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John Cena Must Win His Last Match

John Cena should win his last match at WWE Saturday Night\'s Main Event; we explore why a victory over Gunther is the right call for the wrestling legend.

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Ranking The Top 5 Most Important Main Events In WWE Survivor Series History

Turkey Day is just a week away and with it, WWE\'s Thanksgiving tradition, Survivor Series is coming up. While often maligned in comparison to its other more consistently vaunted Big Four PLE peers—WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and the Royal Rumble—Survivor Series has been a major platform for pro wrestling history. Which main events from this show were […]

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He Did It For The Rock: Rikishi’s Heel Turn Is Still Misunderstood 25 Years Later

Survivor Series 1999 featured one of the most infamous moments in WWE history. The show was set to be headlined by a Triple Threat Match between quite arguably The Attitude Era’s three most defining stars: The Rock Vs. Triple H Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin. The complexion of the match, the event, and arguably the […]

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The Enduring Legacy Of Eddie Guerrero

On November 13, 2005, Eddie Guerrero was found dead in his hotel room. At just 38 years of age, Guerrero was around the top of his game, less than two years removed from winning the WWE Championship and still very much part of the WWE main event scene in an angle with reigning World Heavyweight […]

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Please Triple H, Survivor Series Can Have Both WarGames And Elimination Tag Team Matches

In 2017, something truly exciting happened when the first ever WWE-branded WarGames match occurred. The gimmick match had been an NWA and then WCW staple, but even under that branding had fallen apart over time with modified rules that undermined the concept in the 1998 and 2000 editions. WWE brought fresh talent to the traditional […]

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The Complicated Trajectory Of WWE World Domination, Part Three: WWE Vs. AEW

Under TKO ownership, WWE has made some bold moves, including the introduction of the ID and Next In Line Programs, as well as a strategic partnership with TNA and the purchase of AAA as discussed in previous parts of this series. One key element in WWE’s strides forward toward further dominating the wrestling world is […]

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WWE Isn’t Proving Tony Khan Wrong… They’re Proving Him Right

Coming out of WWE Saturday Night Main Event on November 1, social media took up a familiar call—that Tony Khan had “fumbled” talents who wound up in WWE. In particular, a photo posted by CM Punk with the caption “Look at us” featured not only him wearing his newly won World Heavyweight Championship, but new […]

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Pro Wrestling Is Undergoing A Tag Team Renaissance

Tag team wrestling is a staple of pro wrestling history. This style of match allows promotions to vary a card and open up genuinely different storytelling possibilities among tag team rivalries, including but not limited to teams coming together, breaking up, and reuniting. Moreover, tag teams can offer a keen place for young talents to […]

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The Complicated Trajectory Of WWE World Domination, Part One: Indie Take Over

In the 1980s, WWE became the dominant force on the pro wrestling landscape when a national expansion saw the company breakdown territorial boundaries by touring across the country and around the world, besides leveraging syndication, cable, and pay-per-view TV models to broadcast into the homes of fans all over. The back half of the 1990s […]

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Brock Lesnar Vs. John Cena Should Be The Beast’s Farewell Match

John Cena’s farewell tour has been one of the biggest stories of 2025, highlighted by his heel turn and, more recently, a turning face once again. He may have lost the WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam, but the surprise return of Brock Lesnar, who promptly dropped Cena with an F5, demonstrated that the […]

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Nobody Likes A Price Hike, But Might The Move To ESPN Light A Fire Under WWE PLEs?

Effective in September with Wrestlepalooza, WWE’s PLEs are, in the United States, transitioning from Peacock to ESPN. More than a platform change, the move comes with an upcharge. While lots of fans had access to Peacock through different bundles or special extended subscription deals that kept the price well under ten dollars monthly, ESPN’s new […]

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How AEW Has Gotten It Right With Adam Copeland

Wrestling fans have made a lot of noise about missteps in AEW\'s use of stars. Whether it was not pushing Malakai Black or Miro sufficiently, or exhibits of how up and comers like Penta, Ethan Page and Blake Monroe have arguably been featured much better in the WWE system, there certainly are cases worth critiquing. […]

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Heel Cena’s Time Is Up, Face Cena’s Time Is Now

One of the realities of John Cena’s farewell tour is that he wasn’t actually around that much for the first two months of it. Yes, he cut an emotional promo on the Raw premiere on Netflix and he worked the Royal Rumble, including finishing as the match’s top runner up. That’s really all Cena gave […]

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It’s Complicated: The Legacy Of Hulk Hogan

On July 23, 2025, news broke that Hulk Hogan had passed. At 71 years of age and having been the most famous professional wrestler who ever lived, he unsurprisingly drew an outpouring of tributes on social media and in the press. It was also noteworthy, however, how many critics spoke up too, not bowing to […]

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Slammiversary Highlighted What TNA Does Best

Time and again, people have dismissed TNA. From its earliest days with the weekly PPV model, vocal critics saw it as a dressed up indie for talents who couldn’t find a spot with WWE. That stigma, paired with questionable business choices around empowering Vince Russo and later Hulk Hogan and a rollercoaster of both booking […]

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