Friday Night SmackDown was brought to you from the WWE Performance Center in front of – no one. That’s right. For the first time ever, SmackDown took place without an audience. Truth be told, at first, it was awkward and odd but the talent did a great job making light of it and still putting … Read more
The upcoming episode of RAW will be taking place at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla. Following suit with how Friday Night SmackDown will take place this evening, the red brand will also air from the Performance Center with no audience. Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, WWE is taking precautions with their weekly shows. The … Read more
In 2016 the change of the women’s division developed from them being known as Divas to simply Superstars. This Triple Threat match at WrestleMania 32 cemented that final chapter as Charlotte walked in as the Divas Champion but would walk out as WWE Women’s Champion. The championship that shortly thereafter would be renamed as the … Read more
Update: (3/12 7:15 PM ET) WWE has released the following statement. “While we remain committed to hosting WrestleMania at Raymond James Stadium on Sunday, April 5, we are putting contingency plans in place in the event that it is cancelled by government officials, civil authorities and/or local venues. The health and safety of our fans, … Read more
This week’s AEW Dynamite had a huge tag team match that saw the return of Bea Priestley after a lengthy absence from AEW. Priestley would team up with AEW Women’s Champion, Nyla Rose to face off Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander, who we haven’t seen her loss to Rose at AEW Revolution. But before we … Read more
After this week’s NXT we now have three contestants out of six for the Ladder Match at TakeOver: Tampa. The next match has been announced for next week. We will see Candice LeRae take on Mercedes Martinez. Both ladies would excel in a Ladder Match based on their veteran status in the industry. NXT fans … Read more
Second Update (3/12/20 5:12 PM ET): WWE has confirmed that SmackDown will be taking place this Friday at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando Fla. It was originally scheduled for Detroit, MI. The official announcement is as follows: “Friday Night SmackDown on March 13 will air live as regularly scheduled and emanate from WWE’s training … Read more
NXT this week was all about the build to TakeOver in Tampa that will take place the night before WrestleMania. The six-woman number one contender Ladder Match scheduled for that event has the capacity to steal the show. Heading into tonight we only knew one person involved in this upcoming opportunity and that was Chelsea … Read more
To celebrate Women’s History Month Diva Dirt will be highlighting some of wrestling’s greatest unsung heroes. These individuals for some reason or another don’t get the recognition, respect, and status they deserve. These retrospectives will occur throughout the month of March. To kick off Women’s History Month, we touched on the 1980s highlighting Wendi Richter … Read more
The Irresistible Force Nia Jax has been out of action for nearly a year. Her last match was at last year’s WrestleMania where she battled alongside Tamina for the Women’s Tag Team Championship. That match was won by the IIconics. Jax has been out due to surgery where she had both of her ACL’s repaired. … Read more
WWE has just announced that Paige will be returning to Friday Night SmackDown this week. The last time the former two-time Divas Champion was on WWE programming was when she received the green mist from Asuka on RAW. This officially ended her managerial duties for the Kabuki Warriors. Paige has been a mainstay on WWE … Read more
To celebrate Women’s History Month Diva Dirt will be highlighting some of wrestling’s greatest unsung heroes. These individuals for some reason or another don’t get the recognition, respect, and status they deserve. These retrospectives will occur throughout the month of March. The 1980s is a decade where a lot of the astonishing women’s wrestlers tend … Read more
The RAW Women’s Championship picture for WrestleMania came into focus tonight in the Elimination Chamber. Six women competed inside the chain-linked 16-foot tall structure. In the end, Shayna Baszler punched her ticket to face Becky Lynch in Tampa, Fla. to no surprise to literally anyone. The match started with Natalya and Ruby Riott as the … Read more
In preparation for WrestleMania in Tampa, Fla. – WWE has put together the Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) story. Having the show of all shows take place in Tampa makes it for some Superstars a full circle moment. Before the WWE Performance Center and NXT, we had FCW which was WWE’s developmental program that was started … Read more
WrestleMania is less than 30-days away and unlike the RAW and NXT Women’s Championships, the SmackDown brand is struggling. The SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley has defeated three different women in the past two months. Lacey Evans, Carmella, and Naomi have all been defeated by everyone’s favorite role model. Naomi being the only one to grab … Read more
Today is International Women’s Day and WWE is celebrating with a photo featuring several Superstars. The photo features women from all three main brands and also a champion. As seen below, the following women are included in the photo – Bianca Belair, Io Shirai, Dana Brooke, NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley, Carmella, and Ruby Riott. … Read more
The Undead Bride, Su Yung, has announced herself as a free agent on Twitter. Yung has been with IMPACT Wrestling since 2018 where she debuted attacking Allie during her proposal with Braxton Sutter. Since her debut, Yung has battled against the likes of Allie, Rosemary, Havok, and Tessa Blanchard just to name a few. From … Read more
Liv Morgan is just one of six women who will be competing in a number one contender match at the Elimination Chamber this Sunday. The winner will face RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch at WrestleMania. Although the match is being predicted for Shayna Baszler to be the winner, Morgan shouldn’t be counted out just yet. … Read more
The Elimination Chamber pay-per-view has been a yearly event for WWE since 2010 with the exception of 2016 when it was removed from the schedule. It picked right back up in 2017 and in that year there were three women’s matches on the card. These events main attraction, just as many, was originally focused on … Read more
Coming off the successful PPV, AEW Revolution, this week’s AEW Dynamite had the opportunity to build up the next challenger for Nyla Rose and that is just what they did, by having Big Swole take on one half of the Librarians, Leva Bates. But before we get to that we had a talent-heavy match on … Read more
A bitter rivalry hit a boiling point as Dakota Kai and Tegan Nox faced off inside of a steel cage to start off NXT this week. A feud that turned best friends and tag team partners to bitter enemies ignited at TakeOver: WarGames in November. The irony is that the backstab of last year started … Read more
On WWE’s The Bump, it was mentioned that Sasha Banks and SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley will receive a rematch. Last week, after an orchestrated attack on Naomi occurred by Bayley and a returning Banks, Lacey Evans made the save. This turned the original one-on-one match into a tag team bout that favored in Naomi’s direction. … Read more
To celebrate Women’s History Month Diva Dirt will be highlighting some of wrestling’s greatest unsung heroes. These individuals for some reason or another don’t get the recognition, respect, and status they deserve. These retrospectives will occur throughout the month of March. My first unsung hero is Wendi Richter. Wendi Richter is arguably the most prolific … Read more
The prior few weeks leading up to RAW have been lackluster at best building up to the Elimination Chamber match this coming Sunday. Although last week’s contract signing helped build some momentum, there were zero women’s matches on that episode of RAW. This week we received two matches. The first match was finally what many … Read more
March is Women’s History Month and WWE kicked off the month yesterday by highlighting some of their current and prior champions. The champions selected range from all different eras who without all parts of women’s wrestling history we wouldn’t be where we are at today. The photo gallery presented in the tweet below features many … Read more
Over the weekend, three pioneers in women’s wrestling sent out cryptic tweets on a project called KAYfABE. At the time it left women’s wrestling fans in a whirlwind trying to guess what this could mean. The project has been a work in progress for two years already! It is spearheaded by Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, … Read more