Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson documents the modern wrestling business through interview-led news and detailed event coverage across major promotions. He writes for Fightful and POST Wrestling, focusing on stories that combine wrestler quotations, promotional announcements and match results into clear, news-first pieces. He has been covering wrestling since 2017, building a beat that spans WWE, AEW, NJPW, MLW and other companies.
Interview-led news on wrestlers and promotions
Thompson’s reporting often starts with his own interviews and conversations, which he then turns into straight news about plans, deals and career moves.
In one example, a discussion with Tiger Mask IV becomes a report on Hulk Hogan exploring a new promotion after leaving WWE and wanting NJPW talent involved, using direct recollections to surface long-term industry ideas. In similar pieces, he writes up talks with wrestlers such as Doc Gallows who reveal decisions like CJ Gallows joining MLW, treating those announcements as news while preserving the speaker’s voice.
Across his archives at Fightful, he repeatedly uses specific quotes and moments to anchor stories about teased matches, shifts in character direction and changes to line-ups, rather than framing them as opinion or speculation. The emphasis is on what wrestlers and promotions say and do, not on analysis, which keeps his coverage useful for tracking concrete developments.
Results and recaps from major WWE cards
Alongside interview-driven pieces, Thompson files detailed reports from major WWE events, documenting match outcomes and title changes with clear, chronological summaries. His coverage of Bron Breakker defeating Sami Zayn to become Intercontinental Champion at SummerSlam is typical: the article lays out the match, notes the finish and situates the result within the title picture without drifting into commentary.
On weekly programming such as WWE Raw, his bylines contribute to coverage that pulls key segments, in-ring confrontations and announced bouts into compact write-ups, giving a record of what advanced on a given show. Earlier work includes items that follow angles like Ronda Rousey’s clashes with Ruby Riott as they move from televised confrontations to teased matches, showing attention to how story beats convert into card additions and future title defenses.
This strand of his beat distinguishes him from generic entertainment reporters by providing wrestling-specific detail: names, stipulations, titles and stakes are always present.
Cross-promotion coverage and global focus
Thompson’s work reflects a broad view of the wrestling landscape, with stories and interviews spanning WWE, AEW, NJPW, MLW and other groups.
The Hogan and Tiger Mask IV piece touches on NJPW’s role in historical plans, while his reporting on CJ Gallows joining MLW notes movement into that promotion’s roster. Professional profiles and author listings connect his name to coverage and reviews across WWE, AEW and NJPW, indicating a sustained focus on how talent and stories move between companies rather than staying siloed.
When he appears on shows discussing AEW All In, he talks through match cards and his on-the-ground experience at the event, adding another layer to his written beat: he is comfortable translating live attendance and cross-Atlantic travel into context about how major shows come together. This cross-promotion view makes his output a dense record of who wrestles where, which promotions are pushing which acts, and how major cards resonate beyond one company.
Interviews, video series and on-air analysis
Beyond written pieces, Thompson maintains a visible presence as an interviewer and on-air voice. His professional bios describe him as a writer, interviewer and podcaster, and he runs the “Andrew Thompson Interviews” series on YouTube, where he speaks directly with wrestlers and industry figures. These conversations often feed back into his news writing, but they also stand alone as long-form discussions of careers, creative choices and personal history.
He is regularly introduced on podcasts and shows as a Fightful writer, brought on to review events and share observations from trips to major shows like AEW All In. Across these formats, his style stays consistent: he asks direct questions, foregrounds the subject’s words and then, in print, distills them into clear, sourced news items.
For communications teams, the consistent thread is that when Thompson engages with a story, he is looking for specific, quotable information that can anchor a news piece, a recap or an interview clip.
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