WWE taped the August 28, 2026 edition of Friday Night SmackDown tonight following Monday Night RAW at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The taped episode continues several of SmackDown’s biggest ongoing stories while also setting up additional matches and developments heading toward WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event on September 6. Fightful was the … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW did something Monday nights have needed more often lately: it moved several stories forward without pretending every development was equally important. From Ottawa, tonight built toward Sunday Night’s Main Event, pushed the World Heavyweight Championship No. 1 Contender’s Tournament into the exact final it seemed designed to produce, continued Solo Sikoa’s … Read more
WWE Monday Night Raw rolls into Ottawa tonight with a special 6 p.m. ET start time and, for once, the card does not need 10 advertised matches to convince anyone there is something worth watching. Oba Femi and Bron Breakker will sign the contract for their September 6 fight at Sunday Night’s Main Event, two … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown finally feels like a show beginning to rediscover its creative identity, but last night also exposed the biggest problem standing between the blue brand and becoming consistently great again: WWE suddenly has more worthwhile stories than it has television time to properly tell them. From CM Punk and Kevin Owens finally … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown August 21, 2026 arrives in Toronto with an Undisputed WWE Championship match carrying considerably more baggage than the usual television title defense. Tonight, CM Punk puts the championship on the line against Kevin Owens after their two-decade history finally spilled into the open last week, while Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton … Read more
Ilja Dragunov leaves WWE after his contract with the company expired, bringing an unexpectedly quiet end to a seven-year run that included championships across NXT UK, NXT and the main roster — but also a final stretch defined more by what WWE did not do with him than what it did. Mike Johnson of PWInsider … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT told a much bigger story than the five matches on the card. NXT is in the middle of a roster reset, and last night felt like the clearest snapshot yet of what WWE wants the brand to become after another wave of talent movement: younger, faster, more international and far less … Read more
The WWE NXT August 18, 2026 comes at exactly the right moment for a brand that suddenly has more questions than answers. Zilla Fatu detonated last week’s NXT Championship No. 1 Contender’s Match by destroying Cruz Montana and Grayson Waller, leaving Tony D’Angelo without a Heatwave challenger and immediately becoming the most talked-about newcomer on … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW August 17, 2026 delivered something tonight’s show desperately needed: meaningful movement instead of three hours of holding patterns. Chad Gable and Rey Mysterio produced the best pure wrestling match on the card, Rey Fenix and Dragon Lee completed a genuinely intriguing World Heavyweight Championship No. 1 Contender’s Tournament semifinal field, Sol … Read more
The WWE Monday Night Raw preview for tonight carries a bigger creative burden than the advertised card initially suggests. Roman Reigns returns to Raw with Jey Uso expected to deliver Solo Sikoa back to the Bloodline after last week’s controversial main-event victory, Chad Gable puts the Intercontinental Championship on the line against Rey Mysterio, Sol … Read more
