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The WWE is negotiating with state gambling regulators in Colorado and Michigan in an effort to legalize betting on “high-profile matches.” According to CNBC, WWE is collaborating with Ernst & Young, the accounting firm tasked with ensuring the secrecy of winners from award shows, such as the Academy Awards and the Emmys, to convince regulators that the results of matches will not […]
Fresh off losing the NXT Women’s Championship to Roxanne Perez on Tuesday night, Mandy Rose has been released by the WWE due to racy content on her FanTime page. According to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, the WWE made the decision to drop Rose after officials felt they were “put in a tough position.” The former NXT champion posted […]
Canadian wrestler and World Wrestling Entertainment legend Bret “The Hitman” Hart has taken to Instagram to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the “Montreal Screwjob” where he lost to Shawn Michaels. He called it one of “the biggest – and most notorious – moments of [his] career.” The “Montreal Screwjob” took place during the 1997 WWE Survivor Series […]
Mexican filmmaker Jonás Cuarón has signed on as director for the Marvel/Sony Pictures offering El Muerto, which will star Bad Bunny in the lead role. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Cuarón will be working with a script by Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet Alcocer. The story will follow a wrestler with superpowers passed down to him from previous generations of his […]
Dwight Howard might take his talents to the wrestling ring. The 18-year NBA veteran, who is currently a free agent after playing 60 games with the Los Angeles Lakers last season, is interested in joining the WWE. “Whatever opportunity is best,” Howard told TMZ Sports. Asked if he was serious about pivoting from basketball to the […]
It’s official. Logan Paul has secured the biggest wrestling match of his budding career. On Saturday, the WWE confirmed the YouTuber-turned-pro-wrestler will take on Roman Reigns at Crown Jewel 2022. WWE Hall of Famer and COO Paul “Triple H” Levesque announced the news during a press conference in Las Vegas, just a day after Logan challenged Reigns on SmackDown. “It will be a […]
It appears Logan Paul has won over WWE fans. The YouTuber-turned-wrestler completed his first one-on-one match at SummerSlam 2022. The event went down at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium on Saturday, nearly four months after Paul made his WWE debut at WrestleMania 38. During his initial appearance, Paul joined forces with The Miz to take on Rey and Dominik Mysterio; however, this week’s match saw him going […]
It’s hard to think in the middle of a heatwave in New York City. Try and imagine putting in a full press day shuttling between radio and tv stations, meet and greets, and ending the night with a respectable first pitch at a Mets game all while carrying the WWE Raw Women’s Champion belt (and […]
An investigation conducted by the WWE board has uncovered a number of nondisclosure agreements with former female employees, including one in which chairman and CEO Vince McMahon allegedly had an affair with, and secretly agreed in January to a $3 million payout upon her departure from the company, Wall Street Journal reports. As part of her agreement, the woman cannot talk about her […]
More than two years after signing with WWE, Simone Johnson, the 20-year-old daughter of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, took to Twitter on Sunday to officially announce her wrestling name. Simone, who will go by the name to Ava Raine in the ring, is facing backlash from wrestling fans, who believe she should’ve chosen a moniker that pays respect to […]
