[media-credit name=”WWE.com” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Each week, The Wrap will wrap up the week in women’s wrestling by compiling the week’s smaller news stories, rumors and gossip – anything not normally covered by Diva Dirt. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. * Artist Rob Schamberger reveals Sasha Banks’ inspiration in WWE’s new comicbook … Read more
[media-credit name=”SHIMMER” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Last night, SHIMMER opened up the weekend with SHIMMER 86 at the Logan Square Auditorium in Chicago, IL, where it feature the much anticipated SHIMMER debut of former WWE Superstar and TNA Knockout Mickie James. Here are the full results courtesy of @ProWresLand on Twitter. Rhia O’Reilly defeated Kimber Lee Leva Bates … Read more
[media-credit name=”Lucha Underground” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome back to the Temple, Believers! Our headliner is a Grave Consequences match pitting Prince Puma against Mil Muertes. The ever enigmatic Catrina starts the show. She eggs Mil on, telling him she wants Puma to be left gasping for air as his life leaves his body. She warns him … Read more
Hola Knockout fans and welcome to this week’s Impact Write-Up. Recall all of those “Missing: Knockouts Champion Gail Kim” milk cartons; after nearly a month off television, Gail Kim makes her return to TNA this week! The Knockouts champion makes her return with an important announcement to make. So what is this mystery announcement coming … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: Rob Myers” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Last night, RISE made their debut in Chicago, IL with RISE 1 – IGNITE, which had memorable appearances by names like Saraya Knight and Nicole Matthews. The event also crowned the inaugural Phoenix Champion of RISE. Below are the results, courtesy of @treygar on Twitter. Sonya Strong defeated Liza Hall … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] NXT has come a long way since its developmental territory days as FCW. To promote NXT’s upcoming Australian tour, Bayley and Charlotte reminisced about their time in NXT, how it changed them, and what they’ll always remember. In the video below, Bayley says she misses NXT and what she was able … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] With season six of E!’s Total Divas upon us, one of the show’s newest cast member Renee Young spoke with Channel Guide to discuss the upcoming season, her relationship with fellow WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose and more. On initially being brought in for Total Divas: “The Bella Twins, Nicole and … Read more
[media-credit name=”TNA” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] It looks like Rosemary won’t be able to appear at this weekend’s SHIMMER tapings due to an injury. As reported on SHIMMER’s Twitter account, they’ve announced that Cat Power will take her place: https://twitter.com/SHIMMERwomen/status/796819563019116544 Rosemary took to Twitter about skipping the Fall tapings and disappointing the fans about it: We won't be appearing @SHIMMERwomen this weekend.. … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome to this week’s NXT review everyone! Let’s dive into it to get our minds off this emotional week, shall we. While the Aussie duo targets the rest of the division, Ember Moon is sharpening her skills. She takes on Rachael Evers, formerly known as Rachael Ellering, on this episode of … Read more
[media-credit name=”E!” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Total Bellas aired its season finale, titled ‘Wedding Mania’ on E! last night and managed to draw 663,000 viewers according to Show Buzz Daily. This is 127,000 more than last week’s episode, which scored 536,000 viewers. In the 18-49 demo, the episode gathered a 0.32 rating, which is higher than last week’s 0.28. Total Bellas also … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] SmackDown headed to Glasgow this week and within it we saw two women’s matches! With the team trying to get themselves together and the Women’s championship on the line, we didn’t exactly see the ladies get along. And though this is bad news for team blue, it’s good news for us – because … Read more
Below are spoilers for tonight’s edition of SmackDown, being taped today in Glasgow, Scotland:
We’re 2 weeks away from seeing what many would argue could be the biggest fantasy warfare matches since the WWE’s 2016 brand extension. Last week, Team SmackDown Live (Do they need to keep calling it “SmackDown Live”? I think we get that it’s live now?”) announced their contenders for the Survivor Series elimination tag match, … Read more
Below are spoilers for tonight’s edition of Raw, being taped today in Glasgow, Scotland:
[media-credit name=”Women’s Wrestling Revolution” align=”alignnone” width=”600″][/media-credit] This past weekend, Women’s Wrestling Revolution held this year’s Tournament For Today along with Beyond Wrestling in Providence, RI. Below are the results, courtesy of @WrestlingHaze on Twitter. First Round: Taeler Hendrix def. LuFisto with help from Alexxis Nevaeh Deonna Purrazzo def. Alexxis Nevaeh Kimber Lee def. Sonya Strong Veda Scott def. Jessicka Havok Semifinals: Veda Scott def. … Read more
Alicia Fox is back in action on her seemingly new home, WWE Superstars. This week’s episode kicks off with Alicia versus Dana Brooke. The match begins in a tie up with Dana overpowering Fox. Never one to back down or be placed in a corner, Alicia releases some of her trade mark crazy with a hard slap … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Let’s take a look at this week’s top five: Alexa Bliss … Read more
[media-credit name=”OVW Mania” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Each week, The Wrap will wrap up the week in women’s wrestling by compiling the week’s smaller news stories, rumors and gossip – anything not normally covered by Diva Dirt. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. * Rebel became the new OVW Women’s Champion by defeating Maria … Read more
Happy November Knockout fans and welcome to this week’s Impact Write-Up! Can you believe it, we’re already in November and TNA continues to live on! On this week’s Impact, TNA have booked what would be three title defenses. Unfortunately, the Knockouts title isn’t one of them, which means we are now in week three of … Read more
[media-credit name=”E!” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] This show is turning out to be way more serious than expected. From the humble start of sex jokes and reminiscing over “Brie Mode”, to depression and breast cancer, we really have come a long way in only five episodes. This penultimate season finale is a really gripping and telling episode, … Read more
[media-credit name=”TNA” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] TNA has announced a new partnership with Anthem Sports & Entertainment, which will allow TNA to continue to operate. Details of this new partnership, being labeled a “credit relationship”, were released in a joint press release: Announce Credit Relationship Toronto, Canada (November 3, 2016) – Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. and … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] WWE’s Charlotte Flair is officially on top of the PWI Female 50 list! This simply adds on to Flair’s long list of accomplishments from this year. These achievements include being the last Divas champion, first and 3x RAW Women’s champion, first woman in 12 years to have a main event match on … Read more
[media-credit name=”E!” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Total Bellas aired its fifth episode, titled ‘Bella Family Secrets’ on E! last night and managed to draw 536,000 viewers according to Show Buzz Daily. This is 94,000 less than last week’s episode, which scored 630,000 viewers. In the 18-49 demo, the episode gathered a 0.28 rating, which is lower than last week’s 0.31. Total Bellas also … Read more
[media-credit name=”Lucha Underground” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] This week’s Lucha Underground focused on hot feuds between several luchadors in the Temple so sadly there was no women’s action. However, one woman is out to stake her claim of someone’s soul as Catrina accepted a Grave Consequences match for next week pitting Mil Muertes against Prince Puma. Oh sh*t. … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Ahead of Micke James‘ match against Asuka for the NXT Women’s Championship later this month, WWE.com caught up with the decorated legend to ask her how she’s preparing for the match, what she thinks about the current state of women’s wrestling in WWE/NXT, why she thinks she can stop Asuka’s streak, … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE.com” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Ric Flair, Charlotte‘s Hall of Famer and 16-time world champion father, is alleging that WWE changed the outcome of Sunday’s historic match because the company feared for Sasha Banks‘ health. Ric was on Busted Open Radio on SiriusXM on Monday and told hosts Dave LaGreca and Doug Mortman that: They took … Read more