Welcome to our weekly in-depth review of WWE RAW. RAW is live from Toronto, Canada tonight and we start off the show with Toronto’s own, and WWE Hall of Famer, Edge. Edge gets a loud response from his hometown crowd and looking at his energy as he makes his way to the ring, he looks […]
This week’s Smackdown begins with the WWE roster standing on the stage area, as has become usual in the last couple of weeks, and Triple H is in the ring with Vickie Guerrero and Brad Maddox, which is guarded by the three members of The Shield. Hunter talks about the “firing” of Cody Rhodes that […]
Welcome back to our weekly review of NXT, the development talent show. The show starts off this week with a women’s tag team match, with Bayley and Charlotte (daughter of Ric Flair) versus Alicia Fox and Aksana. The crowd aim plenty of Ric Flair “Woo’s” at Charlotte, a good sign for the rookie second generation […]
The Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden is an interesting release from WWE and it’s nice to see them going into the massive video library at their disposal and putting together a compilation of matches and segments that is a little different to the usual things they put out. The DVD is on three […]
WWE Monday Night RAW opens tonight with HHH standing in the middle of the ring in his suit and tie. Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rolling are standing beside the ring with their championship belts draped over their shoulders. We’re live. HHH introduces the “Face of WWE”, Randy Orton, who hits the ring to […]
Welcome to the first wrestling show review I’ll have written here on Nerdly. NXT is the development system for WWE and is often spoken of as the best wrestling show out there right now, with the deep and excellent development roster that WWE has right now. The show opens up with Corey Graves talking to […]
WWE reinvigorates its pay-per-view line up with a fresh new concept that will answer the question, how far will the Superstars of WWE go for payback? Following on the from the events of Extreme Rules 2013, WWE Payback features WWE roster of superstars try to settle their long simmering grudges and set the stage for […]
The first pay per view following Wrestlemania, Extreme Rules is the one PPV of the year that sees the WWE let their performers loose in matches that are hyped as some of the most dangerous and exciting of the year, with an “anything goes” attitude and all weapons, objects and nefarious means legal… Yeah WWE, […]
Whilst many will decry the WWE for eating up and spitting out it’s wrestling opposition, leaving little-to-no competition on television, it has – in recent years – taken to recognising the history of wrestling and the legacy the company, and those companies it now owns, on modern wrestling. Gone are the days of ignoring the […]
The biggest event on the WWE calendar, Wrestlemania is always guaranteed to feature some of the WWE’s biggest superstars going head to head and this year’s incarnation is no exception to this. Emanating from the home of the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL teams, Met Life Stadium, Wrestlemania 29 is headlined by […]
Bret Hart has had a long and historied wrestling career, from his early days in his fathers promotion Stampede Wrestling, to his time in the WWE and the controversial Montreal Screwjob in 1997; from his days in WCW to his return to the WWE in 2010, Bret Hart is also one of the most famous […]
With WrestleMania 29 just around the corner, the WWE present what is is one of four “hardcore” pay-per-views on the companies yearly schedule (sharing that title with Extreme Rules, Hell in the Cell and TLC), Elimination Chamber. The penultimate pay-per-view before the WWE’s biggest show of the year, the Elimination Chamber is one of the […]
Mick Foley broke into sports-entertainment in 1983 shortly after a fateful trip to see his idol Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka inspired him to pursue his dream. Now, 30 years, 3 personas, 3 WWE Championships, multiple New York Times best sellers and countless bumps and cheap pops later, the WWE brings Mick Foley’s story to DVD and […]
WWE kicks off 2013 with the Royal Rumble and once again The Rock is back and this time he’s setting his sights on CM Punk intending to dethrone him as WWE Champion and regain the title he last held 10 years ago! Plus, 30 or more Superstars compete in WWE’s historic over-the-top rope main event […]
WWE: The Best of Raw & Smackdown 2012 is a look back of the best WWE matches that were (given the title) shown on the WWE universe’s flagship television programmes Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown. Featuring over 25 matches, many cool promos/moments and featuring John Cena, The Rock, Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Triple […]
The final pay-per-view event of the WWE calendar, TLC: Tables/Ladders/Chairs was originally marked out for its innovative high-flying, high-risk matches. However since the departure of many of the WWE’s rope-walking risk takers the TLC PPV has become something of a damb squib, especially considering the event sits in between the much more high profile Survivor […]
Survivor Series is one of WWE’s top pay-per-view’s, along with Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble and Summerslam, and with good reason – it is officially WWE’s second longest running PPV having debuted in 1987 and still continuing to be as relevant today as it was then. Survivor Series 2012 marks the 26th annual show of the PPV […]
