Welcome back to the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup, the sixth installment of the series where we cut through the recycled headlines, scroll past the unnecessary outrage, and get straight to what actually matters in wrestling while everyone is trying to survive the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. Today’s edition is heavily centered around WWE, … 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
WWE Monday Night RAW continued its European Summer Tour with another special afternoon broadcast on Netflix, emanating live from the Accor Arena in Paris, France. With WWE Night of Champions rapidly approaching on June 27th, the red brand continued the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments while advancing several of its most important ongoing … Read more
Today’s WWE Monday Night RAW had a difficult assignment. Less than 24 hours after WWE Clash In Italy, the red brand needed to follow up on Roman Reigns defeating Jacob Fatu in Tribal Combat, begin the King and Queen of the Ring Tournaments, establish Sol Ruca’s direction as the new Women’s Intercontinental Champion and give … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was the red brand’s final stop before WWE Clash In Italy, and instead of feeling like a show that was simply killing time before Sunday, it actually moved several key stories forward with purpose. The biggest surprise was Austin Theory becoming one of the night’s central figures after Logan … Read more
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event returned last night from Fort Wayne, Indiana with a show that felt less like a massive one-night spectacle and more like a compact, storyline-heavy bridge between weekly television and the next major stop on the calendar. That is not automatically a bad thing, but it does mean the show had … Read more
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event returns tonight from Fort Wayne, Indiana with a card that feels less like a throwaway television special and more like a pressure-point show sitting in the middle of several moving stories. That is both the strength and the challenge of this lineup. WWE has loaded the night with championships, familiar … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was one of those shows where the biggest moments were strong enough to make the episode feel important, but the logic holding everything together was shaky at best. This was the red brand’s go-home show for this Saturday’s Saturday Night’s Main Event, but WWE also had one eye locked … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was a strange Backlash fallout show because it had all the pieces to feel important, but for most of the night, it felt like the company was stretching one major story over three hours instead of letting the entire roster breathe. WWE is less than three weeks away from … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW heads to Knoxville, Tennessee tonight for the first red brand episode after Backlash, and this is the kind of fallout show that cannot afford to feel like filler. Roman Reigns survived Jacob Fatu at Backlash and retained the World Heavyweight Championship, but he did not walk out looking untouchable. Fatu lost … Read more
