With a new Women's Champion crowned at the Royal Rumble in Mickie James, it seemed like a new era for the SmackDown Divas division. Not quite. Despite a new champion, we still have the same three-way problem though slightly altered: Beth Phoenix wants the title, Michelle McCool wants the title and Mickie James wants to keep the title. A three-way match between these two had been teased in the early weeks of January but somewhere along the way, the focus shifted back to Mickie and Michelle leading to the Rumble. But now it looks like we're once again on course ...
This week for the Impact Write-Up, I'm going to try something different. Instead of the usual match review with my comments thrown in there, I'm going to do just a plain review of the actual match itself and what led up to it, then at the end I'm going to list the things I enjoyed about Impact, and the things I didn't. I hope this column turns out a lot neater and more informative than my two previous ones. The Knockout portion of Impact started with an interview from both champion and later on, the challenger. Both put over the match ...
Another week, another Raw Divas match on WWE Superstars. This week, we've got another tag team match: Eve Torres and Kelly Kelly vs. Alicia Fox and Katie Lea. Can Katie Lea score her first win in quite a while, or will the flashy faces prevail? Watch the match below: Alicia and Eve start the match with a tie-up, Alicia taking control and turning a side headlock into a hip toss. She holds the headlock on Eve, despite her fight for momentum. Alicia eventually gets to her feet and is shoved away by Eve. Alicia bounces off the ropes and shoulder-blocks and ...
Week after week, we have witnessed Michelle McCool and Layla crack about 10,000 jokes, all with the same punchline: Mickie is fat. As lamented as this "Piggie James" storyline has been here at Diva Dirt, with its fat jokes and barnyard humor, it has been given one of the biggest buildups in recent Diva memory, and it was reasonable to think that they would cap off this pretty silly storyline with a decent enough match, at least to make the juvenile booking somewhat worth it. After all, their match at TLC was pretty damn good. Let's see if Mickie and ...
The finals for the Divas Championship Tournament are set to (finally) take place in less than two weeks at the Elimination Chamber PPV. Maryse will take on Gail Kim, obviously, and we will at last have some closure for the tournament that was prompted all the way back in December when champion Melina injured her knee.
NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is hosting Raw tonight live from Louisiana, the home state of the Super Bowl champs. There is no Divas Championship Tournament final scheduled for the show, so expect more build up towards the eventual match (perhaps at the Elimination Chamber PPV on February 21st?)
Discuss the show in the comments!
EDIT: For the second week in a row, it has been decided to forgo the Post-Raw show. With what a non-event that tonight’s Raw was, it is for the best. Nothing new took place, and any complaints we have have been discussed to death. If the WWE wants to put zero effort into the Divas, it’s hard to muster up any ourselves. Hopefully next week will actually give us something to talk about–fingers crossed!
Former Queen of FCW and ECW ring announcer, Savannah inserted her into a title match at a house show in Waco, Texas this weekend. Check out the results below:
Mickie James defeated Michelle McCool with a Mick Kick to keep her womens title, Beth as a special ref attacked Mickie, Savannah the announcer pulled Beth out of the ring and then counted the 1-2-3 herself.
It may not be much, but I think this could be a possible twist in the McCool/James/Phoenix saga. Mickie is in desperate need of an ally and with ECW on it’s way out, Savannah could be the logical choice. Since McCool hasn’t had her televised title shot yet, this exact outcome could mirror itself on an episode of Smackdown in the coming weeks. What do you guys think? Is this a one shot deal or could this mean bigger and better things for Savannah? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
A report in the Wrestling Observer newsletter last week suggested that a prime difference between the WWE Divas and TNA Knockouts was their match agenting. According to Dave Meltzer, the Knockouts’ matches are structured move-for-move by TNA agents while the Divas put together their own matches.
Speaking on The Krissy Vaine Project this past weekend, Krissy Vaine, a former WWE Diva and independent worker Rain, a former TNA Knockout discussed their experiences of how things work in the two companies.
On the show, which you can listen to by clicking here, Krissy explains that during her time in WWE, most of the matches were heavily agented, and there was always an agent present. Meanwhile, Rain who worked in TNA as Payton Banks said that she was able to wrestle freely without structured agenting.
It should be noted that it has been some time since Krissy or Rain have competed for WWE or TNA, so things could have changed but nonetheless, fans received a unique insight from two talents who have been there — contradictive of the report in the Observer.
Also on last week’s Krissy Vaine Project, Rain explained how the Knockouts wages worked in light of recent reports that some TNA Knockouts are unhappy with their pay.
Reports circulating over the past few weeks suggest that former WWE Diva, Ashley Massaro could be heading to TNA in the near future. To clarify, we can confirm that Massaro has been telling friends she is heading to TNA after supposedly meeting with Dixie Carter.
However, given Massaro’s track record one shouldn’t be too quick to take her word as gospel. Massaro has previously made claims about a WWE return and a second Playboy cover shoot which as yet haven’t materialised. For what it’s worth, a source within the Playboy organisation who would know of such matters tells us that they haven’t heard anything about Massaro posing for the magazine again.
Not to say that it couldn’t happen but until it does, take it with a pinch of a salt.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Unwrapped! As always, we will be grading all of the new photoshoots (or “eye candy”, as we like to call them) from the week gone by, judging them like so:
You, the reader, will also get the chance to grade the “eye candy” yourself by giving your opinion on each shoot and voting for your favorite out of the whole bunch. Now, dive in!
Brie & Nikki Bella’s Bella Bowl II
Grade: Bland. This is the second in a series where the Bellas dress up in support of the two teams competing in the Super Bowl. This may be only the second time they’ve done this, but it’s probably the 75th time they’ve done the “sexy sports” thing, so it’s nothing that hasn’t been done over and over. What’s interesting is the cute “trash talking” poses–that’s what these shoots should be like. I’m not digging the football pants and heels combo, nor is the beer hat look very cute. Still, it’s nice to see Brie and Nikki play off each other like they do in a few shots. I’d much prefer a shoot full of that than trying to look sexy while doing the Heisman pose–save that type of originality for every chick competing in the Lingerie Bowl. Gotta say, though, that I’m on Nikki’s side on this one. Geaux Saints!
• Click to see the rest of the photoshoot.
Jillian’s Ripped to Threads
Grade: Sweet. Jillian’s style, despite her colorful and over-the-top personality, has always been on the simple side. There’s nothing wrong with that, though at times I’ve found her ring gear choices to be a bit uninspired. This is the first one I’ve really liked–the blue is really pretty, and the stitched portions are a nice interesting touch that don’t look tacky as they could if done in a less subtle way. Her makeup and hair are gorgeous in an understated way. Similarly, Jillian’s poses in this soot are rather simple, but she looks more natural here than she has in a long time. With such relaxed poses, this shoot almost seems the polar opposite of what we think of when we see Jillian, but I like that. Sure, the poses could stand to be a bit more exciting, but I’ll take anything that’s not a “duck lips” pose. It’s this type of natural feel that I like to see from Divas–funny that it’s coming from one of the most outlandish Divas, in terms of personality.
• Click to see the rest of the photoshoot.
Read more to see the rest of this week’s photoshoots. More after the cut »
Former WWE Diva and TNA Knockout, Jackie Haas is one of the candidates to become a cover model for Status fitness magazine. Haas is currently in third place and is asking fans to vote for her to win the cover spot.
Fans can vote by clicking here. You must sign up for an account and you can vote up to five times per day.
We’ve seen a big week of Divas and Knockouts action this week but what would you say was the best bet? Vote below and discuss your thoughts in the comments.
Exclusively at Diva Dirt it’s The Krissy Vaine Project with your host… Krisssssssy Vaine!
The Krissy Vaine Project is our very own talk and variety show hosted by former WWE Diva, Krissy Vaine. Mixing girl talk, silly segments and of course, wrestling chat — we’re always having a fun time at ‘The KV’ and invite you all to join us!
This week on The Krissy Vaine Project: Krissy and Erin are joined by a very special guest host filling in for Melanie this week — SHIMMER star Rain who competed as Payton Banks in TNA. Rain discusses what she’s currently up to and has an update on her status for this April’s SHIMMER tapings. Also this week, we get the scoop from Rain on the Knockouts’ wages as there has been reports in the press that several girls are unhappy with their pay. As a former Knockout, Rain sheds light. Also, as former WWE and TNA talents respectively — Krissy and Rain shed light on how the matches are put together in the Divas division and Knockouts division as reports this week suggested that WWE Divas put their own matches together while Knockouts had theirs fully planned out by agents.
Plus all the regulars including: ‘For the Love of God’, ‘Bless Her Heart’ and ‘Southern Sass’.
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