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Brian Fritz and Mike Sempervive discuss the latest on the WWE Crown Jewel controversy and WWE moving forward with the show, SmackDown 1000 including Dave Batista setting up a possible match versus Triple H at WrestleMania, Becky Lynch popularity soaring despite being used as a heel, breakups on RAW, Ronda Rousey’s promo on the Bella Twins, the potential Drew McIntyre ...

Brian Fritz and Mike Sempervive discuss the WWE Crown Jewel controversy and if WWE should do the show considering the politics surrounding it, what they would do if a change was made, looking back at the Super Show-Down event and Shawn Michaels upcoming return to the ring, matches for Crown Jewel and Evolution, NXT UK television announcement, the NJPW King ...

Enjoy what we do? Support Between the Ropes on Patreon! Your generous donation will help keep our lights on, and make it possible for us to do even more! Undertaker may not be retiring anytime soon, continuing his part-time wrestling career beyond WrestleMania 32. Also, Eric Bischoff may be an upcoming Stone Cold Podcast guest, and more rumors. [Cageside Seats] ...

Enjoy what we do? Support Between the Ropes on Patreon! Your generous donation will help keep our lights on, and make it possible for us to do even more! Wrestling fans everywhere will thank you.  The Big Story: Bad news for wrestlers in TNA. Guaranteed contracts are a thing of the past for most of the roster. PW Insider reports ...

Enjoy what we do? Support Between the Ropes on Patreon! Your generous donation will help keep our lights on, and make it possible for us to do even more! Wrestling fans everywhere will thank you. Wednesday night means the four-way wrestling war, and the star of Lucha Underground, the ravishing tongue-lasher, Catrina. WWE Look who Samoa Joe is training with ...

Providing your daily fix of wrestling links from around the blogosphere.  Former WWE diva turned Jiu-Jitsu expert Eve Torres. WWE has a pretty interesting poll on its website about who is the true “Future of WWE” that you can vote on. [WWE.com] Not only is Brock Lesnar returning to WWE TV in June, he’s going to be working some house ...

This Sunday will mark the seventh annual WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view show, an event where gimmick matches and brutal brawls are often used to tie up WrestleMania’s loose ends. Here’s my list of the best matches in Extreme Rules history. 7. John Cena vs. Batista, Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Championship, Extreme Rules 2010 I’ve always felt that Batista ...

Here we are! We’re four days away from the biggest event in all of sports-entertainment and professional wrestling. It’s been a fun ride getting to pile up these epic matches and it’s really telling not only from a historical perspective, but also the evolution of the in-ring work at the grandest stage of them all. This week we’ll have the ...

Over the last couple of weeks, I sat down and compiled a 30 match card to celebrate 30 years of WWE WrestleMania. This is not the top 30 matches in WrestleMania history. This is a 30th Anniversary Card, and because it’s a card and not a list, no person appears more than once. That is the challenge of compiling such ...

Just because it’s deemed “creative” doesn’t always mean it’s going to be good – just ask Vince Russo. And for every great feud, or well-executed story line, the major wrestling promotions also make mistakes. Some aren’t so bad; a few others require major direction shifts. Read on to find out our picks for “Creative Misfire of the Year.”

Chances are, the words “Hell in a Cell” instantly conjure up the iconic images of Mick Foley hurling himself off the top of that steel structure and the unforgettable Jim Ross call that went along  with them. “That killed him! As God is my witness, he is broken in half!” shouted J.R., cementing a moment in the minds of WWE ...

Batista’s next opponent: James Bond. Batista (a.k.a. Dave Bautista) has reportedly scored another major movie role, landing the role of the lead villain in Sam Mendes’ Bond 24, according to Latino Review. Batista has yet to confirm that he got the job, but here’s what Mendes was looking for in his bad guy, according to a leaked casting breakdown: We ...

WWE held its Smackdown tapings on Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia for its big 15th Anniversary Show.  Following the event, the company announced that the building will also be home to the Royal Rumble on January 25, 2015. Tickets will go on sale this coming Friday to the annual event which will carry a wrinkle this ...

If you missed the previous top five article covering the five best WWE Championship Matches from the PG Era click here. Happy Labor Day everybody on a holiday such like this I figured that I would bring out a top five list on the greatest WWE Championship matches from the “Ruthless Agression” Era. The Ruthless Aggression era was between the ...

On the latest podcast, Brian and Steve give their WWE Raw recap from last night including John Cena making his return after a week off to give an passionate promo about his upcoming match against Brock Lesnar at Summerslam, his match against Cesaro, Stephanie McMahon announcing her return to the ring against Brie Bella, the streak coming to an end ...

It was back on June 2 when Batista “quit” the WWE after Triple H wouldn’t give him a shot at the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.  Now you have to wonder if he will ever get another shot at that title. That’s because Batista recently admitted in an interview with The Daily Mirror out of London that his WWE days are ...

WWE taped four editions of WWE NXT from Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL. WWE NXT airs every Thursday on the WWE Network starting at 9 p.m. ET. Here are the results from the WWE NXT tapings. Dark Match -Solomon Crowe forced Buddy Murphy to submit to the Stretch Muffler. The next NXT taping at Full Sail is set ...

Seth Rollins has the been the biggest topic in wrestling this week. Rollins was in a very good match with The Shield as they defeated Evolution this past Sunday in the main event at WWE Payback. Then at the end of Monday Night Raw, Rollins left The Shield and joined Evolution as he attacked Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose from ...

After a surprisingly solid WWE Payback Sunday Night, Raw looked poised to deliver new creative direction for WWE. So did it break the recent Monday night funk? Read on to find out…

WWE Wrestlemania 30 buyrate was announced earlier today as the show drew 690,000 pay-per-view buys. The number doesn’t include the 667,000 subscribers that had the WWE Network at the time of the show. WWE originally reported the show doing around 400,000 buys. Wrestlemania 30 was built around Daniel Bryan defeating Triple H in the opening match and then submitting Batista ...