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In case you hadn't heard, professional wrestler, actor, and all-around entertainer John Cena took some time during Saturday night's WWE Money in the Bank event to announce that 2025 will be his final year as an active in-ring performer Though he had discussed the idea of retiring from the ring in previous interviews, Cena putting[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WWE Money in the Bank, NBC's Saturday Night Live, The Book of Boba Fett/The Mandalorian, Adult Swim's Uzumaki, Crunchyroll's Kaiju No 8, Prime Video's Cross, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol, AEW Rampage, Prime Video's Sausage Party: Foodtopia, Paramount+'s Evil, Prime Video's The Boys, Smiling Friends/Rick and Morty,[...]

AEW star Mercedes Moné, like many other of her contemporaries, found a second life in Hollywood outside of the wrestling ring during her time in WWE on the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian Rather than use her company moniker at the time "Sasha Banks," Moné decided to be credited as her real name, Mercedes[...]

WWe and SDCC go together like peanut butter and jelly, thanks to the yearly panel and exclusive from Mattel the team over there does a phenomenal job getting us the figures we want, exclusive or not, and this year will be no different Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Wrestlemania, this year's exclusive is an Ultimate[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Crunchyroll's My Hero Academia, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, WWE Clash at the Castle, SNL: Anthony Michael Hall & Robert Downey, Jr., AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon-The Book of Carol, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, CNN Biden/Trump Debate, Charles Barkley, Kate Middleton, Netflix's 3 Body Problem, The X-Files/David Duchovny, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]

Beginning this Tuesday, Vice TV and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dany Garcia, and their Seven Bucks Productions banner kick off a four-episode examination of the rise & fall of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) with the docuseries Who Killed WCW? Featuring exclusive interviews with wrestlers, executives, and insiders with firsthand knowledge of what went down – all[...]

Beginning on June 4th and over the course of four episodes, Vice TV and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dany Garcia, and their Seven Bucks Productions banner examine the rise & fall of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) with the docuseries Who Killed WCW? Featuring exclusive interviews with wrestlers, executives, and insiders with firsthand knowledge of what went[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OG Voice Cast, Adult Swim's Smiling Friends, Parks and Recreation/Patton Oswalt, BBC's Doctor Who, Max's Lanterns, WWE King and Queen of the Ring, HBO's The Righteous Gemstones, Prime Video's The Boys, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Apple TV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, NBC's Saturday Night Live, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and[...]

Well, it looks like "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio is going to have some serious explaining to do when "Mami" Rhea Ripley learns what went down during the WWE Women's World Championship at WWE King and Queen of the Ring Vowing to challenger Liv Morgan that he would do whatever it took to make sure she doesn't[...]

"A couple of people have approached me to potentially play different wrestlers in different projects, and for me, I just have to make sure that there's a real story there, and I'm not just doing it because I'm a fan." Mick Foley's wildest moments: WWE Playlist Hauser feels he fits a particular mold to play certain wrestlers[...]

By the time the dust settled on Thursday, we knew where all of the WWE's main programming would be ending up by the end of the year and into 2025 We have WWE NXT moving to CW in October of this year, and we have WWE Raw remaining on USA Network through 2024 (with a[...]

The past 12 months have been interesting in terms of the WWE and its television rights deals In September 2023, we learned that SmackDown would be moving to USA Network from FOX beginning in October 2024 after a new five-year deal was reached between the professional wrestling company and NBCUniversal (with the WWE set to[...]

Shortly after the French crowd at WWE Backlash put a lot of other crowds to shame with its intensity (seriously, check out the highlights), the WWE and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced that the place in Nevada that serves as the home to that huge advertising sphere that just begs to be[...]

Evan Husney & Jason Eisener released an overview & promo for Dark Side of the Ring Season 5 finale "Black Saturday: The Rise of Vince."

Set to debut on June 4th, the docuseries Who Killed WCW? features exclusive interviews with wrestlers, executives, and insiders with firsthand knowledge of what went down, offering their respective insights into how a professional wrestling company that once looked poised to take down the WWF/WWE ("The Monday Night Wars") ended up crashing & burning as[...]

Their goal? To offer some insight into how a professional wrestling company that once looked poised to take down the WWF/WWE ("The Monday Night Wars") ended up crashing & burning after a number of head-scratching decisions inside and outside of the ring. Image: WWE Screencap "The iconic rise and fall of WCW is one of professional wrestling's[...]

Vince McMahon and his legal team have responded to the bombshell lawsuit filed against McMahon, WWE, and former WWE executive John Laurenitis with a motion attempting to force the dispute into arbitration McMahon's lawyers claim that since the nondisclosure agreement former employee Janel Grant signed in exchange for 3 million dollars originally specified that any[...]

As WWE loves to tout its achievements, one centered around its Hall of Fame Class of 2024 and the induction of its first Attitude Era promoter in Extreme Championship Wrestling's Paul Heyman, currently serving as manager as "Wiseman" to former Universal Champion Roman Reigns To many in the wrestling industry, he provided a lifeline to[...]

It's hard to argue against the epic success of WWE's two-night premium live event specular in WrestleMania LX From the top of the card down, a huge part of that was in part due to the passionate ring announcing of Samantha Irvin, from the glorious ring entrances to the epic calling of the title changes[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, WWE WrestleMania XL, Babylon 5, Michael Rosenbaum/Lex Luthor, Alan Ritchson/Batman, Netflix's That '90s Show, CBS's S.W.A.T., FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX's Justified, CW's Superman & Lois, Twin Peaks/Kyle MacLachlan, FX's Grotesquerie, Prime Video's The Boys, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, and more! Images/Screencaps: The Walt Disney Company, CW, DC[...]

How's this for timing? A day after Finn Bálor – who holds the WWE's Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship belts with his Judgement Day partner Damian Priest – helped us make our case for why The Gang from FXX's Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson & Danny DeVito-starring It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia[...]

With WWE WrestleMania XL (WrestleMania 40) set to be unleashed throughout Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia this Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, April 7, we're getting our first official look at The Grandest Stage of Them All – courtesy of The Ninja Kidz, Kayla Braxton, and Jackie Redmond – and who can forget sponsor WWE 2K24?[...]

Set to premiere on April 1st and narrated by Mark William Calaway (The Undertaker), Peacock and WWE's Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal spotlights the life & times of Windham Rotunda/Bray Wyatt, professional wrestler, skillful & creative visionary, and family man – including his remarkable career, personal life, and the highs and lows he traveled along the way[...]

Jakks Classic Superstars are, for many people, still the ultimate collection of WWE action figures, but the history of the line and just how special it was had mostly been lost to time Not so anymore, as action figure aficionado and popular YouTuber Kyle Peterson took it upon himself to create The Complete Guide To[...]

Mark Calaway, better known to wrestling fans as The Undertaker, took to his podcast Six Feet Under on his March 18th episode to explain why his match with Sting (Steve Borden) never happened during his five-year run in WWE The World Championship Wrestling legend was the last major holdout superstar amassing two impressive runs with[...]

According to excerpts from the book published by Inside the Ropes, Rousey unleashed a devastating verbal assault on her former boss, disgraced former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon McMahon was forced to resign from WWE and parent company TKO earlier this year after a bombshell lawsuit named McMahon, former head of talent relations John Laurenitis, and[...]

A little more than six months after the tragic passing of Windham Rotunda/Bray Wyatt, the skillful & creative visionary is the subject of Peacock and WWE's Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal Set to premiere on April 1st and narrated by Mark William Calaway (The Undertaker), the upcoming documentary spotlights his remarkable career, personal life, and the[...]

With less than a month to go until WWE unleashes WrestleMania Weekend upon us, tonight's SmackDown has a pretty impressive lineup as the road to the big event rolls on We have the return of Rey Mysterio, Bayley looking for more than a pound of flesh from Dakota Kai, Randy Orton looking to introduce Grayson Waller[...]

During a WWE event, Naomi and Zelina Vega performed the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z as a tribute to Toriyama, who passed on March 1st at the age of 68 The maneuver is used to fuse the participants involved into a single being to help in a fight It's hardly the first time pro-wrestlers[...]

Welcome to our weekly WWE SmackDown preview – and things are getting interesting between Cody Rhodes & World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns as we inch closer to WrestleMania weekend Last week, The Rock acknowledged Reigns as his Tribal Chief – but he[...]