New York-based Family Wrestling Entertainment held its second annual Welcome to the Rumble event last night on Internet pay per view, featuring the reunion of former TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Angelina Love and Winter, aka Katarina, and the duo emerged victorious over the team of Maria Kanellis and Ivelisse Velez. Check out results from … Read more
In an interview with Bryan Alvarez of Figure Four Daily, former SHIMMER Champion Saraya Knight dropped a bombshell: wrestlers from SHIMMER Women Athletes will be coming to the UK for the Bellatrix 7 show on October 6th. She confirmed that a whopping five names will be making their way over for the big Bellatrix vs. … Read more
UK independent promotions Preston City Wrestling and Southside Wrestling have announced a major name is heading their way in November — none other than former TNA Knockouts Champion Kharma, aka Amazing Kong. The former WWE star, also formerly known as Awesome Kong, will wrestle at PCW’s “Supershow Weekender 3” on the 15th and 16th of … Read more
Ring of Honor star Mike Bennett recently sat down with the Monday Night Mayhem radio to discuss a variety of topics. Among them was his relationship with former WWE Diva and his current valet, Maria Kanellis. Bennett and Maria became engaged late last year and seem to be keeping a healthy relationship since the announcement. … Read more
The Cauliflower Alley Club’s official audio show, CAC Radio, recently interviewed original GLOW girl Ashley Cartier. Ashley is best known for her time teaming with Tina Ferrari, the woman who would come to be known in the WWE as Ivory. She gives some insight into the early days of GLOW, as well as the very … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of independent women’s wrestling. Check it out below: RESULTS ECCW (June 8th, 2013): Nicole Matthews (c) vs. KC Spinelli went to a no contest when El Phantasmo attacked both women. NPW (June 8th, 2013): Shazza McKenzie def. Madison Eagles NWA-AWA … Read more
OVW has officially released the June edition of their monthly Saturday Night Special extravaganza. The show is available to order on DVD on their website. The show was filmed just a few weeks ago on the first of the month, featuring Women’s Champion, Trina squaring off with Heidi Lovelace for her coveted title. The show … Read more
Earlier tonight, SHINE Wrestling revealed the brackets for the upcoming SHINE Championship Tournament, as well as how the two remaining places will be filled. The spots, empty following Jazz and Allysin Kay‘s withdrawals from the tournament, will be contested in two four-way matches featuring a number of losing competitors from previous qualifiers. Made in Sin’s … Read more
SHINE Wrestling has announced that they are holding an emergency meeting to fill two open spots in the SHINE Championship Tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be held at SHINE’s one year anniversary show, SHINE 11, on Friday, July 12th. Jazz, Saraya Knight, Rain, Jessicka Havok, Leva, Mia Yim, Santana and Allysin Kay all advanced … Read more
SHINE Wrestling has just announced that former WWE Diva Jazz has been forced to withdraw, due to injury, from their tournament to crown the first ever SHINE Champion. In defeating Ivelisse back on SHINE 9, Jazz had qualified for the tournament. Read the full statement from Lexie Fyfe, SHINE VP of Talent Relations, below: I … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of independent women’s wrestling. Check it out below: RESULTS Ring of Honor (June 1st, 2013): Athena def. Barbi Hayden with the O-Face. The show took place in San Antonio, TX, so Athena was hailed as the “hometown girl”. 2CW Girls … Read more
SHINE Wrestling star Rain has joined Brittney Savage in announcing that she will be retiring by end of the year. Following Brittney’s announcement on Twitter, Rain revealed that she too is winding down her in-ring career: @jaydawgbama i’m done at the end of the year, watch @shinewrestling — Rain Maxson Gray (@Radiant_Rain) June 5, 2013 … Read more
Brittney Savage has announced her intent to leave wrestling at the end of the year. The two-time J-Cup winner sent out a series of tweets that read: Over the past month I have done some serious thinking and come December I will have to say goodbye …. — Brittney Savage (@TheBrittySavage) June 5, 2013 “@anamasry19: … Read more
Indy veteran LuFisto has announced that her protégé Kalamity is taking an indefinite amount of time away from the ring. LuFisto made the announcement on her Facebook fan page today, saying that the former NCW Femmes Fatales Champion “won’t be wrestling anymore, at least for an undetermined period.” No further details were given for her … Read more
Following in the footsteps of Tomoka Nakagawa and Portia Perez, former SHIMMER Champion Saraya Knight will also be making her Australian debut at the end of July. She was the eighth and final contestant announced to take part in NHPW’s Global Conflict 2013 tournament on July 26th and 27th. The seventh contestant announced was Storm, … Read more
Four names have been added to the already stacked PWWA show in August. Joining confirmed talent Madison Eagles, Evie, Kellie Skater, Jessie McKay and Shazza McKenzie are Kellyanne English, KC Cassidy, Eliza Sway and New Zealand’s Olivia Shaw. Of the four, this will be Shaw’s debut for the company. She has already been making a … Read more
Ohio Valley Wrestling will present their monthly edition of Saturday Night Special tomorrow night, and the Women’s Title will be up for grabs as champion Trina puts her gold on the line against challenger Heidi Lovelace. The match came to fruition on the most recent episode of OVW’s televised program, in which Taeler Hendrix planted … Read more
Two international stars are set to make their debut in Australia at the end of July. The first is one half of the SHIMMER Tag Team Champions, joshi wrestler Tomoka Nakagawa. The second is one of the women that Tomoka (and her 3G partner Kellie Skater) defeated in April to become the champions, Portia … Read more
Ohio Valley Wrestling, based out of Louisville, Kentucky, has introduced quite an interesting (and well done in this reviewer’s opinion) romance storyline featuring two of its former Women’s Champions, Taeler Hendrix and Heidi Lovelace. As we normally don’t cover OVW, we have decided to highlight this particular storyline due to its groundbreaking nature. Play catch-up … Read more
As announced during the SHINE 10 broadcast, a match between Mia Yim and Ivelisse Velez has been added to the EVOLVE 22 card. The show will take place on on June 2nd at The Orpheum in Ybor City, FL. Outside of SLAMMIN’ Ladies, this will be the first singles meeting between the two. They previously … Read more
SHINE 10 ended in controversial fashion on Friday night, with a failed sneak attack by Allysin Kay and subsequent suspension giving us the first sign of cracks in Valkyrie’s previously united and dominant front. In the main event, Valkyrie leader Rain faced Angelina Love in a rematch from their SHINE Championship tournament qualifier at SHINE … Read more
Ring of Honor has announced in its newest newswire that Anarchy Championship Wrestling staple and former ACW American Joshi Champion Barbi Hayden will be making her ROH debut in a Women of Honor singles match against “The Wrestling Goddess” Athena on June 1st in San Antonio, TX. Athena is coming into this match with a … Read more
Earlier today Pro Wrestling:EVE was at the Rushcliffe Arena in Nottingham, England for the 2013 “Queen of the Ring” tournament, with eight stars vying for the chance to be crowned “Queen of the Ring” and earn a future shot at the EVE Championship. In addition, the championship itself was also defended, as Nikki Storm retained … Read more
It looks like Shanna finally has some company in the second round of TNA’s Gut Check Challenge, as LuFisto and Nikki Storm have also advanced to the next stage. LuFisto won Bracket 11 with 192 votes to 105. Pro Wrestling: EVE Champion Storm topped Bracket 13 with 165 votes to 101. The two join “Portugal’s … Read more
SHIMMER Champion Cheerleader Melissa has been named AIDS Walk San Francisco’s first “Walker of the Week”. Melissa, who is an avid supporter of the San Francisco charity event, was profiled on the San Francisco section of the AIDSWalk.net website, and she spoke with them about her history of fundraising. She told the site, “I’ve lost … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of “SHINE 10”, airing on iPPV tonight. The show includes the final four qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship Tournament, as well as Jessicka Havok putting her own tournament spot on the line against Portia Perez. SHINE 10 comes to us live from the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida and starts … Read more