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In terms of the history of American professional wrestling, that day has become infamously known as "Black Saturday" – the day Vince McMahon's WWF appeared on Superstation WTBS screens – replacing Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and World Championship Wrestling after twelve years To many, that move was what lit the fuse on the explosive rivalry between[...]

Set to debut on June 4th, the docuseries Who Killed WCW? features exclusive interviews with wrestlers, executives, and insiders with firsthand knowledge of what went down, offering their respective insights into how a professional wrestling company that once looked poised to take down the WWF/WWE ("The Monday Night Wars") ended up crashing & burning as[...]

Their goal? To offer some insight into how a professional wrestling company that once looked poised to take down the WWF/WWE ("The Monday Night Wars") ended up crashing & burning after a number of head-scratching decisions inside and outside of the ring. Image: WWE Screencap "The iconic rise and fall of WCW is one of professional wrestling's[...]

Sadly, one of professional wrestling's greatest all-time legends, Terry Funk, passed away at the age of 79 years old earlier today.

In this preview for Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring Season 4 finale, tensions between Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels turn violent.

WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam shares a run-in he had with the legendary Kurt Angle back during the WWE's 2006 version of ECW.

 Fans have long demanded this induction, as Kaufman's legendary rivalry with now fellow Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler in the early 1980s brought pro wrestling into the national consciousness right before the WWF exploded nationally a couple of years later. BREAKING: @ndykaufman will be inducted into the #WWEHOF Class of 2023, as first reported by[...]

 It doesn't stop there, though, as his brother-in-law is Mike Rotunda, whom fans know as WWF star I.R.S., and his nephews Windham Rotunda and Taylor Rotunda, aka WWE stars Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas. Despite spending the vast majority of his career in the NWA and WCW, where he won nearly every title, including the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, Barry Windham did[...]

But there was something I left out of last week's post that's been gnawing at me over the past week, mostly because it's an important point to raise when discussing SNL and the WWE (known as the WWF back in those days) As much as being on Saturday night on a major network was a[...]

Let's take a creepy trip down memory lane this Halloween season to look back at some of the scariest characters in WWE history.

 It was the ultimate match of the best feud in the WWF at the time and one that would plant the seeds for not only the company's biggest boom period ever but their biggest and most profitable star ever  And he was the heel going into it  Let's take a look back at "Stone Cold" Steve[...]

Become A Private Company Again Sasha Banks and Braun Strowman at the New York Stock Exchange, courtesy of WWE. The then WWF took some major risks, especially with content, between 1997 and 1999 in order to claim the top spot in the wrestling world and bring them to unprecedented success  They were also a private company at[...]

 Too Cool, along with their partner Rikishi, became one of the most popular acts in the WWF during the height of the "Attitude Era." There are more shake-ups behind the scenes at NXT today as one of their longest-tenured trainers, former WWE superstar Scott Garland, better known by his ring name, Scotty 2 Hotty, has requested his release[...]

Government's attempts to take down Vince McMahon & the WWF in the midst of a national steroids scandal in the 90s But while the government thought they had a superstar witness that would cement their case, McMahon wasn't quite ready to roll over and plead out In fact, just to give you some perspective on[...]

WWF Attitude Era logo courtesy of WWE. According to a report from Fightful Select, the USA Network that is home to both WWE RAW on Monday nights and NXT 2.0 on Tuesday nights is "elated" at the idea of the company returning to a more adult product on their network  They have been fully supportive of WWE's tweaking of[...]

WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase and two of his sons are in legal trouble involving illegal spending of welfare money in Mississippi.

According to a new interview, Shane McMahon was not a fan of the late great Macho Man Randy Savage & took out his anger on the star's poster.

WWE Hall of Famer and current AEW broadcaster Jim Ross is the man largely responsible for creating the roster for the then WWF's "Attitude Era" boom period from 1997 to 2001  The era produced the highest television ratings and revenues the wrestling industry has ever seen and it was mostly due to the "murderers row" of[...]

 A phrase told to women by other men to simply suck it up and ignore whatever a man is putting them through, almost always in a sexually harassing manner. A woman we meet on this episode is Heidi Doyle, a flight attendant on the chartered plane that WWE hired for their European tour, which culminated with the WWF[...]

Dark Side of the Ring included some sobering and disturbing allegations against Ric Flair and others during "The Plane Ride From Hell."

 He tried to break into the NFL, but after that never came to fruition, he gave professional wrestling a go in 1988 and made a nine-year career out of it, wrestling as both The Patriot and The Trooper in the WWF, WCW, AWA, GWF, and All-Japan Pro Wrestling. Throughout his career, Wilkes won the WCW Tag Team[...]

And now with only a little more than a day to go until the episode premieres, Vice TV is offering another preview- one that's set during Vince McMahon and the WWF's attempts to make peace and bring the Warrior back to the company. Image: Screencap (trailer) In the following clip, Cornette and Ross describe what it was[...]

In the following preview for Dark Side of the Ring Season 3, the Ultimate Warrior's ex-wife Shari Tyree reveals when she knew things changed.

 The WWF's semi-monthly pay-per-view events, each with an enticing, yet charming subtitle, such as Season's Beatings, Beware of Dog, Mind Games, Revenge of the Taker, and A Cold Day In Hell gave fans a big pay-per-view show to look forward to in between the Federation's "big four" annual shows (Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Summer Slam, and[...]

Check out the season opener of Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring Season 3, the first of a two-part look at the life and times of Brian Pillman.

In the following preview for Dark Side of the Ring: Confidential, Earl Hebner shows just how long "The Montreal Screwjob" has stuck with him.

In the following preview for this week's episode of NBC and Dwayne Johnson's Young Rock, Dwayne's date definitely does not go as planned.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is introducing viewers to the folks who make up NBC's Young Rock- people who helped him become the man he is today.

With his NBC sitcom Young Rock premiering on Tuesday, February 16, Dwayne Johnson revisited his old high school in Honolulu, Hawaii.

With the NBC series set to premiere on February 16, Young Rock is introducing its Vince McMahon, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and more.