WWE, ESPN and Wrestlepalooza
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WWE's partnership with ESPN begins Saturday with Wrestlepalooza from Indianapolis. The biggest question from fans, though, isn't what the result will be in the mixed tag team match when World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch take on CM Punk and AJ Lee.
Cody Rhodes defeated Drew McIntyre at Wrestlepalooza on Saturday to retain the WWE Championship. After beating John Cena at SummerSlam to become a two-time WWE champion, Rhodes joined forces with Cena on the Aug. 8 episode of SmackDown.
The intersection of one of the best college football coaches of all time and WWE Wrestlepalooza created an improbable moment that led to hysterical laughter.
WWE's Wrestlepalooza PLE will be broadcast live on ESPN's new direct-to-consumer service. A media call was held to promote it.
The show was fun and played things pretty safe, but lacked the big surprise or news-making moment that so many of WWE’s inaugural outs on new networks usually do — especially going up against AEW All Out. One thing that absolutely did deliver was AJ Lee, who looks ready to pick up right where she left off in WWE.
WWE has released a new hype video celebrating the start of a new era for the company.
WWE comes to ESPN with WWE Wrestlepalooza on Saturday, and ESPN has gone all out with the promotion. Nick Saban got in on the action.
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Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes knew he would have a litany of potent challengers lining up after he won the title at SummerSlam. The first to make an immediate and brutal imp