WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW from Baltimore was a show built around momentum, tournament stakes and a whole lot of familiar chaos. With Night of Champions getting closer, WWE needed RAW to push the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments forward, strengthen the PLE card and make the road to Saudi Arabia feel … Read more
The online wrestling landscape is in a full meltdown following the latest King of the Ring qualifying matches. Jey Uso secured a massive, unexpected victory over LA Knight to advance in the tournament. While internal metrics show Uso remains a massive merchandise mover, live crowd audio and social media sentiment tracking show a sharp spike … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 8 last night with “A Brand New Zena,” and this was one of those episodes that showed both the value and the frustration of WWE’s developmental system on camera. Through the first seven episodes, Season 3 has been about moving away from the old coach-team competition setup and leaning … Read more
Last night’s Lucha Libre Worldwide AAA was not the deepest episode AAA has put together in this WWE-era rollout, but it was one of the cleaner and easier shows to follow. The episode had three main lanes: Galeno continuing to be presented like a wrecking ball, Omos answering that statement with an even bigger one, … Read more
MLW Fusion came out of Cicero Stadium feeling like a show built around violence, championship stakes and a company trying to reset its identity coming out of Battle Riot 8. This episode did not feel like a random standalone hour. It felt like the next chapter of a new season where Killer Kross is now … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown returned to the United States after its European tour with a three-hour episode from Providence, Rhode Island that was effective when it slowed down and allowed its strongest stories to breathe, but noticeably less impressive whenever it tried to force too many ideas into the same match or segment. Charlotte Flair … Read more
TNA continued its road to Slammiversary on Thursday night with an episode of iMPACT! that delivered several strong matches, multiple pay-per-view announcements and enough storyline movement to make the company’s biggest event of the summer feel significantly more complete. Mike Santana survived a physical TNA World Championship defense against Eric Young in the opening match. … Read more
AEW Dynamite: Summer Blockbuster felt less like an ordinary episode of weekly television and more like the first act of a summer action movie with multiple explosions waiting to go off at once. The opening scene gave us Chris Jericho returning to confront Tommaso Ciampa. Jon Moxley and Shane Taylor turned the AEW Continental Championship … Read more
WWE NXT entered its final stretch toward the Great American Bash on Sunday, June 28th with an episode that felt like an entire locker room collectively decided to make the most of every opportunity placed in front of them. There was not a weak match on tonight’s show. Every wrestler competed with something to prove, … Read more
