Steel Chair Daily

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Eastern Sourced pro wrestling news and analysis.

Pop-art illustration of a masked wrestler swinging a gleaming steel chair inside a packed arena, an explosive red and yellow starburst behind it. It is not a likeness of any wrestler.

Desk

Editorial standards

How Steel Chair Daily labels announced, rumored, and result items, which outlets it will cite, and how fiction stays out of the news schema.

These are the rules for every factual page on Steel Chair Daily. They are policy. They are not a match report.

What counts as a source

A factual claim needs a link the desk can stand behind. The allowed hosts are wwe.com, aew.com, allelitewrestling.com, fightful.com, pwinsider.com, f4wonline.com, cagematch.net, and espn.com. All Elite Wrestling’s public site is allelitewrestling.com, so that host counts as the promotion’s own report. A fan blog, a predictions column, a social post that is not quoted inside one of those reports, and an outlet outside the list do not. If the only version of a fact lives somewhere else, the fact is cut. The build notes say what was cut.

Every source in a file has to appear in the body as a link. A bibliography that the article never uses does not count. Match and segment lines carry their own source URL, and that URL has to be in the source list too.

Status labels

Announced means a listed outlet says the match is booked. Rumored means the outlet is reporting something that is not a booking. Result means the match happened and the outlet printed a winner, a disqualification, a submission, or another finish. A card cannot contain a winner. A results page cannot contain a match that is still announced. Promos and host notes are segments, not matches.

If the list is incomplete, the page says “partial card” in the body. Featured names on a ticket page are not matches. A stipulation someone requested and someone else refused is written as refused.

What the desk will not invent

Quotes, ages, hometowns, reign start dates, match times, referees, injuries beyond the words the source used, and title changes. “Not medically cleared” stays that phrase. A champions index and a match preview can use different names for the same team. The copy shows both instead of merging them. Older reigns stay off a title page until a source is attached. The absence is a feature of the file, not a hole to fill from memory.

Fiction

Fiction is a separate type. The title, the banner, and the schema say so. The banner has to say the piece is fiction and not a news report, and the body has to include that banner and the phrase “in this fiction.” Fiction is not a NewsArticle and it is not in the news sitemap. It can cite a real result in order to contradict it. It cannot be the only place a result appears.

Show cards run 300 to 700 words plus the match list. Results recaps run 800 to 1,500. Analysis and explainers run 1,500 to 2,500. Profiles run 600 to 1,200. Title files run 800 to 1,500. A page that misses the range and is marked for index fails validation, and a failed validation does not deploy. A file can ship with index: false while it is short. It then carries a noindex tag and stays out of the sitemap. That is the only thin-page path.

News pages need internal links to a show, a person, a title, or another episode. The point is a reader can move from Fresno to a title file without a search box. The about page names who publishes the site. The corrections log is where a miss gets recorded. The calendar explainer shows how the week is structured so these rules have a shape, not just a list.