WWE News
WWE SmackDown in Mexico City should feel different the second the broadcast begins. Tonight’s September 11 episode marks SmackDown’s first show from Mexico City in 15 years, ending a drought that stretches back to WWE’s historic television tapings there in 2011. This is not a normal stop on another touring loop. WWE is bringing SmackDown … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown returns to Arena CDMX in Mexico City tonight for WWE’s first main-roster television broadcast from Mexico in nearly 15 years. That historical significance gives the show an atmosphere most weekly episodes cannot manufacture, but WWE has also backed it with a legitimately substantial lineup: five announced matches, four championship defenses, significant … Read more
WWE carried out another round of roster cuts Friday, September 4, but this was not a traditional main-roster purge. Instead, the company cut directly through the developmental pipeline it has spent the last several years expanding, with departures touching NXT, WWE EVOLVE, WWE LFG, WWE ID and the Performance Center. PWInsider first reported Friday afternoon … Read more
WWE Crown Jewel 2026 is officially returning to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, November 7, putting one of WWE’s most recognizable international events back in its original home after a one-year move to Perth, Australia. Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, officially announced the return on X, confirming that the event will … Read more
WWE future stars are not the problem. It has a problem trusting the future enough to let it become the present. That is an important difference, because this is not a company looking around the locker room wondering where the next generation is supposed to come from. Bron Breakker is already here. Oba Femi is … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown will deliver the company’s go-home week for Sunday Night’s Main Event, but both episodes were recorded in advance at Rocket Arena in Cleveland on Friday, August 28. RAW will air August 31, while SmackDown will air September 4, two nights before the September 6 special. The RAW … Read more
Wrestlepalooza Perth 2026 will headline WWE’s return to RAC Arena on Saturday, December 12, with SmackDown and Raw completing three shows across four days. For Australian fans, the useful news extends beyond this year’s schedule: Perth has a place in WWE’s plans through 2028. In its August 27 announcement, WWE confirmed an agreement with the … Read more
Ilja Dragunov leaves WWE after his contract with the company expired, bringing an unexpectedly quiet end to a seven-year run that included championships across NXT UK, NXT and the main roster — but also a final stretch defined more by what WWE did not do with him than what it did. Mike Johnson of PWInsider … Read more
The Chelsea Green injury could not have happened at a worse possible time for WWE or its suddenly snake-bitten SmackDown women’s division. Less than one week after finally reaching the top of WWE’s women’s division by winning the Interim WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam Night 2, Green confirmed that she suffered a broken orbital bone … Read more
Kevin Owens vs CM Punk is not simply WWE’s next Undisputed WWE Championship match. It is a collision nearly 21 years in the making between two men who came from the same independent wrestling world, built completely different reputations and somehow spent most of their careers narrowly missing one another. That finally changed at SummerSlam. … Read more
