Fresh from her WWE release last night, Candice made a gutsy move to go post a blog on the WWE Universe website (which has since been deleted). But being the super sleuths you Diva fans are, it is already online on various message boards. In the blog Candice namechecks some of her Diva friends within … Read more
In a piece of breaking news this Friday evening, former Women’s Champion Candice has been released. In what I assume is a response to her release, Candice writes on her Twitter page: “I’m free to grow!”
Former pornstar-turned-wrestler, Trina Michaels has hinted on her MySpace page that she could be joining TNA. Michaels retired from porn last year and sent out a press release in which she said, she was “giving up gangbangs to enter battle royals.” She writes: “You can’t spell Trina without using the letters TNA… Find out THIS … Read more
Two thirds of The Beautiful People were interviewed by Phil Strum of the Poughkeepsie Journal, who maintains his own blog called Under the Ring. The original two thirds, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky talk about the addition of Madison Rayne and more. On Rayne, Sky dishes: Madison’s really come into her own. At first, we … Read more
Last night’s SmackDown house show saw the passing of a title belt – the Women’s Championship – as Melina temporarily passed the title onto an unlikely ‘new champion’ in Chris Jericho, lol. The Intercontinental Champion accidentally left his belt at his hotel room, which meant he had an Intercontinental Championship match but no Intercontinental title. … Read more
It has been a slow news weekend, although given the manic week we’ve had, the downtime is much welcome! We usually post short news bulletins on our Twitter page, so to get the news first, be sure to follow us at twitter.com/divadirt. Anyway read on: Former WWE Diva, Lena Yada is in talks to join … Read more
Yesterday, a really despicable story made it’s way online that we chose to steer clear from, that Lisa Marie Varon aka Victoria aka Tara was the ‘mistress’ of Chris Benoit at the time of his murder-suicide two years ago, this month. That story was enough to send the usually dignified new Knockout over the edge, … Read more
According to a new story on Vickie Guerrero‘s WWE departure, Vickie’s daughters may have asked her to quit the company. Both of Vickie’s daughters are teenagers, one of whom is said to have just finished her senior year in high school, and were becoming upset at the portrayal of their mother on national television and … Read more
Our story on Maria yesterday has caught the attention of the Diva herself and this morning as I checked my e-mails as I do every morning, quite a few people brought her reaction to our attention. On her Twitter page, Maria responds to Diva Dirt as ‘haters’ and having ‘insulted her’. She writes: [In response … Read more
In a sign that WWE’s longest serving non-Diva could be hanging up her microphone, WWE is looking for a new female ring announcer that can moonlight as a singer. Perhaps they are simply looking to replicate her 10-year success for SmackDown, ECW or Superstars or perhaps Lilian Garcia will be retiring from WWE. Well either … Read more
One of our favourite, beloved ex-Divas turned TNA Knockout, Victoria aka Lisa Marie aka Tara, has written a new MySpace blog covering all the points of criticism that have been raised in the weeks since she joined TNA Wrestling. Among them, Lisa addresses why she left WWE, why she decided to go to TNA and … Read more
Looks like we aren’t the only ones noticing Maria has slowly been fading off SmackDown. According to sources, Maria’s stock has dropped with management, hence her lack of use over the past couple of months. While most of the Divas on the brand are seeing an upsurge in ringtime, Maria has noticeably been disregarded or … Read more
As you’ve probably just seen on Raw, Vickie Guerrero has quit her position as Raw GM. However, behind the scenes it has emerged that she has genuinely quit her position at WWE, recently handing in her notice. Vickie joined the WWE full time in 2006 after the death of her husband, Eddie. At the time, … Read more
The Internet is buzzing about a dark match that took place during the three-day Impact tapings last week. The match saw former Knockouts Champion, Awesome Kong face her manager, Raisha Saeed who wrestled under her other gimmick, Cheerleader Melissa. Read the report below: People were raving about the Melissa Anderson vs. Awesome Kong match that … Read more
This week’s SmackDown saw the next logical step given the way storylines have unfolded for the brand’s Divas. Gail Kim and Michelle McCool hate each other, then Michelle enlisted Alicia Fox. Gail Kim and Alicia Fox hate each other. Then Melina came along and brought her shiny Women’s Championship to SmackDown and this distracted Gail … Read more
While all us Diva and Knockout fans may be all about Victoria‘s (I don’t care what TNA says, I’m NOT calling her Tara) debut, but there’s one person who may not be too crazy to see her in TNA. Sarah Stock. According to online reports, Victoria’s sudden appearing has effectively bumped Sarah (or Sarita) from … Read more
For Candice fans and I guess, Diva fans in general, that gaudy, horrible techno mix of Candice‘s theme music is definitely embedded in your brains (unfortunately). One of the lines is “All eyes on me.” Well, with the former Women’s Champion’s pending return to the WWE – all eyes are literally on her and not … Read more
Shit! Just as we thought we were out of the woods! TNA’s official website has a revised preview of tonight’s Impact and a new graphic to boot (see above) – where they refer to the Diva formerly known as Victoria, as Tara. In all earlier references, they had referred to her as ‘Lisa Marie’, which … Read more
The debut of the Diva formerly known as Victoria, Lisa Marie, was the highest rated segment of last week’s TNA Impact. Lisa’s debut, along with the preceding Angelina Love-Sojo Bolt match was the most watched segment of the entire show, according to ProWrestling.net. The entire broadcast earned a 1.2 rating with 1.6million viewers. Looks like … Read more
If “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” was written and produced by the WWE, they’d be booking Spencer & Heidi – or Speidi as they’re known – against one of our beloved ex-Divas, Torrie Wilson. Last night on the series premiere of “Celebrity”, Torrie added her first celebrity rivals to the long list … Read more
Great news for all you Candice Michelle fans. According to the SmackDown Divas’ official twitter page (divacandicem), she’s preparing for a comeback. Here’s a quote: Great news…I will be back in the ring this month! Good to see her on the right track, but one has to wonder what role she’ll play in the newly … Read more
The moment that us Torrie Wilson fans have been waiting for is upon us! Tonight is the series premiere of NBC’s new reality series, “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here” starring Torrie and other celebrities including Janice Dickinson, Heidi & Spencer Pratt, Stephen Baldwin and more. Tune in tonight at 8pm ET on … Read more
Tara Drama – it’s the new ‘Ashleygate’. The drama surrounding TNA’s decision to rename our beloved ex-Women’s Champion, the artist formerly known as Victoria, as Tara caused a scene in our comments section last night. It has since spilled over onto our Twitter page and various message boards too. Well in a press release sent … Read more
TNA has renamed former Women’s Champion, Victoria (real name Lisa Marie Varon) for her run with the company. And the result is stupid as fudge, if I do say so myself. Victoria is now going by the name of *cringe*… Tara. The Vicious Vixen, Tara… Nah, I don’t think so. So much second hand embarassment. … Read more
It seems as though Tiffany may remain the interim General Manager of ECW for a while longer. At first, the WWE wasn’t sold on her talents on the mic as well as her inability to connect with the fans. However, now it appears that things are looking up for the ECW Diva. It had been … Read more
This just in from our partners at the Wrestling Globe Newsletter: Serena Deeb, who was spotted on ECW this past Tuesday, has signed with the company. Serena previously worked for OVW and SHIMMER. Deeb worked for OVW while it was a WWE developmental territory, thus has wrestled some of our current crop of Divas. She … Read more