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
Last night’s Lucha Libre Worldwide AAA was not the deepest episode AAA has put together in this WWE-era rollout, but it was one of the cleaner and easier shows to follow. The episode had three main lanes: Galeno continuing to be presented like a wrecking ball, Omos answering that statement with an even bigger one, … Read more
The working relationship between WWE and TNA Wrestling has already become one of the most significant and complicated partnerships in modern professional wrestling. What began as a surprising crossover experiment has given TNA wrestlers opportunities to appear on a much larger platform, opened the door for WWE talent to work inside a different environment and … 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
WWE NXT returns live tonight from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, with the road to NXT Great American Bash officially underway and several of the brand’s most important championship stories beginning to take shape. Tony D’Angelo successfully defended the NXT Championship against Kam Hendrix last week, but The Don barely had time to … Read more
TNA may be on the verge of losing the wrestler it has spent the past two years building into the emotional centerpiece of the company. As first reported by PWInsider, reigning TNA World Champion Mike Santana’s current contract is expected to expire this summer, with his deal reportedly running through sometime in July. WrestleVotes later … Read more
AAA Noche De Los Grandes returned last night for the second and final week of its two-part special from Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. However, anyone expecting another event on the level of last week’s show was always going to walk away disappointed. Week 1 felt like a genuine major event. Rey Fenix ended Laredo … Read more
AAA Noche De Los Grandes returns tonight with a difficult task. One week after El Grande Americano and The Original El Grande Americano delivered a bloody, emotional and wonderfully over-the-top Mask vs. Mask Match that transformed an absurd wrestling gimmick into one of the most compelling stories of the year, Week 2 has to prove … Read more
TNA iMPACT! last night felt less like a wrestling show moving steadily toward Slammiversary and more like a company wandering through its own overgrown garden, searching for a path that should have been cleared weeks ago. The flowers were blooming. The barbed wire was waiting. The voices were whispering. The Broken Hardys and The Righteous … Read more
TNA iMPACT! returns tonight with one of the most unusual matches the company has presented this year, as The Hardys and The Righteous bring their increasingly personal rivalry into the twisted confines of a Wicked Garden Match. On paper, it is the type of creative swing TNA should be taking more often. Matt Hardy and … Read more
