With just two Raws remaining before WrestleMania 42 hits Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, WWE arrives at the Toyota Center in Houston tonight with real business still left on the table. Three matches are official, the final two WrestleMania slots are expected to be filled, and Seth Rollins opens the show responding to Gunther’s calculated … Read more
Two weeks before WrestleMania 42, last night’s SmackDown should have been about tightening the blue brand’s biggest stories, raising the stakes, and making the road to WrestleMania feel urgent. Instead, it often felt like a show working against itself. The headline angle gave Randy Orton’s mystery caller reveal to Pat McAfee, who low-blowed Cody Rhodes … 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
Tonight’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw has all the pieces to feel like a major WrestleMania 42 turning point. Madison Square Garden already gives the show a bigger-than-usual atmosphere, and WWE is stacking the card with two tag title matches, Brock Lesnar’s return, Roman Reigns and CM Punk in the same building again, and … Read more
March is Women’s History Month, and I always look at it like this: it’s not just about who held the belt — it’s about who moved the standard. Who changed what “elite” looks like. Who made the bar higher for everybody standing across from them. IYO SKY has been doing that for most of her … 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
WWE heads into tonight’s Monday Night Raw from Seattle with a show that feels far more important than a three-match lineup suggests. This is the stage of WrestleMania season where Raw has to do more than remind viewers the biggest show of the year is coming. It has to make the road feel real. That … Read more
Last night on SmackDown, WWE tried to sell Elimination Chamber with volatility: Jey Uso taken out before the bell, the Men’s Chamber field collapsing into a shouting match, a “winner takes the final spot” main event, and a Women’s Tag Team Championship change clearly designed to unburden Rhea Ripley before she steps into the Chamber … Read more
Last week’s SmackDown had the kind of “we’re doing business, not vibes” energy that tends to split the room in real time. A big chunk of the audience and reviewers applauded how efficiently the show advanced the Road to Elimination Chamber—Trick Williams finally getting a defining win, Kiana James stealing a spot in a way … Read more
WWE went into Atlanta with a clear mission: close the book on AJ Styles in his hometown, fill the final Elimination Chamber spots, and give the Road to WrestleMania 42 one last jolt before Saturday’s PLE in Chicago. RAW accomplished the checklist. It did not always deliver the urgency. The show was packed with names, … Read more
