Last week on SmackDown the crew of NXT made a huge statement, laying waste to the SmackDown roster that was available as a chunk of the crew was still in transit from Saudia Arabia. A number of NXT’s roster came to play that day, but we knew SmackDown would try and get some payback, and…
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Randy Orton Signs New Multi-Year Contract With WWE
If you had hopes that long time WWE mainstay Randy Orton would be heading to another wrestling promotion, it’s time to step back into reality. According to a new report from PWInsider, Orton has signed a new multi-year contract with WWE. The deal keep Orton with WWE through 2024, at which point he will be…
Triple H Gives Seth Rollins An Ultimatum As NXT Invades
Seth Rollins came to RAW this week to address his future. What he got was an ultimatum from Triple H and an offer to join NXT. Rollins, initially in the ring by himself, spoke about how he was kind of speechless for the first time in not really knowing where he wants to go with…
Rey Mysterio Attacks Brock Lesnar During RAW, Wants Title Match
The story between Rey Mysterio and Brock Lesnar continued this week on WWE RAW with Mysterio once again getting the upper hand on the WWE Champion. Lesnar opened RAW in the ring with Paul Heyman. Heyman explained the rationale behind Lesnar being able to “quit” SmackDown and become a member of the RAW roster. That…
Adam Cole Defeats Daniel Bryan In Main Event
After a plethora of surprise appearances by WWE NXT stars during SmackDown on Friday night, we got the best during the main event when Adam Cole defended the NXT Championship against Daniel Bryan. The match was set-up backstage when Bryan approached Triple H and Shawn Michaels about a match. After Bryan challenged Hunter (who said…
Tommaso Ciampa Appears On SmackDown, Takes On The Miz
The Miz hosted an edition of MizTV on SmackDown and alluded to the fact that he was supposed to be interviewing the new WWE Universal Champion Bray Wyatt. However, with the Saudi Arabia travel problems, that segment wasn’t going to be possible. So out came Tommaso Ciampa instead. Ciampa proceeded to talk about how he’s…
Shayna Baszler Shows Up On SmackDown, Takes Out Bayley
WWE promised some surprises during SmackDown on Friday night, and we got a big one after the first match of the night. Bayley defended the SmackDown Women’s Championship against Nikki Cross in the first bout. After a competitive match, Cross couldn’t overcome both Bayley and Sasha Banks, who was at ringside. It looked at…
Brock Lesnar Quits SmackDown, Headed To RAW
Brock Lesnar, the reigning WWE Champion, showed up on Friday night’s edition of SmackDown and opened the show alongside Paul Heyman in the middle of the ring. After touting Lesnar’s win against Cain Velasquez (which was shown, in its entirety, since the bout was so short) at Crown Jewel, Heyman switched gears to what happened…
Bray Wyatt Wins WWE Universal Championship
Bray Wyatt captured the WWE Universal Championship on Thursday in a violent Falls Count Anywhere match with Seth Rollins at the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. Late in the match Rollins nailed Wyatt with half a dozen Curb Stomps on the entrance ramp, then tossed him off into a pile of electronic equipment that…
Tyson Fury Beats Braun Strowman by Count Out
Unbeaten lineal heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury walked out of WWE’s Crown Jewel event victorious on Thursday night, but it wasn’t in the way many fans expected. Late in the bout Strowman ran around the outside of the ring and hit Fury with two running shoulder tackles. But Fury managed to crawl his way back…