WWE Backlash came to Tampa as the first Premium Live Event after WrestleMania 42, and the show had a clear mission: keep the post-WrestleMania momentum alive while setting the table for the next stretch of WWE stories. On paper, this was not an overloaded card, but that actually helped the show breathe. Bron Breakker got … Read more
WWE Backlash arrives tonight from Tampa with a card that feels smaller on paper but heavier in consequence. This is not a bloated PLE built around throwing everybody onto the show just to say they made the lineup. It is a tighter five-match card with two championships on the line, a major John Cena announcement … 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 Monday Night RAW rolls into Omaha, Nebraska tonight with the final red brand stop before Backlash, and for once, the show does not need to manufacture urgency. The urgency is already there. Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu have to stand in the same ring and sign the contract for a World Heavyweight Championship match … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW felt like a show trying to do two things at once: push WWE Backlash into focus and clean up the creative mess left behind after WrestleMania. Some of it worked. Some of it dragged. The best parts of the night were clear: Bron Breakker verbally cooking Seth Rollins, Jacob … 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
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
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was the red brand’s go-home show for WrestleMania 42, and it felt like WWE trying to sell this weekend on tension, talking points, and final angles more than pure wrestling. Some of that worked. Lyra Valkyria and Charlotte Flair opened with a really strong match, Liv Morgan and Stephanie … Read more
SmackDown last night was supposed to feel like the blue brand’s hard final push before WrestleMania 42, the penultimate stop before next Saturday and Sunday in Las Vegas. Instead, it was a show that constantly felt like it was fighting its own momentum. There was good wrestling on the episode. Bayley and Alexa Bliss put … 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
