WWE NXT reaches its final stop before NXT Heatwave tonight with a card that is smaller than last week’s lineup but carries considerably heavier consequences. Rey Fenix will put the AAA Cruiserweight Championship on the line against rising prospect EK Prosper, while months of betrayal, beatdowns and unfinished business between Saquon Shugars and Dion Lennox … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT told a much bigger story than the five matches on the card. NXT is in the middle of a roster reset, and last night felt like the clearest snapshot yet of what WWE wants the brand to become after another wave of talent movement: younger, faster, more international and far less … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown delivered its final stop on the road to SummerSlam last night from the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with CM Punk and Cody Rhodes finally abandoning the uneasy respect that had defined their Undisputed WWE Championship rivalry. The two SummerSlam opponents closed the show by fighting around ringside as referees … Read more
Last night’s Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide was not a loaded in-ring episode, but it was one of those compact wrestling shows where the important moments mattered more than the match count. Coming from Mérida, Yucatán, AAA only gave fans two matches, but both matches pushed active stories forward, while the segments around them did most … 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
AAA Noche De Los Grandes returns tonight with a difficult task. One week after El Grande Americano and The Original El Grande Americano delivered a bloody, emotional and wonderfully over-the-top Mask vs. Mask Match that transformed an absurd wrestling gimmick into one of the most compelling stories of the year, Week 2 has to prove … Read more
AAA presented the first week of Noche De Los Grandes from Arena Monterrey last night, but this was never going to be remembered as just another loaded night of championship matches. Everything revolved around one mask, one identity and one feud that somehow evolved from a ridiculous parody into one of the most emotionally invested … Read more
AAA Noche De Los Grandes has been built around a storyline that should not have worked nearly as well as it has. What began as a deliberately ridiculous WWE character has gradually evolved into one of the most entertaining, layered and unexpectedly emotional rivalries in professional wrestling. Tonight, El Grande Americano and the man now … Read more
WWE Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide had one job last night: make Noche de Los Grandes feel bigger than just another themed television special. For the most part, it did exactly that. This was the final stop before Saturday’s Noche de Los Grandes, and instead of trying to cram too much into the show, AAA built … Read more
AAA closed out Rey De Reyes Part III with a show that felt focused, purposeful, and built around clear forward movement. Last night’s show did not try to overwhelm the audience with an overstuffed card or manufacture a false sense of finality. Instead, it picked its spots well. The AAA World Cruiserweight Championship match delivered … Read more
