Diva Dirt reader Kristy sent in her own account of the action from last night’s SmackDown taping. The show airs on Friday. Click the ‘+’ to read:
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The Lost-like wheel of fortune stops on Michelle McCool this week, continuing the analogy that each week a different Diva is the main focus of the SmackDown storyline. The Women’s Champion, who recently celebrated 200 days with the gold, threw her hat into the race to prove just who the most dominant Diva is on … Read more
A precariously worded article at The Sun suggests that SmackDown Diva, Maria may be ‘eyeing her WWE farewell’. The recent Slammy-award winning Diva spoke on Sky Sports News yesterday, which is cited in the piece: TAKE one last lingering look at these snaps of stunning Maria Kanellis — because she might not be a WWE … Read more
Two Diva entrance themes find themselves part of the tracklisting for the next ‘WWE The Music’ album. The next installment, due for release on January 28th is subtitled ‘A New Day’ and features the current themes of Tiffany and The Bella Twins. Other tracks on the album will include themes for Evan Bourne, Legacy and … Read more
Hermie’s Hotseat returns with another Knockout-themed edition, this time Hermie Sadler is joined by the original TNA Knockout — or as we lovingly call her, Original Flavour — Traci Brooks. Watch below: While the conversation never truly deviates from Traci’s breasts [or flotation devices as Hermie calls them], Traci does go into some depth about … Read more
The ODB–Tara saga continues this Sunday in a two out of three falls match at TNA’s Genesis pay per view. Oh joy! Of all the feuds, right? I truly hope this is the blow-off for these two with Tara getting the title back and feuding with someone new. Alissa Flash, where you at, girl?
In case you missed it last night or just want to see it again, Angelina Love made her much anticipated return to TNA last night. Watch it all unfold below. Check back later for The Guide to Impact but for now, why not listen to the first ever Post-Impact Show?
TNA’s Awesome Kong has shown great iniative in getting the wrestling world involved in raising money for Haiti, which was struck by a tragic earthquake earlier this week. We’d like to show our support and urge all of you to support as well… First of all, Kong will be hosting a benefit tonight at the … Read more
It’s the first episode of Impact since the live episode last week! How will Angelina Love make her return? Discuss the show in the comments! Check back later tonight for the first ever Post-Impact Show!
One half of the now former Knockouts Tag Team Champions, Sarita spoke to the Miami Herald about the company’s upcoming Genesis pay per view this Sunday as well as last Monday’s live episode of Impact. Interestingly, one of the points discussed is how the Knockouts division will fit into the new era of TNA [the … Read more
Beautiful People star, Lacey Von Erich is one of the guests on the new episode of TNA’s Spin Cycle hosted by Jeremy Borash. Interestingly, Borash mentioned in a recent interview that this episode had to have re-shoots because of Von Erich’s ‘potty mouth’. I wonder how much might let slip in the final version? Check … Read more
Our own Diva, Krissy Vaine will be joining us tomorrow for an audio recording and we are looking for questions from you for her to answer! They can be about wrestling, health, beauty… whatever! Try to make them original and fun ;) We’ll only be picking the top five questions to put to Krissy. [Hey, … Read more
Stew and Lee: So where in the world has the Women of Wrestling Podcast been for these last couple of months? Good question, dear listener… but while we ponder that one, why not sit back and enjoy a stopgap chat with WWE’s very own Kelly Kelly. Yes, you read that correctly. An abbreviated interview, but … Read more
Things are looking big for Maria in 2010 aren’t they? Major show on a major network, check. Her own album, check. Red carpet appearances, check. Work done to her face? Questionable. Last week, Ms Kanellis attended the official BCS championship party [yeah, I don’t want that is either] in what I’m assuming is one of … Read more
SmackDown Diva, Maria Kanellis will release her debut EP entitled ‘Sevin Sins’ on April 13th. The album will feature pop-rock songs. The title, a pun on the phrase ‘seven sins’, is dedicated to her partner Vin. Fellow SmackDown Diva, Mickie James will also release her debut country album this March, while former Diva Lilian Garcia … Read more
Diva Dirt reader Kristy sent in her own account of the action from last night’s SmackDown taping. The show airs on Friday. Click the ‘+’ to read:
Thoughts after the cut:
Over the past couple of weeks, we have gotten more e-mails than ever from people wanting to be part of the Diva Dirt team or contribute to the site in some way. We are pleased to announce that we now have some opportunities available!
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First of all, it’s with sadness we announce that Tiffany has decided to leave the Diva Dirt team. Tiffany has not only been a valuable member of our team but become such a close friend to all of us, we want to take this time to thank her for everything she has contributed and hope that she will return one day, the door is left firmly open for her.
With that we announce that the spot of TNA correspondent and a position on the Diva Dirt team is now available. This position will include posting relevant news regarding the TNA Knockouts, contributing other features, writing the weekly Impact review column in the style of the Raw and SmackDown Redux, writing a monthly pay per view review column and taking part in audio shows.
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A former WWE Diva and Women’s Champion was present backstage at last night’s Raw in Minneapolis. Molly Holly, a Minnesota native, was visiting friends while the troupe were in town reports PWTorch. Molly has been on good terms with WWE since semi-retiring in 2005. She returned last year for the Miss WrestleMania battle royal at … Read more
Check out the first commercial for NBC’s third season of Celebrity Apprentice which will star SmackDown’s Maria. Notice how she doesn’t even get to talk? You know who they consider the star power…
For those keeping score at home, here are the updated brackets for the Divas Championship tournament based on tonight’s episode of Raw. Announced for next week is a semi-final match between Alicia Fox and Gail Kim.
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What’s with the trend of Divas pitching reality shows? Last year we reported that an ensemble cast is pitching a Hills-like reality show, meanwhile TNA’s Tara is looking to get into the reality circuit too — and now the latest name to add to that list is former Women’s Champion The Kat, real name Stacy … Read more
TNA writer, Vince Russo has talked about his respect for the Knockouts division on his Facebook page. When asked whether we’d be seeing any ‘bra and panties’ matches in TNA, he writes: I don’t think you’ll be seeing any bras and panties matches–I respect our Knockouts way to much. But you will see other creative … Read more
Can you name the odd one out in this picture? Knockout Traci Brooks and wrestler Frankie Kazarian said their “I do’s” last week in the presence of several of their TNA family — but wait, who’s that? WWE Diva Gail Kim reunited with her former co-workers for the wedding and it looks as though she … Read more
Remember that story last year about WWE shutting down Stacy Keibler when she offered her services to be a guest host on Raw? Looks like the ‘E has changed their tune. According to Keibler, WWE offered her the gig after her agent went back to them but a date couldn’t be hashed out. In an … Read more

With a growing Knockouts division, two sets of titles and multiple storylines at the same time, a two-hour time slot shared with the men is beginning to become a little bit cramped. Thinking back to the early days of the Knockouts division in 2007, there is a reason why the feud between Awesome Kong and Gail Kim is so highly regarded — it had time to grow by receiving ample amounts of attention and spanned two pay per views. The feud and matches between the two helped put the Knockouts division on the map and showed the mass audience what women’s wrestling could be. Fast forward to present day and it seems to me that the feuds in the division are often half-baked and nothing more than a series of matches or run-ins or backstage attacks. Where’s the scripting and storyline gone? Should TNA just be given a pass because they have good matches?
With more Knockouts utilised than ever before, it’s a competition for screen time and usually the slots given to the women on Impact are fought over. Thus, a lot of the times you’ll see feuds rotate from week to week but this doesn’t seem to be working. Going back to that earlier example, Kim vs Kong, at the time it was the sole storyline for the Knockouts and was able to have consistent time and effort put into it. Perhaps today, the TNA writers are trying to do too much despite having too little time. Many times, feuds have just come out of no where and ended abruptly — Alissa Flash vs Hamada is one example. But even then, the bigger feuds such as Kong vs Tara if you think back, was nothing more than a series of run-ins and attacks with little explanation for the animosity between them, and no real dialogue or emotions being told in storyline.
The launch of a second set of titles means that the Knockouts are stretched pretty thin for the TV time and though they are made good use of on Impact, it just doesn’t seem to be doing them any favours in the long term.
With the Hulk Hogan era now underway, it seems the time devoted to the girls may decrease while the numbers within the division continue to expand as TNA is always on the lookout for new talent. Is it time for a Knockouts-only TV show?
It’s being reported that WWE Diva and ECW General Manager, Tiffany and SmackDown’s Intercontinental Champion Drew McIntyre are engaged to be married. The report has surfaced from PWInsider though I’m not sure how accurate it is. The site reports that the pair will marry in May. Congratulations to the couple if true, I didn’t even … Read more