It is Saturday, and the wrestling world is moving in several different directions at once. WWE is trying to shape AAA into something that feels bigger than just another side project. CM Punk’s return has once again become its own conversation before he has even stepped back onto television. TNA is heading into Slammiversary weekend … Read more
Welcome back to the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup. Today’s edition of the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup comes on a loaded Monday as WWE Monday Night RAW airs at a special 2 PM ET start time from London, England. So while RAW gets ready to go live across the pond, we figured this was … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown returned to the United States after its European tour with a three-hour episode from Providence, Rhode Island that was effective when it slowed down and allowed its strongest stories to breathe, but noticeably less impressive whenever it tried to force too many ideas into the same match or segment. Charlotte Flair … Read more
AAA presented the first week of Noche De Los Grandes from Arena Monterrey last night, but this was never going to be remembered as just another loaded night of championship matches. Everything revolved around one mask, one identity and one feud that somehow evolved from a ridiculous parody into one of the most emotionally invested … Read more
AAA Noche De Los Grandes has been built around a storyline that should not have worked nearly as well as it has. What began as a deliberately ridiculous WWE character has gradually evolved into one of the most entertaining, layered and unexpectedly emotional rivalries in professional wrestling. Tonight, El Grande Americano and the man now … Read more
The wrestling free-agent market is never as simple as a date on a calendar. Contracts expire, options get picked up, injury time can be added, filming commitments can shift timelines, and in some cases, talent are working without traditional deals at all. That is why Fightful’s updated contract-expiration tracker is valuable: it puts a cleaner … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW was a strange Backlash fallout show because it had all the pieces to feel important, but for most of the night, it felt like the company was stretching one major story over three hours instead of letting the entire roster breathe. WWE is less than three weeks away from … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like a brand trying to rebuild itself in real time. This was not a clean, polished, perfectly structured episode. It was chaotic, uneven, crowded, and sometimes messy — but that also felt like the point. NXT is clearly in a reset period after recent call-ups gutted major pieces of the … Read more
Tonight’s WWE NXT arrives on Cinco de Mayo with the brand still sitting in the middle of a full-blown reset. After Stand & Deliver, the main roster call-ups, and last week’s chaotic wave of debuts, NXT feels like a show being rebuilt in real time. That can be exciting, but it can also be uneven. … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 continued with Episode 2, “All On The Line,” and this was the first episode of the season that really showed what the new format can be when it works. After last week’s Season 3 premiere reset the show with no more points, no more teams and no more obvious scoreboard-driven structure, … Read more
