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Dec 26, 2023 · Hopefully, the Funker is enjoying the afterlife as much as he did his actual one. One can only hope. From CM Punk's AEW fall and WWE return to WWE merging with UFC, here were the wrestling...
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- In the wake of a very public scandal, Vince McMahon retires from WWE. If ever there were to be a literal pro wrestling lifer, common sense would suggest it would be Vince McMahon.
- CM Punk holds the press conference heard 'round the world after All Out, then brawls with The Elite, clouding his AEW future. Considering he had just won the AEW World Championship during a hard fought match at All Out (and injured himself in the process, though that wasn’t fully known at the time), one would have thought that CM Punk would have been in something of a celebratory mood during the press scrum afterward.
- Sasha Banks and Naomi walk out on Raw. Plenty of wrestling champions have given up their titles. Few if any have done it in as public an act of protest as Sasha Banks and Naomi.
- Stone Cold Steve Austin has 'one more match' at WrestleMania 38. When Kevin Owens started openly dissing Texas on a regular basis, it started to seem feasible.
- What Is Wrestlemania?
- The Story So Far...
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For starters, here's the basic rundown of what WrestleMania is. It is WWE's biggest, longest-running, and most successful pay-per-view/live-streaming event since its conception by executive chairman Vince McMahon in 1985. For many fans and wrestlers, however, it's basically the Superbowl. It's March Madness. The Masters, the NBA Championship, and t...
Cody Rhodes vs Roman Reigns
The headliner of WrestleMania is the fated clash between two famous wrestling dynasties: The Anao'i family and the Rhodes. In the winner-takes-all championship main event for the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship (the unified combination of the Universal Championship and WWE Championship), Roman Reigns will defend his title against Cody Rhodes. It would take an entirely separate article to fully explain the path each of these superstars took to reach this point but here's the long story s...
The betrayal and redemption of Sami Zayn
An integral component of the brewing collapse within the Bloodline is that of Canadian wrestler Sami Zayn, who, along with fellow Canadian and friend Kevin Owens, is set to take on the Usos for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. Since this time last year, Zayn has been an unofficial member of the Bloodline, forming an alliance with the Tribal Chief when the former was seeking help during a feud with Drew McIntyre. Before long — and much to Jey’s chagrin — Sami Zayn seemed to make his w...
Bianca Belair and the women of WWE continue to make history
WrestleMania is all about full circle moments and nothing feels more full circle than both Women's Championship matches. The first is Bianca Belair's championship defense of her Raw Women's title against Asuka. Belair, the longest reigning Black world champion in the company's history and one-half of the first-ever WrestleMania main event to feature two black women, is set to defend a title she won last year at...WrestleMania. A former collegiate track athlete with no background in pro wrestl...
That just about covers the bigger storylines going into WrestleMania 39, but what about the matches on the card? While not the A stories featured on this year's Showcase of the Immortals, there are plenty of fights that might be of interest to keep you invested through the night's events. The first is a pair of matches featuring members of the afor...
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Dec 13, 2021 · Walter's historic reign as NXT United Kingdom Champion was finally brought to an end earlier this year, making it the longest championship reign in WWE in decades at 870 days. Every defense was...
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Ranking WWE and AEW's Best Storylines of 2023 | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report. The year 2023 featured some of the best storylines in WWE and AEW's recent history,...
Dec 27, 2023 · 1. USA men’s freestyle team wins back-to-back World titles for first time – This year’s top story was a team, the 2023 U.S. Senior men’s freestyle squad. The USA came into Belgrade as the returning team champions, after beating Iran in the 2022 final standings.
Dec 28, 2022 · Bischoff believes that this is the biggest wrestling news story of the past two or three decades, noting that WWE is a big company in any category and not just wrestling. Now he's gone,...