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Mojo Rawley and Naomi became your new WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions last night on Tuesday Night Smackdown Or, at least, that's what WWE's Smackdown website would have you believe Rawley posted a screenshot to Twitter on Wednesday, showing himself and Naomi listed as the Smackdown Tag Team Champions Rawley and Naomi apparently defeated The[...]

WWE Monday Night Raw hit a new record low in viewership this week, falling below 1.6 million viewers for all three hours last night That's terrible news for WWE Or, at least, it would be, if the viewership number meant anything However, we know from the past week of nonstop bickering on the internet that[...]

Both Bayley and Sasha Banks have matches to get through at WWE Extreme Rules this Sunday, but the greatest tag team in the history of the WWE already has their sites set on SummerSlam Following their defeat of the Kabuki Warriors to retain their tag team championships on Monday Night Raw last night, Bayley took[...]

The final hour of WWE Monday Night Raw So far, we've seen the return of Bianca Belair and Shayna Baszler We've see Seth Rollins get his comeuppance from Rey Mysterio, Dominick Mysterio, and Aleister Black, which somehow is supposed to sell the PPV on Sunday where Rollins will finally get his comeuppance from Rey Mysterio[...]

We left off in part one of this WWE Raw report just as Seth Rollins was about to walk to the ring to cut a long and boring promo about his feud with Rey Mysterio Before that, we saw a long and boring promo segment between Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre We also saw the[...]

Dolph Ziggler, "the nicest guy MVP knows," comes to the ring. Ziggler is the human embodiment of WWE itself Full of talent and potential, but terminally boring And if you look close enough, a Republican We see a clip of last week's segment involving Dolph, Drew, and Heath Slater Afterward, Ziggler compliments MVP's new United States[...]

But tonight, Belair arrived as a surprise tag team partner for Riott. Bianca Belair finally returned to WWE Monday Night Raw to team with Ruby Riott in a tag team match against the Iiconics. From our Monday Night Raw report (which will be out tomorrow), here's what happened: Backstage, Sarah Schrieber talks to Ruby Riott[...]

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre was interviewed by the newspaper The New York Post, and he talked about the adjustments he's made that are unique to the Pandemic Era, and even how the situation enables certain storytelling that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Drew McIntyre wishes Heath Slater best of luck in Impact Wrestling "We have this unique situation[...]

When Kevin Owens returned to WWE Monday Night Raw on July 7th, a lot of people speculated that he must have been the returning wrestler who spoke with Vince McMahon to get a more serious mask policy implemented at WWE TV tapings, as had been rumored on the dirt sheetosphere In a new interview with[...]

In June, Charlotte Flair was written off WWE television following an attack by Nia Jax that appeared to injure Charlotte's arm The injury was a work designed to allow Charlotte to take time off to get a needed surgery done, with a return date speculated as early as SummerSlam and as late as the Royal[...]

Following a historic Karaoke Showdown on Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown which featured four of WWE's female Superstars competing in a meaningless and borderline degrading Karaoke contest, WWE has announced plans to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the Women's Evolution all week long (some people say Stephanie McMahon started it) In an announcement[...]

WWE made headlines throughout the entertainment world in June when the final episode of WWE Network documentary Undertaker: The Last Ride implied, but did not explicitly say, that The Undertaker had decided to end his legendary career with the Boneyard Match at WrestleMania being his last match Of course, some were skeptical that The Undertaker[...]

Miroslav Barnyashev, better known to WWE fans as Rusev, has confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19 Rusev, who was released in April along with dozens of co-workers who were laid or furloughed by WWE, revealed the news on a gaming live stream as captured by Fightful Rusev posted a video to YouTube talking about the[...]

AJ Styles is currently one of WWE's top stars, but the last decade's biggest WWE star originally wasn't interested in bringing him into the company Arn Anderson revealed on a recent episode of his podcast that he suggested bringing Styles, along with a couple of other TNA stars, into WWE years earlier as opponents for[...]

I especially love that she went the "Cyrano de Bergerac" route of beating her opponent down with every syllable, not a single wasted word. WWE Confirms: Eyeball Must Be Extracted to Win Eye for an Eye Match and Report: Eye for an Eye Match at WWE Extreme Rules Will Be Cinematic: It feels like there's a writer[...]

2K Games revealed this week that WWE 2K Battlegrounds finally has a release date as it will drop onto PC and consoles in mid-September 2020 Developed by Saber Interactive, the game will take a much more cartoonish look at the superstars, both past and present The game is also pretty much serving as a replacement[...]

The power of song has helped WWE Smackdown rebound from a record-low showing last week to top the ratings charts once again Fueled by excitement all night for a Karaoke Showdown between Lacey Evans, Dana Brooke, Tamina Snuka, and Naomi, Smackdown grew its viewership by more than 100,000 people It took the top spot in[...]

With the success of AEW's Fyter Fest and NXT's Great American Bash, continuing next week with AEW's Fight for the Fallen, WWE is going all-in on the special episode thing This Monday's upcoming episode of WWE Raw is being billed as "The Night of Grudge Matches," with a commercial saying so running repeatedly during WWE[...]

WWE Superstar Jeff Hardy has been involved in an angle with Sheamus on SmackDown for the past couple of months The premise is that Sheamus is tormenting Hardy over Hardy's history of addiction and relapse Oh, and also that Sheamus drinks urine, but that's not necessarily relevant here. Jeff Hardy vs The Miz: SmackDown, July 10,[...]

In the first half of WWE SmackDown, Jeff Hardy fought The Miz as punishment for a really long Miz TV segment to open the show and Sasha Banks and Bayley took on Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross Read about that here When we left off, WWE was about to replay the Braun Strowman vs Bray[...]

Another week of pro wrestling comes to a close with WWE SmackDown, the show that's both two thirds as long as Raw but often just as bad Michael Cole and Corey Graves welcome us to the show, which will feature a tag team championship match between The New Day and Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro There's[...]

WWE Superstar The Big Dog Roman Reigns wants a piece of the new NXT Champion, Keith Lee Reigns called out Lee on Twitter after reading a Sports Illustrated profile on the NXT star Lee defeated Adam Cole on Wednesday's episode of NXT in a winner take all match, making Lee the first person in history[...]

Or, perhaps put more accurately, you've heard the debate over which numbers qualify one show, such as AEW Dynamite, to claim victory over another, such as WWE NXT Often, the number one believes holds most sway is the one which puts their company of choice in a more favorable light, but the debate has exploded[...]

According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is planning to film the match ahead of time and use CGI to simulate either Rey Mysterio or Seth Rollins ripping out the other's eyeball. There will be at least two taped cinematic matches at the newly named "The Horror Show at Extreme Rules" PPV[...]

AEW President Tony Khan took to Twitter on Wednesday to declare unequivocal victory in the ratings war between AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT As reported earlier, AEW won the adults 18-49 demographic rating, while NXT had more total viewers To anyone familiar with the television industry or anyone who can read a chart and understand[...]

AEW Dynamite's Fyter Fest went up against NXT's Great American Bash, but who emerged victorious? Nobody! Well, maybe the fans.

Now there's just one more hour left in this marathon we call Wednesday night. NXT 7/8/20 Great American Bash Night 2 Part 2 – Lee Makes History (Image: WWE) We get a video package for Tegan Nox vs Io Shirai, which happens next week.  We see Keith Lee warming up backstage Legado Del Fantasma head to the[...]

When she tries to follow, LeRae hits a dropkick that sends her back to the floor. NXT 7/8/20 Great American Bash Night 2 Part 1 – That's Gotta Hurt (Image: WWE) LeRae props the corner in the table Both women battle for the chance to put their opponent through it Yim gives up and rolls LeRae up[...]

Since WWE owns the intellectual property of ECW, one would think they own the rights to the FTW Championship, but Tony Khan must feel differently Khan is known as an old school ECW fan back in the 90s, which I gotta respect as I was one myself And what better belt than the FTW Championship[...]

In a shocking face turn, Libertarian mayor of Knox County, Tennessee and WWE Superstar Kane took to Twitter to call for an uprising of the people of Knox County against a tyrannical United States government Kane spoke to his constituency on July 4th in a series of tweets using incendiary language which can only possibly[...]