Three times in eight nights, fans of sports and entertainment in Philadelphia were witnesses to pantheon-level greatness and glory. It began with a Saturday night TakeOver in the "City of Brotherly...
I admit, I laughed. I do appreciate a good "troll" moment, especially when it's at the expense of people whom you know are bound to have a harmless freakout. When the first "DOO-doot" of Roman Reigns'...
For a brief moment in December 2015, WWE had found a winning path with their generally-maligned choice of superhero, Roman Reigns. His swath of destruction at the end of TLC, followed by his...
Guys, the Royal Rumble isn't just about the Royal Rumble. Okay, it is, at least in the hearts of most fans, but let's pretend that WWE's annual January extravaganza isn't entirely based around our...
Attitudes toward Roman Reigns have obviously softened in recent times, as anybody with a heart and soul wants nothing for "The Big Dog" except to see him make a full recovery from his recurrence of...
You know things are messed up when the arrival of the well-respected and legendary Rey Mysterio causes 15,000 fans to blow a gasket and react with genuine anger. The problem wasn't Mysterio - it's...
Ask almost any wrestling fan about the Royal Rumble, and it's fair to assume that their eyes will light up in glee. There's something about that heady mix of over-the-top-rope eliminations and...
Let's start off by discussing the title I've chosen for this article, which I'll admit is a little harsh. Ranking all of the NXT TakeOvers from 'worst to best' implies that the lowest events are weak...
There was no doubt what the direction was going to be. When The Rock was set to wrestle CM Punk for the WWE Championship, and John Cena was entered into the Royal Rumble match, Sandra Bullock could've...
"Everyone is eligible to enter," they said. For weeks and weeks, WWE announcers brayed this curious little phrase in regards to the 2012 Royal Rumble match, and it seemed like an odd note to...
We didn't know what bloated was. In April 2018, the 50-man monstrosity that was Greatest Royal Rumble (complete with Performance Center dwellers and a Yokozuna cover band) cracked a window into just...
For WWE fans, the current decade began nine years ago with the somewhat-eccentric "I am The One" campaign for the 2010 Royal Rumble. Stars of the then-modern roster stood before a white background,...
To begin the final year of the decade, the now-PG WWE made the decision to hearken back to the grandiose edginess that defined the Attitude Era that kicked off the millennium. The 2009 Royal Rumble...
The term "bland competence" comes to mind when I think of the 2008 Royal Rumble. By no means was the 20th anniversary of the Rumble a bad show, but rather it was one of those paint-by-numbers events...
Now this is what I'm talking about - a night of just straight-forward good wrestling (mostly), a complete lack of BS and screwiness (mostly), and a big event feel that was enhanced by the final two...
