WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 9 last night with “The Apollo-Elijah Connection,” and this was one of those episodes that worked best when it remembered exactly what this season has become. This is not really the same LFG from the first two seasons anymore. Through the first eight episodes, Season 3 has slowly moved … Read more
Welcome back to the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup, the sixth installment of the series where we cut through the recycled headlines, scroll past the unnecessary outrage, and get straight to what actually matters in wrestling while everyone is trying to survive the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. Today’s edition is heavily centered around WWE, … Read more
WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
Welcome back to the LNC Wrestling Mid-Afternoon News Roundup, the fifth installment of the series where we cut through the noise, scroll past the lazy headlines, and get straight to what actually matters in wrestling while everyone is trying to survive a Tuesday afternoon, checking their phone during lunch, a work break, or that weird … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 8 last night with “A Brand New Zena,” and this was one of those episodes that showed both the value and the frustration of WWE’s developmental system on camera. Through the first seven episodes, Season 3 has been about moving away from the old coach-team competition setup and leaning … Read more
WWE NXT entered its final stretch toward the Great American Bash on Sunday, June 28th with an episode that felt like an entire locker room collectively decided to make the most of every opportunity placed in front of them. There was not a weak match on tonight’s show. Every wrestler competed with something to prove, … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt less like a normal weekly episode and more like the start of another forced rebuild. After the recent call-ups of Fatal Influence, Sol Ruca, Joe Hendry, Ricky Saints and Ethan Page, NXT came into the night with a gutted upper card, a shaken women’s division and a roster badly needing … Read more
Future Stars of Wrestling brought the WWE ID Showcase to Las Vegas last night, and the show knew exactly what it was. In a WrestleMania week loaded with bigger names and louder cards, this one was built to spotlight WWE’s pipeline, give the WWE ID system more shape, and show how that world connects to … Read more
Tonight, Future Stars of Wrestling: WWE ID Showcase steps into one of the most interesting spots of WrestleMania week. The show starts at 7:00 PM PT at HyperX Arena in Las Vegas and streams on Title Match Network. This is not a nostalgia card and it is not just another random indie stop thrown onto … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Evolve had one job above all else: make the vacant women’s championship feel important and make the woman leaving with it feel like she actually won something meaningful. It got there. Wendy Choo surviving the gauntlet and closing the night with the title gave the show a real ending instead of just another … Read more
