WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon appeared on this morning’s Rachael Ray Show, discussing the importance of the female roles within the WWE, playing a villain on television and more. When discussing the process of playing a heel, Stephanie recounted how she paid a visit to a children’s hospital to announce the WWE’s new partnership … 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: * Charlotte and Sasha Banks play dodgeball in … Read more
On this Tuesday’s episode of Total Divas, Paige connects with a fan and promises to help him take a big step in his life. When Paige and Alicia Fox meet up with the fan, he shares his story, revealing that he wants to come out to his family, but fears that they will react negatively, … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WrestlingKnockouts.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Angelina Love has given birth to her first child. The six-time Knockouts Champion gave birth to a son on Thursday, which she anticipated last week in a post to Instagram. Her husband, fellow TNA wrestler Davey Richards, posted a photo with his son to Facebook: Posted by Wesley Richards on Thursday, … Read more
Spoilers for TNA’s One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown 4 PPV.
Gold, bloodbaths and passionate snogging – of course, that means it’s time for another episode of Lucha Underground! Ivelisse, Son of Havoc and Angelico gun for gold this week against the Disciples of Death. Should Ive’s team lose, they are banished from the Temple forever! We got an update on Black Lotus‘ situation as well … Read more
With mere weeks separating us from NXT TakeOver: Dallas, we finally know how NXT Women’s Champion Bayley will be spending that night. She will defend her title against the phenom Asuka, presenting us with an intriguing scenario: will Bayley lose the title, or will Asuka suffer her first loss? Before that match could be booked, … Read more
NXT Women’s Champion Bayley‘s next title defense has been booked for NXT TakeOver: Dallas. As announced on tonight’s NXT, she will defend her title against Asuka. JUST ANNOUNCED: @WWEAsuka vs. @itsBayleyWWE at #NXTTakeOver Dallas for the #WWENXT Women's Championship! https://t.co/naXyolL4Bt — WWE (@WWE) March 17, 2016 NXT GM William Regal made the match official following … Read more
After seven long weeks overseas, TNA have found their way back to US soil and have retraced their steps back to the good old Impact Zone. To make this home coming return a little more special, we’re celebrating this week’s Impact with a semi-live episode! Yay for a night of some almost spoil-free material! Despite … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Total Divas rebounded in the ratings this week, drawing 650,000 viewers according to Showbuzz Daily. This is the show’s highest viewership in three weeks, bouncing back from two weeks of series low ratings. In the 18-49 demo, the episode scored a 0.31 rating. This is up from last week’s 0.25 … Read more
Spoilers for the March 22nd episode of Impact Wrestling.
[media-credit name=”Photo: yahoo.co.jp” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome back to a new edition of the Joshi Wrestling Weekly! I know it has been awhile, but we are now looking to bring back this column as a regular feature on Diva Dirt again. Lots of results and news from Japan to discuss, as well as a closer look at young wrestler Kaho … Read more
We’re so close to WrestleMania that we can almost taste it. Sadly for Brie Bella, all she is tasting is defeat! Brie has had a rocky road as of late due to the distracting presence of Lana, who she had to contend with again last night. Brie and Alicia faced Naomi and Tamina in tag … Read more
Yesterday, the WWE officially revealed Jacqueline as the latest addition to the WWE Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016. An announcement on Raw was accompanied by a video highlighting Jacqueline’s career, the full version of which has been posted to the WWE’s YouTube channel. The video featured praise from several of today’s Divas and fellow … Read more
Each week following Raw, Diva Dirt Weekly will take a look back at the week preceding it, hitting every noteworthy women’s wrestling event along the way. Joining the audio will be Chris, Erin and our host Jake. We cover the following events: Impact Wrestling (3/8/16): Gail Kim defeats Jade to retain the Knockouts Title. Total … Read more
WWE Shop has unveiled new t-shirts for the three women competing for the Divas Title at WrestleMania 32: Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks. Becky’s shirt plays off of her steampunk image and reads “100% Bad Lass.” Charlotte’s reads “2nd Nature” and sports her signature rhinestone eye accent on the back. Sasha’s is emblazoned with … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] The WWE has made it official: Jacqueline will join the WWE Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2016. The news, which was broken last week with the release of the WrestleMania 32 commemorative magazine, has now been officially confirmed by the WWE via FOX Sports. Jacqueline spoke … Read more
Greetings Knockout fans and welcome to another installment of TNA’s One Night Only sequence. This month’s TNA ONO event is Joker’s Wild, one of TNA’s better shows, in my opinion. As with previous years, the concept around Joker’s Wild involves teams being randomly paired together through a random drawing. The winning teams would go on … Read more
Hola Knockout fans and welcome to the first 2016 edition of Xplosion Write-Up! It has been a while since we’ve seen some Knockouts action on TNA’s other wrestling show but part of that stems from the usual six week delay it takes for TNA to upload Xplosion episodes to their YouTube channel! Despite the fact … Read more
WWE Roadblock wasn’t supposed to threaten a Divas Title change, but the power of Natalya and a home country crowd made Charlotte‘s title reign flash before her eyes on Saturday night, if only for a moment. Sure, it shouldn’t be shocking that an impromptu title match between the the Divas that brought us one of … Read more
Tonight at WWE Roadblock, Divas Champion Charlotte encountered a WrestleMania roadblock of her own in the form of Natalya. Forget attrition, it's a war of SUBMISSION between @WWEDivas Champ @MsCharlotteWWE and @NatByNature! #WWERoadblock https://t.co/c1YNa6g9fA — WWE (@WWE) March 13, 2016 In a match that saw Charlotte come full circle from her NXT Women’s Title win … Read more
This week, Main Event continued its role as the host of Diva storylines currently bubbling under the surface. These stories may pay off at WrestleMania, and they may not, but the fact that they’re being developed at all is a win in my book. On this week’s show, the Divas division’s resident odd couple Paige … Read more