Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW felt like a show trying to do two things at once: push WWE Backlash into focus and clean up the creative mess left behind after WrestleMania. Some of it worked. Some of it dragged. The best parts of the night were clear: Bron Breakker verbally cooking Seth Rollins, Jacob … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW tonight has the responsibility of doing what last week’s RAW After Mania only partially accomplished: turning the post-WrestleMania reset into a real road to Backlash. We are two weeks away from WWE Backlash on May 9th, and tonight’s show already feels more focused than last week’s episode because the biggest stories … Read more
WWE Sunday on A&E returned last night with the season three premiere of WWE LFG: Legends & Future Greats, and honestly, this felt like the reset the show needed. The first two seasons were built around teams, points, coach rivalries and the idea of legends drafting future stars. Season one had The Undertaker, Booker T, … Read more
The SmackDown After Mania should have felt like a reset. Instead, it felt like a company trying to convince itself it had momentum while terrible WWE release news hung over the entire night. As mentioned in my LNC Wrestling article on the WWE releases, that news broke right before SmackDown went on the air last … Read more
WWE’s post-WrestleMania roster reset hit hard Friday, with a wave of releases that cut across the main roster, NXT and one of the company’s most unusual creative projects. Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp was first out with the broader release wave, with PWInsider and BodySlam adding key names as the story developed. As of now, the … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown After Mania has the job of turning WrestleMania 42 fallout into the next chapter for the blue brand. This is not a show built around a stacked match card. It is built around consequences. Rhea Ripley arrives as the new WWE Women’s Champion, Trick Williams celebrates becoming United States Champion … Read more
Former NJPW star EVIL is reportedly headed to WWE, ending one of the most complicated runs in modern New Japan history and starting a new chapter for a wrestler who has already lived through several different versions of himself. Before he became EVIL, he was Takaaki Watanabe, a New Japan Young Lion who debuted in … Read more
Paige’s return to WWE at WrestleMania 42 Night 1 was already one of the weekend’s biggest stories before she ever said a word. Nikki Bella’s injury forced a last-minute change, Brie Bella suddenly needed a new partner, and WWE answered with one of the most emotional reveals of the show. But Paige stepping in, winning … Read more
The report making the rounds on Wednesday appears to be rooted in a real Wrestling Observer Radio update, but the most important part of the story is not just that a planned WWE Backlash tag match was scrapped. It is why it was reportedly scrapped. Multiple secondary outlets are now attributing the same core claim … Read more
WWE has officially announced that Night of Champions will take place on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, confirming that the company is moving ahead with another major Premium Live Event in the Middle East even as the region remains overshadowed by instability and continuing geopolitical tension. The announcement was … Read more
