It was announced on tonight’s SmackDown that SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair will face Sasha Banks at SummerSlam on Saturday, Aug. 21. This will be their rematch from WrestleMania in April where the two made history and Belair defeated Banks to win her first title within WWE. Banks made her return last week after a … Read more
It is being reported by Sean Ross Sapp from Fightful that Mercedes Martinez has been released by WWE. She is one of 12 names announced tonight as releases from the NXT brand. WWE has been releasing talent frequently since the week after WrestleMania in April. Martinez is a 20-plus year veteran in the wrestling industry … Read more
Lady Frost is now added to the NWA Women’s Invitational which will be main eventing the NWA Empowerrr event on Aug. 28. She was already announced for the event, but now we know she will be in the gauntlet style match. Not only will Frost be in the invitational but she has been announced as … Read more
Chelsea Green will make her in-ring debut for Ring of Honor at this month’s Glory By Honor Night 2 pay-per-view. Green is teaming with Willow to take on Miranda Alize and Rok C in tag team action. The promotion released a statement about the match, which reads as follows: It’s an exciting new era for … Read more
The artist formerly known as Peyton Royce of The IIconics has disclosed what dreams and aspirations lay ahead for her. WWE released Cassie Lee earlier this year and now that her 90-day non-complete cause has expired many fans are expecting to see her turn up in IMPACT! or AEW. However, in a recent interview, she … Read more
On this week’s NXT UK Blair Davenport put the entire women’s division on notice while Stevie Turner got in the champion’s face.
The show kicked off with the match between NXT UK’s newest bad girl, Davenport and Xia Brookside.
The week prior Davenport called Brookside out. Davenport said that Brookside was only in NXT UK because of her surname. The snipe resulted in a match on this week’s show.
The match started with some back-and-forth action with both laying in the offence.
Davenport took control before landing a big knee strike followed by a Kamigoye. Brookside succumbed to the strikes and was pinned for Davenport’s second victory in the promotion.
After the match, Davenport added insult to injury by planting Brookside with a Michinoku Driver.
This was a good showcase to establish Davenport as someone to be reckoned with in the NXT UK women’s division.
Following the match, an Isla Dawn vignette played showing her doing spooky things. Then backstage footage showed Nina Samuels and Amale get heated as they get into each other’s faces. This confrontation results in a match booked for next week between the two.
Another video package shows Aofie Valkyrie cursing Jinny and Joseph Conners.
Stevie Turner approaches NXT UK Women’s Champion Meiko Satomura but it is quickly reminded it was a bad idea. It seems as though Turner is stepping up to challenge the champ, which is an even worse idea.
Kay Lee Ray is reported to be stateside and training at the WWE Performance Centre in Orlando. According to Mike Johnson of PWInsider, Kay Lee Ray was spotted at the PC. The report states that they don’t know if she is there on NXT UK business but they can confirm her attendance. The Scary Queen of … Read more
After tonight’s AEW Dynamite Homecoming, we have two title matches coming up to look forward to. Heading into tonight’s show we were geared up to see “Legit” Leyla Hirsch facing The Bunny. The winner to face Kamille at NWA Empowerrr for the NWA World Women’s Championship. Kamille was in the audience for this match. Hirsch … Read more
Allysin Kay is now moving on to the quarter-finals of the ROH Women’s Title Tournament Quest for Gold. She defeated Willow on this week’s Women’s Division Wednesday. In what was a great exchange between two incredibly talented women, Willow missed on a high-risk maneuver that allowed Kay to hit the discus lariat. Willow rolled out … Read more
The former Riott Squad leader, Ruby Soho’s next wrestling home is reported to be AEW. According to Fightful AEW’s women’s division is about get a shot in the arm with the arrival of Soho. The report states that talent and industry insiders believe Soho is AEW bound and we could see her around All Out. … Read more
This week’s NXT didn’t have any women’s matches, unfortunately, but what it did have was a lot of segments. Dakota Kai turned on her now former ally and tag team partner, NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez last week. So why did this happen? According to Kai, if it wasn’t for her then Gonzalez would still … Read more
The artist formerly known as Peyton Royce, Cassie Lee revealed that it was possibly her fault that the IIconics split up. Furthermore, she believes it was the “worst decision she made”. Lee was a guest on the most recent edition of Insight With Chris Van Vliet. During the interview, she talked about breaking up the … Read more
Ruby Soho dropped a fiery new look on her Twitter account recently. Gone is the signature green hair that accompanied her WWE run. Now a fierce new red look added to her name change is in place as she prepares for the next chapter in her wrestling journey. In June the former Ruby Riott spoke … Read more
Mickie James and NWA are making history. They host their first-ever all-women’s pay-per-view EmPowerrr at the end of the month. During an Instagram Live session James surprised Chelsea Green with a huge announcement regarding the main event of the show. Here’s what James said: “I remember a Tweet that I saw from you that said … Read more
The RAW Women’s Champion Nikki A.S.H. is having a great few weeks so far as champion. On this week’s RAW, she picked up a big win in a No Holds Barred match against Charlotte Flair in the main event. Despite being a champion and in the main event scene she still has some doubters.
Over the weekend, Nikki spoke with DS Shin from Ring the Belle. She had a message to those that may not be sold by her character right now. “It might just take little time to warm up.”
“When we approached this and when we came up with this, we put a lot of thought and love and a lot of time and energy into this. For me, I’m so happy to spread this message, and I’m so happy to show this character because it’s something I’m so proud of and satisfied with, and feel really fulfilled with. So for me, for the fans who are still warming up to it, that’s okay. That’s the joy of coming to a WWE event. That’s the joy of tuning into Monday Night Raw every week. You can resonate with the message, and it might be something you resonate with right away. Or it might just take a little time to warm up.”
Nikki is far from the first woman to fashion a cape in the WWE or in wrestling in general. She was asked who she would love to have in a Superhero stable.
TO THE NIKKIMOBILE!
“Mighty Molly and Super Stacy. I think we would be a formidable team. We also have the Hurricane. We have Shane Helms, the Hurricane Helms overseeing us. With Hurricane, Super Stacy, Mighty Molly, I think we would be quite a trio in the women’s tag division. I’m ready, let’s go. Let’s get in the Nikkimobile!”
As already mentioned, Nikki recently became RAW Women’s Champion. The night after winning the Money in the Bank briefcase, Nikki cashed in on newly crowned champion Charlotte Flair. The two along with Rhea Ripley are geared for a Triple Threat coming up at SummerSlam. DS asked Nikki what she did after she won the championship.
“My husband was on Facetime and I called, you know, my mom and my family. It was just so wonderful. Because of the time difference in Scotland, it was the middle of the night you know. So I’m calling my sister and my mom and tears were in my eyes. But I was also so happy, so they were happy. Joyful tears. I was just over the moon.”
Nikki talks about being back in Chicago and in front of the fans again for the first time in a long time. She speaks highly of the city as she worked many shows for the SHIMMER promotion before joining WWE. She speaks on the evolution of her gimmicks starting from her time in SHIMMER all the way to being Almost a Superhero.
“For me, there’s always a part of me in every stage. I think if you’ve been on this journey with me. Whether it was in SHIMMER at the Berwyn Eagles Club coming to cheer me or boo me, and then the NXT Nikki, and then the Nikki that was a tag team with Alexa, and then Nikki when me and Alexa parted. And then you’ve got now. And I think it’s all been different parts and different layers of the personality. We’ve just spent the last five years exploring that, developing that. So I think if you’ve been on the ride with me, and this roller coaster ride with me, buckle up! Because we’re about to go to even more amazing heights.”
No matter what Nikki is doing she always continues to have a smile on her face and her fans are loving it.
Credit to DS and Ring the Belle for this interview and go subscribe to Ring the Belle’s YouTube channel.
How are you likely Nikki’s reign as champion so far? Do you see her retaining at SummerSlam? Leave your thoughts below.
Shotzi Blackheart has responded to Chris Jericho’s response to her tweet she posted about the heavily criticized bump at AEW’s Blood and Guts. At the WarGames style event, Jericho took a dive off the top of the cage and onto the ramp that was clearly padded. The bump received the meme treatment online from fans … Read more
Mel (also known as Melanie Cruise) has had her profile removed from the AEW website. Mel, who debuted for the promotion at the end of 2019, hasn’t appeared for AEW since a Dark match in August 2020 against Red Velvet. She was brought in as a part of The Nightmare Collective with Brandi Rhodes, Awesome … Read more
At AEW Fyter Fest Night 2 Britt Baker successfully defended her women’s championship against Nyla Rose. But, her first defence came at a cost. A broken wrist. On this week’s edition of AEW Baker addressed the injury in a backstage segment. During the interview Baker referenced the several injuries she has suffered in her time … Read more
This week AEW celebrates the 100th episode of Dark. The show began on October 2 2019 in Washington and continued to run since. Taped before each episode of Dynamite the program has featured champions, challengers and multiple debuts. To celebrate the 100th episode AEW is hosting several exciting women’s matches. Former Women’s Champion, Hikaru Shida … Read more
For the third week in a row, the women of the RAW brand main evented the show. This time, RAW Women’s Champion Nikki A.S.H. faced Charlotte Flair in a No Holds Barred Match. Nikki demanded to have this match directly after she lost to Flair last week. Flair is still reeling that she was cashed … Read more
Former NXT Superstar Vanessa Borne, real name Danielle Kamela, has shown interest in appearing for NWA Empowerrr. The all-women’s event is geared to take place on Aug. 28 and names are starting to be revealed on who will take part in the event.
Mickie James who is spearheading the event has also added on some incredible women to help her produce the event such as Gail Kim, Madusa, Jazz, and LuFisto. James has announced a lot of potential for the card so far that includes:
Women’s Invitational Tournament
Return of the NWA Women’s Tag Team Championships
Deonna Purrazzo will be defending her IMPACT Knockouts Championship
Kamille will be facing the winner of either The Bunny vs. Leyla Hirsch with her NWA Women’s World Championship on the line
Well well well… Back to business folks! 2 incredible competitors. 1 Championship Opportunity of a lifetime. Who wants a shot at “The Burke” Who really wants to face Kamille? Who wants to make #HERstory at #EMPowerrr I can’t wait! ? vs ??#NWAWomensChampion@AEW ???? @nwahttps://t.co/k3eoGwciOI
While taking part in a signing at East Coast Autograph Auctions, Kamela had the following to say about her interest to appear for Empowerrr.
“I have and I think what Mickie [James] is doing is really amazing. I think what they’re [NWA] doing with the all-women’s pay-per-view is really cool and I never got to be a part of Evolution so I think — to think about competing in an all-women’s tournament like that is exciting and yeah, I would definitely consider doing that.” [h/t – Post Wrestling]
Kamela also spoke highly on many talents she worked with while in WWE. She held Kairi Sane, Mia Yim, Dakota Kai, and Serena Deeb in high regard.
“Oh man, there are a lot [of people I liked working with in NXT]. I loved working with Kairi [Sane] because I thought we could always tell the best stories and they were the most fun. She was willing to be playful but serious. I loved working with Kairi, Dakota Kai, always loved working with her. I thought we had really good matches and chemistry. There’s so many, I can’t — there’s no one I didn’t like not working with in NXT because they all brought something different but I would say that Kairi was one of my favorites, Dakota was one of my favorites, Mia [Yim], I had a few matches with Mia that I really enjoyed so, there’s so many great girls there that are so much fun to work with and they all bring something different and unique.”
“This picture is from the Mae Young Classic when I wrestled Serena Deeb and that was — actually that probably was my favorite match within NXT or you know, that umbrella because I think Serena is one of the best and this was when I was new in my career and she really just kind of helped me throughout that whole process of planning a match so I would have to say Serena Deeb is another one of my favorite competitors.”
Would you like to see Kamela be involved with Empowerrr? Join the discussion below and check back with Diva Dirt for new information on the upcoming event as it is disclosed.
SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair attended the first Lollapalooza festival since 2019 and shared pictures of her and Megan Thee Stallion backstage. The hip-hop superstar was pictured with the WWE Superstar before performing on stage to 180,000 people. This is the second time in recent weeks that Belair has attended a major music festival cementing … Read more
*Please note that this article may be considered spoilers as Ring of Honor airs at different times depending on the region.* The ROH Women’s Title Tournament Quest for Gold kicked off this weekend with three first-round matches on ROH TV. ROH is set to crown a new champion on Sept. 12 at Death Before Dishonor. … Read more
AEW’s Serena Deeb has announced on her social media that she is still dealing with a knee injury despite trying to work through it. Deeb, who is a former NWA World Women’s Champion, took some time off at the beginning of the year while still champion due to her knee. She returned to the ring … Read more
Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and the debuting Drama King Matt Rehwoldt were crowned Queen & King at the IMPACT Plus Homecoming event on Saturday. Heading into the event, Purrazzo didn’t have a partner announced as Rehwoldt made his debut after several vignettes aired for his IMPACT debut. They won in the finals of a tournament … Read more
Many wrestling fans have spent their day shocked at the news on the release of WWE Superstar Bray Wyatt. WWE broke the news today that Wyatt, also known as The Fiend, is no longer with the company. Alexa Bliss shared her thoughts on the news and just like fans, she is shocked as well. Bliss … Read more
