After last week's Raw, all signs seemed to be pointing towards Eve Torres being the front runner for a title feud with Maryse, but a few inter-brand cameos may have just turned us in another direction. Is this a good direction or a bad one? Let's watch this week's action and judge for ourselves: Kelly Kelly makes her way to the ring, followed by Maryse. Common sense indicates that this will be a squash match, but with how Maryse has been wrestling lately (that is, barely wrestling) it seems tough for them to pull off a real squash. Before the match ...
To follow the trend of recent weeks, TNA recycled their Knockouts' storylines and twisted them into a pretzel to make both seem original. Was there progression? Did the it all make sense? Are we actually going to get a title match on pay-per-view this month? All these questions and more will be answered... after the break! Just kidding about the break! This isn't American Idol and I am not Ryan Seacrest. If you do want answers, then you must continue reading. The part of Impact worth watching begins with an amazing promo by Angelina Love. Christy asks Angelina how she feels ...
It's okay to look -- SmackDown has returned to form! Hurrah! After an iffy week with not much going on last week, this week's show was infinitely better with the blonde babyfaces proving the Divas moniker to be true -- they were smart, they were sexy and oh yes, they were powerful! You'd expect little else from the Glamazon Beth Phoenix... but Tiffany? Tiffany?! I was not expecting anything out of the former ECW GM upon reading the spoilers for this week but Tiffany girl, consider my eyes opened. Tiff Tiff shocked the hell out of me with her rather ...
As professional wrestling's Future Legend, Melissa Anderson has wowed crowds in ChickFight, SHIMMER, NCW Femme Fatales and in other promotions worldwide. In TNA, we came to know and love her as the mysterious Raisha Saeed before catching another side of her as Alissa Flash. As Saeed, Melissa managed Awesome Kong to two Knockouts Title reigns and in just a few short months as Flash, Melissa gave us great matches with the likes of Sarita and Hamada before she disappeared from television in late 2009. When we broke the news of Alissa's TNA departure in January, fans were incredibly upset to see ...
After last week's moving tribute to womankind, I was bracing myself for the worst with this week's show. Surprisingly, the WWE decided to put on a straight wrestling match rather than mold the Divas action to guest GM Criss Angel's gimmick, and for that I'm grateful. But was the match anything to write home about? Let's see: Eve Torres, Gail Kim and Kelly Kelly make their way to the ring for a 6-Diva Tag Team match. I guess it's been a while since we've seen one of those, though I haven't really missed them.. Already in the ring are Maryse, Alicia ...
This past weekend, all-female promotion Womn Superstars Uncensored very deservingly inducted three former WWE Divas into its Hall of Fame — ECW original Dawn Marie as well as two-time Women’s Champions, Jazz and Molly Holly. The event took place before WSU’s third anniversary show in New Jersey and was said to have been a great night.
Fellow women’s wrestling site Lethalwow was on the scene and sent along this video of several WSU stars celebrating the trio’s inductions including TNA Knockout, Angelina Love. The clip also has some footage of the indcutees in the ring with their Hall of Fame plaques.
I’m sure you’ll agree, three very deserving women and I’m truly happy for each of them. Congratulations!
WWE.com has a gallery up featuring a selection of what they consider the best WrestleMania ring attire won by the Superstars and Divas. Only one Diva makes the cut but it just so happens to be the A-Lister — Melina.
This attire was won during WrestleMania 23 when Melina defended the Women’s Championship against Ashley Massaro.
What do you think? Worthy of best dressed at ‘Mania?
We’ll be ripping spinning off our own version of this idea with a complete Diva best dressed at ‘Mania guide soon!
Considered one of the best pure wrestlers to ever grace WWE’s women’s division, Molly Holly’s matches are used as study material for many of the newer girls today. Fans and critics have long expected Molly, real name Nora Greenwald, to one day be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame — all except the woman herself.
Speaking on Monday Night Mayhem, Molly says:
I could not shine the shoes of those ladies in the Hall Of Fame now (The Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, “Sensational” Sherri Martel, along with Wendi Richter). I don’t ever see myself being in the Hall Of Fame. Although I had a great career, I’m nowhere as talented & amazing as those ladies. I totally respect them, and I’m sure Trish, Lita, Chyna, & other girls did way more for the business than I did will hopefully be in the Hall Of Fame.
Is she just being modest? Self-deprecating? Or does she not know the sheer impact that she has had? Knowing what a grounded, humble woman she is, I think it’s perhaps a combination of the first and third. I really hope that in this instance, Molly is proved wrong. She deserves it just as much as many of the other girls. She was underutilised during her time but WWE does seem to realise what a great talent she is and I think when the time is right, they’ll do the right thing.
Molly also speaks on why she thinks the new all-female promotion, Wrestlicious may just work:
The reason I think it (Wrestlicious) might work is there is so much serious drama on TV, and to have something totally ridiculous just might be a change of pace for people to escape their realities. It would great if it succeeded, and it could be one of those things like G.L.O.W., where there was just this sub-culture that was so drawn to it and was this thing that people talked about for years to come.
To listen to the full interview click here.
We are pleased to announce that the Future Legend Melissa Anderson, aka former TNA Knockout Alissa Flash, will speak for the first time since leaving TNA exclusively to Diva Dirt in the coming week.
Our interview with Melissa will mark the first time she has spoken about her run with the company since we broke the news of her departure in January.
If you have a question you’d like to put to the Future Legend please leave them in the comments.
The ROH team sent us this video interview with former SHIMMER Champion, Sara Del Rey commenting on her desire to be taken seriously as a female athlete. Del Rey, who is considered one of the most accomplished female wrestlers in North America, also comments on ‘model’ types coming into the industry. The segment aired on ROH’s TV show last week.
ROH on HDNet continues Mondays at 8pm ET.
We’re just two weeks away from WrestleMania and this week, it looks as though the final matches are being added to the card. Unfortunately though, still no Divas. We can probably expect an announcement to be made the week of the event as is always the case with the women but we want to know what you want to see.
Given the direction of Raw and SmackDown in recent weeks, it seems there are two clear cut title storylines developing: Eve vs Maryse for the Divas Title and Beth vs Michelle for the Women’s Title. Which one do you want to see at ‘Mania or is there another match you’d like to see instead? If you select ‘Other’, please type in the comments what match you’d like to see!
Below are spoilers for this week’s episode of SmackDown. The show airs on Friday. Click the ‘Show’ link to see:
The TNA Knockouts have done it again! The Knockouts Tag Team Championship match, which saw The Beautiful People become the new champions, drew the highest quarter of the entire live broadcast of Impact last night.
The segment, as well as the succeeding segment with Rob Van Dam’s TNA debut and a confrontation between Hulk Hogan and Sting, drew 1.07 ratings respectively which made them the most watched portions of the show. Last night’s Impact averaged a 1.0 rating compared to Monday Night Raw’s 3.4 on the first night of the new Monday Night Wars [if it can be called that].
Despite the heavily promoted in-ring returns of Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan as well as the return of Jeff Hardy, it looks as though the Knockouts are still one of the shining lights in TNA right now. Of course, that rating will probably go ignored by Eric Bischoff and co. who have seemingly decreased the Knockouts exposure since the ‘Hogan era’ began in January. It amazes me how TNA continues to think it can bend the rules to what they think the fans want to see [Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan wrestling] rather than capitalising on what works.
Ratings data courtesy of ProWrestling.net.
TNA is taping next week’s episode of Impact tonight. The show will air on six days time on March 15th. Click ‘Show’ to read.
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After last week’s moving tribute to womankind, I was bracing myself for the worst with this week’s show. Surprisingly, the WWE decided to put on a straight wrestling match rather than mold the Divas action to guest GM Criss Angel’s gimmick, and for that I’m grateful. But was the match anything to write home about? Let’s see:
Eve Torres, Gail Kim and Kelly Kelly make their way to the ring for a 6-Diva Tag Team match. I guess it’s been a while since we’ve seen one of those, though I haven’t really missed them.. Already in the ring are Maryse, Alicia Fox, and Katie Lea. Scrimping for time, I guess, but that’s nothing new..
Alicia and Gail start things off, Alicia latching Gail into a belly-to-back hold. Gail gets free and locks Alicia into a side headlock. Alicia tries to lift Gail up and gain the advantage, but Gail whips her to the mat, still holding onto the headlock. Alicia frees herself with a few jabs and whips Gail into the corner, charging. Gail slips through the ropes and the two trade blows before Gail leaps out of the way of a shoulder attack, landing in a straddling position on the back on Alicia’s neck. She tosses Alicia back into the ring, but Alicia regains control and whips again her into the same corner. Again, Gail blocks an attack and climbs the turnbuckle. However, instead of attacking Alicia she hits a charging Katie Lea with a flying clothesline, knocking her off the ring apron.
Gail turns her attention back to Alicia and gets a face full of boot. Alicia goes for the pin, getting a 2-count. She takes Gail to her corner and Maryse, for a moment, motions for Alicia to pound Gail’s head into her boot, but she decides against it, for whatever reason, opting instead to be tagged in. Maryse his a back breaker on Gail and goes for a pin, but Gail kicks out. She slaps Gail on the head, looking more like she’s messing up her hair rather than actually striking her. She then knocks Kelly off of the apron. Maryse gets in Gail’s face and gets slapped, getting a taste of her own medicine. Gail springs to life and tags in Eve.
Eve goes on a string of offense, getting a 2-count on Maryse. A poke in the eyes gives Maryse temporary control, until Eve nails Maryse with a kick off the ropes. She hits her somersault splash and goes for the pin, but Alicia and Katie Lea break it up. Actually, they were slowpokes and Maryse had to kick out before the referee counted 3. Get the lead out, ladies! The two of them grab Eve and slam her onto the turnbuckle. The referee, meanwhile, does nothing to stop this. A blatant 3-on-1 and all you’re gonna do is act surprised? Okay.. More after the cut »
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