WWE Backlash

WWE Friday Night SmackDown May 1st, 2026 Results & Recap: Gunther Chokes Out Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu Wrecks MFT & Fatal Influence Puts The Women’s Division On Notice

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Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was a busy, important and uneven stop on the road to Backlash — the kind of episode where WWE moved a lot of pieces forward, but also exposed some of the same creative habits that keep holding the product back. Cody Rhodes returned to the ring, Ricky Saints made … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown May 1st, 2026 Preview: Ricky Saints Arrives On SmackDown As Jacy Jayne Battles Charlotte Flair On The Road To Backlash

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Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes at a very important point for the blue brand. WrestleMania 42 is in the rearview, Backlash is less than two weeks away on Saturday, May 9th, and WWE now has to prove that last week’s reset was not just a post-Mania burst of chaos. The biggest stories heading into … Read more

WWE Monday Night RAW April 27th, 2026 Results & Recap: Jacob Fatu Forces Roman Reigns’ Hand as Bron Breakker Exposes Seth Rollins in a Chaotic, Uneven Night

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Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW felt like a show trying to do two things at once: push WWE Backlash into focus and clean up the creative mess left behind after WrestleMania. Some of it worked. Some of it dragged. The best parts of the night were clear: Bron Breakker verbally cooking Seth Rollins, Jacob … Read more

WWE Monday Night RAW April 27th, 2026 Preview: Roman Reigns Responds To Jacob Fatu, Penta Battles Rusev On The Road To Backlash

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WWE Monday Night RAW tonight has the responsibility of doing what last week’s RAW After Mania only partially accomplished: turning the post-WrestleMania reset into a real road to Backlash. We are two weeks away from WWE Backlash on May 9th, and tonight’s show already feels more focused than last week’s episode because the biggest stories … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown After Mania April 24th, 2026 Results & Recap: Fatal Influence Arrives, Tiffany Stratton Wins Gold, Jacob Fatu Destroys MFT

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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 Friday Night SmackDown After Mania April 24th, 2026 Preview: Jacob Fatu Goes Live After Calling Out Roman Reigns, Giulia Defends Against Tiffany Stratton

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Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown After Mania has the job of turning WrestleMania 42 fallout into the next chapter for the blue brand. This is not a show built around a stacked match card. It is built around consequences. Rhea Ripley arrives as the new WWE Women’s Champion, Trick Williams celebrates becoming United States Champion … Read more

Pat McAfee Reportedly Pulled the Plug on WWE’s Cody Rhodes-Randy Orton Celebrity Follow-Up, and That Says Everything About the Backlash

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The report making the rounds on Wednesday appears to be rooted in a real Wrestling Observer Radio update, but the most important part of the story is not just that a planned WWE Backlash tag match was scrapped. It is why it was reportedly scrapped. Multiple secondary outlets are now attributing the same core claim … Read more

WWE Monday Night RAW After WrestleMania April 20th, 2026 Results & Recap: Jacob Fatu Targets Roman Reigns, Ethan Page and Sol Ruca Make Their Mark

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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

WWE RAW Preview – May 12, 2025: Backlash Fallout, CM Punk Speaks After Brutal Attack, AJ Styles vs. Finn Bálor, and the Road to Saturday Night Main Event Begins

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Tonight’s Monday Night RAW from the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky features all the fallout from this past Saturday’s Backlash premium live event from the red brand’s perspective. The show also kicks off the road to this month’s Saturday Night Main Event, set for Saturday, May 24. Backlash saw champions successfully retain their titles, … Read more

WWE Backlash 2025 Recap

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Event Details Fatal 4-Way United States Championship Match Jacob Fatu (c) def. LA Knight, Damian Priest, and Drew McIntyre (17:54) to retain the men’s United States Championship. This match was good. Everyone got their stuff in. It needed more Jacob Fatu doing Jacob Fatu things.This sequence was cool. PWInsider has reported that Drew McIntyre hit … Read more