WWE makes history today with its first-ever premium live event in Italy, but Clash In Italy is not simply a landmark show built around the novelty of a new international destination. Emanating from the Inalpi Arena in Turin, today’s event has quietly developed into one of WWE’s strongest top-to-bottom cards of the year. There are … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown has one job tonight: make WWE Clash in Italy feel bigger by the time the final frame fades out. Tonight’s show comes from Barcelona, Spain, airs internationally at a special 2 p.m. EST start time on Netflix, and will air on tape delay in the United States at 8 p.m. EST … Read more
Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown had enough story progression to matter, but it also exposed the exact problem fans have been pointing out with WWE’s current three-hour TV rhythm: too much time, too many recaps, too many talking segments, and not enough urgency to get talent in the ring. This was the go-home SmackDown … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes into tonight’s show from Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky with a much stronger advertised lineup than it originally had. This is the final stop before tomorrow’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, but it is also one of the last major SmackDown chapters on the road to Clash In Italy on … Read more
Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown from Columbia, South Carolina felt different because I was not just watching it through a screen. I was inside Colonial Life Arena, surrounded by a loud crowd that stayed active for almost the entire three-hour experience, from the pre-show action to the Main Event taping to SmackDown itself. The … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes to Columbia, South Carolina tonight with a show that is light on advertised matches but heavy on storyline consequence. That is not always a bad thing. Sometimes the most important episode is not about how many matches are listed ahead of time, but whether WWE can make the next premium … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown has one job tonight: close the door on the road to Backlash with enough heat, clarity and urgency to make Saturday’s Premium Live Event feel like a must-watch show. Coming out of last week’s chaotic episode, the blue brand has several stories pulling in different directions. Cody Rhodes was medically cleared, … Read more
Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was a busy, important and uneven stop on the road to Backlash — the kind of episode where WWE moved a lot of pieces forward, but also exposed some of the same creative habits that keep holding the product back. Cody Rhodes returned to the ring, Ricky Saints made … Read more
WWE needed last night’s RAW after WrestleMania to feel like a reset, a statement, and a shot of adrenaline after a WrestleMania weekend that a lot of fans came away from calling overproduced, ad-heavy, and a little too polished for its own good. Instead, WWE gave us a show that was useful more than electric. … Read more
WrestleMania Night 1 had the kind of card that looked loaded on paper, but the actual show ended up feeling more uneven than explosive. WWE packed this Las Vegas opener with title changes, major returns, a celebrity-heavy main event, and one closing angle that clearly points straight toward Backlash, but the through line of the … Read more
