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The Tribal Chief’s Mob Boss Storyline is Brewing Roman Reigns, WWE’s Tribal Chief and Universal Champion, may be laying the foundation for a potential “Mafia-style storyline (according to Paul Davis of wrestlingnews.co) with his family in which he is a sort of “mob boss” type figure at the “head of the table” (Reigns used that … Read moreWWE Smackdown 9/25/2020

Cesaro possibly a Potential Top Star Cesaro has clearly emerged as the top star of his tag team with Shinsuke Nakamura. This can be seen dating all the way back to WrestleManiia 36 when Cesaro defeated Drew Gulak in a singles match on the pre-show on Night 1 of the event. Cesaro, one half of … Read moreWWE SmackDown 9/18/2020

Heyman’s Mastery Paul Heyman is an absolute master of ring psychology. There is a major difference to how he behaves as Brock Lesnar’s advocate (with a much more free-flowing, confident authoritative tone in his voice) and the way he conducts himself as the “special counsel” for Roman Reigns (with a more subservient attitude and he … Read moreWWE SmackDown 9/11/2020

Bayley and Sasha Banks are finally starting their Breakup Storyline after it was Postponed Twice due to the Pandemic Bayley and Sasha Banks have finally started their breakup storyline which was originally planned to start right before WrestleMania 36. That was pushed back due to the pandemic hitting, so Mr. McMahon and everyone else involved … Read moreWWE SmackDown 9/4/2020

The week of 8/23 – 8/28 was arguably the greatest week of Roman Reigns’ WWE career. He returned at SummerSlam on August 23, followed by some extremely significant character development on the following episode of SmackDown. Many fans on the Internet have speculated about Roman possibly becoming a Paul Heyman Guy for a couple of … Read moreWWE SmackDown 8/28/2020

WWE moved its tapings from the WWE Performance Center – which is essentially a glorified gym for WWE superstars – to the Amway Center (also in Orlando). This is a much bigger arena, so it will simply give superstars more room to be able to spread out and have more of their own space. The … Read moreWWE ThunderDome Debut 8/21/2020

Bray Wyatt clearly has the most creative character in WWE; there are so many different facets and layers to it. There is a cult leader Bray who resides in a swamp, the entirely separate saga with Sister Abigail, who has taken on a mythical presence of her own; and then there is The Fiend – … Read moreWWE SmackDown 7/31/2020

First Vince McMahon reportedly loved the promo Matt Riddle cut on July 3 – we can expect to see more promos like that with anecdotal storytelling from Riddle. Vince McMahon sees some similarity between Matt Riddle and a young Shawn Michaels – because they both have a little bit of a “rebel” attitude that does … Read moreWWE SmackDown 7/10/2020

Rest in Peace There is nothing I can say about The Undertaker that hasn’t been said a million times before other than how it affected me personally to learn that the Boneyard match with AJ Styles at WrestleMania 36 will officially be Taker’s last (no one knew that at the time). It truly makes my … Read moreWWE SmackDown 6/26/2020

It was very cool of WWE to showcase its adaptability on-the-fly by having two triple threat singles matches for the SmackDown tag team championship for the first time ever in the last two weeks since WrestleMania. I reference the adaptability piece because WWE had to make last minute adjustments due to The Miz pulling out … Read more8-Time Champs

The March 13 edition of SmackDown on FOX was truly unprecedented as it was the first ever episode of Raw or SmackDown to be held at the WWE Performance Center (PC). NXT additionally aired live from the PC this week. This was also the first WWE event to ever be held with zero fans in … Read moreSmackDown 3/13/2020

Goldberg’s Title Reign Most WWE fans don’t like it, but the Universal Title was put on Goldberg for two reasons. The first is so Roman Reigns is more likely to be cheered at WrestleMania 36. This is Mr. McMahon’s primary goal, and he figured that since The Fiend is so new, fresh, and intriguing, fans … Read moreSmackDown 3/6/2020