Articles by John Pollock

On Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown, the WWE released another set of special guests that will be appearing on the 25th Anniversary of Raw special later this month.

Monday’s episode of Raw faced steep competition from the College Football Championship game and resulted in a 3.8% drop in audience on the USA Network.

The WWE has announced that Samoa Joe suffered an injury during his match with Rhyno on Monday’s episode of Raw and is out of the “Mixed Match Challenge”.

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the lineups for their three New Beginning cards. The shows will consist of back-to-back nights in Sapporo later this month and culminate with the third show at the Edion Arena in Osaka on February 10th.

On Monday’s episode of Raw, the WWE announced a number of huge names that are scheduled to appear for the 25th Anniversary of Raw on Monday, January 22nd in Brooklyn, New York.

Enzo cleared and back at this weekend’s house shows, Enzo vs. Cedric Alexander announces for Raw in Memphis, Impact Wrestling does its strongest number since August on POP TV, POST Wrestling’s Worst of 2017 Show released, Enzo discusses Neville’s situation and our “Forum Question” on Impact viewing habits.

The WWE has canceled one of the 205 Live events from the upcoming tour, the WWE confirms the status of the remaining two events to POST Wrestling, big angles shot at New Year’s Dash, Chris Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito, ticket information for New Japan’s next Long Beach event, John Cena advertised for appearance at WWE Fast Lane in March & more.

The first episode of SmackDown Live for the new year was a big success, topping all by six episodes of Smackdown throughout 2017.

A big preview of the Wrestle Kingdom 12 card going through all the matches, tickets sold for the Tokyo Dome, New Japan announces video game deal with Fire Pro Wrestling, the first team announced for “Mixed Match Challenge”, Daniel Bryan speaks on WrestleMania, Chris Jericho and Don Callis share details of how New Japan deal came together and lots more.

Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live saw an increase in the program’s audience with the USA Network airing the first hour of the program commercial-free.

The unique experiment of running a live episode of Raw on Christmas Night with a commercial-free first hour at least proved the WWE and USA Network could maintain the core audience.