FCW is advertising former Divas and Women’s Champion, Melina for their July 14th show in Orlando. Melina will be doing a meet and greet prior to the show. Also scheduled is an FCW Divas bikini contest. Click here for tickets. • • • • • Former Diva, Mickie James is headed to Japan to wrestle … Read more
After her controversial departure from TNA last weekend, now former Knockout Roxxi (aka Nikki Roxx) posted a blog explaining the situation. She writes: So, I know everyone is wondering what exactly happened at TNA this past week. Well I can tell you most of what you hear is true. I was told when I arrive … Read more
Former Women’s Champion, Mickie James just appeared on The Strategy Room, an online talk show at FoxNews.com. Mickie gave an interview and performed two tracks from her album. Hopefully, video footage will be up soon but until then, here’s a recap courtesy of John at The John Report: – Mickie said she’s been wrestling 11 … Read more
As first revealed by Cheerleader Melissa on Diva Dirt LIVE this past Wednesday, she will be dusting off the Raisha Saeed gimmick to reunite with former TNA Knockouts Champion, Awesome Kong for CHIKARA Pro on July 25th. The duo will team up at Chikarasaurus Rex [I promise I didn’t make that up] to take on … Read more
Here’s a recap of Mickie James‘ appearance on the Fox News show, Redeye last night at 3am ET. This report was sent in by our good friend John over at The John Report. They had a video package of her WWE clips before she came out along with her debut song “Are You With Me?” … Read more
Diva turned country singer, Mickie James will be taking over New York from tomorrow with a ton of TV and radio appearances lined up. All the details below: Television Thursday, June 17th America’s Nightly Scoreboard (7pm ET) Network: Fox Business Network Friday, June 18th Redeye (3am ET) Network: Fox News Channel Fox & Friends (6am … Read more
Do we have a possible new Knockout in Mia Yim? Yim reportedly worked a dark match at tonight’s Impact tapings, losing a match to Taylor Wilde. These dark matches often turn out to be tryout matches, and if Rosie Lottalove is any indication, these can lead to being signed by the company. For a bit … Read more
WWE has finally released some new Diva merchandise with a Divas t-shirt featuring Alicia Fox, Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool. You can pick up the new tee for $14.99 by clicking here. What do you think? Will you be buying?
Oh yes! You’ve heard of voguing and there’s even something called the ‘Migraine Skank’ these days, but former Divas Champion Maryse debuted her own dance this past weekend at the Raw house shows. Diva Dirt reader Frank sent these links in. Watch below!
Watch another clip after the cut.
Can anyone think of a name for Maryse’s dance trend?
Independent wrestler, April Hunter has said that she turned down the opportunity to become a TNA Knockout and says she is ‘continually disappointed’ in the way that TNA has treated its Knockouts division. She writes: While I’m in a chipper carb depleted mood, I thought I’d mention something. I’ve been holding my tongue for far … Read more
This somehow managed to escape my attention but Maria isn’t the only Diva in a shoot DVD at the moment — former Women’s Champion, Ivory also stars in a recently released shoot interview for RF Video. Synopsis below: We were fortunate enough to sit down with one of the original women in the world of … Read more
Former Women’s Champion, Victoria [aka Tara] has been re-added to the Alumni section over at WWE.com. Her profile was originally moved to the Alumni section in January 2009 after leaving WWE. It was later deleted after Victoria became Tara in TNA. Looks like the recently departed Knockout may have spoken to the company recently and … Read more
Kayfabe Commentaries’ YouShoot with Maria Kanellis is on sale today. Last month, the trailer for this highly anticipated interview led to a lot of buzz and it’s finally here! I received an advance copy for review and will have something up hopefully later today. Check out the press release below: YOUSHOOT: MARIA KANELLIS RELEASED TODAY … Read more
Three time Knockouts Champion, ODB has just posted on her Twitter page that she has quit TNA Wrestling. She writes: thanks tna fans for all the support but tna and odb have parted ways.it was a decision I made.bamm bitches Yet another blow to a division that has been on a downward spiral of late. … Read more
As witnessed just moments ago at TNA’s Slammiversary pay per view, Roxxi is done with the company after losing an impromptu ‘Title vs Career’ match against Madison Rayne. However, it seems there is a bigger story behind this shock departure. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer writes: I had heard earlier that there was a … Read more
Diva Dirt reader, David Myles wrote in to tell us that a match scrapped from this past Thursday’s episode of Impact has aired internationally, particularly in Australia and the UK.
The match pit #1 Contender Roxxi and newcomer Rosie Lottalove against The Beautiful People’s Lacey Von Erich and Velvet Sky on the go-home show before tonight’s Slammiversary pay per view.
The Motor City Machine Guns came down on commetary, Roxxi’s music played and her and Rosie made their way to the ring in a pretty funny entrance. (Roxxi again wearing the brown outfit). The guns are horrified they have to be on commetary watching Rosie just to get on TV, but they call her ‘hot’ nonetheless. They replay the events from last week with Madison and Rosie. The opponents Velvet and Lacey enter (sans Madison Rayne), and the Guns compare entrances of Rosie and TBP. A few fat jokes and we get to the match.
Rosie starts off against Velvet, Velvet mocks Rosie by shaking her ‘thang’, to which Rosie shakes her own. Velvet charges and gets knocked down by Rosie before tagging in Lacey, who also mocks Rosie by walking in with her arms outstretched (a la trish mocking ‘fat’ lita), before shoving Rosie, who doesn’t move, Rosie shoves Lacey back and sends her into next week.
Lacey composes herself before attempting to bodyslam Rosie (yep…) even with Velvet’s encouragement she fails to lift Rosie, and Rosie easily slams Lacey before tagging in Roxxi who hits a sloppy dropkick on LVE, before Lacey tags in Velvet. Velvet charges and is dropped with a drop toe hold, she grabs Vel Vel with an arm wrench before allowing Rosie to tag herself in (after being slightly out of reach and missing the first tag attempt ~lulz) Rosie hits a standing axe-handle to Velvet before continuing to work over the arm. Roxxi (for some reason) is trying to get into the ring or around to Lacey, but anyway, manages to accidently distract the referee, allowing Velvet to pull Rosie’s hair and get her in position for LVE to hit her across the back of the leg with the infrequently seen ‘ugly stick’. Rosie sells it like she had been shot in the leg, and Lacey tags in and hits a double team ‘wish bone’ on Rosie, Lacey works over the leg before tagging Velvet back in.
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Co-Women’s Champions, Layla and Michelle McCool have broken the top 10 of WWE.com’s Power 25, this week. Correct me if I’m wrong [because I don’t usually keep up with it], but I believe they are the first Divas to break into the top 10 of the list. Other Divas charting on the Power 25 this … Read more
Really nice article on WWE.com at the moment, honoring the recent successes of two former Diva Search winners: Eve Torres and Layla. The article charts the two Divas’ growth from their Diva Search wins to present day, where they are the Divas Champion and Women’s Champion, respectively.
A few bites below from each Diva:
Layla
* “I think just within the last year or year and a half, I feel like my growth is noticeable to everybody,” Layla admitted. “I mean, it’s noticeable to me, and I’m my worst critic, but other people are bringing it to my attention. I feel like that’s a huge improvement. I feel like a totally different person.”
* “I feel like I can express myself in a very funny, entertaining way,” the Women’s Champion said. “If you ask people backstage what I’m really like, they’ll probably tell you that I am probably the prankster, the jokester. But I enjoy every single minute.
“I feel like my entertainment value has gone up, way up. Now maybe I can say I’m entertaining and you don’t want to change the channel when I come on. Or you just want to hate me … and I know you guys really love me.”
I totally, 100% agree with Layla’s comments. Since moving to SmackDown in the Draft last year, Layla’s work rate has improved ten-fold to the point where I think she is a solid worker and has a lot of passion in the ring. Meanwhile, her character has developed and she has honed herself to be one of the most entertaining Divas in the WWE — if not the most entertaining. Her humour is spot on and it’s her little quips in her promos that really make me laugh.
I’ve always seen something in Layla and I’ve always been a supporter of hers, I’m very proud to see her with the Women’s Title. In a year or so, she could be one of the few ‘total packages’ in the women’s division: ring work, great promos, wit, personality and charisma.
Team Lay-Cool, SmackDown’s answer to Mean Girls, are said to be very popular amongst WWE management who are ‘pleased’ with how the duo’s gimmick has developed, reports Wrestling Observer. Dave Meltzer writes: The creative team is really happy with “Lay-Cool,” because there were people mad about the idea that TNA had created the Beautiful People … Read more
TNA producer Eric Bischoff was on Monday Night Mayhem this past week to discuss a host of topics including the future of the Knockouts division. He says: We got hit with a rash of injuries a few weeks ago, along with some contractual issues. But I think what you are going to see is the … Read more
Former WWE Diva, Katie Lea has had to pull out of a planned appearance for Puerto Rico’s WWC due to a visa issue, reports PWInsider. The former Raw and ECW Diva has reportedly been unable to obtain a new work visa since being released by WWE in April. She will be replaced by TNA Knockout, … Read more
SHIMMER’s Sara Del Rey will be in action at a TNA house show that’s being cross-promoted with Jersey All Pro Wrestling on July 3rd. JAPW write: JAPW wanted to let you know that the superstars of Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling’s “TNA iMPACT!” on Spike TV (Thursday’s 9 p.m. ET/PT) are invading the Asbury Park … Read more
WWE debuted a new Diva tonight on the season two premiere of NXT — ring announcer, Jamie Keyes. Keyes, real name Brittany Beede, looks set to replace Savannah as ring announcer on NXT after debuting at tonight’s taping. Beede has been in the WWE developmental system since March and has been groomed as a ring … Read more
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, 7-time Women’s Champion Trish Stratus is on the cover of the latest issue of The Wrestler Magazine [on newsstands today]. Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the sister magazine of ‘Wrestler’, has posted some excerpts from the interview on their official blog.
The interview was apparently 90 minutes long and from what I understand, the piece spans over 16 pages in the magazine. Read the quotes below:
On her relationship with T&A, Test and Albert: “Test was really adamant on making me earn his respect. He didn’t want to give me too much credit and made sure I knew it when I made a mistake. Albert would tell me not to worry and that I was a fine. It was a good mix. Test would say I sucked, and that I’d have to improve.”
On her willingness to take bumps: “I guess everyone realized I was a team player when I would take a chokeslam from Kane, I was cool with getting the stinkface, and I didn’t mind getting tossed over the top rope by The Big Show.”
On the “Bark Like A Dog” segment with Vince McMahon: “People think I must have felt humiliated. Are you kidding? Look at the result. I was simply an actress doing a part which allowed me to show emotion—that’s a good thing”
On the inspiration of The Rock: “I had to have surgery. It was the worst thing that could happen. But that allowed me to sit back and study matches. I watched a lot of The Rock’s stuff, and thought, There are no girls doing what he’s doing—why not, maybe I could be the female version of The Rock.”
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Despite Vince McMahon announcing that the Survivor Series pay per view was cancelled earlier this year, it looks as though November’s Thanksgiving tradition has been resurrected. WWE is advertising Survivor Series taking place in November in Miami. I know many — including Diva Dirt — have been enjoying the annual traditional elimination matches for the … Read more
Former TNA Knockout and SHIMMER star, Cheerleader Melissa will be taking part in the 2010 AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 18th and has kindly asked for the help of her fans. Melissa is looking for sponsored donations for the walk, so if you can spare some change, please do support her. It’s a really … Read more