Author: Joe Soriano

Joe helped manage the pro wrestling site Daily DDT from 2017 to 2019. He has appeared in many wrestling podcasts and has had his work featured by mainstream media sites and professional wrestlers themselves. Joe also covers soccer, writing about Tottenham for Hotspur HQ, Real Madrid for A Trip to Cibeles, and general world football for The Trivela Effect.
The 10 biggest WWE returns that could happen after WrestleMania 42
22Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

The 10 biggest WWE returns that could happen after WrestleMania 42

With the Royal Rumble in the past and the Elimination Chamber coming up around the corner, it won't be long before WWE WrestleMania 42 takes place in Las Vegas in what promises to be another entertaining and entirely unpredictable two-night affair. Adding to the excitement and intrigue around the Show of Shows is the possibility of twists and turns during the weekend itself or immediately afterwards on the episodes of Raw and SmackDown, which are usually the best of the year after 'Mania concludes. The biggest possible twists could be created by returning WWE legends and current superstars, either those returning from injury or returning to the company after stints with a certain rival wrestling promotion. With WrestleMania 42 less than two months away, let's take a look at the 10...
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5 wrestlers who could be inside WWE’s mystery crate at Elimination Chamber 2026
20Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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5 wrestlers who could be inside WWE’s mystery crate at Elimination Chamber 2026

WWE is often at its most memorable - and debatably at its best, depending on which type of wrestling fan you ask - when it embraces the truly bizarre, and the mystery crate on the most recent episode of WWE Raw is certainly in that category. It all started with Adam Pearce gazing at a large, unsightly-looking crate sitting upright backstage, interrogating a poor, gawky intern about the whereabouts of this crate, surmising that the best course of action would be, as is customary in this great country, to simply dump the problem on somebody else. That somebody else would be Nick Aldis, the General Manager of SmackDown. Now, it's unlikely Aldis is going to be able to do much of anything of consequence with this large box, given the clear instructions to NOT open this crate until Februar...
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Ranking every Women’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 wrestler by their chances of winning
19Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Ranking every Women’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 wrestler by their chances of winning

The WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Premium Live Event will take place on ESPN Unlimited this coming February 28, live from Chicago, Illinois, and among all the enticing matches on the card, none of them pops out more than the Women's Elimination Chamber match. All six competitors still have yet to be announced with two big qualifying matches remaining on SmackDown and Raw, respectively, but the field that has been announced thus far, as well as the participants announced for the qualifying matches, is absolutely loaded - and a subtle reminder to Triple H that there is a lot of talent in the WWE Women's Division that he could be utilizing better. Regularly, the Women's Elimination Chamber, WarGames, and Money in the Bank matches have been the most entertaining in WWE, with the women of ...
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Ranking every Men’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 wrestler by their chances of winning
18Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Ranking every Men’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 wrestler by their chances of winning

WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 will emanate from the United Center in Chicago on Feb. 28, and following Roman Reigns's Royal Rumble victory, the match to determine the other world championship opponent at WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas feels ripe for a potential surprise. Currently, the two main male champions in WWE are World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk on Monday Night Raw and Undisputed WWE Champion Drew McIntyre over on the SmackDown side. Punk and Roman have been on a collision course for 'Mania 42 after their feud in 2024 and 2025 culminated in a Triple Threat match that actually led to a victorious Seth Rollins - and Paul Heyman defecting to The Architect to create The Vision faction. So Roman and Punk is one match squared away, and now, the Elimination Chamber will tell us McI...
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WWE might be ready to give Jacob Fatu his biggest push yet
6Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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WWE might be ready to give Jacob Fatu his biggest push yet

WWE have set Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes on a collision course for one of the most highly anticipated matches of WrestleMania 42 weekend for the WWE Championship that Drew finally vanquished Cody for. McIntyre's fourth world title victory in WWE is a particularly crowning achievement, because it is the culmination of Drew truly taking his game to another level with his heel character, becoming one of the most must watch characters and promos in the entire industry. Rhodes is already entrenched as the new John Cena for WWE, and his status is untouchable at this point. Yet his feud with McIntyre is taking him to new heights, too, because having a heel like this to work with is allowing Rhodes to find new depths to his babyface character. WWE could still make a third big star out o...
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WWE screwed over Bron Breakker more than anyone else
6Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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WWE screwed over Bron Breakker more than anyone else

WWE have been positioning Bron Breakker as one of the new top heels in the company, if not THE up and coming top heel alongside Gunther. He is the leader of The Vision, a faction that includes two massive names in Logan Paul and Paul Heyman. But it is Breakker, the nephew of wrestling legend Scott Steiner, who is the face of it, and he is really starting to come into his own and thrive, especially after working a fiery program with the GOAT of talkers in CM Punk. Breakker nearly had a huge victory to cement his status as the next big thing in WWE in 2026, but he had, like so many others have in the past, the rug pulled out from underneath him. According to a surprising new report from the Wrestling Observer News, at one point WWE actually had Bron Breakker planned to win the 2026 ...
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Sami Zayn finally tried to go into business for himself
6Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Sami Zayn finally tried to go into business for himself

WWE superstar Sami Zayn has been a fan favorite for years, and he is one of the most succesful upper mid carders in the history of the company, joining the likes of The Miz and Dolph Ziggler as recent titans of the Intercontinental Championship seen who can make any match of segment must see. Zayn proved unequivocally that he is one of the most talented wrestlers in the company and a slam dunk world champion with his quality of work in the Bloodline storyline with Roman Reigns, even upstaging the most successful modern day wrestling champion. But WWE never rewarded Zayn with a run at the world title despite his obvious excellence and the fact that wrestling fans around the world were behind Sami Uso more than anyone else on the roster. Zayn is one of those guys always content to h...
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Roman Reigns has quietly taken a page from the Undertaker
5Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Roman Reigns has quietly taken a page from the Undertaker

You would be forgiven for forgetting this important professional wrestling fact, but Roman Reigns was the one who retired The Undertaker at WrestleMania nearly a decade ago. That match ended up being meaningless, because Taker kept taking dates afterwards, largely to cash fat checks from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - and so his real "retirement match" ended up being the Boneyard Match against AJ Styles a few years later during the COVID Era of WWE. Even though Roman's retirement of the Undertaker in a totally forgettable match in which his opponent could barely move has been washed away in terms of impact, Reigns has carried on his legacy in one small way going into another WrestleMania season. The 2026 Royal Rumble winner is on a collision course to face another historic Undertak...
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LA Knight just subtly sent a savage message to Triple H
5Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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LA Knight just subtly sent a savage message to Triple H

LA Knight is someone WWE fans have been waiting a long time to get pushed, and, frustratingly, whenever he has had a ground swell of support from the crowd and the hint of a move from the upper mid card into the true main event scene, WWE have pulled the rug out from underneath him. It has always felt like to the fans that there is an unspoken level of dislike from Triple H towards the Knight character, not believing in him as an "A" player and instead seeing him as a "B" list superstar in WWE. Well, WWE fans have not given up on Knight, and as he is headed for a huge clash with The Vision's leader Bron Breakker on the Road to WrestleMania 42, the crowd is giving LA Knight quite the raucous reception. On the most recent episode of Raw after the Royal Rumble in which Knight and Bre...
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We all know which WWE legend Gunther is retiring next
5Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

We all know which WWE legend Gunther is retiring next

Gunther is one of the hottest commodities in professional wrestling right now, retiring two of the GOATs - in very different ways - these past couple of months. Because after choking out John Cena in his retirement match, Gunther did indeed end AJ Styles's career where it all began at the Royal Rumble. The Legend Killer Randy Orton was one thing, but Triple H and WWE are creating a different monster entirely with Gunther, who has been a rousing success since stepping foot at the E but has truly exploded in to a phenomenon entirely in the last year or two. A perfect technician in the ring and now a breakout character outside of it as one of the most compelling mic workers with his quick wit, Gunther has the character, the in ring style, and even the look of a world class heel. And ...
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