WWE WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (May 6, 2024) from the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, featuring all the fallout from the Backlash premium live event that took place this past weekend in France. Advertised for tonight: it’s time to get the build to King & Queen of the Ring in Saudi Arabia underway! That means getting the first round of both tournaments underway, with matchups the likes of GUNTHER vs. Sheamus, Drew McIntyre vs. Finn Balor, Rey Mysterio vs. Kofi Kingston, and Ricochet vs. Ilja Dragunov on the men’s side and Ivy Nile vs. Zoey Stark, Sha ..read more

WWE.com 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: PW Insider says the QR codes that have ..read more

WWE.com It’s time to have some fun with social media again. It’s time again for Sunday silliness with the Tweets of the Week. It will feature random delights with a focus on the three B’s: bods, beasts, and buffoonery. Oh, some of these might not be from this week nor be tweets. Enjoy it anyway. Matt Cardona pulled a genius move combining cigars and action figures. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Major Wrestling Figure Podcast (@majorwfpod) Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, Chelsea Green, and Samantha Irvin used their linguistic detective skills to decipher wrestler names in Fren ..read more

He may be injured but that doesn’t mean he’s staying on the sidelines. Matt Cardona is sidelined with a torn pectoral muscle, but that isn’t stopping him from making news on the professional wrestling scene. Cardona is always ready to cause a ruckus, especially when it involves screwing Danhausen. Earlier in the week, Cardona explained his goals moving forward. The comeback has officially begun… Had surgery 2 weeks ago…first day back in the gym today. The goal is simple. Either come back to never wrestle on the indies again or come back and completely change the landscape of independent w ..read more

NWA is still out there making things happen. The National Wrestling Alliance is making moves with new partnerships and additions to the territory system. First up is a partnership with the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico for the event WWC Honor vs. Traición on May 11 at Cancha Pepin Cestero in Bayamón. The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is thrilled to announce its partnership with the iconic @wwc_pr for the jaw-dropping WWC Honor vs. Traición event on May 11th at Cancha Pepin Cestero in Bayamón, Puerto Rico! For the full press release check out https://t.co/ZPTySE5pZ0! pic.twitte ..read more

WWE.com Welcome to Cageside Community Star Ratings for Backlash 2024! 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 5-star match is as close to perfect as it gets while a 0-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 may include th ..read more

@MattTheKing777 The son of Umaga goes all out in Tampa. As The Bloodline continues to expand within WWE, outside of WWE, Zilla Fatu continues to grow by leaps and bounds. However, he may want to rein in some of those leaps after making an insane dive during a Game Changer Wrestling event in Florida. Last Friday, the son of Samoan legend Umaga took to the ring at GCW’s Rather You Than Me in Tampa. During a match with independent star John Wayne Murdoch, Fatu attempted a running splash onto Murdoch, who was positioned outside the ring on a table. As Fatu was in mid-dive bomb, Murdoch moved and F ..read more

History shows that a match between heroes does more harm than good. Following a successful defense of the Undisputed WWE Championship at Backlash, Cody Rhodes spoke with the media, where he discussed his future opponents. Amidst the expected mentions of Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, Rhodes intriguingly threw the names of LA Knight and Randy Orton into the mix, sparking excitement among fans. However, these potential matchups, while tantalizing, could pose creative challenges for WWE without much payoff. Rhodes acknowledged an important issue in facing Knight, which also applies to Orton: th ..read more

WWE.com With only so many premium events a year, not every city will get to host a WWE spectacular. John Cena sparked excitement in the wrestling world at last year’s Money in the Bank in London by suggesting WWE host WrestleMania in the city. With the 2024 WrestleMania location confirmed and rumors swirling about 2025’s host cities, many saw Cena and WWE’s move as a possible attempt to divert attention from All Elite Wrestling’s London event, All In, later that summer. As it turns out, this is just what WWE does. After his first title defense during this year’s United Kingdom tour, the Undisp ..read more

WWE.com Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report. In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving in the opposite direction. After a busy week that included Backlash in France and the conclusion of the 2024 WWE Draft, a lot of fortunes were changed. With that in mind, let’s see whose stock decreased the most this week: Stock Down #3: New Catch Republic Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate didn’t make the cut for the televised portion of the WWE Draft. They’ll be moving over to the Raw roster star ..read more