Melanie We’ve heard from a source that there is once again interest from TNA in hiring former WWE Women’s Champion, Jazz aka Carlene Begnaud. The ECW alumna has fallen off the radar in the past year or so but it’s understood that she gave birth to her first child with husband, Rodney Mack late last year/early … Read more
If you aren’t already a member, be sure to join up to our official social networking site, MyDivaDirt.com. – Socialise with the Diva Dirt team & other readers – Create/join fan groups on your favourite Divas/Knockouts etc. – Post your very own blogs on women’s wrestling just like we do at Diva Dirt! And from … Read more
This week on the Roundtable: This week’s Diva Dirt Roundtable features Melanie, Erin and Steven [Tiffany was absent this week but pre-recorded some segments] as we discuss the possibility of a SmackDown without it’s Women’s Champion, Michelle McCool. Plus the four Knockouts feuds in TNA — too many? And which one we find the most … Read more
There have been murmurings of this for some time now, but the official ROH on HDNet Twitter has confirmed that the former Roxxi – Nikki Roxx – has joined Ring of Honor. Nikki is set to start with the company at their tapings this month. – Read our interview with Nikki earlier this year
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, any plans for Divas matches at SummerSlam were scrapped last Friday in a creative meeting that saw most of the show retooled. The Observer notes that the two likely matches, both rematches from Night of Champions were seemingly dropped. In the case of Raw’s Mickie James vs Maryse, due … Read more
ROHwrestling.com has officially released SHIMMER Volume 23 on DVD today. The DVD features the main event of MsChif defending the SHIMMER Championship against newly signed WWE developmental talent, Serena Deeb. Also featured on the DVD is Cheerleader Melissa against Wesna Busic, in what I’ve heard is an incredible match. Full card below: 1. Nikki Roxx … Read more
This week on an all new Roundtable, the Diva Dirt team will be discussing WWE, TNA and a lot more! Join us as usual, on Thursday. But in the meantime, have your say on your topics: Please try to keep them short and sweet — just one sentence, so we can read out as many … Read more
It’s the old age tale of the WWE women’s division — ‘creative amnesia’. You know, that thing where they do something and then don’t follow it up the next week & go in a whole new direction and expect us to forget everything we saw the week before? Or if we’re lucky, they’ll expect us … Read more
Discuss tonight’s Raw in this post!
Roundup of news/notes from our downtime yesterday due to the server move: – As we first reported on our Twitter account, Lilian Garcia has updated her schedule through MySpace — revealing that her final night with WWE will be the August 24th episode of Raw, which is the night after SummerSlam. SummerSlam, the 23rd of … Read more
We have moved to a new, hopefully permanent home! We are pleased to reveal that we have joined the Female Fight League family, joining such sites and promotions as ChickFight, ClickWrestle and Online World of Wrestling to name a few. A big thank you to the wonderful Jason Deadrich for inviting us into the network … Read more
Diva Dirt reader, @OohOui on Twitter attended the Raw house show last night in White Plains, NY and passed along the following live videos of the Divas match. It was the team of Gail Kim, Kelly Kelly and Mickie James in a winning effort against Alicia Fox, Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes.
Part 2 after the cut:
I’m sure you’ve all heard of your ‘five a day’, but Diva Dirt is here to provide you with your ‘five a week’ in our Weekly 5. Join us every Sunday as we take a look back at the week gone by and highlight our top 5 moments of the week.
RAW IS GAIL?
There has been a lot of talk this week about a Gail Kim heel turn and as a Diva Dirt favourite, we are extremely excited about the possibility in the coming weeks on Raw. It looks as though Maryse’s loss [to injury] could be Gail’s gain; as WWE teased tension between Gail and new Divas Champion, Mickie James on Raw.
Click in for #4-2 on our countdown:
This week, former Women’s Champions Gail Kim and Beth Phoenix tell fans why they decided to become wrestlers… Beth is so cute in real life! She’s also got that fun humor that helped Trish Stratus during her career; I am convinced Beth would be a great babyface if they allowed her to speak.
In an update to the injury story on Michelle McCool, the Women’s Champion was legitimately hurt last night in Hampton Beach, NH in her match with Eve Torres. Apparently her left knee buckled underneath her at some point during the match. There’s no update on the severity of the issue; it could be just a … Read more
Thank you to everyone who has applied to be part of our first ever Diva Dirt Fantasy League! Due to the overwhelming amount of applications, we have closed the signups 24 hours before the deadline! We have decided to accept 50 participants for this first season.
Underneath the cut is a full table of all 50 particpants as well as your chosen Divas/Knockouts. If your name isn’t on the list it means A) you haven’t made the count or B) you chose a combo that was already chosen and failed to correct this in time.
If your details are wrong, please use this post to correct them. Unless there is a clash that I have missed [which is possible, as there’s 50 of you, 3 Divas/Knockouts each and one of me] you may not change your selection at this point.
Table after the cut:
Remember that old WWE fantasy game they used to have? Well we are launching our very own Diva Dirt Fantasy League, where you guys can earn points and possibly a big grand prize, all by picking your favourite Divas and Knockouts!
In the Diva Dirt Fantasy League, you pick 3 Divas/Knockouts from each of the 3 brands [Raw, SmackDown/ECW and TNA] and follow them through the Fantasy League season; you earn points if they wrestle, win a match etc.
This first season will take place through the month of August as sort of a test run for future seasons! Each week, we will post the leaderboard of users, the person that ranks #1 by the end of August will win a prize to be determined.
So how do you get involved? Read the rules below and then after the cut, check out the Divas/Knockouts available to pick from as well as read our points system & sign up!
RULES
– Must pick three Divas/Knockouts, one from each category.
– Your combination of Divas/Knockouts must be unique. First come first serve.
– Signups will take place from August 1st, 2009 to August 2nd, 2009. Signups close at 23:59pm UK BST.
– The Fantasy League season runs from August 1st, 2009 to August 31st, 2009.
– A typical fantasy league week runs from Sunday through Saturday.
– In the event of a pay per view, points will be carried over into the next week as per the Sunday-Saturday week.
– You may only enter once using your Diva Dirt registed user account. Anyone caught with multiple accounts will be disqualified and banned from visiting Diva Dirt in future.
– Leaderboard will be posted every Saturday or Sunday.
– At the end of the season, the person with the #1 ranking on the leaderboard will win a prize to be determined.
– In the event of a tie, the prize will be split between the joint #1 ranking users.
– Diva Dirt staff may not take part.
– In the event of an injury/suspension or something extraordinary that puts a girl on the shelf, users will be given 3 options: They may substitute the Diva/Knockout with an alternative from the same category, keep in mind that your combination must still be unique so as not to clash with another user. Alternatively, you may opt to continue the season with just two picks or withdraw from the league altogether.
More after the cut:
Women’s Champion Michelle McCool may have been injured last night after a house show match in Hampton Beach, MA with Eve Torres. Reports say McCool took a bump to the outside and didn’t get up. The match was ruled a no contest and two parademics helped the Women’s Champ to the back. Conflicting reports suggest … Read more
It’s a staple of tabloid magazines: hard hitting, investigative & highly entertaining! Best & Worst Dressed lists can make or break careers in Hollywood and for a site with ‘Dirt’ in the title, it’s only fitting we take this time tested feature & apply it to our Divas! Each week we’ll bring you the best and worst looks from the week gone by, it’s pretty simple right?
Key: School-like grading scheme
It wasn’t a great week for Diva/Knockout fashion this past week. So I guess I’m clutching at straws with my ‘Best’ picks for the week, but congrats to Melina, Gail Kim and Michelle McCool anyway.
Big pay per view match usually means new attire for our Divas, as we saw at Night of Champions when Melina wore what I think was a new variation of her usual ring-wear. The maroon coloured tights are a nice addition to her wardrobe which ranges the rainbow already. C
As for Raw Diva, Gail Kim, her usual off-the-shoulder tops and shorts were back this week in silver. Again not out of the norm for G-Kim but I liked it in silver. C
Last but finally not least is Michelle McCool, who busted out a new colour much like Melina for their PPV match. Michelle is one of those girls that not every colour suits, so the colour choice could have gone wrong here… but thankfully, it didn’t. I would go as far as to say this is probably Michelle’s most flattering variation yet, green seems to suit her exquisitely. B-
This week’s ‘Worst’ after the cut:
WWE’s resident French fry, Maryse is said to be on the shelf for 3 months. That would put her medical clearance for November. There are two different routes they could go, factoring in some time to work out and get ring-ready, they could bring her back in a post-Survivor Series spot as with Melina last … Read more
This week on the Roundtable: The gang is back together as all four of our writers discuss the big news of the week, in true Diva Dirt style. This week we discuss how Maryse’s injury could affect Raw and what we expect of her comeback. In TNA news, we discuss the possible success of the … Read more
With all the talk over the past couple of weeks about what is being described as the worst match in TNA history, Jenna vs Sharmell at Victory Road, you’d think there was only one person in the match — Jenna Morasca. After all, she’s been the one doing all the talking… until now. Jenna’s opponent, … Read more
Diva Dirt reader Rob sent along the following live report from the show. As it hasn’t aired yet, it’s in spoiler tags, so please highlight to read: I attended this match and noticed a few things. It was a very short match. I don’t think it lasted 3 minutes, if that. The ring entrances and … Read more
Everyone’s favourite French fry, Maryse signalled that she is A-OK after surgery yesterday in Birmingham, AL. yesterday by writing that she’s ‘bionic’ on her Twitter page. In a later tweet, I’m guessing she is responding to fan response/criticism to her match at Night of Champions and/or her injury. She writes: to WWE univers good morning, … Read more
There are just 3 days left to vote for your favourite Diva(s) in 50 Sexiest Divas 2009! Last week I gave you an update on how things are shaping up, well this will be my second and final update! I can now reveal that the results of 50 Sexiest Divas 2009 will be revealed next … Read more
In the past 24 hours I have watched ‘Jennagate‘ unfold and decided not to add comment. But having read her long blog yesterday and having just now, read another comment from her, I want to use this space to offer Jenna some advice. So those of you who have access to her MySpace, please feel … Read more