#professional-wrestling-history

#professional-wrestling-history

Michaels expressed, "It's one of the greatest buildings ever. My first time ever being in there with an NXT show, and I just love the venue. I really do."

You sit there and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere. Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3:16 ... Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!

White promised that this would be "the greatest fight card ever assembled," and the UFC CEO should have known better. After all, he was the promoter behind six of the seven UFC events that featured three championship fights. Those were the promotion's highest-stakes events, and sitting just below them are the many fight cards through the years with two championships on the line.

Yes, if your main intersection with pro wrestling was the late-'90s boom on U.S. cable TV, then you definitely saw a product rife with misogyny and homophobia. But it's a much more inclusive hobby than it used to be, and I tell people who I want to convince to go to an independent show with me that they should expect something like a comic-con atmosphere, not a frat house.

Wrestling gave me everything. It broke me. Built me. Tested me. Somehow still made me fall in love with it again. 2025 wasn't about being showcased. It was about going back to the indies, back to the grind, back to the reason I started -and remembering exactly who the hell I am.

The first Monday Night RAW of 2026 came live from the Upside Down, and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Stranger Things themed episode of Monday Night Raw aired on what was the first anniversary of WWE's flagship show airing on Netflix. The show, which featured three title matches, two title changes and a showstopping main event, gave a small glimpse into what 2026 could look like for WWE and Monday Night RAW.