During SmackDown last night (Sept. 12), WWE booked a couple championship matches for the road to Wrestlepalooza next week. These won’t require the ESPN app, and will instead air on free(ish) TV. First ...

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Continuing their surprise reconnection from SmackDown last night, Paul Heyman busted through the crowd to interrupt Alicia Taylor so he could deliver the ring ...

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Over the past two months, "WWE SmackDown" has recorded its lowest viewership numbers of the year, with the program struggling to draw above the 1.5 million mark over the summer. Although last week's ...

Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report. In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving ...

Lesnar and Heyman have reconnected on SmackDown. After opening SmackDown with chaos — manhandling Michael Cole and destroying Corey Graves with two F-5s — an even more surprising interaction occurred.

Look, I’ve been covering wrestling for longer than some of these superstars have been breathing, and let me tell you something – tonight’s SmackDown feels different. There’s electricity in the air, ...

SmackDown got off to an unexpected start. Michael Cole was supposed to conduct a sit-down interview with Brock Lesnar backstage later in the show, but was told in his headset that Brock wanted “to do ...

WWE Wrestlepalooza was a road bump on John Cena's retirement tour. Cena made his entrance with over a dozen kids dressed in yellow "The Last Time is Now" t-shirts." Continuing their surprise ...

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s weekly review of "WWE SmackDown," the show where Brock Lesnar is back, Cody Rhodes is back, the men's US title open challenge continues to be back, and Nia Jax is still ...

Welcome to Bleacher Report's live coverage of WWE SmackDown on January 19. This was the final show before WrestlePalooza, so it was the last chance WWE had to hype up its newest PLE. Cody Rhodes and ...