Eva Marie returned to WWE last month promising to usher in a new “Eva-lution”. The comeback received a largely negative reception online but that doesn’t phase her at all, in fact, she welcomes it. She made her return to WWE after a five-year absence and is yet to perform in front of a live audience. … Read more
It is being reported by PWInsider that they have confirmed that RAW Superstar Naomi has been moved to the SmackDown brand. Naomi was one of eight women who participated in Sunday’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match. The match was won by Nikki A.S.H. Naomi, who didn’t spend a full year back on RAW, was … Read more
WWE’s first PPV in front of a packed house in 15 months, Money in the Bank featured a tonne of action and excitement. It was so great to see and hear the crowds back and along with what went down in the ring, it made for a memorable night. The first match of the night … Read more
Charlotte Flair adds another championship to her repertoire as she becomes RAW Women’s Champion for the fifth time in her career. In what many would call the match of the night, Flair defeated Rhea Ripley to capture the title, ending Ripley’s reign at 98-days. This match had everything and both women delivered. The dynamic these … Read more
Nikki A.S.H. isn’t just Almost a Superhero, she is now Ms. Money in the Bank. The RAW Superstar beat out seven other women to secure her shot at a championship for up to a year. With all of the women at the top of three ladders, minus Alexa Bliss, Nikki was able to reach over … Read more
Becky Lynch posted a picture of herself outside of the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas ahead of tonight’s Money in the Bank event. ‘The Man’ took to Twitter to post the photo along with a message hinting at her involvement in the women’s ladder match. Here’s what Becky Lynch wrote; “Beautiful day in Fort … Read more
Possible Spoilers are listed in this article. Mickie James returned to IMPACT Wrestling last night at Slammiversary. After Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo retained her title against a mystery opponent, which ended up being Thunder Rosa, James came out to offer up an invitation. James has been working with the NWA promotion since being released from … Read more
Who is ready for a new Ms. Money in the Bank?! One of eight women will climb the ladder and grab the briefcase ensuring that she will get a title shot. Tonight, Alexa Bliss, Naomi, Asuka, Nikki A.S.H., Liv Morgan, Tamina, Natalya, and Zelina Vega will battle it out for a great opportunity. The RAW … Read more
IMPACT is coming off of a very successful event with Slammiversary and is already looking forward to its future events. At that event, Havok & Rosemary became new Knockouts Tag Team Champions while Deonna Purrazzo retained her title against Thunder Rosa. IMPACT has announced both Homecoming which will be an IMPACT Plus event and Bound … Read more
Hardcore Country!! That’s right, former three-time Knockouts Champion Mickie James made an appearance for IMPACT’s Slammiversary as she came to the ring after Deonna Purrazzo retained her title. James was released from WWE in April and since then she has been putting in the work to highlight and create a bigger platform for women’s wrestling … Read more
The “Hot Mess” is back! Chelsea Green returned to the ring for the first time since her release from WWE in April. She has come home to IMPACT Wrestling where she is a former Knockouts Champion under the name Laurel Van Ness. She was the surprise tag team partner for Matt Cardona during the Mixed … Read more
Havok & Rosemary are now your NEW Knockouts Tag Team Champions as they defeated Fire ‘N Flava on the pre-show of Slammiversary. Havok has now fully joined Decay and their power together ended the 63-day reign of Kiera Hogan & Tasha Steelz. Havok got the pin on Hogan after delivering a Tombstone. The Knockouts Tag … Read more
One of IMPACT’s biggest shows of the year is tonight and there is a lot of surprises that could take place. We have two mystery competitors showing up which creates a bit of suspense for the event. Slammiversary could possibly see some new additions to the Knockouts division. The pre-show starts at 7 P.M. EST … Read more
SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair received an absolute electric reception when crowds returned on last night’s SmackDown. She successfully defended her title against a determined Carmella but the Most Beautiful Woman in all of WWE wasn’t happy with this last-minute booking.
Because Carmella wasn’t “prepared” for her match, she is getting another one. The two will clash again next Friday on the July 23 episode of SmackDown.
Belair appeared on Talking Smack after their match and provided a response to Carmella who says she wasn’t ready because she only had six days to prepare. The champ says people like Carmella tend to go on Twitter and act like they aren’t bothered when they are. So if Carmella wants a rematch then she can have that because Belair is a fighting champion.
Money in the Bank is this weekend and is the first WWE PPV event outside of Florida in over a year. There are two women’s matches for us to look forward to. The first is the Women’s Money in the Bank match features Asuka, Liv Morgan, Alexa Bliss, Nikki Cross/ASH, Naomi, Zelina Vega, Natalya, and … Read more
Alright Knockout fans, we’ve made it to Slammiversary.
IMPACT! currently has three matches involving the Knockouts planned for the event. The matches are as follows:
Pre-Show – Knockouts Tag Team Championship
Fire ‘N Flava (c) vs. Havok & Rosemary
Mixed Tag Team Match
Tenille Dashwood & Brian Myers vs. Matt Cardona and TBA
Knockouts Championship
Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs. TBA – Mystery Opponent
Fire ‘N Flava (c) vs. Havok & Rosemary for the Knockouts Tag Team Championships
After spending some time trying to best each other to get to the Knockouts Championship, Havok and Rosemary realized that they may be better off together. Havok consistently having the back of Rosemary has led to this partnership forming and has made Rosemary now wanting Havok to fully commit and join Decay.
Fire ‘N Flava has been against their opponents getting a title shot feeling they haven’t earned it. Since then, Rosemary & Havok have had a chance to prove they are on the same page and defeated Kimber Lee and Su Yung to become the number one contenders. This match was recently moved to the pre-show.
Havok holds a singles victory over Tasha Steelz heading into this match and Rosemary defeated Kiera Hogan in June.
Predictions:
Nick: This one I can see go either way and now that it has been moved to the pre-show it makes me doubt that Havok & Rosemary will win. However, I feel as though the push and focus have been more on Havok & Rosemary over Fire ‘N Flava so I will still be with them as the winners and new champions.
John: Huge mark for Rosemary and she and Havock make a great team. Fire ‘N Flava has been good champions but it is time to take the titles to the dark side. Rosemary and Havok as new champions
Tenille Dashwood & Brian Myers vs. Matt Cardona & TBA
This match certainly was a last-minute surprise. On this past week’s IMPACT, Dashwood said hello to her real-life ex- Matt Cardona, and not in the nicest way. After hitting a low blow on Cardona, Dashwood was revealed to be the person that Brian Myers needed to help take down his former lifelong friend. Although this was a random booking, it doesn’t even need a build up due to the history of the three involved.
What is the wildcard here is who will Cardona pick as his partner? Since this match was announced, Cardona has spent a lot of time on Twitter saying who his opponent will NOT be. Most recently confirming that it will indeed not be Vickie Guerrero.
Nick: With Chelsea Green showing up to ROH and announcing that she still has about a month left of rehabbing her arm, her being her real-life fiance’s partner seems less likely. That is unless she is playing it up and she really is ready to get back in the ring. I am guessing that Taylor Wilde will return as Cardona’s mystery partner based on her friction with Tenille prior to her time off TV. I have Cardona and whoever his partner is winning.
John: If it’s not Chelsea Green what are we even doing here? I fully expect to see the ‘Hot Mess’ return to IMPACT alongside Cardona to take out Dashwood and Brian Myers.
Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs. Mystery Opponent – Knockouts Championship
This match has the most buzz surrounding it and Purrazzo has done a wonderful job building up the match essentially by herself. She has had the help of Gail Kim and Scott D’Amore to punch home the excitement, but without someone across the ring from her yet, she has had to do all the work.
Gail has told her to get prepared for the fight of her life and that this match will not only change our world but Deonna’s as well. Those words alone make it sound like her opponent is going to be tough to beat. Purrazzo has gone through the entire Knockouts Division (other than Taylor Wilde) and since Slammiversary last year she is a two-time champion and seems to be unstoppable.
D’Amore has continued to tease recent WWE releases as being possible opponents for Purrazzo, but only when the bell is about to ring will we truly find out.
Predictions:
Nick: Deonna will retain. Regardless of the opponent, Deonna will, and for a few reasons. One, because of her future bookings which require her to still be a champion, and two I feel they will have her surpass the longest reign held by Taya Valkyrie. Now, this doesn’t take away from a great match that we hopefully are about to watch. Chelsea was my go-to choice, but as already mentioned that seems less likely now. Mickie James makes the most logical choice here. The rumor is it will not be someone currently on the Knockouts Roster.
John: Deonna is easily the best Knockouts Champion in years and as Nick says will retain. For the mystery opponent, I’m hoping for someone way out of left field like Jazzy Gabert, Serena Deeb or even NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille accompanied by Mickie James.
Along with Mickie and Chelsea, Cassie Lee and Jessica McKay, formerly known as The IIconics, are two more women who many are hoping to see at this event.
What are your picks for these Knockouts matches at Slammiversary? Comment below and check back in with Diva Dirt later today to join the Slammiversary Discussion Post.
This week’s Friday Night SmackDown was an explosive showing as live crowds have returned for the first time in 16-months. SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair was able to defend her title for the first time in front of a crowd since she won it at WrestleMania in April. Carmella was her opponent and what a … Read more
It was announced on tonight’s SmackDown that Toni Storm will be making her debut on the brand next week, July 23. A video promo premiered last week teasing her debut and with it just saying “coming soon” we didn’t know at that time when she would show up. Now we do. Storm is coming from … Read more
Tonight’s a big night. WWE is back in front of fans from here on out and SmackDown is the first show to do so. Heading into the weekend, this is the last show before the Money in the Bank pay-per-view event that takes place this Sunday. SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair is ready to put … Read more
NXT Superstar Xia Li is reportedly planned to have a dark match prior to this week’s SmackDown. Fightful Select is reporting this was the plan as of Tuesday. An opponent has not been named at the time of this writing.
EDIT: Since this posting, Aliyah has been confirmed as Xia Li’s opponent.
Li joins several other NXT talents that have had dark matches over the course of the past number of weeks. Tegan Nox, Scarlett, Shotzi, and Toni Storm have all been included on that list. Nox and Shotzi debuted on SmackDown last week and came out with a win in tag team action by defeating the Women’s Tag Team Champions of Natalya and Tamina. A video package started airing last week showing that Storm is coming to the blue brand as well.
At this time, Fightful has not heard of any plans of Li being called up. However, the plan is to continue to have NXT talent work dark matches prior to RAW and SmackDown now that fans will be in attendance.
Li has the biggest opportunity of her career coming up on next week’s NXT as she will be challenging Raquel Gonzalez for the NXT Women’s Championship. She has been a part of a very popular NXT stable at the moment along with Boa and Mei Ying, known collectively as Tian Sha.
Check back in with Diva Dirt for any further news on NXT talent being utilized for the main roster.
Mickie James and NWA have made several huge announcements regarding their women’s division in recent months. They announced the all-women’s pay-per-view EmPowerrr, followed by the first-ever NWA Women’s Invitational, and today they dropped another big reveal. Taking to Instagram to promote tickets going on sale for their upcoming shows Mickie James “Happy @nwa Ticket Sale day with @williampcorgan and … Read more
Bayley went under the knife on Thursday to repair the unfortunate ACL injury suffered in training last week. The ‘Role Model’ took to Twitter to provide an update and jokingly blamed fans for her current situation. Here’s what Bayley tweeted; “Can’t wait to miss the first show in front of fans again. I blame YOU … Read more
Slammiversary is this Saturday and we have another match with Knockouts involved added to the card. Tenille Dashwood will be teaming up with Brian Myers taking on Matt Cardona and a tag team partner of his choosing. Myers was out in the ring with Sam Beale as they were calling out Jake Something. Jake didn’t … Read more
Knockouts fans, we have made it to the last IMPACT! show before Slammiversary which will take place this Saturday on July 17. So far there are two matches booked for the event, both with championships on the line. Rosemary & Havok will get a shot at the tag team gold as they face the champions … Read more
Tamina becomes the eighth and final woman added to the Money in the Bank Ladder Match which will take place this Sunday on July 18. A spot that many speculated was going to be a “surprise entrant” was just officially announced by WWE as one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions. She joins her tag … Read more
Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair are set to fight it out for the RAW Women’s Championship at Money in the Bank. The two former NXT Women’s Champions have been at each other’s throats for months. Yet despite their onscreen rivalry Ripley has come out in defence of her upcoming opponent from the “unfair” criticism she … Read more
