Tonight’s WWE Monday Night RAW from Chicago was built as “Championship Monday,” but by the end of the night, it became one of the biggest turning-point episodes on the road to SummerSlam. CM Punk made his return in front of his hometown crowd, replaced Cody Rhodes after a brutal Gunther attack, and defeated Sami Zayn … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 11, “The Bodacious Belly Boys of LFG,” was not the flashiest episode of the season, but it was another useful hour of developmental television because every match had a clear assignment. Sirena Linton returned from her first NXT live event tour and turned that experience into a needed win over … Read more
Spoiler Warning: The following article contains full spoilers from last night’s TNA iMPACT! Spoilers Taped July 2 in Albany, New York. TNA continued its post-Slammiversary reset last night from the Broadview Center in Albany, New York, with another round of television tapings that pushed several key directions forward coming out of one of the company’s … Read more
Last night’s TNA iMPACT! was the first real reset after Slammiversary, and while the episode had enough important developments to matter, it also exposed some of the biggest problems TNA has to clean up moving forward. Nic Nemeth opened the show as the new two-time TNA World Champion, the TNA Knockouts Television Championship Tournament officially … Read more
Spoiler Warning: The following article contains full spoilers for tonight’s episode of TNA iMPACT!, which was taped on July 1st in Albany, New York. Tonight’s TNA iMPACT! continues the immediate fallout from Slammiversary with a show built around new championship direction, the launch of the Knockouts Television Championship tournament, and several moving pieces across the … Read more
AEW Dynamite last night had a very clear mission coming out of Forbidden Door: move past the chaos of the crossover pay-per-view without losing the damage, consequences and momentum that came with it. From San Diego, AEW built the episode around two championship situations, several immediate Forbidden Door follow-ups and a dangerous bridge toward next … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT had the responsibility of following up Great American Bash, and instead of treating the show like a simple reset episode, NXT used it to establish who is moving forward, who is still stuck in unfinished business, and which divisions are starting to separate themselves. Kendal Grey’s first night as NXT Women’s … Read more
WWE taped this Friday’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown on Monday night from Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, immediately following the special early-start edition of Monday Night RAW. The taping comes just days after WWE Night of Champions and begins SmackDown’s push toward SummerSlam, with the blue brand moving forward under … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW returned tonight from the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with a special 6 p.m. EST start time due to WWE taping both RAW and SmackDown on the same night ahead of the Fourth of July holiday break for talent. More importantly, tonight’s show served as the immediate … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT Great American Bash was a show that took its time getting where it needed to go, but when it finally landed, it landed with the right image: Kendal Grey standing tall as the new NXT Women’s Champion. The event had five title matches, multiple developmental storylines trying to justify premium live … Read more
