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
WWE Monday Night RAW heads into tonight with one job: make the road to Clash In Italy feel urgent. Last week’s RAW was the first major red-brand reset after Backlash, and it ended with the kind of chaos WWE clearly wants carrying Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu into the next chapter. Roman wanted acknowledgment. Jacob … 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
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 Friday Night SmackDown was the final stop before Backlash, and for better and worse, it felt like a true go-home show with two different versions of WWE fighting for control of the episode. The best parts of the night had real stakes: Jacob Fatu warning The Usos that he is willing to … 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 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
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
