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AEW does not need another set of tag team titles. What it does need is structure, urgency and a reason for its tag division to feel like one of the company’s biggest selling points again. That is why a potential AEW Tag Team Continental Classic makes so much sense. Not as a new championship concept. … Read more
Tonight’s WWE NXT arrives on Cinco de Mayo with the brand still sitting in the middle of a full-blown reset. After Stand & Deliver, the main roster call-ups, and last week’s chaotic wave of debuts, NXT feels like a show being rebuilt in real time. That can be exciting, but it can also be uneven. … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW rolls into Omaha, Nebraska tonight with the final red brand stop before Backlash, and for once, the show does not need to manufacture urgency. The urgency is already there. Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu have to stand in the same ring and sign the contract for a World Heavyweight Championship match … Read more
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku did not just give United Empire another strong weekend. It gave the faction control. Andrade El Idolo walked out of night one as the new IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion after defeating Yota Tsuji, while Will Ospreay, HENARE and Great-O-Khan followed on night two by capturing the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championships … Read more
The New Day’s WWE departure is not just another name on a release list. It is bigger than that, heavier than that and far more telling about where WWE is under TKO. According to reporting from Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp and Cory Hays of Bodyslam, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods mutually decided to part … Read more
The latest wave of WWE departures is centered around one of the most important tag teams and factions in modern company history: The New Day. According to Fightful, Bodyslam and Sean Ross Sapp, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have departed WWE, with Tonga Loa and JC Mateo also exiting the company in the same wave. … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes at a very important point for the blue brand. WrestleMania 42 is in the rearview, Backlash is less than two weeks away on Saturday, May 9th, and WWE now has to prove that last week’s reset was not just a post-Mania burst of chaos. The biggest stories heading into … Read more
Tonight’s TNA iMPACT! has the kind of card that looks like a bridge episode on paper, but it could end up being a very important tone-setter for where TNA is heading on the road to Slammiversary. Last week’s show was carried by Mike Santana and Rich Swann delivering a tremendous TNA World Championship main event, … Read more
AEW Dynamite comes into tonight with a loaded card, three championship matches and a clear responsibility: make the road to Double or Nothing feel hotter, sharper and more urgent. Last week’s Dynamite and Collision gave AEW a lot to build from, but tonight has to be more than another stacked lineup. Darby Allin’s AEW World … Read more
WWE NXT’s future on The CW just became a lot more important. One day after WWE and The CW announced that NXT Premium Live Events are moving to The CW in a multi-year deal, The CW Sports and ESPN announced another major piece of the puzzle: CW Sports programming, including WWE NXT, will stream live … Read more
