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 … Read more
Speaking on the upcoming season of The Celebrity Apprentice, magnate Donald Trump put over recently released Diva Maria Kanellis who stars on the show. In an interview with Digital Spy, Trump says that he was ‘selective’ with the stars selected for the new season of the show, turning down ‘six or seven people per spot’. … Read more
A few readers have pointed out that in the champions graphic on the TNAwrestling.com roster page, all three members of The Beautiful People are pictured as Knockouts Tag Team Champions. It looks as though the trio may be defending the belts under ‘Freebird Rule‘, a gimmick that was applied to the legendary tag team The … Read more
TNA crowned new Knockouts Tag Team Champions tonight in the wake of Awesome Kong’s departure from the company. In storyline, Taz and Mike Tenay announced that Kong and partner Hamada had been ‘stripped’ of the belts after failing to defend them in the past 30 days. In actuality, the move is due to Kong coming … Read more
Tonight’s episode of Raw is hosted by the mind freak himself, Criss Angel. Will he convince us last week’s Pajama Pillowfight was just an illusion? Tune in at 9/8ct on USA Network to find out. Discuss the show in the comments!
Tonight, TNA Impact moves to Monday nights with a live two hour broadcast. What can we expect from the Knockouts? Tune in at 9/8ct on Spike TV. Discuss the show in the comments!
In honour of Women’s History Month, WWE.com has unveiled the 25 Divas they believe to be the ‘Most Impactful Women’ in WWE history and perhaps of little surprise, a certain 7-time Women’s Champion tops the list. Trish Stratus beats competition such as The Fabulous Moolah, Sable and Lita to take the crown. The list is … Read more
In a blog on her newly launched official website, now former Diva Maria Kanellis had some positive words about her former co-workers putting over several of the girls. She writes: I will however miss the Divas. They will forever be a part of my story. Mickie giving wrestling her heart, soul and a real teacher … Read more
As per request, we’ve decided to do a round-up of the weekend house show results for those of you who are interested. Results below: Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Raw Gail Kim & Kelly Kelly def. Alicia Fox & Maryse SmackDown Beth Phoenix and Tiffany def. Layla & Natalya Usual Diva fare; Phoenix and Natalya have … Read more
Reports made the rounds earlier this week that Roxxi was done with TNA after her profile was supposedly removed from the official TNA website. In an update/clarification to those reports which were subsequently credited by us in our post on Friday, it is our realisation that Roxxi — also known as Nikki Roxx — was … Read more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Unwrapped! As always, we will be grading all of the new photoshoots (or “eye candy”, as we like to call them) from the week gone by, judging them like so:
Sweet (Great) • Bland (Iffy) • Sour (Awful)
You, the reader, will also get the chance to grade the “eye candy” yourself by giving your opinion on each shoot and voting for your favorite out of the whole bunch. Now, dive in!
Beth Phoenix‘s Saucy Secretary Grade: Sour. Has Beth Phoenix traded in the life of a WWE Diva to be someone’s secretary? Sure looks like it. And if her super short skirt is anything to go by, she may be an Ali Larter in ‘Obsessed’ type secretary — though I’m sure she’d have no problem taking care of Beyonce. Honestly though, I don’t know why Beth so often opts to dress like she’s heading off for a day at the office and it’s not a flattering look on her. It ages her, makes her a little bit frumpy and isn’t the wardrobe of a Glamazon. The poses are the standard hands-on-hips shots that offer little diversity also.
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Kelly Kelly‘s Just Dance Grade: Sweet. Despite looking far too tanned for my liking, Kelly is dressed in cute, sexy, young club wear and looks like she’s ready to go dance the night away. Kelly fits her skinny jeans effortlessly and the the sequined top works on her too. Meanwhile, I really like Kelly with her hair up like this, it gives her more of a fashionable look than her usual hair-down look. The poses aren’t offering too much variety but I think Kelly manages to salvage it with her pearly whites. I particularly love the image we’ve used in the graphic — it looks a little more artsy than the standard Diva catalogue poses.
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Congratulations are in order for Stephanie McMahon and husband, Triple H. The couple are expecting their third child as confirmed by Stephanie’s mother, Linda via Twitter. It had been speculated on various sites that Stephanie was pregnant after she appeared at a rally event for her mom last week. Linda confirmed the pregnancy on her … Read more
Former Divas & Women’s Champion, Melina has officially started tweeting today and updated fans on her injury. The Diva was hurt at a December house show when she tore her ACL in the ring in a freak accident. On her Twitter page, Melina writes: My knee is doing well. Still in pain. Still can’t do … Read more
Pajamas, Wrestlicious and leather belts… it’s been a week of gimmicks for all of the Divas, Knockouts and whatever you wanna call the Wrestlicious stars. Vote in the poll below for your favourite match or moment from this week:
A former Playboy model who was signed to a developmental contract last year is said to have already been dropped by the company. LordsofPain.net reports there was talk at the FCW taping this past Thursday of Jillian Beyor, whose signing we reported last November, being released. The 24 year old was crowned Playboy’s Model of … Read more
With rumours suggesting that Gail Kim was hurt during the Pajama Pillowfight match on Raw, the Diva posted on her official forum declaring that she’s doing just fine. Read below: I’m mainly writing a message because I’m getting concerned emails about an injury? I am not injured. I don’t know where that came from. Oh … Read more
Who has the upper hand when you pit Beth Phoenix versus Vickie Guerrero? Looks like we’re about to find out. The latest WWE Diva power struggle pits the unlikely ‘Diva’ Guerrero up against the Glamazon and despite their obvious mismatch in terms of wrestling ability, in all other aspects they’re pretty much tit-for-tat. In kayfabe, Guerrero is the authoratative consultant GM for the SmackDown brand — giving her the right to book matches, make decisions and even fire people. Meanwhile the Glamazon is a talent that colours outside of the lines and doesn’t necessarily care about authority. Is she really intimidated by Vickie?
Watch this week’s SmackDown segment below:
New Women’s Champ, Michelle McCool and Layla are backstage thanking Vickie for her help in winning her the belt last week against Mickie James. The duo present Vickie with a ‘Team Flawless’ top and make her a member of the group. However, up sneaks Beth Phoenix who tells Vickie she wants a shot at the title but Vickie says she’ll get a shot when Vickie says so. Power struggle ensues. Beth says Vickie shouldn’t cross her, Vickie says she’s not intimidated by Beth and that Beth shouldn’t cross her either.
Interesting development here. It seems as though Beth is slotting into that antagonistic role to Vickie that Mickie held until she went away to have her knee surgery. Honestly, I’d hope this will all result in Beth getting a title shot at WrestleMania in a few weeks but I’m not holding my breath. I think the set-up here is exciting as Beth, unlike Mickie, doesn’t come across as a goody-two-shoes type. Beth comes across as a character that marches to the beat of her own drum and doesn’t care about what the GM thinks and that contrasted with Vickie Guerrero should be great to see develop.
Honestly given that it was such a short segment, there’s not much more to analyse. Like I said, I’d like to see this lead to a match at ‘Mania though.
Add another Knockout to the list of departures. Roxxi, who made a brief return to the company in December, is done with TNA reports PWInsider and ProWrestling.net. Both sites report that Roxxi was not under contract, rather paid per appearance. It looks as though TNA has no plans to bring her back now that she … Read more
It’s been a week of new products for women’s wrestling this week with the premiere of Wrestlicious TakeDown on Monday. That product itself was somewhat controversial with some of our readers but just when you think you’ve seen it all, here’s something else to make you ponder. TNA’s Eric Bischoff filmed a pilot for his … Read more
Tonight, it’s the final Thursday night episode of TNA Impact and the Knockouts are bound to be part of it. What will they get up to? Tune in and find out at 9pm ET on Spike TV.
The original Knockout, Traci Brooks who was released by TNA earlier today posted the following on her MySpace page: Just wanted to take this time to say yes I was released yesterday afternoon from TNA. There is nothing to report or any stories on why … simply they had nothing for me. I loved my … Read more
Former WWE Diva and TNA Knockout, Shelly Martinez wants a return to her former Impact Zone stomping grounds. Martinez, who competed in TNA as Salinas from late 2007 through late 2008 posted the following message on her MySpace: I was talking to my friend today and he asked me if I would go back to … Read more
TNA has released TNA Knockout, Traci Brooks reports PWInsider. Brooks is the longest serving Knockout, beginning with the company all the way back in 2003 long before TNA introduced a Knockouts division. Despite being with the company for four years before the division was even born, Traci was never really pushed in the Knockouts division … Read more
Europe based Pro-Wrestling: EVE will launch this May with it’s debut show on May 8th at the Delphi Club in Sudbury, Suffolk. The company, which hopes to be Europe’s answer to SHIMMER, will tape two DVDs worth of content on the evening. Full details below:
Evolution of professional women’s wrestling to take place on May 8 in UK!
From the UK producer of the acclaimed female only wrestling company “ChickFight”, comes a brand new all-female professional wrestling promotion dedicated to showcasing the best women wrestlers in all of Europe fighting for victory in Pro-Wrestling: EVE.
BEGINNINGS
Pro-Wrestling: EVE debuts on Saturday May 8 from the fantastic Delphi Club in Sudbury, Suffolk for two DVD recordings that will feature the finest female wrestlers in all of Europe such as “Coventry’s Loudest” Jetta, Mother & Daughter team of Saraya & Britani – The Knight Dynasty, Greece native “The Hardcore Daredevil” Blue Nikita, “Female Fight Machine” Jenny Sjödin from Sweden, German star “The Alpha Female” Kristin Gabert, Scotland’s Nikki Storm, 4’11” “Little” Erin Angel and many others! Doors open at 6.30pm with the first bell at 7pm.
PURPOSE
While the female wrestlers of Pro-Wrestling: EVE are indeed here to show the world just how good they are, make no mistake about it this is not simply an exhibition of athletics. For these women it is all about winning and in the beginning the wrestlers will compete against one another in a bid to being one of the selected few invited to take part in the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship League. Losing is not an option.
