After weeks of little to no direction for the SmackDown Divas, we finally have a storyline -- albeit an interpromotional one -- with Lay-Cool set to challenge Melina at Night of Champions to unify the Divas and Women's Championships. If the objective for tonight's SmackDown segment was to push that match, well, they did a good job. If the objective was for Layla's commentary to overshadow and seem more important than the match in the ring, well, they also accomplished that too. Watch below: In a video that is 5 minutes long, you actually have to skip to the 2 minute mark ...
... Maryse! In a flip-flop of last year's top two, the two time Divas Champion has replaced Melina at the apex of this year's 50 Sexiest Divas countdown, thwarting the current Divas Champion's chances of a three-peat. Maryse was last year's #2, narrowly coming behind Melina and this year, narrowly beating Melina. In 2008, she ranked at #15 on the countdown. This year's chart saw more votes than ever. 15,000 votes were cast over the course of the competition. Also making the top 10 is Mickie James, holding onto her #3 spot from last year, despite being released earlier this year. Mickie's charting ...
After weeks and weeks of pointless speculation, outlandish theories, and minor spoilers from other Knockouts, Tara finally showed her actual face on TNA television again. Absolute SHOCK reigned supreme in the Impact Zone and I'm sure I wasn't the only person scratching my head at the dramatic turn of events! The announcers even seemed amazed. I mean hello! Tara is back and she's helping the woman who ended her career no less! It's mind boggling. It's truly baffling. It's more confusing that a statistical lecture in an 8am psychology class. It's TNA! And in TNA, things don't have to make ...
After thirteen weeks of straight up drama, season two of NXT finally reached it's conclusion last night. The show delivered in every aspect you could think of, and for us Diva fans, Christmas certainly came early this year! The amazing finale had surprises, unexpected announcements that kept us on our toes the entire night, tears, beatdowns, and one winner who probably deserved it more than the others. So how exactly did last night's show pan out? Well read on and find out for yourself! Ashley Valence, who is more often than not missing in action, is in the ring tonight and ...
The NXT cast for season three has been revealed! A picture leaked (see above) before tonight's NXT broadcast could even end shows that the cast will consist of six Divas: AJ Lee, Aksana, Aloisia, Jamie Keyes, Maxine and Naomi. Profiles on all six rookies below: * AJ Lee: 23-year old AJ, real name April Jeanette, was signed by WWE last spring. Prior to WWE, she had been working on the independent circuit as Miss April. AJ primarily worked in the New Jersey area for Women Superstars Uncensored where she was one half of ...
Posted by Steven on August 31st, 2010
Last week on Monday Night Raw, BFF co-champs, LayCool told Melina they had an “offer she simply can’t refuse” for the 900th episode of Raw. As promised, LayCool appeared on Raw to inform the Divas Champion of their offer, but not before taking her on in a tag team match. Watch below as LayCool face off against Eve and the Divas Champion, Melina:
We come from commercial to find LayCool already in the ring, checking their reflections in their belts. (Belt? Half-belts?) Out next is the team of Melina and Eve, and LayCool welcome their fellow champ by running that ‘Lady Wawa’ joke even further into the ground. Without much pretense, the bell rings and our match is underway.
Michelle and Melina start off the match for their teams and right off the bat, McCool charge at Melina with a clothesline. Melina evades, and fights back with a flurry of forearms. While Michelle is still flustered, Melina charges Layla in the corner, knocking her to the floor. Unfortunately for Melina, Michelle McCool takes advantage of the distraction and floors her with a belly to belly slam for a near fall. More after the cut »
A dark match that took place last Tuesday prior to the Impact taping, featuring new Knockout Becky Bayless and Christina Von Eerie has been dubbed ‘the worst dark match in history’, according to ProWrestling.net.
Jason Powell reports that the match which saw Bayless team with Okada against Von Eerie and Shannon Moore was panned by people backstage. He writes:
Most of the blame for the match is directed at Bayless, who missed blind tag attempts three times. It was so comically bad that Moore stopped, pointed at her, and yelled, “I’m begging you to tag him” during the middle of a spot. This led to serious laughter backstage.
Becky was signed to a TNA contract a couple of weeks ago and paired with Rob Eckos as his manager in a Jersey Shore-esque gimmick. Promos began airing last week for ‘Shore’, which I’m assuming is Eckos’ new name in TNA with Becky as ‘Cookie’.
Despite the poor review, I’m going to give Becky the benefit of the doubt. It seems she was signed to be a manager and part of a gimmick rather than to wrestle on a regular basis. She portrayed Brooke Lynn to perfection in Wrestlicious, and seems tailor-made for the role of Cookie.
This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: 50 Sexiest Divas 2010 is here! All summer long, you have been voting for your favourite Divas in a hopes of getting them featured on the list and now the results are here.
Check back over the next five days as we reveal the countdown. Today, it’s #40-31.
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Who should be higher? Who should be lower? Any shockers? Give us your thoughts!
Former WWE Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus will continue to make the media rounds by appearing on The Late Shift with Jason Agnew tonight in Canada.
The show airs from 10pm ET tonight and can be listened to online here. Trish will join the show at 11pm.
To send in questions for Trish email LateShift1010@gmail.com or interact via the Late Shift Facebook page.
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In another Trish note, she has tweeted a couple of behind the scenes pictures of a photoshoot with fellow former Diva, Lita, who has been in Toronto visiting.
Check out the pictures here, here and here.
(IMAGE CREDIT: Trish Stratus)
Posted by Cryssi on August 31st, 2010
Before we even begin, I want to apologize for the severe lateness of this article. As I posted on my Twitter (@_trophyWAG), I lost my internet sometime during the morning on Friday and wasn’t able to have it fixed until late yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I’m sure by now the majority of you don’t care what happened on Impact and you certainly don’t want to rehash it, but I can’t leave a half-written piece just sitting around in drafts, haha. Anyway enjoy this shortened, super late Impact Write-Up!
On Thursday’s Impact, the ongoing saga of the Beautiful People continued but this time in the form of an in-ring segment. Angelina Love and Velvet Sky officially came together again and put their past behind them. The reunion celebration was short lived and a massive brawl ended up taking place.
Angelina and Velvet, reunited at last, both came out to the ring together this week in street clothes. They did their vintage Beautiful People entrance and I’m not sure if it’s just me, but boy was it weird to hear them get a face reaction. After a few minutes of posing and whatnot, Angelina took the microphone and the music faded out. She admitted that she has made quite a few mistakes in her life and said that Velvet has as well. But through it all, she honestly felt like the friendship she shared with Velvet was real and in the wrestling business, real friendships were hard to come by. Angelina continued on by saying that when she split from Velvet, and they went their separate ways, she felt like something was missing. Angelina made the assumption that all of us felt the same way and Velvet is quick to agree that she backs up that sentiment. That fans marked. Angelina said that she’s not always a perfect little angel and that when she wants too, she can be a pretty mean bitch. But she wants herself and Velvet to forgive and forget so both of them can move on with their lives. Velvet took the microphone next. More after the cut »
At long last, the FCW Watch has finally returned. With all the action going on in WWE’s farm territory as of late, we decided it was only fitting to get back on the ball when it comes to Florida Championship Wrestling. And what a week to do so! This weekend, FCW’s alpha females, AJ Lee and Naomi Night face off in a crown/titleunification match with the entire Diva roster at ringside. Check out the match below:
First out are the FCW Divas, all decked out in their Sunday best. This is also our first look at new Divas Celeste (now known as Ricki Vaughn) and Christina Crawford (Alicia Fox’s sister). Also at ringside, Aksana, Liviana and Raw Diva Tamina.
Next out is the Queen of FCW, AJ Lee followed by the FCW Divas Champion, Naomi Night (HEEEEEEYYY!!!). The top Divas shoot each other a few glares before the bell rings and the match gets underway. The ladies lock up, but AJ quickly gets the upperhand with a side headlock. Naomi manages to whip AJ Lee off and into the ropes, but is laid out with a shoulder block. AJ hits the ropes, looking to capitalize, but Naomi kips up and counters with her patented Booty Call butt bump for a near fall.
The champ tries to keep the heat on but AJ reverses into a school boy pin with the help of a handful of hair. Not to be outdone, Naomi executes a split-legged backslide followed by a few armdrags for another two count. Naomi tries to follow up with a scoopslam, but AJ wiggles out and into a waistlock, which is quickly reversed by Naomi. The champ tries to roll the queen up, but AJ holds onto the ropes sending Naomi rolling across the ring. Before Naomi can get her wits about her, AJ comes charging and hits a vicious Shining Wizard, but only gets a two count. More after the cut »
WWE announced on Raw last night plans to unify the Divas and Women’s Championships at Night of Champions. But we want to know… did they make the right call? Do you want to see the belts unified? Vote below:
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Divas Champion, Melina, was in the WWE.com Raw live chat moments ago and commented on her upcoming title unification match with one half of Lay-Cool at Night of Champions. She wrote (and please excuse the caps):
* THIS IS AN EXCITING MOMENT! THIS IS AN AMAZING CHALLENGE THAT I’M ALL FOR! TO HAVE THE DIVAS SUPPORT SAYS SO MUCH AND I AM SO GRATEFUL. IT’S ALSO A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD NOW. ONE ON ONE.
* NOW THAT ITS ONE ON ONE IT’S GOING TO BE FAIR AND I KNOW IT WILL BE GOOD. LET’S SEE WHO IT IS, LAYLA OR MICHELLE. I’M READY FOR THIS.
* EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE FOR NOC. BOTH THE TITLES. IT’S GOING TO BE AN AGGRESSIVE MATCH.
* MY HEART KINDA HURTS BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT FOR THE WOMEN’S TITLE AND PRIDE IN WHAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THE DIVA’S CHAMPIONSHIP….. IT’S GOING TO WEIRD TO CHANGE EITHER OF THEM. (Speaking on what the championship belt will look like after Night of Champions)
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