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| Aug 24, 2023 | WWE Reportedly Declines Contract Request By Edge, Who Is Likely AEW-Bound | Edge may end his career outside of WWE. (Credit: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jan 5, 2023 | WWE Expands A&E Partnership With New Seasons Of ‘WWE Legends’ And ‘Rivals’ In 2023 | 'WWE Rivals' and 'Biography: WWE Legends' will return with new seasons on A&E Network. Credit: WWE |
| Oct 4, 2022 | AEW Ticket Sales Struggle Mightily In Q4 2022 | AEW ticket sales have been struggling.Credit: AEW |
| Jan 22, 2022 | Lio Rush To Leave AEW Amid Diversity Controversy | Lio Rush is leaving AEW. Credit: AEW |
| Aug 21, 2021 | WWE SummerSlam 2021 Results: Becky Lynch Returns Following Pregnancy, A Timeline | Becky Lynch was rumored to return at WrestleMania 37Credit: WWE.com |
| Feb 2, 2021 | WWE Reportedly Planning Roman Reigns Vs. Edge For WrestleMania 37 | WWE superstar Edge peers into a live video feed as he taunts his opponent during the Monday Night ... [+] Raw event at the Staples Center. (Credit Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Los Angeles Times via Getty Images |
| Jan 9, 2021 | WWE Royal Rumble 2021: 3 Dark Horses Who Could Win The Women’s Rumble | WWE Royal Rumble 2021 could feature an unpredictable winner in the women's Rumble match. (Credit: ... [+] Star Shooter/MediaPunch/IPxStar Shooter/MediaPunch/IPx |
| Dec 29, 2020 | Every Brodie Lee Tribute On WWE Raw | WWE Raw opened with a tribute graphic to Jon Huber, AKA Luke Harper. Credit: WWE.com |
| Oct 27, 2020 | IMPACT Wrestling Results: Winners, News And Notes On October 27, 2020 | IMPACT's main event segment featured a wedding between John E. Bravo and Rosemary.Credit: IMPACT Wrestling |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Shane McMahon Announces Raw Underground And Twitter Is Confused | Shane McMahon made his return to WWE Raw. Credit: WWE.com |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Major WWE Star Reportedly Working Without Contract After Raise Request Was Rejected | WWE reportedly rejected a top superstar's request for a raise, and he's now working a major TV feud ... [+] without a contract. (Credit: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Feb 26, 2020 | Yet Another Former WWE Star Will Soon Debut For AEW | AEW is set to debut yet another former WWE star, which has become a bad habit for the upstart ... [+] company.WWE.com |
| Jan 16, 2020 | TNT Renews AEW Dynamite Through 2023, Agrees To Add 2nd Show | BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: (L-R) Kia Stevens aka Awesome Kong, Brandi Rhodes, Cody Rhodes, ... [+] Nyla Rose, and Jack Perry aka Jungle Boy speak onstage at the "All Elite Wrestling" panel during the TBS + TNT Summer TCA... |
| Nov 30, 2019 | Yes, The AEW Full Gear Main Event Is Being Investigated In Maryland | Jon Moxley, trapped in Kenny Omega's scorpion hold, crawls through glass to make it to the ring ... [+] ropes at AEW Full Gear in Baltimore on November 9, 2019. Lee South/AEW |
| Aug 29, 2019 | Report Casts WWE TV Deals As Loss Leaders, Misses Additional Value They Bring | PHILADELPHIA, PA - JANUARY 30 : Roode, Jinder Mahal, Zack Ryder and The New Day match at the Wells ... [+] Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa on January 30, 2018 Credit: Star Shooter/MediaPunch/IPX Star Shooter/MediaPunch/IPx |
| Aug 18, 2019 | AEW Seemingly Purchases 'Wednesday Night War' Domains, Furthering Feud With WWE | AEW appears to have purchased the domains for Wednesdaynightwar.com. Credit: James Musselwhite, All Elite Wrestling |
| Apr 22, 2019 | WWE Raw Results: News and Notes After AJ Styles Becomes No. 1 Contender | AJ Styles defeated Baron Corbin and will face Seth Rollins at WWE Money in the Bank. Credit: WWE.com |
| Jan 12, 2019 | Pro Wrestling Free Agency 2019: Kenny Omega And Key Acquisitions By WWE, AEW, NJPW And ROH | All Elite Wrestling has a full head of steam, and with several major professional wrestling promotions on the prowl for any available wrestler with a name, the top-four promotions have all nabbed big-name free agents as the industry's lands... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Chris Jericho Is The Most Coveted Free Agent In The Industry Amid Launch Of All Elite Wrestling | On New Year's Day, The Elite (Cody Rhodes, the Young Bucks and Adam Page) made their much-anticipated announcement about the rumored All Elite Wrestling promotion. |
| Jun 16, 2018 | WWE NXT TakeOver Chicago II Results: News And Notes After Ciampa Beats Gargano | WWE NXT TakeOver Chicago II will roll out another promising card from a hot city that should continue the trend of self-righteous wrestling hipsters everywhere swearing that NXT [pay-per-view] is superior to WWE [pay-per-view]. |
| Apr 17, 2018 | WWE Raw Swings And Misses On Night 1 Of The Superstar Shakeup | WWE Raw sure looks like SmackDown did before Night 1 of the Superstar Shakeup. |
| Jan 11, 2018 | 5 Reasons A Rising Star Must Win The 2018 WWE Royal Rumble | WWE has made an unnecessary habit out of booking established stars to win the Royal Rumble. |
| Aug 19, 2017 | This Week In WWE Biz: Daniel Bryan Return, John Cena Vs. Roman Reigns?, Brock Lesnar Plans, More | |
| May 13, 2017 | This Week In WWE Biz: Roman Reigns Plans, Brock Lesnar Vs. Finn Balor?, John Cena's Hiatus, More | |
| Apr 21, 2017 | Japanese Tape Trading Is the Vinyl of Professional Wrestling | Longtime Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online contributor Alan Counihan started buying Japanese wrestling footage from IVP Videos in the early 2000s. Despite being in an age where DVDs are starting to become less relevant than ever before,... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | WWE WrestleMania 33 Is Selling Entertainment, Not Pro Wrestling | WWE WrestleMania 33 features top wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, John Cena and The Undertaker, but it's not a pro wrestling show. |
| Mar 18, 2017 | This Week In WWE Biz: Brock Lesnar Vs. Roman Reigns?, Goldberg's Future, Matt Hardy Return, More | Brock Lesnar Vs. Roman Reigns At WWE WrestleMania 34? |
| Jan 21, 2017 | This Week In WWE Biz: AJ Styles Feud, Roman Reigns vs. The Undertaker?, Goldberg Plans, More | The Undertaker Vs. Roman Reigns Possible For WWE WrestleMania 33, Other Plans Discussed |
| Nov 28, 2016 | How Pro Wrestling Fans Watched Foreign Matches Before the Internet | Nowadays it's pretty easy to watch pro wrestling from all over the world. With just a credit card and a reliable internet connection, you can watch anything from WWE's WrestleMania to New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual Tokyo Dome event. But b... |
| Oct 8, 2016 | This Week In WWE Biz: Goldberg Vs. Brock Lesnar, Chris Jericho Plans, Dolph Ziggler Retiring?, More | Goldberg Vs. Brock Lesnar Still Expected For WWE Survivor Series |
| Oct 7, 2016 | Bill Goldberg And An Oral History Of WWE Superstars Who Want A WrestleMania Match With Brock Lesnar | Everybody wants to fight Brock Lesnar. |
| Oct 1, 2016 | This Week In WWE Biz: Roman Reigns Plans, Jeff Hardy Return, Kevin Owens Wants Brock Lesnar, More | Kevin Owens And Bobby Lashley Want Brock Lesnar At WWE WrestleMania |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Seth Rollins Suffers Injury At Clash Of Champions | The RAW roster may be dealt a major blow soon. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, Seth Rollins suffered an injury at last night's 'Clash of Champions' PPV during his WWE Universal Championship match with Kevin Owens. |
| Apr 2, 2011 | Will Social Media Save WrestleMania 27? | Well, maybe not “save” WrestleMania, but help ensure it does better than last year’s edition, WrestleMania 26, which, at well under one million pay-per-view buys worldwide, was considered a bit of a disappointment. What’s different this yea... |
| Mar 12, 2011 | Nintendo Begins 3DS Demo Tours Around The U.S., Canada | The Nintendo 3DS is still a few weeks away from release here in North America (March 27, to be exact), but that doesn’t mean you can’t play with it right now. Nintendo has begun a series of demo events in cities around the country where you... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | MPAA: Despite Piracy, 2010 Was Record Year For The Movie Business | The Motion Picture Association of America says [PDF] the movie industry had its biggest year ever last year. This, despite the fact that folks like the “US Copyright Group” have gone after people for ruining said industry. Down is up, black... |
| Feb 6, 2011 | How Does UFC's New & Improved Internet Pay-Per-View Stream Compare To The 'Real' Thing? | NeuLion announced a deal a few days ago to bring “a brand new service for UFC offering the most interactive, far-reaching digital experience yet.” Last night’s UFC 126 was the first pay-per-view event to receive the NeuLion treatment, so I ... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | Will WrestleMania Be The Next ‘Big’ Event To Go 3D? | Word on the street (“the street” being this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, which is behind a paywall, sorry) is that WWE is looking to film WrestleMania in 3D this year. The event, which takes place on April 3 in Atlanta, would be th... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | More Athletes (Namely Ryan Babel) Show Us Exactly How Not To Use Twitter | Another day, another irresponsible use of social networks getting people in trouble. There’s actually two things here. Number one concerns Ryan Babel, who plays for Liverpool in England. Liverpool played Manchester United, their eternal riv... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | EA Sports MMA Producer Confirms EA Sports MMA 2 In Radio Interview | “There is definitely going to be an EA Sports MMA 2.” That’s the big news coming out of yesterday’s Figure Four Daily interview with EA Sports MMA producer Jeff Ecker, who said that it’s not “if” but “when” there will be a sequel. So, hoora... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Analyst: Call Of Duty: Black Ops To Sell 20 Percent Fewer Copies Than Modern Warfare 2 | We may be seeing the first signs that, just as people tired of World War II shooters, they may also be tiring of more modern variants. (Well, maybe the second signs. Medal of Honor may have gotten the first of the “OK, we’ve done this befor... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | Decline In DVD Sales & Rampant Piracy Force Indie Wrestling To Internet Pay-Per-View | Flickr’d
The move to all-digital distribution is already well under way, and it poses a problem for businesses that have based themselves around the sale of shiny plastic discs. That, combined with the rampant piracy of these discs when the... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | EA Sports MMA: ‘Dead On Arrival’ At Retail | EA Sports MMA went on sale last week. The first week’s sales? Not too good, which furthers the idea that it’s not mixed martial arts (MMA) that’s hot right not, but rather it’s UFC that’s hot right now. A Cowen & Company analyst has cal... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Is WWE NXT's Move From SyFy To The Internet A Sign Of TV's Future? | An NXT success: Wade Barrett
It’s been quite a few years since WWE has been on the forefront of pop culture, but now, possibly because of a forced hand, it once again finds itself blazing trails. Its newest TV show, NXT, a reality-type show... |
| Sep 23, 2010 | Good Old Games Re-Launches (But Its Servers Are Overwhelmed) | Good Old Games has re-launched, but it looks like the site is having some growing pains. If you’re lucky enough to get the site to resolve this morning, you can expect to run into all sorts of server errors. Good luck buying Baldur’s Gate a... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | Dr. Wagner, Jr. leaves AAA for CMLL: How does this affect AAA: Heroes del Ring video game? | Huge news that may affect the release of AAA: Heroes del Ring, the lucha libre game that I very much enjoyed at E3 last month. The deal is that Dr. Wagner, Jr. was supposed to be on the cover of the game because his team won a match right t... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes) | I must be seeing things… is that an official WWE YouTube page, and one that already has last night’s episode of Monday Night Raw online? This is so unlike WWE, embracing technology. They must have hired someone new in recent weeks, someone ... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Hulk Hogan gets his own show on Sirius XM, brother | Whatcha gonna do, brother, when you sign a one-year contract with TNA Wrestling, but still want to keep your name in the news? You get a radio show on Sirius XM, of course, dude. That’s right: starting this Monday, you, me, and anyone else ... |
| Mar 12, 2010 | Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE | All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they’ve bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you’ve bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kind... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Ring of Honor figures out the Internet, launches video download store to discourage BitTorrent piracy | Credit to Ring of Honor, the professional wrestling promotion, for embracing the Internet era. The promotion has launched a new download store that makes its extensive video library only a $10 download away. A legal download, mind you. It’s... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | TNA Wrestling can trend on Twitter just fine, but can it draw actual TV ratings? (No.) | We’re all well aware that Twitter represents man’s best chance of Redemption. No one’s disputing that. What is in dispute today is just how representative Twitter is of The Real World. Case in point: TNA Wrestling made its long awaited move... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | DVRs, more mature Internet will prevent TNA from re-igniting the Monday Night Wars against WWE | The best numbers I could find suggest that 30 percent of homes in the U.S. have access to a DVR. That doesn’t seem like a lot, no, but it’s already had an undeniable impact on the way TV studios evaluate their shows. Lost, The Office, and T... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year | Get it, blizzard?
It’s earnings call season, and while no news is more shocking than the fact that WWE will drop the Survivor Series, there’s something for World of Warcraft fans. And, really, who isn’t a fan of World of Warcraft. Anyhow, y... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | EA to broadcast Strikeforce fight on EA Sports MMA Web site on Saturday | Strikeforce will air, for free, an MMA fight on the EA Sports MMA Web site this Saturday. It’s Jay Hieron vs. Joe Riggs, which is just one fight that’s part of a much larger card, one headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Marius Žaromskis. Presumably ... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | UFC's Dana White throws down, vows to go after Internet pirates no matter the cost | Do not expect UFC to look the other when it comes to online piracy of its various pay-per-view events. Dana White, the company’s president, recently told the Vancouver Sun that he and the UFC will do whatever it takes to eliminate piracy. “... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Believe and you'll achieve: British Army launches get-fit podcast. Clearly Hulk Hogan uses it. | Absolutely brilliant. The British Army has produced a series of podcasts (hence the story’s appearance here) designed to get you, the average loaf-about, into tip-top shape. Let’s give ’em a listen, shall we?
So the podcast is free, of cour... |
| Jan 2, 2010 | Fox, Time Warner Cable agree to deal: Your NFL football is safe! | Fox an Time Warner Cable struck a deal last night that prevented the unthinkable: no NFL football (and Fox News, and Fox Soccer Channel, etc.) for millions of Americans in the some of the biggest TV markets in America, like New York City an... |
| 2010 | So what were the ‘Happy 2010!’ glasses like? | Happy 2010, people who count from Anno Domini using the Gregorian calendar! I greeted the new year by saying, sometime well after midnight, “Oh, it’s 2010 already.” I was playing the PC version of Call of Duty 4, which is demonstrably bette... |
| Dec 31, 2009 | Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked | Hurry up, sports fans, for today’s the last day you can submit a message to the KEO space capsule. The idea is to have a bunch of people write an epic message, then in 50,000 years it’ll return and give future people the messages. I have no... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Conspiracy theory: Is EA setting up EA Sports MMA to flop in order to secure the UFC license later on? | Here’s a conspiracy theory for you (someone call Jesse Ventura): is EA Sports MMA intentionally going to stink in order for EA Sports to lose the Strikeforce license and later acquire the UFC license? Let’s see.
So here’s the gist of it, as... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Great moments in Twitter: Former UFC star War Machine freaks out at porn party, then taunts the cops via Twitter | You know what’s not smart? Tweeting about being on the lam. Who would do such a thing? If you guessed former UFC fighter turned porn star War Machine you’d be correct.
War Machine (real name Jon Koppenhaver) starred in a season of The Ultim... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App | It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of mixed martial arts, also “known” as UFC. It’s less well-known that, back in my youth, I was a very big pro wrestling fan. (Pro wrestling today is largely unwatchable.) When I was 15 I subscribed to the W... |
| Nov 10, 2009 | Things to do today that have nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2 | I know that there’s a certain of percentage of people who want nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2. It’s all meatheads and explosions, right? I’m inclined to agree to a degree—Opie and Anthony were talking about the game this morning, and a... |
| Nov 7, 2009 | Don't forget to see Fedor knock out Rogers, both of EA Sports MMA, tonight | Consider this a friendly reminder. Tonight at 9pm ET on CBS (in the U.S.; I’m sure there will be plenty of streams, though, which you can find on your own) two of the big stars from EA’s upcoming EA Sports MMA video game will hit each other... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Siren.gif: Microsoft COFEE law enforcement tool leaks all over the Internet~! | It was one of the most sought after applications on the Internet until it was leaked earlier today. And now that it’s out there—and it is all over the place, easily findable by anyone able to use a search engine—we can all move on with our ... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | How do you like that, DVRs didn't kill the television business after all | Here’s a story I first heard on Figure 4 Daily last night while farming for mageweave (no, I’m not lying): not only have DVRs not ruined the TV businesses, as we had been led to believe for so many years, but it turns out that the delayed v... |
| Oct 25, 2009 | The Internet balancing act between wasting time and striving for greatness | Nicholas here, fresh off freaking out over Shogun Rua’s loss last night. (I hate to use the word “robbed,” but Mr. Rua was 100 percent robbed last night. Later today: watching Dream 12!) I just wanted to draw your attention to a New York Ti... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Sad: Captain Lou Albano, who played Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, has died | I am so sorry, you guys. I was AFK yesterday, and no one else on Team CG thought it was important to bring you this sad news: Captain Lou Albano, who you may remember as Mario from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, passed away yesterday. He... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | First sales reports: PSP Go performing ‘within expectations,’ says Sony | So the PS3 Slim was an absolute monster at retail (look at us, using superlative adjectives on a Monday!), selling one million systems since its release. (Keep in mind that’s an old number by now.) How’s the PSP Go doing? It’s doing well, y... |
| Oct 2, 2009 | Video: Fighter freaks out over his terrible stats at EA Sports MMA meeting | “Funny” videos on the Internet are often abysmal, but this one I like. I’d describe it, but suffice to say, that’s why it’s a video. For. You. To. Watch.
In other MMA news, The Ultimate Fighter from the other day, where Kimbo Slice lost to ... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Wipe out Internet piracy, get a ratings boost? Not if you're WWE. | So here’s an interesting look at Internet piracy you may well enjoy. The English Premier League complained the other day that illegal Web streams of live games (from Justin.tv and the like) were eating into its profits. No profits, no Premi... |
| Aug 1, 2009 | EA game doesn't appear to be stumbling block for Fedor to fight in UFC | Here’s an update to something I touched on the other day: Does Fedor’s inclusion in EA’s MMA video game preclude him from fighting in the UFC? Apparently not, if you believe what UFC president Dana White said at a press conference yesterday... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Does Fedor's inclusion in EA MMA game jeopardize any possible UFC fight? | Looks like Fedor Emelianenko will, in fact, be in the upcoming EA MMA video game. Fedor, as he’s known to MMA fans, currently fights in M-1 Global, which is an MMA organization based in Russia. (YouTube helps here.)
This could have conseque... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | Video: Yes, GameTrailers, WWF WrestleMania 2000 is the best wrestling game ever | http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=46521
Ha (n. Peter)! Presenting the best video of the day, the latest episode of GameTrailers’ Screw Attack. It’s sort of a retrospective on the game WWF WrestleMania 2000 for the Nintendo 64.... |
| WWE COO Brad Blum resigns in wake of Vince McMahon sex trafficking lawsuit: report | A top WWE executive reportedly quit after being identified in a bombshell sex trafficking lawsuit filed by a former employee against wrestling mogul Vince McMahon.
WWE Chief Operating Officer Brad Blum, who is not named as a defendant in th... |
