The road to NXT Heatwave takes an unexpected turn tonight after NXT General Manager Robert Stone announced that Layla Diggs is not medically cleared to challenge Zaria for the NXT Women’s North American Championship. Diggs suffered an injury during Saturday’s NXT live event, abruptly taking away the biggest opportunity of her career only days after … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 12, “Not Taking My Spot,” was built around one of the most important lessons a developing wrestler can learn: athleticism may earn a reaction, but emotion, selling and character are what make an audience care. Every match on last night’s episode tested a different part of that lesson. Bayley Humphrey … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 11, “The Bodacious Belly Boys of LFG,” was not the flashiest episode of the season, but it was another useful hour of developmental television because every match had a clear assignment. Sirena Linton returned from her first NXT live event tour and turned that experience into a needed win over … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 has quietly become one of the more useful developmental shows WWE has produced because it stopped pretending to be a normal competition show and started acting like what it really is: a Performance Center evaluation room with cameras. Through the first nine episodes, the season has been built around coaching, live … Read more
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
WWE Evolve Succession III goes down tonight, and for a brand still trying to carve out its identity inside WWE’s growing developmental system, this feels like one of the most important nights Evolve has had in a while. Succession has become Evolve’s version of a checkpoint episode — not quite a full-blown PLE, but more … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT was the final stop before NXT Great American Bash this Sunday on The CW, and as a go-home show, it had a very clear job: make the card feel hotter, sharpen the personal issues, and give the top matches one last major hook before the lights come on this weekend. Some … 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
Last night’s TNA iMPACT! felt like a show trying to do two things at once. On one side, TNA gave us two strong championship matches, a major Willow return, Fabian Aichner being positioned like an instant threat, and Santana vs. Maclin delivering the kind of main event that makes the AMC era feel important. On … 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
