Lana has been missing from WWE programming for quite some time now. The last time she participated in a match was at WrestleMania in April during the women’s Battle Royal. Her absence went along with her husband’s as Rusev was not on WWE programming either. Rusev returned just a couple weeks ago as being announced … Read more
In this Free Match Friday we take you back to 2013 at TNA’s One Night Only, Knockouts Knockdown.
This event saw matches that you wouldn’t necessarily see and this was one of them. The match highlighted the back and forth athleticism of these two women. Serena’s short stint with WWE in 2010 didn’t accentuate her true talent.
Click on the video above to see who came out on top as the winner.
Check back in with Diva Dirt next Friday for another Free Match.
This week we said farewell to SmackDown Live as the show moves from USA to FOX on Oct. 4. After years being nothing more than a RAW recap show SmackDown Live was launched in 2016 with a full brand split, separate championships, and superstar draft. The show quickly became a favourite for the “hardcore” fan … Read more
Sanatana Garrett made her long-awaited debut as an official NXT superstar, last night. Garrett took on Reina Gonzalez in a losing effort dark match in front of her home town crowd at Full Sail University. Garrett has appeared on NXT many times throughout the years. She faced off against Charlotte way back in 2013. She … Read more
It has been reported for months now that Dakota Kai was all healed up and ready to get back to the squared circle. Last week it was announced that her return would happen on this week’s live NXT episode. She would make her way into the ring with “welcome back” chants and tears in her … Read more
Update: It has been officially announced by WWE the new commentary moves for RAW and SmackDown. Beth Phoenix will stay on NXT with Nigel McGuinness and Mauro Ranallo. Renee Young will be moved with Michael Cole to SmackDown. As previously rumored, Renee Young will be hosting a new studio show for WWE that will air … Read more
Alicia Fox hasn’t been very active in the ring this year. Her last match was on Main Event in April when she teamed with Tamina to face The IIconics in a losing effort. Since then she appeared during the RAW Reunion in July and as a head-scratcher, she appeared as a returning legend. This brought … Read more
One of IMPACT Wrestling’s biggest pay-per-view events is fastly approaching. Bound for Glory is scheduled for Oct. 20 and at this time there are no Knockouts scheduled for the show. Taya Valkyrie has just surpassed the longest-reigning Knockouts Champion in the history of IMPACT. She will most likely be defended her title against the newest … Read more
IMPACT Wrestling is about to embark on another wedding moment as Melissa Santos and IMPACT World Champion, Brian Cage celebrates their pending nuptials. The couple in real life married in July, but on-screen their engagement took place just a couple of weeks ago.
As a result of this exciting news, IMPACT Wrestling has compiled their top five list of wildest weddings in the history of the company. Here is what they came up with:
5. ODB & Eric Young
As the very last TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions, ODB and Eric Young met each other in the ring to tie the knot. The engagement took place after the two won the tag titles. Young would become the only man in history to win a women’s title for the company.
After their win, ODB accepted the proposal. They would defend their titles multiple times before being stripped of the title due to Young being a man after a 478-day reign. They would even defend the title in a steel cage match at Lockdown against Sarita and Rosita. The titles were retired after their reign.
4. Brooke Hogan & Bully Ray
This wedding took part during perhaps the longest drawn out stable in wrestling history – Aces & Eights. During the ceremony, Tazz would interrupt the ceremony revealing he was a member of that stable. They would attack Ray and Hulk Hogan. It would later be revealed that Ray was actually the President of Aces & Eights turning his back on the Hogans.
3. SoCal Val & Jay Lethal
This wedding would break down as Sonjay Dutt, Lethal’s best friend, had something to say during the ceremony. He admitted he had feelings for Val and that it should be him and not Lethal that marries her. Dutt would then attack Lethal.
After the attack, Dutt would find himself in a terrible position as Jake Roberts would unleash a snake on him. Val would leave crying heading up the ramp.
2. Karen & Jeff Jarrett
The Jarretts would renew their vows, but their ceremony wouldn’t end blissfully. Kurt Angle was forced to walk down Karen down the aisle after losing a match to Jeff. With her being Angle’s real-life ex-wife the sheer humiliation was enough to make him snap.
After the ceremony was concluded, Angle would retrieve an axe and destroy the set causing the couple to retreat.
1.Laurel Van Ness & Braxton Sutter
Van Ness and Sutter would start an on-screen relationship that led to their wedding. At the ceremony, Sutter couldn’t take it anymore and would get into a verbal altercation with Maria. He would profess his love for Allie (his real-life wife).
This would result as the end of Ness’ relationship with Saxton. She would then move to her maniacal “psychotic bride” gimmick
What are your thoughts of IMPACT’s top five wedding list? What were some of your favorites? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.
Nicole Savoy is nearing a record two years as the SHIMMER Champion. She defeated Mercedes Martinez in November 2017 just one day shy from Martinez holding the title for one year. Savoy is guaranteed to make history with the promotion as she will be defeating the longest reigning champion -MsChif. MsChif, who was the second … Read more
The last SmackDown Live on the USA Network is in the rearview window and as of next week, the blue brand will be live on Fridays on the Fox Network. On this weeks show they had all Four Horsewomen, the 24/7 Champion Carmella, and a match for the tag team division.
As of this writing and after this week’s SmackDown we still don’t have a title match for the SmackDown Women’s Title at Hell in a Cell. It wouldn’t make sense for it to be anyone besides Flair, Carmella, or both, but with the pay-per-view being only a week from Sunday we will find out soon enough.
The first women’s match of the night was advertised heading into the show. The newly crowned 24/7 Champion Carmella and Charlotte Flair took on Sasha Banks and SmackDown Women’s Champion, Bayley. This was as a result of Carmella making the save for Flair last week and making the odds even.
Carmella started off the match strong against Banks until she found herself tossed outside the ring. Bayley would take the tag and continue the attack on perhaps her now-former friend. Banks and Bayley would isolate Carmella from her corner throughout the first half of the match. Once Flair was tagged in, she dominated the SmackDown Women’s Champion. After a pin attempt from Carmella, the match would end with her tapping out to the Bank Statement.
The women’s locker room would then run out to chase Carmella and R-Truth out into the crowd. The aftermath sees Banks and Bayley attacking Flair. Becky Lynch would come out for the save as she attacks the pair and locks in the Dis-Arm-Her on her Hell in a Cell competitor. Bayley would pull Banks out of the ring getting her out of the submission and they retreat up the ramp.
The second match of the night was Fire & Desire going against The Kabuki Warriors in tag team competition. The match included Mandy Rose boasting about being on the cover of Maxim magazine. She would continue her bullying ways as she mocks Kairi Sane saying she will never look like her. The match was decent but short. Sane would pick up the win for her team as she hit the Insane Elbow on Rose to pick up the pin.
This has propelled The Kabuki Warriors to the front of the line for a match against the Women’s Tag Team Champions. Nikki Cross comments on Twitter about their victory.
The show would end with the women! Becky Lynch is being interviewed backstage by Kayla Braxton. Within moments of her responding to Braxton’s question, Sasha Banks would attack her from behind.
Banks would be the one standing after this attack as SmackDown goes off the air.
WINNERS: The Kabuki Warriors
After weeks of not being on our television screens, The Kabuki Warriors have remerged and with a victory. At this time there is not a Women’s Tag Team Title match scheduled for Hell in a Cell, but this could lead to one.
It still may be too early to take the belts off Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss, but at least the titles are being used more.
WINNER: Sasha Banks
Becky Lynch has been still looking strong in this feud with Banks returning. It is nice to see the power shift from show to show. At the end of this week, Banks stands strong as the winner. Her attack on Lynch ending SmackDown was a great way to go. It will be interesting to see who will end next week heading into Hell in a Cell with the odds in their favor.
It has been announced that next week on SmackDown’s debut on the Fox Network that we will see the Four Horsewomen in a rematch from a few weeks ago. Lynch and Flair will team up to face Banks and Bayley. Perhaps they should have held off the attack at the end of the show for next week, but maybe they should pull the trigger and make this the main event on their move to Fox.
LOSERS: Fire & Desire
A loss for them did the complete opposite the win did for The Kabuki Warriors. Unfortunately with such a small tag team division only so much can be done. Although it is good to see The Kabuki Warriors again, this means that Fire & Desire’s short feud with the tag champs seems to be already over.
What were your thoughts on this week’s SmackDown? Who were your Winners & Losers? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.
We are less than two weeks away from the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view and all eyes are on Sasha Banks and RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. It was announced last week that these two will face each other inside a Hell in a Cell at the event which marks it as just the second time in history that the women’s division has seen this type of match.
The representation for the women’s roster was great again this week, however, there was a head-scratcher moment. Before that occurs, we see the advertised match for RAW which was Sasha Banks facing one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions – Nikki Cross.
The match itself was clunky for the first half. The crowd was so silent that you could have heard a pin drop which didn’t help matters. Luckily the match picked up midway and the length of the match was good. There were moments where it looked like Cross was going to pull out the win, but The Boss was one step ahead of her. With her best friend, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley at ringside was enough of a distraction for Cross.
After the match, Banks would lock in the Bank Statement on Bliss. This has set up next week’s bout on the season premiere of RAW which will be Banks vs. Bliss.
Becky Lynch would have a sit-down interview with Michael Cole prior to this match. The RAW Women’s Champion would state that she wants Sasha Banks at the top of her game. The “hot streak” that Banks is on is exactly what Lynch wants to see. She confirms that the Hell in a Cell match is to keep Banks in so there is nowhere for her to run.
The head-scratcher mentioned earlier was the match between Lacey Evans and Ember Moon. The match itself was good, with a nice spot from Moon executing a stunner from the ring apron to the outside. What is confusing is why is Moon now losing on both shows? Natalya looks on backstage to show that her feud with Evans isn’t over, however, literally any other female on the RAW roster could have faced Evans.
As reported earlier, Carmella is the new 24/7 Champion. She would roll up her ride or die partner R-Truth to become champ. Truth wouldn’t have any hard feelings as he would celebrate with her before helping her escape from her female counterparts as they chase her out of the arena.
All of the women’s segments were in correlation with each other, so it was nice to see a good block of women’s representation on RAW.
WINNER: Carmella
Carmella picks up the big win tonight by FINALLY becoming the 24/7 Champion. Many fans feel that she should have been the first female champion as a result of her partnership with R-Truth. Alas, that didn’t occur but better late than never.
If they allow her to keep the title or at least maybe go back and forth like Truth has done this can open up the door for many other women winning the title. Could we finally see Dana Brooke, Sarah Logan, or even *gasp* Tamina win their first title in WWE?
Currently, Carmella has also inserted herself into Bayley’s business on SmackDown as she made the save for Charlotte Flair last week. It is interesting to see how that is going to play out as she will team up with Flair on SmackDown this week to take on Bayley and Banks.
LOSER: Ember Moon
Poor Ember. There was absolutely no reasoning to have her on RAW this week. The match was decent and Lacey Evans has actually looked better in the ring as of late, but what has that done for Moon? She is now just losing on both shows.
The direction for Moon is non-existant. From someone who was just in a title match at SummerSlam, there hasn’t been much to write home to mom about. This match against Evans could have been Dana Brooke again. At least she is on RAW. It would get her in the ring more and even if she lost it would have made more sense.
What were your thoughts on this week’s RAW? Who were your Winners & Losers? What did you like or dislike?
Check back in with Diva Dirt tomorrow for SmackDown’s Winners & Losers.
Carmella has FINALLY become the 24/7 Champion on tonight’s RAW. She made her way to the ring with R-Truth who was the current champion heading into the show. As they frantically looked around while in the ring, the normal superstars made their way to the ring in their normal chase to pin Truth. Carmella takes … Read more
As previously reported, Lisa Marie Varon took on Melina over the weekend at an event for Master of Ring Entertainment. In this match, the organization was crowning its first-ever Women’s Heavyweight Champion. What wasn’t reported, however, was that this was, in fact, Varon’s final match of her career. This would take place as the main … Read more
Piper Niven took to Twitter today to tell the world that she is bisexual on Bi Visibility Day, receiving support and praise from her peers and fans in the process. Bi Visibility Day, also known as International Celebrate Bisexuality Day, has taken place on Sept. 23. since 1999. It is a day in which people … Read more
A huge congratulations to Maryse and The Miz as they welcome their second daughter into the world. Maryse shared the amazing news via her Instagram alongside name, weight, and time of birth “We’ve got the whole world in our hands!!! Welcome, Madison Jade Mizanin Born 09/20/2019 8:02 a.m. 7 lbs 15 ounces.” WWE congratulated the … Read more
WWE Hall of Famer, Alundra Blayze (also known as Madusa) recently sat down with Ring the Belle’s DS Shin for an incredible interview. They went over her fan-voted top five moments, which included the gap between what male and female wrestlers make as far as their wages. The topic was brought up as they were reviewing her WCW Scaffold match alongside Billy Kidman vs. Torrie Wilson and Shane Douglas.
After commenting on the bump she took from the scaffold she had the following to say:
“That is a crazy bump. That’s off the scaffold. A woman jumping and doing that and getting paid jack. Don’t even get me started, when it comes to money in my industry and the women and equality. That situation needs to come up more. Let’s talk about equality. I understand it’s still and always has been a male’s business. But now there’s more and more women and now they are making it, a woman’s done WrestleMania. Top billing, pay-per-views, ladder matches, okay it’s like we have all of that out there. Put it in my paycheck.”
She further agrees with Shin that there is always room for change and wants the women to not only get paid more but there is still a fight for equality as a whole.
Blayze also discusses her iconic move from WWF to WCW at the time with her infamous trashing of the WWF Women’s Championship into a trash can. This was most recently brought up again as a joke when Blayze won the 24/7 Championship at the recent RAW Reunion in July. She mocked throwing it away before Ted Dibiase would instead buy it off of her.
She discusses how she felt that the move to WCW was going to be a focus on women’s wrestling, however, this wasn’t the exact case.
“When I was coming over and that happened I was ready to kill it. I was serious. If they’re (WWF) not going to do anything with me then I need to say, hey, this is where the big girls play. Let’s do something. That was the idea. They were going to want to do something, bring women’s wrestling, and get the whole thing going. And again it laid flat because we had a bunch of men in the damn back in their circle-jerking office booking the thing. It just didn’t happen. There was no women in that booking.”
She wanted to make a statement with women’s wrestling in WCW because she felt that it was deserving and was needed. It worked well for a while but after the competition faded out it was hard to continue.
Shin brought into the discussion her return to the ring at Evolution where she participated in the battle royal match. Blayze would explain how and why she was eliminated in the fashion that she was.
“So you know why I went out like that (how she was eliminated)? I just want to tell everybody, there’s a lot of things that people don’t know. So people will put you down, they’ll do negativity, but no one knows the backstory of anything that’s going on in anybody’s life. I just want you to know, that in that match, I was only seven months post-surgery. I had a double knee replacement. Nobody knew that, and there you go.”
To check out the full interview simply click on the video above. They go over all of her fan-voted top-five moments. This includes her thoughts on intergender wrestling, the trash can incident, and her seeing Vince McMahon for the first time since that incident at her Hall of Fame induction.
What are your thoughts on this interview? What are your favorite moments from Alundra Blayze? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.
SHINE Wrestling had their most recent event, SHINE 61, which took place this weekend from Queens, N.Y. The Shine Tag Team Championship was on the line as the reigning champs, Rainbow Bright (Luscious Latasha and Gabby Gilbert) defended their titles against Triple Aye (Big Swole & Aja Perera w/Ayla Fox). #SHINE61 – September 21st – … Read more
Kylie Rae returned to the ring last night for Freelance Wrestling’s Game of Genders. It was announced via twitter that “Smily Kylie” Rae would be appearing in her first match since leaving AEW to face off against Isaias Velazquez. She became a replacement for Shotzi Blackheart who was originally booked for this match but could … Read more
Today’s Free Match Friday doesn’t date too far back as it took place at the start of 2017. The match took place with the WCPW British promotion.
For fans of intergender wrestling, this is a must-see. Between the chewing gum spot as well as both women hitting a Canadian Destroyer on their male opponents at the same time, this match had its entertaining moments.
Check the video out above to see which team walked away with the victory and if the women were involved with the result of the match.
Discuss your thoughts in the comment section below and check back in next Friday for another Free Match.
WWE Hall of Famer Torrie Wilson announced via an Instagram post that she has married “the most incredible human”. The couple wed in an intimate setting with their dogs as the only guests. Standing in front of the beautiful Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona, Wilson, husband and “bridesmaid” pooches posed for photos to commemorate the … Read more
The hit Netflix series GLOW has just announced that they will be returning for a fourth season. Their third season recently was released in August. The Emmy Award-winning hit show has also announced that this fourth season will be its final one. It is being advertised as “Feel the GLOW one last time” and lists … Read more
As many already know, WWE’s newest video game is set to release on Oct. 22 and the Four Horsewomen will be heavily focused in the game. Their story will be told in a 2K Showcase. They will be discussing bringing women’s wrestling to the forefront of WWE in their own words with live-action footage. The … Read more
Beth Phoenix may currently be the female voice on the commentary team for NXT, but she is known as one of the biggest female powerhouses to ever step in a WWE ring. She returned to WWE in 2018 as a part-time commentator after being inducted in their Hall of Fame in 2017. She spent many … Read more
Dakota Kai announced that she will be making her return to the ring on next week’s NXT live on the USA Network. On Sep. 12 it was announced that the Captain of Team Kick’s long-awaited return to in-ring action would be coming soon and we now have confirmation of when that will be. NXT’s debut … Read more
NXT is officially on the USA Network and we have a new number one contender for the NXT Women’s Championship. As NXT is currently the number one trend on Twitter, Candice LeRae won a Fatal Four-way match which makes her Shayna Baszler’s next opponent. The match included prior competitors that Baszler has had the pleasure … Read more