The legendary Manami Toyota will return to CHIKARA in April, it has been revealed.
Toyota, who made her US debut for CHIKARA last year, will be part of the annual King of Trios tournament in Philadelphia from April 15-17th.
More information and tickets can be found here.
Thoughts: Toyota’s debut last year in New York drew a huge crowd, enough so that CHIKARA actually had to turn people away at the door. Definitely proof that women can draw. Great move by the company to bring her back.
Saturday’s Diva Dirt & ChickFight match is now available on ClickWrestle!
The match took place at Pro Wrestling Revolution in San Francisco and served as Taylor Wilde‘s retirement match when she faced Alissa Flash. Diva Dirt’s David served as special guest ring announcer.
For free footage of Taylor’s retirement speech click here. For her post-match interview click here.
You can download the match on ClickWrestle at the link below. For a 10% discount enter the coupon code ‘divadirt’.
Preview clip:
Tune in for another edition of Diva Dirt LIVE tonight at 10pm ET! We’ll have all the gossip from this past weekend’s ChickFight match, plus we’ll also discuss last week’s SmackDown including Kelly Kelly‘s big win & firing, next Monday’s Divas Title match, Maria’s passion for wrestling, the debut of Rosita to TNA and more.
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Diva Dirt reader Billy James sent in his live report and pictures from TNA’s house show in Pensacola, FL this past Saturday. The event saw a rare house show appearance from Sarita facing Angelina Love.
Before the show started, I was to get both Angelina and Sarita’s autographs. Both ladies were very nice especially Sarita as I had the chance to briefly talk to my second favorite Knockout. I told her that loved her matches with Mickie James as they have great chemistry together and I hope that she feuds with Mickie over the Knockouts Title. Sarita that she hopes so too as she wants a run with the belt. I also had the chance to tell her about the nickname that I and some of my wrestling friends have for her, “The Salsa Mama” which she liked. Angelina got the win over Sarita with Botox Injection. I had an eraser board with me on which I wrote: “Sarita: The Salsa Mama” when Sarita came out for the match. Let me say that Sarita is just as good live as she is on TV. I found out after the show that it’s rare for Sarita to do TNA house shows due to her obligations with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico.
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Next year’s WrestleMania, the 28th edition, will air live from Miami, FL on April 1st, 2012.
Divas Champion, Eve Torres was on hand for a press conference today in Miami.
The news is notable because it had previously been reported that Toronto was being considered as a possible location, leading to rumor that Trish Stratus may be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next year as it’s her hometown. Obviously, today’s announcement would quash that. It could happen, but seems unlikely.
Former NXT Divas, AJ and Naomi made a surprise return to the show last night helping out Matt Striker in a challenge for the current season four rookies.
Watch their return to NXT below:
While we reported that AJ was on the road with the Raw brand this past week, we have since learned that Naomi is also traveling with that crew and was backstage at Raw on Monday night.
Former WWE Diva, Maria Kanellis has responded to criticism that she isn’t passionate about professional wrestling.
Writing on her Facebook page, Kanellis wrote:
I want to make a comment about the wrestling world because a lot of people are saying that I’m not passionate about wrestling because I am not still trying to wrestle. I was completely in love with wrestling and would have done it for the rest of my life if it had a retirement/family plan and fulfilled me creatively.
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Spoilers for Friday’s SmackDown below:
On this week’s edition of Raw, WWE gave us yet another tag team match, this time featuring Tamina, Gail Kim and Divas Champion Eve against Melina and The Bella Twins. As an added treat, we got the #1 Contender, Natalya as a special guest commentary. Can Eve pick up her first as the newly crowned champ? Check out the match below and find out:
First out is the babyface team and I can’t take my eyes off Tamina’s gear… but I wish I could. Melina and The Bella Twins are out next, and strangely enough they get separate entrances. I guess WWE were gracious enough to spare a couple of extra seconds for the Divas tonight. We are not worthy.
Three more originals announced for SHIMMER:
SHIMMER – WOMEN ATHLETES is proud to announce the addition of three more of the SHIMMER originals to next month’s tapings! Nikki Roxx, Ariel, and Allison Danger will be a part of the SHIMMER Volumes 37-40 tapings, which will take place on Saturday & Sunday, March 26th & 27th, 2011 at the Berwyn Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL, just outside Chicago! Visit http://www.shimmerwrestling.com/ to order your tickets if you haven’t already.
In 2005, eighteen women gathered in Berwyn, IL to, in their own small way, try to make a positive change in the how women’s professional wrestling is viewed in North America. With the addition of Nikki, Ariel, and Allison to the March events, we are happy to have eight of those original SHIMMER eighteen participating in Volumes 37-40, five and a half years later.
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Our friends at Kayfabe Commentaries have released their new DVD, starring former WWE Women’s Champion Ivory (Lisa Moretti) today.
‘Timeline: History of WWE’ looks at a year in WWE with each DVD release as told by one of the wrestlers. Ivory looks at 2001 in WWE in this shoot-esque DVD.
More info below:
Former Divas Champion, Natalya will invoke her rematch clause for the belt next Monday night on Raw against Eve Torres.
Get your Monday night Divas fix by tuning in to Raw tonight at 9pm ET on the USA Network.
Be sure to tune in to the Post-Raw Show LIVE at 11pm ET following Raw!
Discuss the show in the comments!
Spoilers for Superstars on Thursday:
Who’s up for a little Stratusfaction? Legendary former WWE Diva, Trish Stratus has filmed an acceptance speech for Diva Dirt and all of our readers after we chose to honor her last year with the first ever Diva Dirt Legacy Award.
Watch it below:
A big thanks to Trish and her team (Brian & Sarah especially!) for working with us to make this happen. We are pretty Stratusfied too!
Congratulations Trish!
More Legacy Award:
– Beth Phoenix, Mickie James and Natalya congratulate Trish
Following her final match with Alissa Flash this past Saturday in San Francisco, former TNA Knockouts Champion, Shantelle ‘Taylor Wilde‘ Taylor’s took to the mic to bid farewell to the fans and to wrestling one last time.
Check out our exclusive footage of Shantelle’s farewell below!
On behalf of Diva Dirt, ChickFight and Pro Wrestling Revolution we’d like to thank Shantelle for taking part in her final match for us. Good luck for the future!
The full-length match will be available on ClickWrestle within the next 24 hours.
NXT three winner, Kaitlyn summoned her inner bad girl over the weekend by teaming up with one half of Lay-Cool, Layla against the team of Beth Phoenix and Natalya.
Results from the two shows:
Saturday: 2. “The Glamazon” Beth Phoenix and Natalya Neidhart defeated Layla El and Kaitlyn. Although not glaringly awful, this match went too long. The crowd was big into the faces, though, and Beth’s face-in-peril act for most of the match really got the crowd going. Finish saw a double pin with Beth hitting a Glam Slam on Kaitlyn and Nattie (legal woman) hitting a Michinokou Driver on Layla for the win. (Source)
Sunday: 2. Natalya and Beth Phoenix beat Layla and Kaitlyn. They won via body slam and Glam Slam for a double pin. The faces got a good reaction and the match was long. (Source)
Thoughts: As we always say with these types of things, house show results don’t necessarily mean a heel turn. Still, I’d be curious to see how Kaitlyn works as a heel. YouTube footage, anyone?
Here is the first of our video exclusives from Saturday night’s ChickFight match between Alissa Flash and Shantelle ‘Taylor Wilde‘ Taylor.
Diva Dirt’s David caught up with Shantelle following her retirement:
Diva Dirt has the exclusive scoop on the next match to be announced for Pro Wrestling SUN’s debut show on March 20th in Jackson, New Jersey.
It will be a three-way dance featuring ‘Queen of Wrestling’ Sara Del Rey (representing Ring of Honor), ‘The Rate Tank’ Kellie Skater (representing PWWA in Australia) and WSU World Champion, Mercedes Martinez (representing WSU).
Tickets are available right now here.
The rest of the card:
Here is the first set of pictures from last night’s Diva Dirt Presents ChickFight match at Pro Wrestling Revolution in San Francisco.
We will also have professional posed and ringside photos within the next week or so.
But for now, here’s the first look at last night’s match!
Former WWE Diva, Maria Kanellis has popped up in the first episode of ‘Swallow’ a new web series on the fantastic site, Funny or Die. Check it out below:
WSU has released ordering information for its fourth anniversary show which will air live on iPPV on March 5th:
Not content with rubbing shoulders with a Jonas (Jonai?), the Bella Twins and Kelly Kelly hit the red carpet once more last night for Mark Cuban and HDNet’s Super Bowl party in Dallas, Texas last night.
The event was also attended by ‘The Situation’ from MTV’s you-know-what. But here’s what really makes us green with envy: music heavyweight Usher performed at the event.
The Divas certainly looked like they belong in HD, no?
Following a highly publicized retirement match, former TNA Knockouts Champion, Shantelle Taylor (Taylor Wilde) has hung up her boots and said goodbye to the wrestling world.
Following in the footsteps of celebs such as Britney Spears and Sarah Jessica Parker, former WWE Diva Maria Kanellis has announced that she’ll be releasing her own line of perfumes titled ‘Signature’.
On Thursday, Kanellis tweeted: “Tomorrow I am doing a photo shoot for my new Signature line for a product available in store all across the country/world!”
Last night, she posted the above sneak peek from the shoot and revealed that ‘Signature’ is the name of her perfume line.
I believe this makes Maria the first wrestling personality to cross over into the world of celebrity fragrances.
What do you think MK’s perfume will smell like? And more importantly, will you be buying?
