The SmackDown After Mania should have felt like a reset. Instead, it felt like a company trying to convince itself it had momentum while terrible WWE release news hung over the entire night. As mentioned in my LNC Wrestling article on the WWE releases, that news broke right before SmackDown went on the air last … 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
WrestleMania 42 Night 1 arrives tonight with a card that looks stronger on paper than the road to it has felt at times. WWE is bringing seven matches into WrestleMania Saturday, with Cody Rhodes defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Randy Orton in the advertised headliner, Stephanie Vaquer putting the Women’s World Championship on the … 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
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
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
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
WWE came into last night’s Raw needing to make WrestleMania 42 feel real, immediate, and chaotic, and for the most part, that is exactly what this show did. This was not a match-heavy episode built around bell-to-bell wrestling. This was a story-driven Raw built around major angles, key character beats, and the kind of big … Read more
