Tonight in Dallas, Texas, Jacqueline joined the prestigious ranks of the WWE Hall of Fame as part of its class of 2016. The Dallas native, two-time Women’s Champion and all-around barrier breaker was inducted by her longtime friends, Bubba and D-Von Dudley. The duo shared stories about Jacqueline’s toughness, infamous cheapness and her enduring friendship, … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: SHIMMERWomen.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Today in Dallas, Texas, SHIMMER presents SHIMMER 80 on iPPV. Headlining the show is a 12-woman tournament that will crown the first ever Heart of SHIMMER Champion. Live results below: First round match: Cheerleader Melissa def. Leva Bates with the Kudo Driver. First round match: Candice LeRae def. Cherry Bomb … 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: Asuka Asuka … Read more
WrestleMania 27 April 3rd, 2011 At the twenty-seventh WrestleMania, Jersey Shore reality star Snooki stepped into the wrestling ring for the first time, teaming with a returning Trish Stratus and John Morrison to take on Layla, Michelle McCoo, and Dolph Ziggler. The match, orchestrated by Vickie Guerrero, saw Lay-Cool dominated by Trish and humiliated by … Read more
NXT TakeOver: Dallas brought with it the biggest challenge yet for the woman who’s made a career out of the playing out a constant David vs. Goliath narrative. At this point, overcoming the odds must be second nature for Bayley. Facing a challenger like Asuka, though, required her to throw out the rule book: there … Read more
Get hyped for WrestleMania 32 with the final Diva Dirt Hype video, highlighting the 10-Diva Tag Team match between Team Total Divas and Team B.A.D. and Blonde. Check out the final Diva Dirt Hype below: Music: “Unknown Soldier” by Breaking Benjamin Listen to every song featured in a Diva Dirt Hype video on our Spotify … Read more
On this Tuesday’s episode of Total Divas, Paige has to break some unfortunate news to Rosa Mendes. When Paige gets booked for an appearance on MTV’s Ridiculousness, the taping conflicts with Rosa’s baby shower. Paige reluctantly informs Rosa that she won’t be able to attend her shower, prompting an emotional reaction from the mother-to-be. Watch … Read more
Tonight at NXT TakeOver: Dallas, a new NXT Women’s Champion was crowned. The undefeated Asuka retained her perfect record by defeating the resilient Bayley, claiming the victory with the Asuka Lock. Bayley, ever the fighting champion, refused to tap out, and eventually passed out in the hold, forcing the referee to call the match. The … Read more
All week leading up to WrestleMania 32, we’re revisiting the most memorable women’s wrestling moments in WrestleMania’s 32 year history, tackling a total of 26 WrestleManias. WrestleMania 24 March 30th, 2008 At the twenty-fourth WrestleMania, yet another Playboy feud reached culmination. Beth Phoenix and Melina (accompanied by Santino) teamed up against Playboy covergirls Ashley Massaro … Read more
All week leading up to WrestleMania 32, we’re revisiting the most memorable women’s wrestling moments in WrestleMania’s 32 year history, tackling a total of 26 WrestleManias. WrestleMania 23 April 1st, 2007 At the twenty-third WrestleMania, Diva Search winner and Playboy covergirl Ashley Massaro took on Women’s Champion Melina with the title on the line. As … Read more
Last night’s SmackDown featured the debut of the official video package for WrestleMania 32’s Divas Title Triple Threat match. The video – which highlighted the strides Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks made on the road to WrestleMania – harkened back to the origins of the division, featuring glimpses of former champions The Fabulous Moolah, … Read more
Each Friday, 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. Here’s this week’s roundup, in no particular order: * Sasha Banks has put together a video … Read more
Get hyped for NXT TakeOver: Dallas with an exclusive Diva Dirt Hype video package highlighting the NXT Women’s Title match between Bayley and Asuka, made by LitHarmony. Check out the latest Diva Dirt Hype below: Music: “Twisted Nerve” by Bernard Herrmann; “The Hills” by Best Kept Secret Listen to every song featured in a Diva … Read more
On this Tuesday’s episode of Total Divas, Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan show Nikki the future site of their dream home. The couple takes Nikki out to the woods of Port Townsend, Washington to show her the lot they’re planning to build their “forever home” on, eliciting a unenthusiastic reaction from her. Nikki, clearly no … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: Battle-news.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”640″][/media-credit] Welcome back to a new edition of Joshi Wrestling Weekly! Today we are looking at the graduation of Hana Kimura (the daughter of Kyoko Kimura), Maki Narumiya officially retiring, and Io Shirai defending her championship! Joshi Wrestling News Photo: battle-news.com As I mentioned last week, Maki Narumiya officially retired from professional wrestling on … Read more
All week leading up to WrestleMania 32, we’re revisiting the most memorable women’s wrestling moments in WrestleMania’s 32 year history, tackling a total of 26 WrestleManias. WrestleMania 21 April 3rd, 2005 At the twenty-first WrestleMania, Diva Search winner and wrestling rookie Christy Hemme took on Women’s Champion Trish Stratus with the title on the line. … Read more
Lucha fans – welcome to this week’s Analysis! Now before we get into this week’s historic episode of Lucha Underground (more on that in a few moments), we have to address the elephant in the Diva Dirt room, last week’s Aztec Warfare! Now I didn’t cover it last week as unfortunately, only Taya Valkyrie participated … Read more
All week leading up to WrestleMania 32, we’re revisiting the most memorable women’s wrestling moments in WrestleMania’s 32 year history, tackling a total of 26 WrestleManias. WrestleMania XX March 14th, 2004 At the twentieth WrestleMania, two Divas matches and one heel turn made for one of the most unforgettable WrestleManias yet. First, Sable and Torrie … Read more
WrestleMania XIX March 30th, 2003 At the nineteenth WrestleMania, Victoria was still in the midst of her first Women’s Title reign, having won the belt from Trish Stratus in a Hardcore match at Survivor Series. On the grandest stage of them all, she put the belt on the line against Trish and Jazz. In perhaps … Read more
Last night’s episode of NXT featured a video package hyping Bayley‘s NXT Women’s Title defense against Asuka at TakeOver: Dallas. The video, which looks at Asuka and Bayley’s paths to TakeOver, features predictions from the very Divas these two have faced and defeated along the way. Watch the video below: NXT TakeOver: Dallas takes place … Read more
Get hyped for WrestleMania 32 with exclusive Diva Dirt Hype video packages highlighting each of the participants in the Divas Title Triple Threat match – Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks – made by emptyxremedy, David4MVs and zemasion. Check out the latest Diva Dirt Hype videos below: Music: “Dangerous” by Shinedown, “I Shall Rise” by … Read more
WrestleMania X8 March 17th, 2002 The eighteenth WrestleMania saw the first and only time Lita and Trish Stratus met at the biggest show of the year when both competed for Jazz‘s Women’s Championship. Jazz took advantage of the animosity between Lita and Trish to hang on to the belt, disposing of Trish and hitting Lita … Read more
Join Diva Dirt’s Chris, Erin, Jake, Cryssi, Kyle and Steven as we discuss NXT TakeOver: Dallas, Jacqueline‘s WWE Hall of Fame induction and WrestleMania 32. We give our thoughts and predictions on Bayley‘s NXT Women’s Title defense against Asuka, Team BAD and Blonde vs. Team Total Divas and Charlotte‘s Divas Title defense against Becky Lynch … Read more
We are mere days away from the biggest weekend in professional wrestling! These are exciting times ladies and gentlemen! But before we get into any of that, we first make a quick stop by TNA for our weekly dose of Knockouts action. Last week, Jade became the new number one contender to Gail Kim‘s Knockouts … Read more
WrestleMania X-Seven April 2nd, 2000 The seventeenth WrestleMania brought with it every kind of drama imaginable. First, Chyna finally got revenge on Ivory and Right to Censor, defeating Ivory to win the Women’s Championship. As expected, when Chyna finally got some alone time with her foe, she made short work of her. Later, Lita made … Read more
