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WWE Friday Night SmackDown July 24, 2026 Preview: CM Punk and Cody Rhodes Address Their Growing Tension as GUNTHER Targets Nick Aldis

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WWE Friday Night SmackDown rolls into the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California, tonight with only eight days remaining before SummerSlam takes over U.S. Bank Stadium for two nights. WWE has now announced two Interim WWE Women’s Championship qualifying matches alongside appearances from Undisputed WWE Champion CM Punk, Cody Rhodes and GUNTHER, giving the blue brand … Read more

Is WWE Building The SummerSlam—or Merely Filling Two Nights?

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WWE SummerSlam 2026 has almost every surface-level ingredient required to look like one of the biggest professional wrestling events of the year. It will take place across Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The current nine-match lineup includes two men’s world-championship matches, a Hell in a Cell rubber … Read more

Rhea Ripley’s Injury Exposed WWE’s Fragile SummerSlam Plans

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Rhea Ripley’s knee injury did not just remove the WWE Women’s Champion from SummerSlam. It exposed how much of WWE’s women’s division was built around one plan and how quickly everything underneath it began to collapse once Ripley was unavailable. WWE reportedly had a championship match between Jade Cargill and Charlotte Flair in mind for … Read more

Nic Nemeth’s Second TNA World Championship Reign Cannot Survive on Ryan Nemeth Interference and Reputation Alone

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Nic Nemeth became a two-time TNA World Champion at Slammiversary by defeating Mike Santana in a match that immediately established the contradiction at the heart of his second reign. Nic wants to be recognized as greatness. He wants the audience to look at his résumé, longevity, conditioning, world championships and years of high-level performance and … Read more

AEW Redemption 2026: Does AEW Really Need Another Pay-Per-View?

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AEW Redemption takes place Sunday, July 26, from the Bell Centre in Montreal, and the company is promoting the show as a historic occasion: the launch of a brand-new pay-per-view event in one of Canada’s strongest wrestling markets. The card looks good. That is almost never the problem with AEW. Kenny Omega will defend the … Read more

WWE NXT July 21, 2026 Preview: Tony D’Angelo Battles Naraku in a Street Fight

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The increasingly violent rivalry between NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo and Naraku reaches what should be its final destination tonight when they collide in a Street Fight for the NXT Championship. Tony already defeated Naraku at Great American Bash, but that victory did nothing to end Naraku’s obsession with the championship or Tony’s desire to punish … Read more

NJPW and CMLL Lucha Kingdom set for historic Arena México Supershow

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre are taking their long-running partnership into uncharted territory as tickets are officially on sale for Lucha Kingdom, a first-of-its-kind promotion-versus-promotion supercard scheduled for Monday, November 16, 2026, at Arena México. Lucha Kingdom will begin at 5 p.m. local time inside the legendary venue known throughout professional … Read more

Every The SummerSlam in History Ranked From Worst to Best

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Twelve days from now, WWE will bring The SummerSlam to Minneapolis for a second consecutive two-night stadium spectacle. The 39th annual edition takes over U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, placing another chapter into a history that now stretches across nearly four decades, multiple wrestling generations and several dramatically different … Read more

Blood on the Wings: How Lyra Valkyria’s Indie Heel Roots, Tatum Paxley, Becky Lynch and Bayley Created Her Darkest—and Most Dangerous—Evolution

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Lyra Valkyria did not suddenly lose her mind. She did not wake up one Monday morning, cover her face in dark makeup, alter her entrance and randomly decide that Bayley was responsible for every disappointment in her career. What is happening to Lyra on Monday Night RAW is not an abrupt heel turn created because … Read more

WWE Monday Night RAW July 20, 2026 Preview: Seth Rollins Answers Roman Reigns, LA Knight Collides With Jacob Fatu

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WWE Monday Night RAW rolls into Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, tonight with SummerSlam less than two weeks away and the red brand carrying plenty of unfinished business out of Madison Square Garden. Seth Rollins will open the show after Roman Reigns and Jalen Brunson turned his attempted ambush against him at Saturday Night’s … Read more