So Braun Strowman rudely interrupted an interview with the taciturn Roman Reigns this past Monday on Raw, and boy did he ever dole out the punishment! He tossed him face-first into a wall, snatched him by the throat before throwing him headlong through a table, and as Reigns lingered forlornly in the venue’s entrance way, Braun powerslammed him onto a…
It was ‘The Ultimate Thrill Ride’ on ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’, ‘The Show of Shows’, ‘The Showcase of the Immortals’, ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Sports Entertainment’. Adding to the list on an annual basis, this year’s WrestleMania had almost as many taglines as spectators. Almost – but not quite. For WrestleMania 33, which took place at the Camping…
It would be wrong to affirm that nobody at all wanted to see Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg at Survivor Series, a rematch from the pair’s only previous encounter, which took place at WrestleMania XX more than twelve long years ago. Surely there were youngsters, somehow lumbered with the current product, who were eager for a glimpse of what a quirk…
How long is an era? A geological era can last for hundreds of millions of years, and even in common parlance the term is usually reserved for the sort of seismic shifts in politics and culture which come about but once every handful of decades. Not so in World Wrestling Entertainment, where we are already in our third ‘new era’…
As the company is fond of informing both its longtime and prospective fanbase, anything can happen in World Wrestling Entertainment. And so it proved on Tuesday night, as the first live Smackdown aired on the USA Network. After a couple of months of heated anticipation, it was finally time for the brand draft to divide the roster into two not-quite-even…
With the WWE brand split just weeks away the company’s writing staff, mentally stretched at the best of times, are reported to have succumbed to mad panic as they struggle to determine which of their alleged superstars will feature on Raw, and which on a reconfigured Smackdown, which for the first time will emanate live on Tuesday nights from the…
