WWE Raw & SmackDown the comments start in Lahore before the opening pyro hits. The screen flickers at five in the morning. Buffering is being complained about. Someone else links to a grainy stream that dies after two minutes. Then comes Monday Night Raw and the camera pans to the entry ramp, and all of … Read more
Top 10 Greatest WWE Matches you go back five years, though. A different sound. a little bell. WrestleMania XII saw Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart wrestle for sixty minutes before it broke, something King of the Ring 1996 couldn’t do. Iron Man wins, 0-0 at the buzzer, and you start to wonder if anything is … Read more
WWE on Netflix for many years, delay was the basis of WWE’s engagement with fans in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. Access, spoilers & broadcasts are all delayed. You lived a little in the background, you saw the results on Twitter before the game, you saw highlights hours later. That division affected how consumers used the … Read more
Not in the ring, not the way he built his career The Pakistani-Indian WWE Star he never lost that sense of urgency.” Not in the ring, not the way he built his career, and most definitely not the way South Asian fans began to relate to him. He was not coming in as the star … Read more
This is where WrestleMania X-Seven will take place WWE WrestleMania somewhere along the line, the company had a change of ownership without any formal announcement. The Attitude Era didn’t need to ask permission. Ladders swingin’ like they got somethin’ personal to prove. The Rock’s eyebrow. Stone Cold’s broken glass. This is where WrestleMania X-Seven will … Read more
When the arena lights go out When the arena lights go out, it is the sound, not the images, that changes first. Roman Reigns comes out slow, almost methodical, as if he already knows the ending to the bout that’s somewhere in the future. A low pulse can be heard from the speakers. The finger … Read more
CM Punk vs Roman Reigns Royal Rumble opens the file. Punk is twenty-eight years old and he’s already got fifteen eliminations under his belt before he even steps into the ring. He draws an early number and survives the chaos longer than anyone expected. He walks in and the temperature of the place shifts. Four … Read more
Cody Rhodes this title run has one problem that is. It moves on his watch. For years, Roman Reigns set the pace like a South Asian metronome that fans couldn’t turn off. Long matches, late kick-outs, the slow grind to inevitability. Instead of trying to out-Roman Roman, Rhodes stepped into that shadow. He changed the … Read more
WWE Superstars that gravitational pull that pull is why John Cena has a loyal fan base. The “you can’t see me” gesture is still a universal sign used by every new generation of viewers who weren’t even alive when he did it. Especially from India, Cena in his prime still gets replayed on highlight reels … Read more
John Cena’s WWE RETIREMENT KEPT charging the ropes The man in the ring has fewer dates left does not make the bell ring softly. You could see it in the way John Cena’s WWE RETIREMENT KEPT charging the ropes, hitting them as if they owed him something, waiting for the half-second pause in the crowd … Read more