As 2013 draws to a close, Diva Dirt writers have each picked a personal highlight to reminisce on the year gone by. Bobby’s Pick: Sasha Banks turns heel For my top part of 2013, I decided to mix it up a bit and choose one of the moments that happened down in NXT (or … Read more
Diva Dirt’s Chris has compiled a hype video featuring moments nominated in the ‘Moment of the Year’ category of the Diva Dirt Fan Awards. Even if you’ve already voted, the video is a great reminder of the year that was in women’s wrestling. Watch the video below: If you haven’t voted in the Diva Dirt … Read more
Diva Dirt presents its third annual Writers’ Choice Awards, the awards that celebrate the year in women’s wrestling, as decided by the editors and contributors of Diva Dirt. The Diva Dirt team has watched hundreds of episode of wrestling television this year, followed a countless number of wrestlers and reviewed tons of matches. Now, as … Read more
On this week’s episode of NXT looking back at 2013, Devin Taylor spoke with NXT Women’s Champion Paige about the historic year she has had. Paige discussed defeating Emma to become the inaugural champion, and said that although Emma is known for her dancing outside the ring, she now respects the Australian as she proved … Read more
Diva Dirt presents its third annual Writers’ Choice Awards, the awards that celebrate the year in women’s wrestling, as decided by the editors and contributors of Diva Dirt. The Diva Dirt team has watched hundreds of episode of wrestling television this year, followed a countless number of wrestlers and reviewed tons of matches. Now, as … Read more
It’s a long journey to Norwich, England from Orlando, Florida, but that doesn’t stop one tough Diva from taking the trek back home to spend Christmas with her family. NXT Women’s Champion Paige took the time to snap a family photo with her father, Ricky and mother (who, on a scale of 1 to 10, … Read more
Christmas is in the air and it seems the festive spirit has already taken over NXT. The Divas took to their finest holiday gear for a special photoshoot to be released sometime in the future. What happened when the cameras weren’t snapping pictures, though? Hugs, of course! We can only assume that Bayley decided Women’s … Read more
What’s up Diva fans and welcome to this week’s NXT Redux. It’s double duty day again here at Diva Dirt and as promised, I’m back! After Main Event’s awesome showing, NXT has also provided some excellent stocking fillers for everyone. In backstage segments, we get appearances from Emma, Natalya, Devin Taylor and Lana. In the … Read more
WWE.com has published an in-character interview with Lana, NXT Diva and manager for rising star Alexander Rusev. The article fleshes out her character’s background, telling us more about her time before NXT. How she became Rusev’s manager: “My parents told me I needed to find a hobby. Because I wasn’t married and didn’t have children, … Read more
Welcome to Diva Dirt’s Five to Watch 2013! This annual list compiles five rising talents in the world of women’s wrestling that we think have what it takes to be the next big thing. RELATED: Diva Dirt’s Five to Watch Class of 2012 From their in-ring abilities to their unique personalities, we aim to spotlight … Read more
Closely following Leah Van Damme‘s switch to a new name, fellow NXT Diva Ashley Sebera has revealed her own new moniker. Ashley, who reported to NXT in November, will now be going by the name Dana Brooke, as evidenced by her tweet: Here it is: the official #ringname is Dana Brooke . I hope you … Read more
NXT Diva Leah Van Damme has joined her fellow rookie Divas in adopting a new name. Leah, who arrived at NXT in October, revealed on Twitter today that she will now be known as Carmella. Of course, that’s not to be confused with Carmella DeCesare, the runner up to Christy Hemme in the Diva Search. … Read more
What’s up Diva fans and welcome to this week’s slightly (majorly, sorry! Been very busy!) belated NXT Redux. It’s all about Bayley this week, as she finds a tag team partner to take on Sasha Banks and Summer Rae of the BFFs. Charlotte is still keeping a low profile yet if Natalya has anything to … Read more
Ever wonder what sparked NXT Diva Veronica Lane to take on the moniker of Miss NXT? Well, look no further than the above photo. It appears that Veronica, real name Erika Hammond, is a former Miss Texas Teen USA pageant contestant. Veronica posted the picture on her Instagram account, captioning it, “#tbt to my pageant … Read more
For each week’s Perfect 10, the Diva Dirt team will compile a list of the top 10 women in wrestling. Placement is determined by performances and achievements from the past week. The list will be presented in video form. Each week’s Perfect 10 follows Monday’s Raw and includes all of the action leading up to … Read more
Each week following Raw, Diva Dirt Weekly will take a look back at the week preceding it, hitting every noteworthy event along the way, from Impact Wrestling to SmackDown to Raw. Joining the audio will be team members Chris, Erin and our host Jake. We cover the following events: NXT (12/4/13): Paige successfully retains the … Read more
Hosted by Jake, Diva Dirt TV is posted every weekend, wrapping up the week in women’s wrestling by naming the best moments of the week as “Match of the Week”, “Tweet of the Week”, “Story of the Week” and more. On this week’s episode: Jake talks Eve Torres‘s return for the Slammy Awards, Eva Marie … Read more
What’s up Diva fans and welcome to this week’s NXT Redux! After a few weeks of backstage segments galore, we’re finally back in the ring on this edition of NXT… and the NXT Women’s Championship is on the line! The future Mrs. @Jack5326 defends the belt against Mrs. Wilson herself, Natalya. So weird referring to … Read more
For each week’s Perfect 10, the Diva Dirt team will compile a list of the top 10 women in wrestling. Placement is determined by performances and achievements from the past week. The list will be presented in video form. Each week’s Perfect 10 follows Monday’s Raw and includes all of the action leading up to … Read more
What’s up Diva fans and welcome to this week’s NXT Redux! In a week in which no matches took place, I knew NXT was still going to deliver, and I wasn’t wrong! What it did deliver though, was well, a little confusing to say the least. I don’t want to waffle on on this special … Read more
Hosted as always by Jake, Diva Dirt TV wraps up the week in women’s wrestling by naming the best moments of the week as “Match of the Week”, “Tweet of the Week”, “Story of the Week” and more. On this week’s episode: It’s the Thanksgiving special! Jake tells you what team Diva Dirt is thankful … Read more
Hey, we didn’t say they held the same title.. Mickie James, fresh off her run in TNA, has been quite a buzzy name over the past few weeks. Of course, this is attributed to the fact that she spent some time training NXT Divas down at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. We’ve seen … Read more
Last September’s leak of an NXT promo class gave fans a chance to see up-and-coming Superstars and Divas test out characters and work on their promo skills. Today, it’s happened again. Divas were all over the leaked promos: new signees Ashley Sebera, Leah Van Damme and Sarah Backman get their first shot in front of … Read more
WWE taped four weeks worth of NXT tonight at Full Sail University. Spoilers below:
On this week’s NXT, there wasn’t much to see as Divas action goes. Still, there were a few interesting developments. Let’s dig in. We start with Alexa Bliss, who is making her NXT debut as a ring announcer, introducing us to Colin Cassidy, who will be taking on Alexander Rusev. Lana is, of course, accompanying … Read more
For each week’s Perfect 10, the Diva Dirt team will compile a list of the top 10 women in wrestling. Placement is determined by performances and achievements from the past week. The list will be presented in video form. This week’s Perfect 10 includes yesterday’s edition of WWE Main Event. Yesterday’s NXT will be included … Read more