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Historically Significant Disasters of Wrestling #90: The Lesnar/Reigns Feud of 2018, Part Two By Vectron44 on Jan 11, 2021, 2:05pm EST 11 Saudi or Bust... So when we last left, Vince had suffered from a massive bout of analysis paralysis that resulted in one of the most emotionless and vacuous WrestleMania main events in history that left the WWE Universe stuck with a status quo that they were thoroughly sick of. So, yay? So the question was, where did you go from there? As I said ...

Roman Reigns called out WWE Official Adam Pearce to take issue with his recent action After laying waste to Kevin Owens last week on SmackDown, Universal Champion Roman Reigns called out WWE official Adam Pearce to take issue to with him making the match between KO and Jey Uso that ended in such carnage. He also wanted Pearce to explain himself after he made a Gauntlet Match to determine The Big Dogs next challenger at Royal Rumble this week -- pitting Rey Mysterio, Sami Zayn,  Shinsuke Nak...

Adam Pearce won a gauntlet match to be declared the No. 1 contender to Roman Reigns for the Universal Title at the 2021 Royal Rumble event.

– During a recent interview with Sportskeeda, NXT World champion Finn Balor discussed his Universal title match against then-reigning champion Brock Lesnar at the 2019 Royal Rumble event. Below are some highlights from the interview. Balor on his match with Brock Lesnar: “That was a great night. Obviously Brock’s reputation proceeds himself. It’s very rare that you get feeling that he brings into the arena. The one thing I remember is that, you know, I’ve done my entrance, his music h...

Finn Balor Pitches an NXT Championship Match at WrestleMania 37 ✖ Though the title has been around since 2012 and has been held by some of WWEs most gifted wrestlers, the NXT Championship yet to be defended at a WrestleMania. Reigning Champion Finn Balor was asked about that very subject in a new interview with Sportskeeda and was pitched the idea of the Royal Rumble winner challenging him just like Charlotte Flair did against then-NXT Womens Champion Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 36. Balors c...

Welcome back to Part Four of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks ...

Welcome back to Part One of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a...

Tonights New Years edition of WWE SmackDown featured a most welcome surprise about midway through the show, as suddenly the camera went backstage and showed Sonya Deville walking down the hallway as other superstars looked on. Deville hasnt been seen on SmackDown since the Loser Leaves WWE [...]

Preview For Tonight’s Episode Of WWE SmackDown ); WWE invades St. Petersburg, Florida at Tropicana Field for tonight’s episode of SmackDown. Here is what’s on tap for the show: – The fallout from last week’s show.  ); – WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E will face King Baron Corbin in a non-title match. – Roman Reigns makes special request of WWE Management in the wake of his Universal Title win over Kevin Owens ); ); We will have live coverage of SmackDown lat...

2020 was not the year any of us expected. But once WrestleMania 36 became a two-night spectacle with no fans in attendance, it quickly became clear that 2020 would be a year that pushed the boundaries of what sports-entertainment could be, whether it was a brawl in a boneyard, a race to the top of WWE Global Headquarters, or simply two grapplers absolutely slugging each other in a hellacious war. Putting together this countdown is a challenge in any year, let alone in an unprecedented one like ...