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Manik Aftab serves as a news writer at Ringside News. He has covered pro wrestling and sports entertainment for a variety of publications, including Sportskeeda Wrestling, The Sportster, and WrestleZone. Outside of his professional duties, Manik likes to indulge in fiction, thrillers, comics, manga, and anime.

Edge Was Against WWE’s Original ‘Supernatural’ Pitch For Judgment Day Stable - Page 107

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Edge Was Against WWE's Original 'Supernatural' Pitch For Judgment Day Stable

WWE pulled a swerve last night on RAW when they made Finn Balor the new leader of Judgment Day. Balor, Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest assaulted Edge after Priest knocked him out cold with a clothesline. Click here for our full coverage of WWE RAW from this week. It was previously reported that Cody Rhodes’ … Read more

Freddie Prinze Jr. Made Michelle McCool Cry With Creative Pitch

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Freddie Prinze Jr. Made Michelle McCool Cry With Creative Pitch

Freddie Prinze Jr. worked two separate stints with WWE. The “Scooby-Doo” actor used to work on the WWE Creative team and the major part of his job description was to pitch storylines for WWE superstars. He recently recalled a story about how he was once approached with creating a storyline between Kharma and Beth Phoenix … Read more

Seth Rollins Mocks Cody Rhodes With Polka Dot Gear At WWE Hell In A Cell

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Seth Rollins Mocks Cody Rhodes With Polka Dot Gear At WWE Hell In A Cell

Cody Rhodes took on Seth “Freakin” Rollins inside the demonic red cell at WWE Hell in a Cell tonight. Cody recently tore his pectoral muscle but refused to go down without a fight. Click here to check out Cody’s gruesome injury that he wrestled through. Click here for our full coverage of WWE Hell in … Read more

IMPACT Wrestling Struggling To Sell Tickets For Slammiversary

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IMPACT Wrestling Struggling To Sell Tickets For Slammiversary

IMPACT Wrestling is returning to Nashville, Tennessee, for this year’s Slammiversary pay-per-view event. For those not in the know, Slammiversary is one of the “big four” pay-per-view events (along with Hard to Kill, Rebellion and Bound for Glory) for IMPACT. Slammiversary usually has a lot of buzz surrounding it but this year seems to be … Read more

Bryan Danielson’s Injury Won’t Keep Him Out Of Action For Long

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Johnny Gargano Wants To Wrestle Bryan Danielson Again

Bryan Danielson introduced AEW to a new form of violence. The American Dragon showed an entirely different and vicious side of himself during his matches with Jon Moxley and Adam Page. Now the Blackpool Combat club member is injured. It was previously revealed that Bryan Danielson was forced to pull out of an AEW fan … Read more

Chris Jericho Originally Came Up With A Different Name For The Jericho Appreciation Society

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AEW Books Blood & Guts & Hair vs Hair Match In Wild Segment On Dynamite

Chris Jericho debuted the Jericho Appreciation Society in the middle of his feud with Eddie Kingston. In addition to Jericho, the society is made up of “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker, Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager, and “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard. All members of the Jericho Appreciation Society sat down on Talk Is Jericho to discuss the … Read more

Women’s Breakout Tournament Finals Announced For WWE NXT 2.0 Next Week

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Women's Breakout Tournament Finals Announced For WWE NXT 2.0 Next Week

WWE announced first-ever Women’s Breakout Tournament last month on NXT 2.0. The bracket originally consisted of Nikkita Lyons, Arianna Grace, Fallon Henley, Sloane Jacobs, Roxanne Perez, Kiana James, Lash Legend, and Tatum Paxley. Click here for our full coverage of WWE NXT 2.0. Nikkita Lyons exited the tournament last week due to an MCL tear. … Read more

Nikkita Lyons Shows Off Knee Brace While Wishing Happy NXT Tuesday

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Nikkita Lyons Shows Off Knee Brace While Wishing Happy NXT Tuesday

Nikkita Lyons made a name for herself on NXT 2.0. The “Lioness of NXT” promised to shut her doubters by winning the Women’s Breakout Tournament. Unfortunately, an MCL tear forced her to exit the tournament. Click here for our full coverage of WWE NXT 2.0. Nikkita may be out from the tournament but she continues … Read more

Kevin Dunn Makes Over $1 Million Bag Selling WWE Stock

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WWE turned public after Vince McMahon decided to rename Titan Sport, the company he and Linda McMahon founded during the eighties, to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment. But Vince isn’t the only top-level executives to hold company shares. Kevin Dunn, another top company official, recently sold more than 10,000 shares of WWE price of $66.70, totaling … Read more

CM Punk Cuts Promo For Fans After AEW Double Or Nothing

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CM Punk entered the main event at Double or Nothing with nothing to lose and walked out of the arena with a big gold belt on his shoulder. Yes, you read that right. Punk is the new AEW World Champion. After the show was over, the Second City Savior had a lot to say.

Click here for our full coverage of AEW Double or Nothing.

Punk beat “Hangman” Adam Page to win the AEW World Championship in the main event of Double or Nothing. The “Best in the World” reversed a Buckshot Lariat into a GTS for the win.

After the show was over, Punk thanked the crowd for coming out and supporting the company. The newly-crowned AEW World Champion was then joined by ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR before he began his victory speech inside the ring.

Punk thanked the whole AEW locker room, saying if it wasn’t for them he wouldn’t been in the company in the first place. He also thanked the fans for making him and FTR the best performers in the world.

The Second City Saint put over his wife, former WWE star AJ Lee, huge. Punk said his wife had always been supportive of him. The crowd gave a huge ovation to the performers after Double or Nothing came to a fitting conclusion.

You can check out the video below. Obviously, CM Punk got his AEW World Title reign off to a good start.

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Huge Tag Team Match Announced For AEW Dynamite

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AEW Announces 16-Man Tag Team Match For Dynamite Tonight

AEW World Tag Team Champions Jurassic Express successfully defend their titles in a triple-threat tag match against Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Keith Lee, and Swerve Strickland at Double or Nothing. They champs will be in action this Wednesday on Dynamite. Click here for our full coverage of AEW Double or Nothing. AEW booked a huge … Read more

Andrade Family Office Gets Powerful New Business Partner At AEW Double Or Nothing

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Andrade El Idolo is one of the best, if not the best, wrestlers in the world. Andrade put on a banger every time he’s in the ring. Andrade had been looking for a new business partner for his Family Office. His quest ended at Double or Nothing tonight.

Click here for our full coverage of AEW Double or Nothing.

AEW ran a vignette featuring Andrade and his assistant Jose at Double or Nothing tonight. El Idolo said he hated to lose and that the Family Office had become a bunch of joke. The two heard a knock on the door and Andrade asked Jose to go get it. Entered former ROH World Champion RUSH.

For those not in the know, Andrade and Rush has a history together. The two were once part of New Japan star Tetsuya Naito’s Los Ingobernable De Japon’s faction. Andrade left for WWE. RUSH became a top star in Ring of Honor. We’ll have to wait and see what’s next in store for the Andrade Family Office now that RUSH is business partners with Andrade.

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Fourth Member Of House Of Black Revealed At Double Or Nothing

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The House of Black have been wrecking havoc ever since Malakai Black formed the group with Brody King earlier this year. The group further strengthened themselves with the inclusion of Buddy Matthews. They added a new member at Double or Nothing. Click here for our full coverage of AEW Double or Nothing. The House of … Read more