The Independent Voice of Mixed Martial Arts
It’s getting real and to keep it real we have to give Becky Lynch credit. The current WWE Smackdown champ got legitimately injured when she took a strike to the face. While it is in character for other female wrestlers to jab at her sometimes it feels like a shoot. Ronda Rousey fired the first … Read more
Despite the recent rumors being reported on wrestling based news sites we will not be seeing WWE’s Paige making an in ring return. A fan asked her on Twitter about doctor clearance for her neck injuries and she quickly shot the question down. Well, there you have it. She will not be coming back to … Read more
I love pro wrestling even though my editor Jack Bratcher still calls it ‘rasslin’. Ahem…Jack I’m looking at you. I occasionally watch Ring of Honor and New Japan when I can but I actively avoid the horrid product that WWE corporate is pumping out today. Rarely I will look up local and regional promotions to … Read more
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter former WWE champion Roman Reigns has started treatment for his leukemia. Reigns has battled it before but its back and the timing could not have been worse. Reigns was being pushed to the moon as the face of the company and the face of a new generation of wrestlers. … Read more
Yesterday we reported that Brock Lesnar was close to signing or had already signed a new WWE deal which could interfere with his return to the UFC. Lesnar was supposed to return to face Daniel Cormier for the heavyweight championship but as we saw last weekend that didn’t happen. DC successfully defended his title against … Read more
WWE insider Dave Meltzer of MMAFighting has potentially uncovered a deal between Brock Lesnar and WWE that could squash his planned fight with heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier. Here’s what he is reporting… With Reigns out, Lesnar got a new offer from (Vince) McMahon to replace Reigns as his top singles champion. Lesnar agreed secretly to … Read more
WWE almost killed a career when they put a relatively skilled MMA practitioner in a shoot match with Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle on Smackdown. Daniel Puder (8-0 MMA) was a competitor on and eventual winner of their Tough Enough reality show and unbeknownst to WWE at the time he would be a threat in … Read more
First let me give you some back story on this article or it won’t seem like that big of a deal. The short version is that a reporter named Jamal Khashoggi went missing in Saudi Arabia. Over the course of a week details emerged that he wasn’t missing he was murdered by a hit squad, … Read more
Back in the 80’s a wrestler’s finisher was a big deal and that continued until 2002-2003 or whenever Stephanie McMahon stepped in as creative head. Why, God? Why? A finishing maneuver could make or break a wrestler just look at Randy Orton. ‘The Viper’ without the RKO makes him an athletic mid-carder at best and … Read more
WWE Smackdown is moving to the FOX channel in October of next year and fans are getting more excited about it after the reports that have been coming out. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter the comedy shtick that Vince McMahon favors may be over and done with after the Fox era begins. Fox officials … Read more