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
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 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
With WrestleMania 42 now just 39 days away, WWE had a clear mission on Monday Night RAW last night in Seattle: stop circling its biggest stories and finally push a few of them forward with conviction. In that sense, this was a consequential episode. Bayley earned a Women’s Intercontinental Championship opportunity against AJ Lee, Penta … Read more
WWE heads into tonight’s Monday Night Raw from Seattle with a show that feels far more important than a three-match lineup suggests. This is the stage of WrestleMania season where Raw has to do more than remind viewers the biggest show of the year is coming. It has to make the road feel real. That … Read more
Less than seven weeks before WrestleMania 42, WWE had a chance on Friday night to make SmackDown feel urgent, focused, and impossible to ignore. Instead, the March 6 episode felt like a show torn between big headline developments and deeply frustrating creative habits. On paper, this was a monumental night: Cody Rhodes regained the Undisputed … Read more
Last night on SmackDown, WWE tried to sell Elimination Chamber with volatility: Jey Uso taken out before the bell, the Men’s Chamber field collapsing into a shouting match, a “winner takes the final spot” main event, and a Women’s Tag Team Championship change clearly designed to unburden Rhea Ripley before she steps into the Chamber … Read more
Last week’s SmackDown had the kind of “we’re doing business, not vibes” energy that tends to split the room in real time. A big chunk of the audience and reviewers applauded how efficiently the show advanced the Road to Elimination Chamber—Trick Williams finally getting a defining win, Kiana James stealing a spot in a way … Read more
SmackDown didn’t just “continue” the Road to Elimination Chamber — it weaponized it. Drew McIntyre spent the night doing what the most dangerous champions do best: influencing outcomes without wrestling, turning the building into a pressure cooker for Cody Rhodes and Jacob Fatu while quietly steering the main event into a finish that protects him … Read more
On the first SmackDown following Royal Rumble 2026, WWE shifted fully into Road to WrestleMania mode, delivering an episode built around urgency, qualification, and emotional stakes. Live from Charlotte, North Carolina, this week’s SmackDown centered on the fallout from the Rumble, the beginning of Elimination Chamber qualifiers, and the intensifying rivalry between Cody Rhodes and … Read more
