Diva turned country singer, Mickie James will be taking over New York from tomorrow with a ton of TV and radio appearances lined up. All the details below: Television Thursday, June 17th America’s Nightly Scoreboard (7pm ET) Network: Fox Business Network Friday, June 18th Redeye (3am ET) Network: Fox News Channel Fox & Friends (6am … Read more
We’ve got another jam packed episode of Diva Dirt LIVE tonight at 10pm ET (9pm CT/7pm PDT/3am UK)! Here’s what’s coming up tonight and how you an get involved…
Tonight: We welcome our first ever special guest on Diva Dirt LIVE, the Future Legend Cheerleader Melissa will be in the house! Melissa will be taking your calls and answering your questions as well as talking about her fantastic new charity endeavor, taking part in Aids Walk San Francisco. Plus, we discuss the tumultuous week for the Knockouts with ODB and Roxxi out the door and we’ll also preview this Sunday’s Divas Title match at Fatal 4-Way!
And in this week’s call-in quiz, we have another chance to win the Collector’s Edition of SHIMMER Vol. 1 and 2 on DVD. Make sure you call in at around 10.15pm ET to take part and win!
All the details you need to call in, tweet and comment are after the cut:
Pro-Wrestling: EVE have announced a training camp this weekend led by veteran British wrestler, Sweet Saraya. The two-day training camp will result in a free women’s wrestling show on Sunday. Read the press release below: Pro-Wrestling:EVE are teaming with veteran British wrestling promotion WAW as EVE Professional and WAW Co-Founder “Sweet” Saraya Knight takes a … Read more
Season two of NXT continues tonight at 10pm ET on Syfy. What will Team Lay-Cool and their NXT Rookie, Kaval get up to? Discuss the show in the comments!
WWE has finally released some new Diva merchandise with a Divas t-shirt featuring Alicia Fox, Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool. You can pick up the new tee for $14.99 by clicking here. What do you think? Will you be buying?
Oh yes! You’ve heard of voguing and there’s even something called the ‘Migraine Skank’ these days, but former Divas Champion Maryse debuted her own dance this past weekend at the Raw house shows. Diva Dirt reader Frank sent these links in. Watch below!
Watch another clip after the cut.
Can anyone think of a name for Maryse’s dance trend?
Independent wrestler, April Hunter has said that she turned down the opportunity to become a TNA Knockout and says she is ‘continually disappointed’ in the way that TNA has treated its Knockouts division. She writes: While I’m in a chipper carb depleted mood, I thought I’d mention something. I’ve been holding my tongue for far … Read more
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 … Read more
This summer, Diva Dirt is giving away prizes every single week and every single month in our Summer of Swag. Over the next 13 weeks, we are giving our readers the chance to win hundreds of dollars worth of goodies courtesy of our friends at ClickWrestle.com and Highspots.com.
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Week 2 Result
Thank you to everyone who entered week two of the competition but we could only have one winner for the weekly sweepstake. Congratulations to Aiden Hughes (username: aiden123) for winning the free ClickWrestle download!
Remember, all of you that entered the week two sweepstake will automatically be put into the draw for the monthly prize, a $25 gift certificate at Highspots.com. And don’t forget, even if you didn’t win the weekly prize last week, there’s still 11 more chances to win! Now time for the week three sweepstake!
Former Women’s Champion, Victoria [aka Tara] has been re-added to the Alumni section over at WWE.com. Her profile was originally moved to the Alumni section in January 2009 after leaving WWE. It was later deleted after Victoria became Tara in TNA. Looks like the recently departed Knockout may have spoken to the company recently and … Read more
Kayfabe Commentaries’ YouShoot with Maria Kanellis is on sale today. Last month, the trailer for this highly anticipated interview led to a lot of buzz and it’s finally here! I received an advance copy for review and will have something up hopefully later today. Check out the press release below: YOUSHOOT: MARIA KANELLIS RELEASED TODAY … Read more
Divas Champion, Eve Torres will defend the title in a four-way match this Sunday at the new Fatal 4-Way pay per view, it has been announced. Torres will face off against Alicia Fox, Gail Kim and Maryse at the event. With only four matches announced so far, cross your fingers for a Layla/Michelle/Kelly/Tiffany match to … Read more
Three time Knockouts Champion, ODB has just posted on her Twitter page that she has quit TNA Wrestling. She writes: thanks tna fans for all the support but tna and odb have parted ways.it was a decision I made.bamm bitches Yet another blow to a division that has been on a downward spiral of late. … Read more
It’s been about five months since Maria Kanellis was released from the WWE but boy, what a busy five months it’s been. From ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ to her debut EP, ‘Sevin Sins’, Maria has been juggling several projects. The latest of her projects are two shoot interviews: one for Highspots.com and one for Kayfabe Commentaries. … Read more
Here is the unseen Knockouts match from last week’s episode of TNA Impact. The match was cut from the Spike TV broadcast of the show on Thursday but aired internationally in the UK and Australia. Watch below:
As witnessed just moments ago at TNA’s Slammiversary pay per view, Roxxi is done with the company after losing an impromptu ‘Title vs Career’ match against Madison Rayne. However, it seems there is a bigger story behind this shock departure. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer writes: I had heard earlier that there was a … Read more
Tonight, TNA celebrates it’s anniversary with Slammiversary. Who will win the Knockouts Championship match between Roxxi and Madison Rayne? Tune in on pay per view from 8pm ET. Discuss the show in the comments!
The Knockouts Title is on the line tonight when returning Knockout, Roxxi faces off against Madison Rayne. Which woman will win? The Diva Dirt team weigh in… Cryssi: I would love to sit here and act excited about this match but the fact of the matter is the Algeria vs. Slovenia World Cup match sounds … Read more
Diva Dirt reader, David Myles wrote in to tell us that a match scrapped from this past Thursday’s episode of Impact has aired internationally, particularly in Australia and the UK.
The match pit #1 Contender Roxxi and newcomer Rosie Lottalove against The Beautiful People’s Lacey Von Erich and Velvet Sky on the go-home show before tonight’s Slammiversary pay per view.
The Motor City Machine Guns came down on commetary, Roxxi’s music played and her and Rosie made their way to the ring in a pretty funny entrance. (Roxxi again wearing the brown outfit). The guns are horrified they have to be on commetary watching Rosie just to get on TV, but they call her ‘hot’ nonetheless. They replay the events from last week with Madison and Rosie. The opponents Velvet and Lacey enter (sans Madison Rayne), and the Guns compare entrances of Rosie and TBP. A few fat jokes and we get to the match.
Rosie starts off against Velvet, Velvet mocks Rosie by shaking her ‘thang’, to which Rosie shakes her own. Velvet charges and gets knocked down by Rosie before tagging in Lacey, who also mocks Rosie by walking in with her arms outstretched (a la trish mocking ‘fat’ lita), before shoving Rosie, who doesn’t move, Rosie shoves Lacey back and sends her into next week.
Lacey composes herself before attempting to bodyslam Rosie (yep…) even with Velvet’s encouragement she fails to lift Rosie, and Rosie easily slams Lacey before tagging in Roxxi who hits a sloppy dropkick on LVE, before Lacey tags in Velvet. Velvet charges and is dropped with a drop toe hold, she grabs Vel Vel with an arm wrench before allowing Rosie to tag herself in (after being slightly out of reach and missing the first tag attempt ~lulz) Rosie hits a standing axe-handle to Velvet before continuing to work over the arm. Roxxi (for some reason) is trying to get into the ring or around to Lacey, but anyway, manages to accidently distract the referee, allowing Velvet to pull Rosie’s hair and get her in position for LVE to hit her across the back of the leg with the infrequently seen ‘ugly stick’. Rosie sells it like she had been shot in the leg, and Lacey tags in and hits a double team ‘wish bone’ on Rosie, Lacey works over the leg before tagging Velvet back in.
Co-Women’s Champions, Layla and Michelle McCool have broken the top 10 of WWE.com’s Power 25, this week. Correct me if I’m wrong [because I don’t usually keep up with it], but I believe they are the first Divas to break into the top 10 of the list. Other Divas charting on the Power 25 this … Read more
For the first time since becoming Women’s Champion, Layla finally gets herself a singles match on SmackDown, facing off against another Diva that has been impressing of late, Tiffany. On paper, this was an exciting opportunity for both rising Divas to show what they can do in the ring. How did it play out in execution? Watch the match below:
It’s great to see a fresh, new match up on SmackDown especially given the shallow talent pool that the brand has at the moment. We’ve only seen Tiffany in singles action against Michelle thus far, so I have been anticipating these two squaring off for a while.
Lay-Cool are out first with their NXT Rookie, Kaval in tow. As Layla and Michelle McCool take off their hoodies in their signature entrance, they toss it over Kaval’s head as if he were a coat rack. As they approach the ring, Lady McCool has the bottom rope held down for her by Butler Kaval as she enters.
It’s promo time now. The duo make Kaval hold their belts before addressing the crowd. Lay-Cool mock the crowd, yadda, yadda. Oh hey, Michelle’s parents are in the crowd. Kelly’s mom is too, but apparently she’s not important enough to be shown on camera. Oops. More mocking the crowd.
Tiffany Tiffany is out next with her own personal manager for the night, Kelly Kelly — they are dubbed the Blondetourage by Matt Striker.
The match kicks off with Layla delivering a hefty slap across Tiffany’s face but the rookie Diva fights back with some vicious forearms. We’re already off to a nice, aggressive start! Tiffany tries to whip Layla into the corner, but she reverses — Tiffany manages to catch herself in the corner and hoists herself up using the ropes with her legs now on Layla’s shoulders. Layla grabs her legs and throws them over the top rope and Tiffany lands on her feet on the apron. Layla screams at Tiffany and grabs her by the head but Tiffany fights back with another forearm and a shoulder block through the ropes. Tiffany tries to climb the ropes but Layla delivers a beautiful kick as Tiffany takes a bump to the apron.
The first SHIMMER DVD from the April tapings has now been released via ROHwrestling.com. Volume 29 features 11 matches including MsChif and Cheerleader Melissa teaming up in the main event against the Canadian Ninjas, Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews. This volume also sees the SHIMMER debuts of four Japanese puroresu talents. Full card below: 1. … Read more
Really nice article on WWE.com at the moment, honoring the recent successes of two former Diva Search winners: Eve Torres and Layla. The article charts the two Divas’ growth from their Diva Search wins to present day, where they are the Divas Champion and Women’s Champion, respectively.
A few bites below from each Diva:
Layla
* “I think just within the last year or year and a half, I feel like my growth is noticeable to everybody,” Layla admitted. “I mean, it’s noticeable to me, and I’m my worst critic, but other people are bringing it to my attention. I feel like that’s a huge improvement. I feel like a totally different person.”
* “I feel like I can express myself in a very funny, entertaining way,” the Women’s Champion said. “If you ask people backstage what I’m really like, they’ll probably tell you that I am probably the prankster, the jokester. But I enjoy every single minute.
“I feel like my entertainment value has gone up, way up. Now maybe I can say I’m entertaining and you don’t want to change the channel when I come on. Or you just want to hate me … and I know you guys really love me.”
I totally, 100% agree with Layla’s comments. Since moving to SmackDown in the Draft last year, Layla’s work rate has improved ten-fold to the point where I think she is a solid worker and has a lot of passion in the ring. Meanwhile, her character has developed and she has honed herself to be one of the most entertaining Divas in the WWE — if not the most entertaining. Her humour is spot on and it’s her little quips in her promos that really make me laugh.
I’ve always seen something in Layla and I’ve always been a supporter of hers, I’m very proud to see her with the Women’s Title. In a year or so, she could be one of the few ‘total packages’ in the women’s division: ring work, great promos, wit, personality and charisma.
New Raw Diva, Tamina now has an official profile on WWE.com. Check it out by clicking here. Tamina is, of course, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer, Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka. She and the Uso brothers made their debuts as a collective three weeks ago.
