Last Monday night on Raw, the main event of WrestleMania was drastically altered when WWE Chairman Vince McMahon suspended Royal Rumble winner Becky Lynch for 60 days. Lynch’s Mania place as challenger to Ronda Rousey’s Raw Women’s Championship has been replaced by Charlotte Flair. Most of us assumed we would not see anymore developments in … Read more
Intergender wrestling is a hot topic in wrestling. WWE recently brought it back into conversation when Nia Jax took out R-Truth and entered as the last entrant into the Men’s Royal Rumble match. Since then, a match between Jax and Dean Ambrose was announced for a house show before getting scrapped. Mandy Rose recently gave … Read more
Since Becky Lynch became the The Man, she has drawn a lot of comparisons to Stone Cold Steve Austin. Even more so since she started showing up on Monday Night Raw for the last few weeks while wearing a knee brace and running roughshod over the McMahons. Yesterday, on SiriusXM’s Fight Nation, Ryan McKinnell asked the … Read more
As reported, Becky Lynch was invited back to Raw this week by The McMahons and the encounter didn’t disappoint. To say it was an eventful episode would be an understatement. Becky was coming to respond to the McMahons’s ultimatum or she would remain suspended. The audience quickly found out Lynch saw her own doctor sometime … Read more
On last night’s episode of Total Bellas, Nikki Bella visited the Los Angeles home of Ronda Rousey to do some in-ring training. The episode was recorded back in the fall prior to their match for the Raw Women’s Championship at the all female pay-per-view, Evolution. The two women took advantage of the full scale wrestling … Read more
As reported earlier this weekend, a leaked clip of a local ad for a WWE live event in Jonesboro, Arkansas circulated promoting an “Intergender Special Attraction” featuring Nia Jax and Dean Ambrose. Well, it turns out the match isn’t happening. According to John Pollock of Post Wrestling, the ad is “outdated” and the match won’t … Read more
WWE announced on their Twitter page that The Man has been invited back to Raw this week by The McMahons. Becky Lynch is currently “suspended” by Stephanie McMahon because she refuses to have her knee examined by a doctor. As the storyline goes, Nia Jax attacked Lynch at the Royal Rumble. Last week, Lynch appeared … Read more
Yesterday on WWE’s Twitter account, an International Superstar Shake-Up has been announced to follow WrestleMania this April. The “international” aspect is suggested due to it taking place in Canada. Since 2016, this will be the third year in a row since WWE split their roster into brands from the Draft that a Shake-Up will occur. … Read more
This just in, per WWE’s official Twitter page, Ronda Rousey is now set to defend her WWE Raw Women’s Championship against Ruby Riott on Feb. 17 at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. The news comes mere days after an angle was kickstarted between Rousey and The Riott Squad on Monday Night Raw. On the show, after … Read more
WWE took to Twitter yesterday in order to garner up a discussion on who will be next in line for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Asking who will “step up” has stirred up many responses by both fans and wrestlers. For the upcoming Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, neither main roster champion has a title match booked on … Read more
Yesterday on Twitter, a video of Joanie Laurer surfaced where she discussed how she wanted to apologize to WWE. Rob Potylo, who runs Chyna’s official Twitter page, posted the video on his account. Joanie recorded the video just two months before her untimely passing in 2016. In the video she said, “One of the things … Read more
On today’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer stated that Banks is not cleared to wrestle. It is unclear what exact injury she is dealing with but it seems it may have occurred or was further aggravated at Royal Rumble against Ronda Rousey. Banks was pulled from live events last weekend so she could … Read more
With just under two weeks before the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view takes place, we finally have every participant announced for the Women’s Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber match as of this past SmackDown. The latest and last team joining is the team of Carmella and Naomi. They were announced as the final entrants in the Chamber … Read more
Real life husband and wife Rusev and Lana appeared on today’s episode of Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia. They were very candid with their frustrations with the creative direction of their characters. The duo was extremely over with the crowd thanks to the Rusev Day chants, but according to Rusev, WWE has put a nix … Read more
Last Sunday, Nia Jax crashed the 2019 Men’s Royal Rumble, becoming the fourth female wrestler to compete in the Men’s Royal Rumble. She is now the second woman to participate in both the Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble match – behind Beth Phoenix – and the only woman to compete in both in one night. … Read more
According to Mike Johnson at PWInsider, Paige is scheduled to appear on this week’s episode of Raw and SmackDown. This will be the first time she has appeared on television since her role as the SmackDown General Manager ended. Many fans were upset when WWE removed Paige from her General Manager role, back in December. … Read more
In the past week, we have seen three tag teams earn and declare their spots for the Elimination Chamber to crown the inaugural WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions. Today, we can add a fourth team to the mix in the form of Billie Kay and Peyton Royce of The IIconics. Much like their fellow Chamber … Read more
A new report from Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso seems to indicate that WrestleMania 35, set for Sunday, Apr. 7 at Metlife Stadium, will close with Ronda Rousey defending her Raw Women’s Championship against Becky Lynch. According to the report, “Sources close to WWE have told Sports Illustrated that the current plan is to close WrestleMania … Read more
It appears NXT Superstar, Tegan Nox, is healing nicely from the major knee surgery she suffered last August. She posted a gif on her Twitter page earlier today alluding to making great progress in her rehabilitation. The Welsh wrestler experienced a horrific knee injury last August when taping an episode for the quarterfinals of the … Read more
The Jan. 29 edition of SmackDown went out of its way to lay out WWE’s card for the company’s upcoming Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. In addition to announcing the show’s WWE Championship main event match-up, we also saw two WWE Superstars “declare” their spot in the Women’s Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber match. Halfway into the … Read more
We are just over 24 hours removed from Becky Lynch’s monumental Royal Rumble win. While Men’s Rumble winner Seth Rollins needed until the end of the night to decide which World Champion he will face at Mania, Becky knew exactly who she wanted to face when she walked into Monday Night Raw. Immediately following Ronda … Read more
Today, UFC fighter Cris Cyborg visited the WWE’s Performance Center in Orlando. ESPN MMA reporter Ariel Helwani posted the photo of Cyborg on his Twitter page. It is unclear why the former UFC champ was at the PC, but rumors are circulating. Fightful‘s Sean Ross Sapp reached out to Cyborg regarding her visit and she … Read more
Becky Lynch is the winner of the 2019 Women’s Royal Rumble match, after finally eliminating her rival Charlotte Flair. Lynch replaced Lana at number 28 due to a debilitating ankle injury incurred during Rusev’s unsuccessful title defense on the kickoff show. Lynch faced off against Asuka for the SmackDown Women’s Championship in the opening bout … Read more
WWE is collaborating with Bunim-Murray, the production company responsible for Total Bellas, Total Divas and Keeping Up With The Kardashians, to search for the next female superstar. Casting is currently underway on what sounds like a reality tv show similar to Tough Enough or the WWE Diva Search. Hopefully less like the latter, but because … Read more
WWE announced today that a brand-new episode of WWE Chronicle featuring WWE Superstar Paige will debut on the WWE Network on Saturday night, immediately following NXT Takeover: Phoenix. According to a synopsis of the episode from WWE, the episode will follow Paige from her return to action in November of 2017, following a 17-month absence … Read more
According to Dave Meltzer and the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer newsletter, Ronda Rousey may hang up her sparing gloves after this year’s WrestleMania pay-per-view. Meltzer said, “There is a very good chance that Ronda Rousey will be finishing up with WWE after WrestleMania.” Ever since Rousey made her debut at the end of … Read more