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Hello, wrestling fans, and welcome to this latest edition of my WWE vs. TNA series, in which every week for (potentially) the rest of my life, I will watch and review the output of both promotions and pick the best.This week is a rare mid-week edition, bringing things up to date after a recent lag. Today, then, we'll be looking back at the first week since the WWE acknowledged Fandangoing, while TNA gave us the promised AJ Styles vs. James Storm.Begin Slideshow

Hello, wrestlemaniacs, and welcome to the last thrilling edition of my WWE vs. TNA series, in which every week I review the main output of both promotions and pick the best. Technical difficulties have set this series behind by a week, so I'll be doing one today and one tomorrow. That means today we'll be looking at back at two weeks ago. You probably still remember it though, as the week in question held the WWE's biggest pay-per-view: WrestleMania 29.It's the biggest, so it was bound to be brilliant, right? A classic for the ages? Let's find out.Begin Slideshow

Hello, multifarious wrestling connoisseurs, and welcome to the latest in my WWE vs. TNA series, in which every week I recap and review the main output of both promotions and pick the best.This week the WWE had its last pay-per-view before WrestleMania (and one of my personal favourite concepts): the Elimination Chamber. Meanwhile, TNA Impact again came from my own United Kingdom.This article marks a slight break with the usual format of this series, as I'll also be devoting a slide to covering a hot button issue raised in the comments of last week's edition.Let's get underway.Begin Slideshow

Hello, wrestling fans, and welcome to this latest article in my long-running WWE vs. TNA series in which each week I watch, review and analyze the main output of the two promotions and pick the best.This week was the final week before the WWE's Royal Rumble, which has boundless, exciting potential. Meanwhile, TNA offered us a TNA Championship match on Impact.Let's see how they got on.Begin Slideshow

Hello there and welcome to another exciting edition of this WWE vs. TNA series, in which every week I watch, recap, review and analyse the main output of the two promotions and pick the best. Regular readers of this usually weekly series will be aware of the lag that's set in since the holiday season. This weekend it will catch up once and for all, with one article Saturday and one Sunday. Therefore, this article will be covering the week we entered the new year, in which Monday's Raw fell on New Year's Eve and Impact and SmackDown marked the first shows of 2013 ...

With consistent reference being made on TV to the longevity of CM Punk's WWE Championship reign, it's easy to overlook the fact that Sheamus' World Heavyweight Championship reign is the longest in seven years for that title. That makes it clear that the WWE has a lot of faith in him as a top guy—but is it justified?  When it comes to assessing a wrestler, there are two measures of how strong or weak they are. The first is the kayfabe definition whereby a wrestler is strong because they consistently win cleanly and decisively. In general, the WWE sticks to a formula where ...

CM Punk's reign as WWE Champion has been unusually long—unusual to the point that not an episode of Raw passes by when this longevity isn't mentioned. To put it into perspective, it's been longer than every individual World Heavyweight Championship reign, and the second-longest WWE title reign in 15 years.  This may beg the question: Where does CM Punk stand when it comes to naming the greatest WWE Champions of all time? Though his long reign stands out by recent standards, it's dwarfed by the multi-year reigns of Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund and Hulk Hogan. A reign as long as ...

CM Punk's infamous shoot promo on Raw of June last year was perhaps the biggest reason for his current push to a now nine-month WWE Championship reign—and his elevation to become the second face of the company behind John Cena. Though we now know it was a work, the promo created the biggest buzz around the company in years and culminated in one of the best matches of all time at 2011's Money in the Bank.  In the promo, CM Punk criticized the promotion of company men John Cena and The Rock over himself, and over the following weeks when ...