSlam Report Part 1 – Kickoff Show Charly Caruso introduces the kickoff show panel Booker T is there[...]

Legendary wrestler and WWE Hall-of-Famer Bret Hart appeared on WWE's The Bump podcast to talk about some of his favorite SummerSlam moments, and one of the matches he discussed was his match with The Undertaker at SummerSlam 1997 The match was great not only on its own but also because it helped prove to the[...]

The ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon at WrestleMania 10 is the first one WWE viewers ever saw, but it wasn't the first, even in WWE The ladder match originated in Stampede Wrestling, and Bret Hart brought the concept with him to WWE and even had an untelevised match with Shawn Michaels in[...]

Welcome to part 3 of our NXT Takeover XXX report. The official logo for NXT. NXT Takeover XXX Report – Part 1 Samoa Joe shills for WWE Supercard, then Drew McIntyre joins the commentary team He says he's gonna kick Randy Orton's ass tomorrow Then he predicts Keith Lee will win against Karrion Kross tonight We see Kross[...]

It looks pretty good, or at least as good as it can with the WWE camera cuts and shaky cams. The ref yells at McAfee for playing loose with the rules, and Corey Graves actually claims, "this isn't the NFL, you can't talk back to the NXT officials" as if any NFL official would tolerate one-twentieth[...]

Pair it with Watchmen, and you have a geek-themed history lesson into our country's dark past and volatile present. WWE to Solve All Its Ratings Problems… in the ThunderDome!: Not gonna' lie, I kinda like how it looks Now if the in-ring action would start becoming just as interesting… Squidbillies Creators Fire Actor for Offensive Dolly Parton,[...]

In the very first battle of the Saturday Night Wars, NXT Takeover airs on the WWE Network opposite AEW Dynamite, which was preempted for the NBA Playoffs AEW put on a killer episode of Dynamite that stuck the landing as well as any wrestling show I've seen in the past few years How will NXT[...]

Late Saturday Night, WWE released a press release about the injury on WWE.com. The logo for WWE wrestling brand NXT UK Karrion Kross captured the NXT Championship from Keith Lee at TakeOver XXX, and he did it after sustaining a shoulder injury, WWE.com has learned. WWE medical staff confirmed that Kross sustained a separated acromioclavicular joint during his[...]

Legendary wrestler Bret Hart was recently a guest on WWE's podcast, The Bump, where he spent some time talking about his favorite SummerSlam matches One of those most memorable matches was against Curt Hennig, otherwise known as Mr Perfect, at SummerSlam 1991 According to Hart, he feels he and Hennig blew away every other match[...]

It looks like WWE is planning to bring back The Forgotten Sons, based on Twitter posts by the beleaguered stable's three members All three Forgotten Sons posted a photo or video of the group, each with a different caption Former TNA wrestler and Iraq War veteran Jaxson Ryker posted on Instagram, "Forgotten Sons…. Time to[...]

Tomorrow, Braun Strowman will face The Fiend at WWE SummerSlam, settling the differences between the two monsters in the culmination of a months-long feud built on years of shared history And if you thought that sort of result could be achieved in a regular old wrestling match, you're absolutely incorrect! Announced on the debut episode[...]

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will face Randy Orton at SummerSlam tomorrow, defending his championship in the main event of a PPV with the tagline "you'll never see it coming." The chances of a screwjob ending that costs McIntyre the title are high But while he's still champion, perhaps now at the peak of his popularity,[...]

The ThunderDome delivered on its promise to increase interest in WWE SmackDown last night, as the show came out on top amongst all network TV ratings In addition to an increase in the 18-49 ratings demographic, viewership also increased for last night's episode of SmackDown by more than 160,000 viewers ThunderDome, it seems, is a[...]

We're halfway through the first WWE SmackDown of the ThunderDome era and I have to say… I'm not 100% impressed All the screens are distracting The arena is way too busy and all the LEDs can cause moire effects on the TV As for the virtual crowd, well, the crowd noise is there… but I'm[...]

SmackDown tonight kicks off a new era of WWE Time to enter the ThunderDome, a horrific nightmare of lasers, LED boards, and disembodied heads It's gonna be… interesting, to say the least. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE SmackDown Report for August 21, 2020 Part 1 Smackdown opens with pyro Lots of pyros Then Michael[...]

Hall-of-Famer Gerald Brisco blasted Chris Jericho on Twitter for being flippant about COVID risks: "you are in that dangerous age bracket."

Rumors of the return of Talking Smack have been confirmed by WWE The company announced that the show will return Saturday morning to discuss the happenings on Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown With Renee Young leaving the company and Daniel Bryan doing… whatever the heck he's doing these days… WWE needed new hosts, and they've[...]

Former WWE wrestler and Hollywood megastar Dave Bautista has long been involved in a feud with fellow WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump, and when a pro wrestling feud lasts as long as this one does, you need to start getting other people involved to keep things interested With that in mind, Bautista has put in[...]

Whenever a wrestler leaves WWE, they're going to cut a shoot promo dissing their former employer eventually So as soon as we saw that former WWE star Rowan had commented on his WWE release, we knew we were in for a treat. In comments on a Sportskeeda video interview as transcribed by 411 Wrestling, Rowan let[...]

WWE Smackdown tonight marks the beginning of the ThunderDome Era of WWE, an era which, if early previews are any indication, will be a nightmarish horror of LED boards, lasers, and disembodied heads To usher fans into this new era, WWE is bringing out one of its biggest attitude-era stars to introduce the new set:[...]