SmackDown last night was supposed to feel like the blue brand’s hard final push before WrestleMania 42, the penultimate stop before next Saturday and Sunday in Las Vegas. Instead, it was a show that constantly felt like it was fighting its own momentum. There was good wrestling on the episode. Bayley and Alexa Bliss put … 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
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
Last night’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown was the kind of show that gave WWE plenty of headline moments while also leaving behind a lot of frustration once everything settled. On paper, the blue brand had a lot going for it. Sami Zayn won the United States Championship. Cody Rhodes returned. Jacob Fatu 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
Tonight’s WWE Monday Night Raw is one of those shows that should feel important because of what is advertised, but the real test is whether WWE can make the night feel as urgent as WrestleMania season demands. Roman Reigns is back after CM Punk took his feud with the World Heavyweight Champion to a deeply … Read more
