NXT TakeOver: Phoenix takes place later on tonight from The Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. The show will feature five matches on the card with four of those matches being championship matches. NXT TakeOver: Phoenix begins to stream live on The WWE Network at 7PM ET and is …
Read More »What It Shall Be: NXT 2017 Aug 23
NXT is on Thursdays, right? No..? Oops, I missed it! After a weekend like NXT had, I am itching to see how the pegs fall in moving forward. It’s the season epilogue for NXT tonight, join me in a quick romp in what is sure to be many recaps, highlight …
Read More »Daniel Bryan, And The YES! Movement
“YES! YES! YES!” It seems like just yesterday when 75,167 wrestling fans inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, erupted into cheers as their unlikely hero stood tall holding the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Daniel Bryan was never supposed to be the mega star that he became, don’t ever let anyone try to …
Read More »The Awesome Rise of The Miz
Persistence. It’s a crucial trait for an athlete to have in order to reach the top of their chosen sport. Everyone knows the famous story of Michael Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team, yet still becoming the greatest basketball player of all time. In the NFL, …
Read More »A War Is Brewing: Intro To New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)
Throughout the years, competition has proven to be a huge driving force behind the success of WWE. When presented with true competitors like the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the 80’s and WCW in the 90’s, Vince McMahon and his company successfully reshaped the professional wrestling world twice. However since …
Read More »Something ‘Wicked’ Coming For WrestleMania?
With WrestleMania 32 only a few weeks away. A cryptic message was aired last night on WWE Smackdown by Bray Wyatt. He says that he knows something that we don’t know…and it’s wicked. As we noted earlier this week. Bray Wyatt is currently dealing with a really bad back injury, which will …
Read More »WrestleMania 32 Gate Sets Record for WWE
Last week the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that over 84,000 tickets have been sold for WrestleMania 32. This breaks the WWE all-time attendance record. This is including the standing-room-only tickets that have been sold. Ticket sales for WrestleMania have grossed about $13 million which is another record for the company. …
Read More »WWE World Cruiserweight Tournament Update
We have been hearing that participants in WWE’s upcoming World Cruiserweight Tournament have been receiving emails letting them know if they have been selected to participate in the tournament. What we know at this point is that it will be a 32-man tournament that will be filmed over the course …
Read More »New WWE Network Event Added to Schedule
The next WWE Network special location to follow in the footsteps of MSG, Tokyo, and this Saturday’s Roadblock event in Toronto. The event will take place September 7th from the O2 arena in London, the venue of Michael Bisping’s victory over Anderson Silva last month. UK fans have been vocal …
Read More »The Foley Family and WWE
Mick Foley has at times been the WWE‘s biggest supporter, and at other times their biggest detractor. Mick was very vocal before Wrestlemania 30 that WWE was missing the boat on Daniel Bryan, posting several Facebook posts saying that the WWE was not listening to their fans. It’s clear from …
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