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
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
