WWE Monday Night RAW rolls into Omaha, Nebraska tonight with the final red brand stop before Backlash, and for once, the show does not need to manufacture urgency. The urgency is already there. Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu have to stand in the same ring and sign the contract for a World Heavyweight Championship match … 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
The New Day’s WWE departure is not just another name on a release list. It is bigger than that, heavier than that and far more telling about where WWE is under TKO. According to reporting from Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp and Cory Hays of Bodyslam, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods mutually decided to part … Read more
The latest wave of WWE departures is centered around one of the most important tag teams and factions in modern company history: The New Day. According to Fightful, Bodyslam and Sean Ross Sapp, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have departed WWE, with Tonga Loa and JC Mateo also exiting the company in the same wave. … Read more
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
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 NXT’s future on The CW just became a lot more important. One day after WWE and The CW announced that NXT Premium Live Events are moving to The CW in a multi-year deal, The CW Sports and ESPN announced another major piece of the puzzle: CW Sports programming, including WWE NXT, will stream live … 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
Tonight’s WWE NXT is not just another episode. It is a stress test. After Revenge Week 2 wrapped up several stories and pushed multiple names toward the main roster, NXT now has to prove it still has enough star power, urgency and direction to survive the roster shakeup. The women’s division carried last week, the … Read more
Front Office Sports was first to report that WWE NXT Premium Live Events are moving to The CW, marking another major step in WWE’s growing relationship with the broadcast network and a significant shift in how fans will watch NXT’s biggest shows over the next several years. According to the report, The CW will air … Read more
