
On Thursday, Sports Illustrated broke an “exclusive” story about a shift in WWE’s upper management. Effective…

Last Wednesday, All Elite Wrestling and WarnerMedia made a longstanding wrestling rumor official when they announced…

Longtime pro wrestling interviewer “Mean” Gene Okerlund died today, WWE announced. He was 76.

Ric Flair’s visit to a Fort Wayne bar lasted roughly five minutes, as witnesses told Pro Wrestling Sheet and the Ind…

Late-era WCW had a lot of spectacular failures. Here’s one of them! [Vocativ]

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Roddy Toombs, best known for portraying “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in both the former WWF and WCW, is dead at the age of 61 …

On a day when we mourn the death of one of Ric Flair’s biggest rivals, the “Nature Boy” himself took the court…

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