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Winners & Losers: SmackDown 09/24/19

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The last SmackDown Live on the USA Network is in the rearview window and as of next week, the blue brand will be live on Fridays on the Fox Network. On this weeks show they had all Four Horsewomen, the 24/7 Champion Carmella, and a match for the tag team division.

As of this writing and after this week’s SmackDown we still don’t have a title match for the SmackDown Women’s Title at Hell in a Cell. It wouldn’t make sense for it to be anyone besides Flair, Carmella, or both, but with the pay-per-view being only a week from Sunday we will find out soon enough.

The first women’s match of the night was advertised heading into the show. The newly crowned 24/7 Champion Carmella and Charlotte Flair took on Sasha Banks and SmackDown Women’s Champion, Bayley. This was as a result of Carmella making the save for Flair last week and making the odds even.

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Carmella started off the match strong against Banks until she found herself tossed outside the ring. Bayley would take the tag and continue the attack on perhaps her now-former friend. Banks and Bayley would isolate Carmella from her corner throughout the first half of the match. Once Flair was tagged in, she dominated the SmackDown Women’s Champion. After a pin attempt from Carmella, the match would end with her tapping out to the Bank Statement.

The women’s locker room would then run out to chase Carmella and R-Truth out into the crowd. The aftermath sees Banks and Bayley attacking Flair. Becky Lynch would come out for the save as she attacks the pair and locks in the Dis-Arm-Her on her Hell in a Cell competitor. Bayley would pull Banks out of the ring getting her out of the submission and they retreat up the ramp.

The second match of the night was Fire & Desire going against The Kabuki Warriors in tag team competition. The match included Mandy Rose boasting about being on the cover of Maxim magazine. She would continue her bullying ways as she mocks Kairi Sane saying she will never look like her. The match was decent but short. Sane would pick up the win for her team as she hit the Insane Elbow on Rose to pick up the pin.

This has propelled The Kabuki Warriors to the front of the line for a match against the Women’s Tag Team Champions. Nikki Cross comments on Twitter about their victory.

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The show would end with the women! Becky Lynch is being interviewed backstage by Kayla Braxton. Within moments of her responding to Braxton’s question, Sasha Banks would attack her from behind.

Banks would be the one standing after this attack as SmackDown goes off the air.

WINNERS: The Kabuki Warriors

After weeks of not being on our television screens, The Kabuki Warriors have remerged and with a victory. At this time there is not a Women’s Tag Team Title match scheduled for Hell in a Cell, but this could lead to one.

It still may be too early to take the belts off Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss, but at least the titles are being used more.

WINNER: Sasha Banks

Becky Lynch has been still looking strong in this feud with Banks returning. It is nice to see the power shift from show to show. At the end of this week, Banks stands strong as the winner. Her attack on Lynch ending SmackDown was a great way to go. It will be interesting to see who will end next week heading into Hell in a Cell with the odds in their favor.

It has been announced that next week on SmackDown’s debut on the Fox Network that we will see the Four Horsewomen in a rematch from a few weeks ago. Lynch and Flair will team up to face Banks and Bayley. Perhaps they should have held off the attack at the end of the show for next week, but maybe they should pull the trigger and make this the main event on their move to Fox.

LOSERS: Fire & Desire

A loss for them did the complete opposite the win did for The Kabuki Warriors. Unfortunately with such a small tag team division only so much can be done. Although it is good to see The Kabuki Warriors again, this means that Fire & Desire’s short feud with the tag champs seems to be already over.

What were your thoughts on this week’s SmackDown? Who were your Winners & Losers? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.

Winners & Losers: RAW 09/23/19

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We are less than two weeks away from the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view and all eyes are on Sasha Banks and RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. It was announced last week that these two will face each other inside a Hell in a Cell at the event which marks it as just the second time in history that the women’s division has seen this type of match.

The representation for the women’s roster was great again this week, however, there was a head-scratcher moment. Before that occurs, we see the advertised match for RAW which was Sasha Banks facing one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions – Nikki Cross.

The match itself was clunky for the first half. The crowd was so silent that you could have heard a pin drop which didn’t help matters. Luckily the match picked up midway and the length of the match was good. There were moments where it looked like Cross was going to pull out the win, but The Boss was one step ahead of her. With her best friend, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley at ringside was enough of a distraction for Cross.

After the match, Banks would lock in the Bank Statement on Bliss. This has set up next week’s bout on the season premiere of RAW which will be Banks vs. Bliss.

Becky Lynch would have a sit-down interview with Michael Cole prior to this match. The RAW Women’s Champion would state that she wants Sasha Banks at the top of her game. The “hot streak” that Banks is on is exactly what Lynch wants to see. She confirms that the Hell in a Cell match is to keep Banks in so there is nowhere for her to run.

The head-scratcher mentioned earlier was the match between Lacey Evans and Ember Moon. The match itself was good, with a nice spot from Moon executing a stunner from the ring apron to the outside. What is confusing is why is Moon now losing on both shows? Natalya looks on backstage to show that her feud with Evans isn’t over, however, literally any other female on the RAW roster could have faced Evans.

As reported earlier, Carmella is the new 24/7 Champion. She would roll up her ride or die partner R-Truth to become champ. Truth wouldn’t have any hard feelings as he would celebrate with her before helping her escape from her female counterparts as they chase her out of the arena.

All of the women’s segments were in correlation with each other, so it was nice to see a good block of women’s representation on RAW.

WINNER: Carmella

Carmella picks up the big win tonight by FINALLY becoming the 24/7 Champion. Many fans feel that she should have been the first female champion as a result of her partnership with R-Truth. Alas, that didn’t occur but better late than never.

If they allow her to keep the title or at least maybe go back and forth like Truth has done this can open up the door for many other women winning the title. Could we finally see Dana Brooke, Sarah Logan, or even *gasp* Tamina win their first title in WWE?

Currently, Carmella has also inserted herself into Bayley’s business on SmackDown as she made the save for Charlotte Flair last week. It is interesting to see how that is going to play out as she will team up with Flair on SmackDown this week to take on Bayley and Banks.

LOSER: Ember Moon

Poor Ember. There was absolutely no reasoning to have her on RAW this week. The match was decent and Lacey Evans has actually looked better in the ring as of late, but what has that done for Moon? She is now just losing on both shows.

The direction for Moon is non-existant. From someone who was just in a title match at SummerSlam, there hasn’t been much to write home to mom about. This match against Evans could have been Dana Brooke again. At least she is on RAW. It would get her in the ring more and even if she lost it would have made more sense.

What were your thoughts on this week’s RAW? Who were your Winners & Losers? What did you like or dislike?

Check back in with Diva Dirt tomorrow for SmackDown’s Winners & Losers.

Lisa Marie Varon wins an inaugural title in her retirement match

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As previously reported, Lisa Marie Varon took on Melina over the weekend at an event for Master of Ring Entertainment. In this match, the organization was crowning its first-ever Women’s Heavyweight Champion. What wasn’t reported, however, was that this was, in fact, Varon’s final match of her career. This would take place as the main … Read more

Alundra Blayze talks on the pay gap and fighting for gender equality

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WWE Hall of Famer, Alundra Blayze (also known as Madusa) recently sat down with Ring the Belle’s DS Shin for an incredible interview. They went over her fan-voted top five moments, which included the gap between what male and female wrestlers make as far as their wages. The topic was brought up as they were reviewing her WCW Scaffold match alongside Billy Kidman vs. Torrie Wilson and Shane Douglas.

After commenting on the bump she took from the scaffold she had the following to say:

“That is a crazy bump. That’s off the scaffold. A woman jumping and doing that and getting paid jack. Don’t even get me started, when it comes to money in my industry and the women and equality. That situation needs to come up more. Let’s talk about equality. I understand it’s still and always has been a male’s business. But now there’s more and more women and now they are making it, a woman’s done WrestleMania. Top billing, pay-per-views, ladder matches, okay it’s like we have all of that out there. Put it in my paycheck.”

Credit: WWE

She further agrees with Shin that there is always room for change and wants the women to not only get paid more but there is still a fight for equality as a whole.

Blayze also discusses her iconic move from WWF to WCW at the time with her infamous trashing of the WWF Women’s Championship into a trash can. This was most recently brought up again as a joke when Blayze won the 24/7 Championship at the recent RAW Reunion in July. She mocked throwing it away before Ted Dibiase would instead buy it off of her.

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She discusses how she felt that the move to WCW was going to be a focus on women’s wrestling, however, this wasn’t the exact case.

“When I was coming over and that happened I was ready to kill it. I was serious. If they’re (WWF) not going to do anything with me then I need to say, hey, this is where the big girls play. Let’s do something. That was the idea. They were going to want to do something, bring women’s wrestling, and get the whole thing going. And again it laid flat because we had a bunch of men in the damn back in their circle-jerking office booking the thing. It just didn’t happen. There was no women in that booking.”

She wanted to make a statement with women’s wrestling in WCW because she felt that it was deserving and was needed. It worked well for a while but after the competition faded out it was hard to continue.

Shin brought into the discussion her return to the ring at Evolution where she participated in the battle royal match. Blayze would explain how and why she was eliminated in the fashion that she was.

“So you know why I went out like that (how she was eliminated)? I just want to tell everybody, there’s a lot of things that people don’t know. So people will put you down, they’ll do negativity, but no one knows the backstory of anything that’s going on in anybody’s life. I just want you to know, that in that match, I was only seven months post-surgery. I had a double knee replacement. Nobody knew that, and there you go.”

To check out the full interview simply click on the video above. They go over all of her fan-voted top-five moments. This includes her thoughts on intergender wrestling, the trash can incident, and her seeing Vince McMahon for the first time since that incident at her Hall of Fame induction.

What are your thoughts on this interview? What are your favorite moments from Alundra Blayze? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.

Big Swole & Aja Perera become Shine Tag Team Champions

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SHINE Wrestling had their most recent event, SHINE 61, which took place this weekend from Queens, N.Y. The Shine Tag Team Championship was on the line as the reigning champs, Rainbow Bright (Luscious Latasha and Gabby Gilbert) defended their titles against Triple Aye (Big Swole & Aja Perera w/Ayla Fox). #SHINE61 – September 21st – … Read more

Kylie Rae makes her surprise return to the ring

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Kylie Rae

Kylie Rae returned to the ring last night for Freelance Wrestling’s Game of Genders. It was announced via twitter that “Smily Kylie” Rae would be appearing in her first match since leaving AEW to face off against Isaias Velazquez. She became a replacement for Shotzi Blackheart who was originally booked for this match but could … Read more

Former WWE Superstar Torrie Wilson gets married

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WWE Hall of Famer Torrie Wilson announced via an Instagram post that she has married “the most incredible human”. The couple wed in an intimate setting with their dogs as the only guests. Standing in front of the beautiful Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona, Wilson, husband and “bridesmaid” pooches posed for photos to commemorate the … Read more

Candice LeRae earns the number one contender spot for NXT’s Women’s Title

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NXT is officially on the USA Network and we have a new number one contender for the NXT Women’s Championship. As NXT is currently the number one trend on Twitter, Candice LeRae won a Fatal Four-way match which makes her Shayna Baszler’s next opponent. The match included prior competitors that Baszler has had the pleasure … Read more

Kay Lee Ray and Tegan Nox to face off in two weeks time

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Kay Lee Ray VS Tegan Nox

On this week’s episode of NXT UK it was announced that Women’s Champion, Kay Lee Ray will take on Tegan Nox in two weeks time. Nox made her triumphant return with an emphatic victory over Shax on the previous week’s episode. During the recent NXT UK tapings after NXT UK Takeover Cardiff is when it … Read more

Winners & Losers: SmackDown 09/17/19

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The SmackDown coming off of Clash of Champions saw Charlotte Flair facing Sasha Banks in singles competition. This was the only women’s match of the night and the sole focus for the women’s division. Flair took on offense early as she utilized the corners of the ring to wear down Banks early as Bayley looked … Read more

NXT on USA – A Share of the Spotlight?

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The wrestling world is on the cusp of great change with SmackDown moving to Friday nights on Fox Sports, AEW debuting on TNT and NXT is now on the USA Network. The move to a network as big as USA, means that NXT will have more eyes on it than ever before and therefore more … Read more

Winners & Losers: RAW 09/16/19

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Clash of Champions is done and over with, but tonight on RAW all Four Horsewomen were present and ready for the fallout. Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch put on a hell of a match at Clash of Champions that ended in an all-out brawl throughout the Spectrum Center. Lynch would retain her title by disqualification.

On the SmackDown side, Bayley would employ her new heelish ways at the pay-per-view as she would defeat Charlotte Flair in quick fashion with the use of an exposed turnbuckle. Banks and Bayley had the Women’s Tag Team Champions to deal with on tonight’s show, but before we get into that match let us discuss Maria Kanellis.

Maria had her gender reveal party as was advertised before RAW. The reveal wasn’t very climactic as she would simply blurt out that her baby is a boy. After all the partygoers celebrate, Maria would share with her husband Mike on who the true baby’s father is. She says it is one of the people at their party and that is Ricochet. Mike obviously infuriated challenges Ricochet to a match. He loses to Ricochet.

After a commercial break, Maria is one the stage with a mic in hand and she explains that Ricochet is not the father. She did this to get Mike fired up, which he was, but still lost the match. She then says that the real father is Rusev. Rusev comes out and after chasing Mike around the ring defeats him in record time.

Now on to the tag team match that was previously mentioned. Banks and Bayley took on Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross in a non-title match. The tag champs to seemed to be on the offensive at first until Bliss did a front flip off the apron unto her opponents on the outside. She appeared to have tweaked her knee. Bayley would capitalize off of this moments later and throw Bliss into the steel steps.

After the SmackDown Women’s Champion used the steel steps to her advantage, the medical staff would come out and take Bliss backstage. This left Cross on her own against the inaugural Women’s Tag Team Champions. Cross was holding her own as she isolated Banks in the ring apron and would set her sights on Bayley.

After a tornado DDT and then a neck breaker off the top rope, Cross would go for the pin on Bayley. Banks broke up the pin and Cross would attempt for a quick pin on The Boss with an inside cradle. Banks would hit the backstabber then locked in the Bank Statement. Cross taps out.

The aftermath involved Banks going for a chair which has been her weapon of choice since returning. Before she could use it on Cross, the RAW Women’s Champion would rush to the ring with a chair of her own. After the two would use their steel chairs as swords battling each other, Bayley would come in the ring with a chair of her own to back up her best friend.

Charlotte Flair’s music hits and the Queen makes her way down the ramp. Bayley with a chair in hand goes after Flair who is weaponless. The Queen doesn’t need a chair just yet as she applied a big high heel boot to knock down Bayley on the ramp. Once she was knocked down, Flair would hit Bayley with her own chair.

The segment ends with Banks stuck between Flair and Lynch. She would retreat and meet up with Bayley on the ramp.

After a commercial break, Banks is in the locker room. She sends a message to Lynch that she doesn’t care how many chairs she throws her way because The Boss is the “star of the women’s division.” She challenges Lynch to a rematch at Hell in Cell. She says, “that is unless you are man enough to accept. Your move bitch.”

Lynch would then have a backstage segment where she would speak about Banks bringing in the chair at Clash of Champions and she would beat her with it. She responds to Banks’ request for a rematch with, “I’m not interested in facing you at Hell in a Cell, I’m interested in destroying you in Hell in a Cell.”

The match is official. Becky Lynch will defend her RAW Women’s Championship against Sasha Banks in a Hell in a Cell match on Oct. 6.

The women continued to be visible on RAW as Lacey Evans faced Dana Brooke. Evans had been facing Natalya in the past couple weeks with each woman picking up a win. This week she moved onto Brooke which was a breath of fresh air. It was good seeing someone different for a change.

Brooke took to offense fast and had Evans reeling. Evans would hit a leg sweep on her and gain the upper hand. Evans would keep on the offense for the rest of the match and hits a Women’s Right. She would apply Natalya’s Sharpshooter on Brooke to send a message to Natalya. Brooke would tap out.

Winner: Becky Lynch

Lynch looked strong as she had Sasha Banks retreating after using a steel chair against her. Having Charlotte Flair as back-up made her look good as well. The work recently between all Four Horsewomen has been top-notch, but Lynch would get the upper hand tonight. Good focus on the women tonight. It is refreshing to see after a slow summer for the women’s division.

Winner: Nikki Cross

Cross looked great in the tag team match. She carried the match both before and after Alexa Bliss’ knee injury. She has been looking extremely well lately in the ring and her future is bright.

Winner: Dana Brooke

Although she didn’t pick up a win and she was used as an enhancement for Lacey Evans vs. Natalya, she still got in a good bit of offense. Her athleticism is undeniable and she should be a staple on RAW. Maybe she will get drafted to SmackDown next month and get used more? Not saying that many women on SmackDown are used anyway, but the draft may be a hope to use more talent.

Loser: Maria Kanellis

Out of all the women that were on tonight’s show, Maria would be on the losing end. Mainly because this was a bit random as she hasn’t been on tv in weeks, and it is the same old, same old. Her husband is inadequate and the baby’s father is someone else. If this continues and actually gets to somewhere with Rusev being the baby’s “father” then maybe the storyline won’t be so bad. As of now, it is missing something more.

What did you think of the fallout from Clash of Champions? Who were your Winners & Losers? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section below.

Lynch vs. Banks confirmed for the RAW Women’s Title inside Hell in a Cell

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Becky Lynch

Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks definitely have unfinished business. After several steel-chair assisted attacks and brutal match at Clash of Champions, which ended in a disqualification, there was only one place this feud could up – Hell in a Cell. On Monday Night Raw after claiming victory over Women’s Tag-Team Champions Alexa Bliss and Nikki … Read more

RAW Women’s Title match ends with a DQ at Clash of Champions

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Clash of Champions is an event where all gold is on the line. All champions have to defend their top spot of their respective divisions. This year was different than prior years as there are now three titles to defend thanks to the introduction of the Women’s Tag Team Championship from earlier this year. Bayley, … Read more

“Broken Promoter Wrestling” – Making a bad situation a whole lot worse

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This past week British indie wrestling company Broken Ring Wrestling caused quite a stir on the BritWres scene for all the wrong reasons, drawing immense “heat” in the process. It all started when booked wrestlers Jayde and Chakara posted screenshots of interactions between themselves and the promoter of BRW. In the interaction the promoter asked … Read more

Sasha Banks addresses the rumors of her hiatus on WWE Chronicle

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Sasha Banks was the recent focus on WWE Chronicle, a documentary series of a superstar on their journey through personal interviews and private moments. Banks opens up during an emotional episode where she discusses her hiatus from WWE for the past four months. She speaks on finding herself and making herself, Mercedes, happy again. Sometimes … Read more

Five matches from Clash/Night of Champions that are a must-see

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WWE’s next pay-per-view is Sunday and with the Clash of Champions theme, all titles are on the line. All three women’s titles are officially set for the card. We have the much anticipated RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch defending her title against the recently returning Sasha Banks. The SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley will attempt to … Read more

Candice LeRae added to number one contenders match

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Originally the scheduled match to determine a new number one contender for the NXT Women’s Title was supposed to be handled in a Triple Threat. It has now been turned into a Fatal Four-way. Candice LeRae will join Mia Yim, Bianca Belair, and Io Shirai to battle it out on NXT’s debut on the USA … Read more

Winners & Losers: SmackDown 09/10/19

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For the second night in a row at Madison Square Garden, WWE’s talent continued to perform in an arena enriched in history. This time, SmackDown was up to the plate. This is the last show prior to Clash of Champions this Sunday, so it was all about building up the matches on the pay-per-view card. … Read more

Winners & Losers: RAW 09/09/19

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RAW was live tonight from Madison Square Garden and as expected the crowd was hyped and ready for the go-home show leading to Clash of Champions. The advertised women’s match of the night involved all four women that have been a focal point of the women’s division this past month. Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair … Read more

Charlotte Flair on who she thinks will be WWE’s next breakout stars

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In an exclusive interview with Smacktalks, Charlotte Flair speaks on many topics included WWE 2K20. She speaks on the 2K Showcase along with the other Four Horsewomen and other attributes to the new video game. Other than information about 2K20, Flair answered who she thinks will be the next breakout stars. With WWE having such … Read more

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