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
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was the red brand’s final stop before this Saturday’s Backlash PLE, and it was a show filled with important pieces that did not always come together cleanly. Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu closed the night with the strongest final image heading into Backlash, IYO SKY and Asuka delivered the … Read more
WWE needed WrestleMania 42 Night 2 to deliver in the worst way after a Night 1 that felt flat, overproduced, and way too corporate for a show that is supposed to be the biggest spectacle in wrestling. Thankfully, Night 2 was a lot better. It still had some of the same problems that hung over … Read more
WrestleMania 42 Night 2 has a real chance to be the stronger half of WWE’s biggest weekend. Night 1 delivered title changes, two major returns, a headline-grabbing pregnancy announcement, and a chaotic Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton main event that kept the feud alive even after the bell. It also drew plenty of criticism for … Read more
Houston, Texas is a wrestling city. CM Punk said so himself last night, invoking the ghost of Harley Race in the middle of the Toyota Center, and the crowd knew exactly what that meant. With two weeks remaining on the road to WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, the penultimate episode of Raw before the Showcase … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW from Madison Square Garden was built to feel major, and in the moment it absolutely did. The crowd was hot, the star power was obvious, and WWE loaded the show with enough title matches, returns, attacks, and WrestleMania developments to make the episode feel important from start to finish. … Read more
With WrestleMania 42 now less than a month away, this episode of WWE Monday Night RAW should have felt focused, urgent, and loaded with purpose. Instead, RAW felt like a show with a lot happening but not enough truly connecting the way it should. There were bright spots. Oba Femi continued to look like a … Read more
WWE has hit the stage of the WrestleMania 42 build where Raw has to do more than remind viewers the biggest show of the year is coming. Tonight has to sharpen direction, strengthen rivalries, and make the top stories feel bigger than they did a week ago. Brock Lesnar is back after Oba Femi dropped … Read more
AAA’s Rey de Reyes is a three-week event this year, not a one-night sprint, and that format has helped the promotion make this Puebla presentation feel bigger than a standard television special. This article covers Part I and Part II only, the first two chapters that aired on March 14 and March 21, with Part … Read more
With WrestleMania 42 now just 39 days away, WWE had a clear mission on Monday Night RAW last night in Seattle: stop circling its biggest stories and finally push a few of them forward with conviction. In that sense, this was a consequential episode. Bayley earned a Women’s Intercontinental Championship opportunity against AJ Lee, Penta … Read more
