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Adam Copeland and Jade Cargill kick wrestling free agency into high gear

It is a compliment to AEW’s Wrestledream PPV on Sunday, and to the now-Adam Copeland’s appeal and history, that his arrival in AEW was only one of the biggest, and most memorable moments of the show. That’s how good the show was, perhaps the best AEW has ever run, and a testament to the former Edge’...

by Sam Fels|Adam Copeland

|Tue Oct 03 2023

WWE gets richer while 100 employees get the boot

Time moves fast for a company trying to send its stock price up a percentage of a point. Yes, this is how big corporate America works. Cut employee expenditure to as lean as possible while maximizing revenue. WWE cashing in on a new $1.4 billion deal to move Smackdown back to USA Network is a perfec...

by Sam Fels|WWE

|Thu Sep 21 2023

Is The Rock vs. Roman Reigns worthy of a Wrestlemania main event with both guys part-time?

Outside of completely catering to society as a whole and pushing its current roster and storylines to the back burner, there isn’t a match the WWE can put on that would draw a bigger box office than The Rock returning to the ring for a first-time ever matchup with his cousin and current Undisputed W...

by Eric Blum|Roman Reigns

|Sat Sep 16 2023

CM Punk and Tony Khan took a molehill and made it Three Mile Island

It’s hard to know which aspect of AEW firing CM Punk yesterday is more frustrating: How much both sides left on the table, or how easily it would have been for them to solve whatever the problems were so long ago. ...

by Sam Fels|Punk

|Sun Sep 03 2023

CM Punk fired from AEW after altercation with Jack Perry

CM Punk has been fired by All Elite Wrestling. The 44-year-old wrestler allegedly got into a backstage altercation with Jack Perry before AEW’s All In pay-per-view in London on Sunday, and was subsequently suspended before his dismissal....

by Anthony Locicero|CM Punk

|Sat Sep 02 2023

On its biggest stage ever at Wembley, AEW was its AEW-est

AEW took its big shot Sunday, putting on their first-ever stadium show and their first show in the UK at Wembley Stadium. It’s impossible to define what success would be for the show, other than selling a ton of tickets, which they did. Overall, the show was great, while also being everything else A...

by Sam Fels|AEW World Championship

|Tue Aug 29 2023

Predicting the AEW All In London card

All Elite Wrestling’s first show in the United Kingdom was supposed to be in July 2020. Due to obvious reasons, that didn’t happen. It took three years for AEW to finally run a show in England, but what a way for them to make a debut, with one of the largest crowds in professional wrestling history ...

by Eric Blum|All In

|Fri Aug 25 2023

The biggest show in wrestling history should be on free TV

Let’s be clear about what the main story is about AEW’s All In show at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, which has currently sold 80,000+ tickets and will be the highest-paid attendance for a wrestling show ever (despite whatever figures WWE makes up about past WrestleManias). The story isn’t whether or no...

by Sam Fels|wrestling

|Thu Aug 24 2023

A tribute to Terry Funk, an unsung wrestling god

Legendary wrestler Terry Funk died yesterday. He was 79. I am certainly nowhere near a talented enough writer to eulogize him properly. Nor have I been a fan long enough or deeply enough for long enough to try and encompass his whole career. The thing is, no one is, so it’s not a personal failing. F...

by Sam Fels|Terry Funk

|Thu Aug 24 2023

Wrestling - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinBoy, noise sure does follow CM Punk

In a sense, CM Punk can’t help it. Given every twist and turn and crash and surge his career has had, eyes are going to be on him wherever he is, even when that’s off camera. And if you believe there are those who still have knives out for him within AEW, well it’s not much of a surprise he’s being ...

by Sam Fels|CM Punk

|Wed Aug 16 2023

Don’t let the door hit you on the ass, Ronda Rousey

It all started so well, which is generally how things go for Ronda Rousey. ...

by Sam Fels|Ronda Rousey

|Mon Aug 07 2023

Vince McMahon served federal grand-jury subpoena

After more than a year entangled with an alleged hush-payment scandal, WWE executive chairman Vince McMahon had a federal grand jury subpoena executed on him through federal law enforcement agents and a search warrant last month, according to a company disclosure. The filing made through the Securit...

by Eric Blum|Vince McMahon

|Wed Aug 02 2023

Maybe I’ll just give up on the AEW Women’s Division

On Friday night, Athena and Willow Nightingale had one of the best matches, not just women’s matches, of 2023 on Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor PPV. Not only was it the culmination of a three-match trilogy through both ROH and AEW, or the budding of a rivalry that will probably last years, bu...

by Sam Fels|Idolo

|Wed Jul 26 2023

This is why Roman Reigns can never be a face again

You know a WWE match is a big deal when it main events over the type of match the Premium Live Event is named for. You would almost never see either of the Royal Rumble matches not take the main spot on that show, and to a lesser extent the same goes for Money In The Bank. That the Bloodline match w...

by Sam Fels|Roman Reigns

|Wed Jul 05 2023

Now I can die peacefully as I’ve seen a Kenny Omega masterpiece live

Every sports fan has a checklist of things they have to see in person. These days it probably involves Shohei Ohtani. Maybe Connor McDavid turning some poor schmuck on a third pairing into unrecognizable goo (I saw him do it to Duncan Keith). LeBron in person maybe. The timeless ones are seeing a ga...

by Sam Fels|Kenny Omega

|Tue Jun 27 2023

Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada might be AEW’s biggest dream yet

At its heart, AEW’s working ethos has always been to give fans what they want. What that means, most of the time, is to put on matches that seemed impossible before, or that their fans have been hoping to see one day. Whatever the hiccups at times, whatever the drama, whatever the long way around th...

by Sam Fels|Kazuchika Okada

|Sat Jun 24 2023

Don Callis shows everyone what wrestling heat really looks like

Pro wrestling is America’s most enduring art form. Which might tell you a lot about us as a country, but whatever it tells you you probably already knew. It predates movies, rock music, jazz, baseball, and even the cheeseburger. Wrestling is the only thing we do well that keeps going. And occasional...

by Sam Fels|Don Callis

|Thu Jun 01 2023

CM Punk will lead the penal colony that is AEW Collision

In the end, there’s just too much money to be made and too many things for AEW to accomplish without the bounce that CM Punk provides....

by Sam Fels|CM Punk

|Fri May 26 2023

AEW’s got their whiskey, they got their wine, this time the lights are goin’ out

The constant chatter, if not outright yelling over, and study of TV ratings for both AEW, and WWE has long passed the threshold of being an annoyance. But AEW fans couldn’t help but occasionally peek to see how Dynamite and Rampage were doing, if only to assure themselves that the company was doing ...

by Sam Fels|Professional wrestling

|Wed May 17 2023

Jon Moxley-Kenny Omega is AEW's biggest rivalry for company's biggest summer

Even four-plus years into its existence, AEW still has that magic of being able to get its fans excited by just having two guys step into the ring. Just the sight of a certain matchup coming to fruition — be it simply a fantasy booking dream, a high point in another well-told story, or some combinat...

by Sam Fels|Jon Moxley

|Fri May 12 2023

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