Author: Joseph Rivera

MJF and Tony Khan have proven their brilliance! One of the toughest things for know-it-all wrestling fans to admit is that they’ve been worked. Very rarely in the current age of professional wrestling can a storyline be delivered at such perfection that the lines between reality and story are blurred. MJF and Tony Khan have just done exactly that! How is it a work? During Double or Nothing weekend, multiple reports surfaced about MJF being pushed over the edge of frustration. MJF allegedly no-showed a meet and greet, creating confusion about his status for Double or Nothing. Later on in…

Last night, the main event of Wrestlemania 38 saw Roman Reigns become the Undisputed WWE and Universal Champion. Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar in a match some people are considering to be the worst match of the entirety of Wrestlemania. While the overwhelming masses here at Wrestling Republic do not share the same sentiments of the negative outpour, there always has to be a devil’s advocate. Allow me to take the cake! While literally everyone here at Wrestling Republic disagrees with me, I’ve never been a fan of Roman Reigns. Not as a heel, not as a babyface. Not as the…

For 3 decades the man we know as Triple H has been a staple in the wrestling world. Having wrestled in the decade of the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s, Triple H has earned a legacy unlike any other. Today the wrestling world was hit with unfortunate news… Triple H is hanging up his boots and will never wrestle again. In late 2021, Triple H underwent a near-death experience in which he went into details earlier today with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. Today, Triple H revealed that the incident unfortunately was enough to end his in-ring career. That’s why…

On the 02/16/22 edition of AEW Dynamite, Bryan Danielson floated an idea to Jon Moxley of teaming up. An idea of creating a team hellbent on inflicting unmitigated violence. While snapping arms and caving in skulls, they would simultaneously take young stars under their wing and mold them. Jon Moxley didn’t hate the idea. He liked it, but he couldn’t help but question if Danielson wanted to team up because of what they could accomplish together, or if he was scared of fighting Moxley. Moxley ended up making his case clear. He directly told Danielson that he doesn’t team with…

The term “next big thing” in the wrestling business is as clear as it sounds. It’s used to describe the next big star on the rise. The person who will take the torch passed to them from the last star and carry it for years to come. In 2002, none other than Brock Lesnar was dubbed “The next big thing.” He was paired with Paul Heyman and would take the torch handed by The Rock. It was Brock Lesnar’s “rookie year” and he defeated The Rock for the WWE Championship at Summerslam. The rest is history. Exactly 20 years later,…

Brock Lesnar made his WWE return for the first time since Wrestlemania 36 at this past year’s Summerslam. He made his intentions clear when his first order of business was to confront The Tribal Chief Roman Reigns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurQNKxcm24 Since then, Reigns and Lesnar have been bickering back and forth for months with only one match to show for it at Crown Jewel last October. The two were set to square off for the Universal Championship at WWE Day 1 in January. Unfortunately, Reigns tested positive for Covid-19 and the match was postponed. Here we are 3 weeks away from the…

This past Wednesday on AEW Dynamite, president and CEO of AEW Tony Khan announced that he has purchased Ring of Honor. The official press release details that Ring of Honor’s video library, brand assets, and intellectual property now belong to Tony Khan. Khan is quoted saying “This deal adds thousands of hours of content to our rapidly growing library and creates new opportunities to expand our footprint on a national and global scale while having the potential to produce new content under the ROH banner.” Photo Credit – f4wonline This new acquisition of Tony Khan opens the door for a…

Last night on Monday Night Raw Edge and AJ Styles jump-started their program for Wrestlemania 38. It was the second straight week that Edge called out anyone in the back hoping for someone to answer the challenge for a Wrestlemania match. The call was answered by none other than The Phenomenal One AJ Styles. Edge made sure to set the record straight by telling AJ Styles that he wants the best version of Styles possible. He wants “bulldog” AJ Styles. After the two set the stage for Wrestlemania, Edge would go on to assault Styles. A brief back and forth…

For the last week a major upcoming announcement from Tony Khan, president of AEW, has been the buzz of the wrestling world. On February 18th, Tony Khan spoke with Busted Open Radio to drop more hints as to what could be in the works. Khan described the upcoming project as “something massive.” Tony Khan proceeded by saying “I don’t know if it’s what anybody would expect it is, or think it is, but it would be a big deal in pro wrestling.” Usually, whenever a huge announcement is teased by Tony Khan it’s almost always a talent signing. However, when…

Do you remember the “Bullet Club boom” of 2013 – 2018? The hype around the group and how they’ve changed the landscape of professional wrestling? Do you remember how Bullet Club was known for its surreal plethora of talent and whenever a member moved on to pursue other things they were instantly replaced by someone of equal magnitude? The group was seemingly immortal. Wrestling’s best of the best have represented this group at some point or another. It wasn’t until core members such as Adam Cole left to go to WWE or The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Cody Rhodes…