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.
WWE have found the perfect undertone to Bron Breakker’s character
5Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

WWE have found the perfect undertone to Bron Breakker’s character

As the leader of The Vision, Bron Breakker is the de facto leader of the most pushed faction in WWE right now. WWE, whether it is booked by Vince McMahon or Triple H, is infatuated with having a dominant heel faction running the table. And even in a faction with a name as big as Logan Paul, Breakker is the one WWE are pushing the most at the forefront after Seth Rollins's ousting, placing Breakker on a pedestal next to Paul Heyman, who isn't going to attach his name next to a flop at this stage of his career. Breakker has shown more layers to his character than ever before, with his recent spat with CM Punk bringing the best out of him after he was previously a promising but very one dimensional character in WWE, particularly as a babyface. Now working with Heyman, Breakker is emb...
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Seth Rollins is about to change the course of WrestleMania 42 for Roman Reigns and CM Punk
4Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Seth Rollins is about to change the course of WrestleMania 42 for Roman Reigns and CM Punk

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns are the most inextricably linked wrestlers in WWE today. Their past is intertwined through The Shield and so many head to head battles, and while Roman is the one who truly ascended to the summit of this sport, in head to head battle, Rollins usually seemed to have The Tribal Chief's number. Due to injury, Rollins will not be competing at WWE WrestleMania 42 this year, but Reigns will, going after the world title on Monday Night Raw and its new champion CM Punk - another pro wrestler with bitterly bad blood with The Architect. The spats between Punk and Rollins are more recent and arguably just as personal. WWE have been keeping Rollins's recovery under wraps, but there is an unspoken feeling within the WWE fan base that Rollins will not be left out of t...
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WWE fans are all thinking the same thing about LA Knight in 2026
3Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

WWE fans are all thinking the same thing about LA Knight in 2026

Back when he called himself Eli Drake in TNA, LA Knight was known for his gift of gab and for turning any kind of promo or segment given to him by the company into absolute gold. The way he carries himself and his artful deliveries have made the ridiculous name LA Knight, given to him by Vince McMahon in NXT, taken seriously by WWE fans. At points in his still relatively early WWE career, Knight has been one of the most over wrestlers in the company, and despite all the stops and starts over the past few years, including infamously at the 2023 Money in the Bank Premium Live Event, he remains quite popular with fans. In fact, as Knight and Bron Breakker begin to feud in 2026 on the road to WrestleMania after Knight eliminated the leader of The Vision at the Royal Rumble, the raucou...
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WWE have found their Brock Lesnar replacement
3Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

WWE have found their Brock Lesnar replacement

When Brock Lesnar first emerged on the scene in 2002, he exploded and was a Rookie of the Year for WWE. The Beast Incarnate forged decades of dominance, becoming simultaneously one of the most reviled and respected wrestlers in the company. WWE inexplicably brought Lesnar back last year despite his involvement in Vince McMahon's sex trafficking, and the time to remain divested from Lesnar as a member of the WWE product has come. There is no sense in utilizing Lesnar. Instead, WWE need to find a new dominant monster wrestler to position at the top of the card into a heel, and while WWE have honestly known this for years, it has been easier said than done. But now, WWE have a tailor made replacement for The Beast, and that is none other than Oba Femi, the NXT competitor who is now b...
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Gunther is the real reason Chris Jericho isn’t showing up in WWE
3Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Gunther is the real reason Chris Jericho isn’t showing up in WWE

Many WWE fans expected Chris Jericho to show up at the Royal Rumble this year after rampant speculation that he would be leaving AEW and had been negotiating with the E for months to return in Saudi Arabia. Instead, Y2J's music did not hit, and the purported trade between AEW and WWE for AJ Styles and Jericho remains nothing more than a wistful Internet rumor from the AEW faithful. In reality, Jericho may very well be on his way to WWE but simply delayed in his appearance at the largest professional wrestling company due to ongoing contract negotiations regarding the specifics of his return - or even lingering financial details. But if we kayfabe it and say that Jericho is a top competitor in the twilight of his career looking to make one last run to the top in WWE and prove that ...
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Bron Breakker has fully embraced his inner Scott Steiner
3Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Bron Breakker has fully embraced his inner Scott Steiner

Perhaps no pro wrestler has begun to get as vociferous of a push from the WWE brass in late 2025 going into 2026 than the new leader of The Vision, Bron Breakker. Capitalizing fully on the unfortunate injury to Seth Rollins, Breakker is now the face of the biggest faction in the company right now, working alongside Paul Heyman as one of the top heels on Monday Night Raw. Although Breakker was not really a threat to win the Royal Rumble and ended up being eliminated after entering the match second, which will spur a feud between himself and fan darling LA Knight, he ended up boosting himself quite a bit with his diatribe on the enusing episode of Raw. Breakker used to be a pretty drab character, even in NXT, but he is finally starting to light a fire under himself. The work with CM...
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Roman Reigns is proving WWE right for the Paul Heyman betrayal
3Feb By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Roman Reigns is proving WWE right for the Paul Heyman betrayal

When Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman became an item in 2020, everyone knew that WWE were finally striking gold with an extremely talented professional wrestler whom Vince McMahon had been stubbornly shoehorning into a milquetoast babyface role. As usual, Vince was correct in his assertion that he had a future Hall of Famer in his hands in Roman, but it took him a circuitous route in order to finally make The Big Dog, The Tribal Chief. Reigns and Heyman held WWE television as a willing hostage for years, embarking upon what is the greatest modern day title run in history. And as Reigns gears up to face the other professional wrestler who can argue about having the greatest modern title run, CM Punk, at WrestleMania 42, a conclusion is in the minds of wrestling fans after watching the fir...
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Now we know the real reason Austin Theory joined The Vision
20Jan By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Now we know the real reason Austin Theory joined The Vision

Austin Theory was the mystery man who helped The Vision at WWE War Games at Survivor Series, and while he explained his own kayfabe reasoning for joining The Vision faction led by Paul Heyman and Bron Breakker (following the turn against Seth Rollins), we all know the real reason why Theory joined. The Vision recently competed in a tag team match, as big Bronson Reed and Theory teamed up to battle Dragon Lee and Penta in a tag team match on Monday Night Raw. In the end, the heels came up on the losing side of things, and, more specifically, it was Theory who ate the losing pin. And that defeat was a reminder of the vision behind Theory being lumped in there. Austin Theory is the weak link Out of all the members of Heyman's faction, Theory is the weakest in terms of skill in the rin...
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WWE have quietly replaced the Big Show in the weirdest way possible
20Jan By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

WWE have quietly replaced the Big Show in the weirdest way possible

Although the Big Show is one of the biggest and most iconic names in WWE history, in addition to being one of its physically largest athletes, he ended up becoming a meme over the years for how he was booked. A fixture in professional wrestling from the 90s and into the 2020s even, as Show got older and had to become less of a focus due to wear and tear, he ended up transitioning nicely into a comedic relief role that showcased an underappreciated side to him as a performer. All the while, WWE increasingly utilized him as a different sort of plot device and something of an inside joke to fans, as Big Show became most famous for turning on his teammates at the drop of a hat.  Natalya turned heel on Maxxine Dupri You just never knew when he would turn face or heel, and it got to the ...
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Gunther is subtly becoming the new Randy Orton
19Jan By Joe SorianoNo Comments
WWE

Gunther is subtly becoming the new Randy Orton

On the January 19th episode of WWE Raw, Gunther goaded his new rival, AJ Styles, into putting his career on the line for a match between the two of them at the Royal Rumble this year. And it is telling that for many wrestling fans, it is a foregone conclusion that Styles will lose this match and retire. WWE and Styles have already made it clear that the Phenomenal One will officially hang up his cleats in 2026 at some point. When that announcement was made by the former TNA legend, it was assumed that, like John Cena last year, Styles would retire towards the end of the year. But, alas, unlike Cena, AJ isn't going to get a retirement tour. AJ Styles is on the verge of retirement So Styles could very well retire in January at the Royal Rumble, bringing his entire career full circle,...
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