WWE.com WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Apr. 26, 2024) with a live show emanating from Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming Backlash premium live event scheduled for early next month in France. Advertised for tonight: It’s night one of the WWE Draft! You can check out the official rules right here. 16 draft picks will be made tonight from a pool of talent that includes stars like Randy Orton, Bron Breakker, Bianca Belair, The Bloodline, Seth Rollins, LA Knight, Sheamus, and Jey Uso Also on the card: WWE ..read more

AEW Dynamite Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find here. Remember, take it all with a grain of salt. Rumors for the Day: Wrestling Observer Live’s Bryan A ..read more

TNA Wrestling TNA is hot off the Rebellion PPV, and their next special event is around the corner on May 3. That gives a two-week build for Under Siege in Albany, NY. TNA announced matches for the world champions in the men’s division and the Knockouts division, but neither will be defending their titles. Moose retained the TNA World Championship over Nic Nemeth at Rebellion, and Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards retained tag team gold against Mike Bailey & Trent Seven. Apparently, business wasn’t finished between those rivals. TNA announced The System versus Nemeth & Speedball Mountain ..read more

There is a broken one in the Impact Zone, but it isn’t Matt Hardy I’m referring to. He was there as well in his Broken persona, however, it was Nemeth whose body was broken in the main event segment on Thursday night Impact (Apr. 25, 2024). The show started with Nemeth addressing his loss to Moose when challenging for the TNA World Championship at Rebellion. The Wanted Man had no excuses. He left it all out there in the ring and failed. Nemeth didn’t know what’s next. He felt broken inside. Say his name, and he appears. TNA believes in Matt Hardy. The Broken one entered on stage to cheer up N ..read more

This week’s (April 24) episode of AEW Dynamite wrapped up with a hot angle where President Tony Khan was spiked on his neck with a Meltzer Driver by the Young Bucks. As a result, we suspected that Khan might be wearing a neck brace inside the Jacksonville Jaguars war room during tonight’s NFL Draft, and that’s exactly what happened. Here it is in all its beautiful glory, along with his father Shad in the Jags draft room. “As Tony Khan becomes the first ever NFL executive in a draft room shaking off the effects of a PILEDRIVER he recieved on National Television in a WRESTLING RING the night ..read more

Mike Santana made a surprise return to TNA at the Rebellion PPV on Saturday night (Apr. 20, 2024). The segment saw him rumble in victory over Steve Maclin as both were supposedly inking contracts with TNA. That wasn’t just a storyline. TNA officially confirmed new deals for Santana and Maclin. BREAKING: TNA Signs @Santana_Proud! Read more: https://t.co/BEtZruCuvz pic.twitter.com/BBBmcojgV1 — TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 24, 2024 Santana continued his winning ways Thursday night on Impact (Apr. 25, 2024), and it appears that his business with Maclin is far from over. Santana triumphed ..read more

Night one of the 2024 WWE Draft takes place on tomorrow’s (Apr. 26) episode of SmackDown on FOX. One of the new rules this year is that most champions are not eligible to be drafted. That includes WWE Tag team Champion Grayson Waller. Here is Waller reflecting on his Tom Brady journey from being an irrelevant draft pick in 2023 to a star who is so talented that he’s now protected this year: The Tom Brady of WWE pic.twitter.com/3di7AecaCv — Grayson Waller (@GraysonWWE) April 25, 2024 “For most people, getting called up from NXT in the WWE Draft is the best night of their lives, but for Gra ..read more

AEW WrestleDream AEW commentator Jim Ross has dealt with multiple major medical issues, including skin cancer and a broken hip, that greatly affected his work schedule in AEW as his contract came to an end earlier this year. In March, Ross announced that he signed a new deal with AEW. Tony Khan now seems to only bring in the legendary broadcaster for pay-per-view cards. However, on the latest episode of his Grilling JR podcast, Ross said he’s pushing to get booked for more dates: Here is how Jim explains the situation, courtesy of the transcription from F4WOnline: Tony Khan hired me back to d ..read more

WWE.com Vince McMahon resigned from TKO Group Holdings and appears to be completely gone from pro wrestling following a sex trafficking lawsuit filed by former WWE employee Janel Grant in January. Earlier today, POST Wrestling’s John Pollock and Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston confirmed that McMahon has now hired the public relations firm Sitrick and Company, which specializes in crisis management for wealthy and powerful people. “The powerful firm is led by Michael S. Sitrick, who has been referred to as ‘one of the most accomplished practitioners of the dark arts of public relations’ by For ..read more

AEW Dynasty 2024 Welcome to Cageside Community Star Ratings for AEW Dynasty! For some wrestling fans, star ratings are a way of life. It’s one thing to say that a match is good or bad, but can you actually put a number on it? The star rating system is a scale ranging from 0 to 5 with increments of 0.25. A five star match is as close to perfect as it gets while a zero star match is a complete dud. Determining the star rating for a given match is a highly subjective process. In general the goal is to wrap up all the important elements of a match into one simple number. Some factors to consider m ..read more