Nicholas Holicki

Do you remember when The Hobbit was split across three movies, with barely a reason for doing so? That’s kind of how I felt heading into this week’s SmackDown. We’re […]

It’s the week before Survivor Series, and I’m already over it. Not the matches, those should be great.  WWE rarely disappoints in that regard. It’s the build. The convoluted, meandering, […]

I don’t hate WWE. I may gripe, complain, bellyache, bleat, moan and generally stir up a hullabaloo every now and then. But it’s not because I hate the product, and […]

A month can feel like an eternity in the wrestling world. It’s the length of time it took Shane McMahon to go from ‘Best in the World’ to unemployed and […]

It’s amazing how closely wrestling resembles my own personal life. In the sense that just like the graps, my week starts slow, peaks around the midpoint and then hopelessly peters […]

To appreciate where we find ourselves heading into this week’s Raw, we have to look back at how things stood seven days ago. At the close of last Monday night, […]

A few days ago SmackDown advertised the tantalising prospect of New Day vs. The Revival, Nikki Cross leading a contingent against Bayley and two partners, and Bray Wyatt appearing on […]

Just three days before WWE’s biannual trip to Saudi Arabia and it feels like the world’s attention is firmly locked on everything other than the problematic pay-per-view. Because when confronted […]

SmackDown faced a tough task this week: trying to create excitement for a pay-per-view that had none going in. The blue brand’s contribution to the second of WWE’s biannual Saudi […]

If Raw has been successful in one respect, it’s ensuring that no star gets above their station. Whether intentionally or otherwise, there’s a certain band that WWE prefers its talent […]

By far the biggest issue plaguing SmackDown of late has been the sheer boredom of it all. And whether that was the fault of Eric Bischoff (doubtful) or the ever-present […]

There’s little doubt that WWE’s latest reinvention has largely been an unmitigated disappointment. Raw and SmackDown’s “season premieres” were underwhelming, Monday’s follow-up was lackluster and the blue brand’s most recent offering […]