The News Desk

Slammy “Couple of the Year” Nominees Announced
December 4th 2008 | Posted by Erin | 3 Comments »

It looks like the WWE’s going all Grammy Awards on us, with all these Slammy Awards nominees announcements. Following yesterday’s announcement of the “Diva of the Year” nominees, we now have the nominees for the “Couple of the Year” award:
• Santino Marella & Beth Phoenix
• Edge & Vickie Guerrero
• William Regal & Layla
• Finlay & [...]


Sojourner Bolt Becomes Full-Time Knockout
December 4th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 3 Comments »

TNA has announced they have signed Sojourner Bolt to a full-time contract. Bolt has already appeared sporadically on Impact over the past year taking part in Awesome Kong’s $25,000 challenge and other matches here and there.
Before joining the declining TNA Knockouts division, Sojourner previously competed as Josie in OVW along with ODB and many of [...]


Slammy Nominees Revealed!
December 3rd 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 10 Comments »

WWE.com has revealed the four Divas who will vye for a Slammy award in the Diva of the Year category at next Monday’s three hour Raw. They are: Beth Phoenix, Kelly Kelly, Michelle McCool and Mickie James.
Standard fare if you ask me, Beth, Mickie and Michelle have been pretty prominent on television this year. Somewhat [...]


The Mickie James Show: Injured, Wants to Act
December 2nd 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 4 Comments »

Welcome to The Mickie James Show, basically a bumper post dedicated to yup, you guessed it, Mickie James! There’s two interesting pieces of news floating around the interwebz about the former Women’s Champ, so let’s delve right in.
Mickie injured
First piece of news is that Mickie is currently working with a hyperextended elbow. WWE has tried [...]


Batista Notches Up Another Diva
December 1st 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 19 Comments »

Womanizer, womanizer, you’re a womanizer baby… Oops, he did it again! Okay enough of the Britney (I can’t stand her anyway), but former World Heavyweight Champion, Batista fessed up to dating (and banging) Raw’s Kelly Kelly on a radio show this morning. When asked about the Divas and Kelly in particular, the hosts ask if [...]


The Weight Issue Affects Divas Too!
November 28th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 8 Comments »

In this crazy celebrity-obsessed culture that we call life, we are always being presented negative images of women in magazines, on television etc. I’m sure you know all about it. Stick thin models, 90210 stars etc. etc. But this issue has never been something that’s ever affected wrestling because while some of them may not [...]


Gail Kim Debuting in New Year?
November 26th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 4 Comments »

While former Knockouts and Women’s Champion, Gail Kim was brought to the road for the Survivor Series weekend, it’s now being reported there was never any intention for her to debut at any of the tapings. Gail (and the entire WWE roster for that matter) were called to be part of the Survivor Series weekend, [...]


Gail Kim SmackDown Bound
November 25th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 24 Comments »

Well I guess we could have figured this out by deduction after Melina retured to Raw last night, but Mike Johnson of PWInsider has confirmed that Gail Kim is heading to SmackDown. As we mentioned yesterday, Gail has been travelling with WWE for the past week and Johnson reports that she has shot promotional footage [...]


Another Returning Face
November 25th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 5 Comments »

(Image Credit: Milena-Roucka.com)
WWE sure is shaking up the women’s division of late. Add Milena Roucka to the slate of returning Divas we’ve seen or read about in the last two weeks.
Previously on “Returning Divas”, Alicia Fox, the former SmackDown wedding planner returned but this time to ECW as a glorified Nitro Girl/manager to new talent [...]


It’s Official: TNA Has Lost It (Contains Spoilers)
November 25th 2008 | Posted by Melanie | 7 Comments »

This post contains spoilers in regards to the November 27th episode of Impact.
TNA’s Knockouts division has been on a downward spiral since losing Gail Kim in August (well actually, one could argue it was heading south during Gail’s final few months there too) but this has to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. [...]