Rhea Ripley’s knee injury did not just remove the WWE Women’s Champion from SummerSlam. It exposed how much of WWE’s women’s division was built around one plan and how quickly everything underneath it began to collapse once Ripley was unavailable. WWE reportedly had a championship match between Jade Cargill and Charlotte Flair in mind for … Read more
TNA iMPACT! returns tonight with two championship matches, the final opening-round bouts in the TNA Knockouts Television Championship Tournament and one of the most personal TNA World Championship matches of Nic Nemeth’s reign. Nemeth will defend against KC Navarro after weeks of manipulating, betraying and dismissing the man who once viewed him as a mentor, … Read more
WWE NXT closed last night with the beginning of a completely new era in its men’s main-event scene. Tony D’Angelo finally put Naraku behind him by retaining the NXT Championship in a violent Street Fight, only for former two-time TNA World Champion Mike Santana to enter through the crowd and confront him moments later. Santana’s … Read more
The increasingly violent rivalry between NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo and Naraku reaches what should be its final destination tonight when they collide in a Street Fight for the NXT Championship. Tony already defeated Naraku at Great American Bash, but that victory did nothing to end Naraku’s obsession with the championship or Tony’s desire to punish … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Monday Night RAW from Little Caesars Arena in Detroit was supposed to create urgency with SummerSlam less than two weeks away. Instead, WWE delivered another overbooked, repetitive and painfully lazy episode built around the same factions, the same interference and the same handful of wrestlers who dominate television every week. Saturday Night’s Main … Read more
Twelve days from now, WWE will bring The SummerSlam to Minneapolis for a second consecutive two-night stadium spectacle. The 39th annual edition takes over U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, placing another chapter into a history that now stretches across nearly four decades, multiple wrestling generations and several dramatically different … Read more
Lyra Valkyria did not suddenly lose her mind. She did not wake up one Monday morning, cover her face in dark makeup, alter her entrance and randomly decide that Bayley was responsible for every disappointment in her career. What is happening to Lyra on Monday Night RAW is not an abrupt heel turn created because … Read more
WWE Monday Night RAW rolls into Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, tonight with SummerSlam less than two weeks away and the red brand carrying plenty of unfinished business out of Madison Square Garden. Seth Rollins will open the show after Roman Reigns and Jalen Brunson turned his attempted ambush against him at Saturday Night’s … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 13, “Who Dares Wins,” was built around wrestlers learning that taking control of their careers does not mean ignoring the process, and showing ambition does not excuse skipping the fundamentals. Nathan Cranton entered last night’s episode ready to leave his real name behind and fully commit to a new wrestling … Read more
The line between authority and competition has officially disappeared. GUNTHER will face current SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis at WWE SummerSlam, transforming weeks of professional tension, personal insults, physical attacks and retaliatory interference into one of the most intriguing grudge matches on the card. The announcement also carries significant historical weight: Aldis will finally step … Read more
