In Review: “Shoot Interview with Ivory”
With all the hype surrounding former WWE Diva Maria Kanellis' shoot interviews with Kayfabe Commentaries and Highspots, it's easy to see how other shoots may fall by the wayside. Such is the case of WWE Alumni, Ivory and her shoot with RF Video. Ivory -- real name Lisa Moretti -- has a tendency to be candid, brash and downright hilarious, so I was itching to get my hands on this interview. I had a feeling that Ivory would deliver all the juicy gossip and backstage stories of the WWE. Boy, was I ...
Another Former Diva in New Shoot Interview
This somehow managed to escape my attention but Maria isn't the only Diva in a shoot DVD at the moment -- former Women's Champion, Ivory also stars in a recently released shoot interview for RF Video. Synopsis below:
We were fortunate enough to sit down with one of the original women in the world of Pro Wrestling who was a star even before the WWE. Lisa Moretti also known as Tina Ferrari in Glow and later known as Ivory in the WWE sat down for her first ever, tell all shoot interview.
Iv...
In Pictures: Past & Present Divas, Knockouts at ‘Legends of the Ring’
A smörgåsbord of Divas and Knockouts, from past and present, attended the 'Legends of the Ring' convention this past weekend in Monroe, New Jersey. Among them included The Celebrity Apprentice star Maria Kanellis, TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne and one half of the Knockouts Tag Team Champions, Velvet Sky.
Other names part of the event were TNA Knockouts Angelina Love, Christy Hemme and SoCal Val, as well as TNA President Dixie Carter and ex-Knockout Traci Brooks. And there were many...
ClickWrestle Match of the Week: Ivory vs Tori
Each week, we're going to trawl through the archives at ClickWrestle to bring you one featured women's bout that we think you should all check out! Don't forget, all Diva Dirt readers now receive an exclusive 10% off offer on all matches at ClickWrestle so be sure to use it!
This week, we have two former WWE Divas going at it. They've had some memorable matches in WWE including a street fight on SmackDown but this match in Puerto Rican promotion International Wrestling Association perhaps r...
WWE.com’s Catching Up with Ivory Part 2
WWE.com has posted the second part of their 'Where Are They Now?' article with former Women's Champion, Ivory -- complete with recent pictures! Speaking of her time with WWE, she says:
On joining WWE: “I talked to Jim Ross,. and he said to get a tape together as they wanted to show it to [WWE Chairman/CEO] Vince [McMahon]. That was that, I was on board for the next six and a half years.”
On the women's division then: “Looking back, it was really cool to be a person that helped cata...
WWE Catches Up with Three Time Women’s Champion, Ivory
Yesterday, we had a post about Jazz resurfacing and now today, another former Women's Champion has resurfaced in Ivory! WWE.com caught up with the three time Women's Champ for their 'Where Are They Now?' feature. In the first part of a two parter, Ivory talks about her origins in the industry working for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) as Tina Ferrari:
“It’s so hard to watch the footage because we were all so lame at what we did,” recalled the future Ivory. “We didn’t have any...
Hell in a Cell & No Mercy: Through the Years
The near decade long No Mercy tradition has been dropped this year in favour of a new pay per view concept, Hell in a Cell. For the first time tonight, the Divas Championship will be defended at the early October pay per view when Alicia Fox challenges Mickie James. But let us go 'through the years' of this pay per view:
1999
The Fabulous Moolah vs Ivory
In 1999, the legendary Fabulous Moolah returned to the ring for one last run, feuding with then Women's Champion Ivory. At the inaugur...
WrestleMania Blast From the Past: WrestleMania XVII
With this week being dubbed WrestleMania Week by us here at Diva Dirt, we will be offering you many WrestleMania-themed features over the course of the next few days. With this feature, Blast From the Past, we'll be looking back at memorable WrestleMania matches from the event's storied history.
Today, we have a Women's Championship match from the seventeenth WrestleMania, with RTC's token female and Women's Champ Ivory taking on the "morally corrupt" Playboy covergirl Chyna:
WRESTLEMANI...
This Week in History… Trish Wins Her First Title
'Tis the birth of a new feature: This Week in History..., where we'll be taking a match that happened this week in history. (See what we did there?) Who knows? Maybe our trip down memory lane will make you say, "it's been THAT long?!"
This week, at the 2001 Survivor Series, the Divas took part in a Six-Pack Challenge for the Women's Championship recently abandoned by Chyna. This match is quite memorable for being Trish Stratus's very first Women's Title victory:
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History Lesson: Unforgiven
UNFORGIVEN
With the Unforgiven taking place tonight, we've decided to take a look back at the past "Bash"es in the third edition of a feature we'd like to call "History Lesson". Pay attention - there will be a quiz!
Unforgiven has been held in September since the 1999 edition, originally being an "In Your House" event in April 1998. It became a Raw-only event in 2003, but opened itself to every brand in 2007. Much of the time, it has served as a "revenge" event to compliment SummerSlam, mu...