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NXT Rookie Spotlight: Naomi Night

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NXT season three kicks off tonight, but before that, we’re helping you get acquainted with the cast of NXT 3! In our final Rookie Spotlight, we look at Naomi Night, the first ever FCW Divas Champion, who will be paired up with Kelly Kelly.

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Orlando native, Naomi Night, was signed to a developmental deal last summer, reporting to FCW right at the end of August last year. After exactly a year of training, she is about to be thrown into the spotlight on NXT. However, despite being in FCW only a year, she is perhaps the second most experienced girl in the ring (first being AJ). Naomi’s unique look, style (who else can pull off bright green leggings?) and swagger has made her a favourite with the FCW crowds. Meanwhile, her growing in-ring repertoire has caught many people’s attention too. Naomi has had good matches in FCW with the likes of Serena and AJ Lee and was crowned the first ever FCW Divas Champion earlier this year.

Check out some of her work below:

Naomi & Rosa Mendes vs AJ Lee & Courtney Taylor

In one of her first outings on FCW TV, here is Naomi teaming up with current WWE Diva, Rosa Mendes, against AJ Lee and Courtney Taylor. Despite only being in the ring for a few months, Naomi shows some early signs of potential.

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NXT Rookie Spotlight: Maxine

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NXT season three kicks off tonight, but before that, we’re helping you get acquainted with the cast of NXT 3! Today, we look at Maxine, the current General Manager in FCW, who will be paired up with former Divas Champion, Alicia Fox.

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This sassy 24-year old Latina hasn’t got much experience in the ring, but has made her mark in other ways in Florida Championship Wrestling in the past year. Maxine, real name Karlee Perez, made her debut as Candy Girl, managing Sweet Papi Sanchez. Upon leaving Sanchez, Candy Girl became Liviana and she aligned herself with whoever was in power, whether it’s Abraham Washington or Norman Smiley, cementing her reputation as a gold digger. Her ambitious attitude has recently netted her the position of FCW General Manager. Maxine has also made her mark in the ring as well:

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Raw Redux (September 6th, 2010): The ‘Undefined’ Champion of Divas

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Divas Champion, Melina has to be on cloud nine after single-handedly defeating BFF champions, Lay-Cool last week in a tag team match on Raw. What Melina didn’t expect is that she had to defend her title the very week, despite having a unification match at Night of Champions in a few weeks time. Watch below as Melina takes on the woman she defeated for the Divas Championship at SummerSlam, Alicia Fox:

Melina makes her way out to the ring first and poses for the fans in her usual fashion. Out next is her challenger Alicia, who apparently has something to say. Alicia informs Melina that she will not be competing at Night of Champions. Alicia goes on to say that she will become the ‘undefined champion of Divas’. Hey Alicia, ‘Undefined’, ‘Undisputed’ and ‘Unified’ do NOT mean the same thing. I guess we won’t be seeing Ms. Fox on the mic again anytime soon.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Alicia follows up by saying she has more Twitter followers than Melina and Lay-Cool combined. I have no idea how Alicia would know this since she has probably never logged into her Twitter account.

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Southern Belle Smack: The NXT Season Three Debate… Is it Doomed to Fail?

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Season three of NXT is no doubt the most talked about season so far in the show’s history. Last week, during the finale of season two, Josh Mathews and Michael Cole made a historic announcement by telling us that season three is going to be comprised entirely of Diva rookies. When the average wrestling fan hears the term ‘Diva’, he automatically assumes that a hot girl with a nice set of puppies will walk out to the ring. Or what’s worse, is average fan may believe Diva time is really bathroom time. The majority of average wrestling fans are ignoramuses, but the point remains the same. What the term ‘Diva’ actually stands for is overcoming the odds in WWE land. That’s exactly what six rookie Divas have a chance to accomplish starting this week on NXT.

The decision to make NXT 3 about the Divas was met with a lot of well documented controversy. Fans, pro wrestling media personnel, and “writerz” took to their Twitters, Facebooks, MySpaces, etc. to make their feelings known about this upcoming all Diva show. A nice chunk of these people took one look at the pros and decided not to watch. Some people decided to just talk a lot of smack and back up their verbal BS with weak arguments and ridiculous ‘facts’. The saving grace in all of this were the real Diva fans. They chose to remain open-minded and optimistic.

The all Diva season of NXT could go one of these two ways: it could either be a success and the WWE could find their next breakout Diva or it could go the opposite way and be an epic failure.

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NXT Rookie Spotlight: Jamie Keyes

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NXT season three kicks off next Tuesday night, but before that, we’re helping you get acquainted with the cast of NXT 3! Today, we look at Jamie Keyes, the former ring announcer for NXT season two, who will be paired up with The Bella Twins. Profile This 25-year old blonde bombshell has had quite a … Read more

Quick Reader Poll Regarding NXT

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Once again, we want your input! With NXT 3 due to begin this Tuesday night, we are considering commemorating the occasion with weekly ‘NXT viewing parties’, pretty much similar to our monthly pay per view live chats. Would you be interested in joining us Tuesday nights for an NXT viewing party? Vote below:

Aloisia Update

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Following yesterday’s announcement that Aloisia has been cut from NXT 3 before it even began, the Wrestling Observer reports that the 6’9″ giant may have simply been sent to WWE’s developmental territory, FCW for further training. They write: No official update on the Aloisa situation in WWE, but the feeling is that it’s not a … Read more

NXT Rookie Spotlight: Aksana

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NXT season three kicks off next Tuesday night, but before that, we’re helping you get acquainted with the cast of NXT 3! Today, we look at Aksana, who will be paired up with WWE Superstar, Goldust.

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28-year old Aksana, real name Zivile Raudoniene, is a familiar face on the bodybuilding and fitness modeling circuit. The Lithuanian was signed by WWE sometime last year and has recently been hosting ‘The Aksana Show’ on FCW television.

In the spirit of full disclosure, the Diva Dirt team looooves Aksana. As fierce hot messes go, Aksana’s broken English is both highly entertaining and adorable. Regardez:

Obviously, from the clip above you will have learned that Aksana is freakin’ hilarious! “So nice to see you… whatchu gonna say.” Need I say more? Oh, go on then… “Waylish.” “What kind of girls you like.” Aksana’s amazing comedic value paired with Goldust will be gold!

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SmackDown Redux (September 3rd, 2010): Welcome to ‘The Layla Show’

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After weeks of little to no direction for the SmackDown Divas, we finally have a storyline — albeit an interpromotional one — with Lay-Cool set to challenge Melina at Night of Champions to unify the Divas and Women’s Championships. If the objective for tonight’s SmackDown segment was to push that match, well, they did a good job. If the objective was for Layla’s commentary to overshadow and seem more important than the match in the ring, well, they also accomplished that too.

Watch below:

In a video that is 5 minutes long, you actually have to skip to the 2 minute mark for the match between Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool to begin. 3 minutes for the match? Don’t expect a mat classic. However, as I said above, it looks like the match itself is second to the commentary so it’s not as though we’re expecting an in-ring spectacular.

As the bell rings, Kelly begins stomping at Michelle and then hitting a few forearms but before we can even see 10 seconds of action, the camera cuts to Layla at ringside. Granted, being a big fan of Layla’s mic work, I appreciate the opportunity to see her ramble endlessly but come on, there’s a match in the ring!

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Jim Ross Comments on WWE Producing All-Diva Show

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In the latest edition of The Ross Report at WWE.com, Hall of Famer, Jim Ross addresses WWE’s risky move of producing an all-Diva version of NXT. He writes: Would an all-Diva WWE TV show work? I’ve always wondered how a TV show devoted completely to WWE Divas would do. Nonetheless the 3rd season of NXT … Read more

Vickie Guerrero ‘Fires’ Aloisia

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Assuming this is in storyline, but WWE.com has finally posted an article explaining why Aloisia was pretty much wiped clean from their website earlier. WWE Pro Vickie Guerrero has fired her NXT season three Rookie Diva, Aloisia. Various sources are reporting that Guerrero, the temperamental Official Consultant of SmackDown, had an argument with her 6-foot-9 … Read more

NXT Rookie Spotlight: AJ Lee

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NXT season three kicks off next Tuesday night, but before that, we’re helping you get acquainted with the cast of NXT 3! Today, we look at AJ Lee, who will be paired up with WWE Superstar, Primo.

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23-year old AJ, real name April Jeanette, was signed by WWE last spring. Prior to WWE, she had been working on the independent circuit as Miss April. AJ primarily worked in the New Jersey area for Women Superstars Uncensored where she was one half of the WSU Tag Team Champions at the time of her signing. Since joining WWE developmental, she had been going by the name AJ Lee and is the current Queen of FCW after defeating Serena for the crown on an episode of FCW TV.

Check out some of her work below:

AJ Lee vs Natalya

Defeating five other rookies should be no problem for AJ, as here she is hanging in there move-for-move with perhaps the most talented female wrestler in WWE, Natalya. Yeah, baby!

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Report on Why WWE Went with All Divas on NXT 3

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The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has a piece in its latest issue regarding WWE’s decision to produce an all Divas season of NXT 3. Read the details below: The announcement of an abbreviated third season of NXT, which starts on 9/7, will be an all women’s show. The lame duck show on Syfy will end its … Read more

NXT Lay-Kav-Ool Watch (August 31st, 2010): Kaval Wins!

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After thirteen weeks of straight up drama, season two of NXT finally reached it’s conclusion last night. The show delivered in every aspect you could think of, and for us Diva fans, Christmas certainly came early this year! The amazing finale had surprises, unexpected announcements that kept us on our toes the entire night, tears, beatdowns, and one winner who probably deserved it more than the others. So how exactly did last night’s show pan out? Well read on and find out for yourself!

Ashley Valence, who is more often than not missing in action, is in the ring tonight and she starts us off by introducing the pros. MVP, Zach Ryder, John Morrison, Mark Henry, and Cody Rhodes walk out and take their seats. Following that, The Miz struts out and announces his rookie, Alex Riley. Michelle McCool and Layla are up next and they announce Kaval. Kaval walks out and holds his arms out, which the girls gladly take and kiss him on the cheek. Finally, Kofi Kingston walks out. He announces Michael McGillicutty. All the finalists are in the ring and Matt Striker is in a freakin’s suit! Talk about sexy!

Striker motions to the front row where the eliminated rookies are sitting. Titus O’Neil, Eli Cottonwood, Lucky Cannon, Percy Watson, and Husky Harris are all introduced to the crowd. Striker reminds us all that the winner will not only be the next breakout star, but they’ll also earn a championship match on pay-per-view. Striker teases us some more and tells the three rookies that they will all be in action tonight; in a triple threat match against one another! Things start breaking down with Kaval shoving The Miz. Alex and Michael start going at one another, with Kofi jumping into the fray and clotheslining Miz over the top rope. Alex ends up out of the ring as well and Kaval spites Miz by holding up the United States Championship.

The cameras go to Josh Mathews and Michael Cole who launch into a discussion about Season Three beginning next week. And guess what diva fans, Season Three is going to consist of nothing but diva rookies!

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Tentative Schedule for NXT 3: Five Weeks Long?

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Based on Syfy’s scheduling for NXT season three, it looks like this may be a ‘mini-season’ of five weeks. NXT will wrap up its run on Syfy on October 1st, the same day that SmackDown premieres on the network. Unless the show moves to another network or online at WWE.com after October 1st, NXT 3’s … Read more

The NXT 3 Theme Song is…

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In case anyone was wondering what that catchy little tune was during the NXT 3 promos last night, it was ‘Make the Rain Fall’ by Kevin Rudolf. Looks like this will be the theme song for NXT 3 which begins next Tuesday on Syfy. Rudolf’s previous singles have also been used by WWE. ‘Let It … Read more

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