They say good things come in threes and over the past two Mondays, we have announced the formation of the Diva Dirt Legacy Award and our first ever Diva Dirt presented ChickFight match. Well this Monday comes the biggest announcement in Diva Dirt history!
We have teamed up with the Female Fight League and Cannes Young Lions award winner Sean Sweeny to produce a powerful new documentary on women’s wrestling. The film is due to be released next year.
Read the press release:
WSU has announced the line-up for its January 22nd show which will see a main event ladder match for both the WSU World Championship and the All Guts No Glory Championship between Mercedes Martinez and Angel Orsini.
Details below:
WHAT: Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU)
WHEN: January 22nd
WHERE: The ACE Arena
ADDRESS: 725 Sip Street, Union City, NJ
DOORS OPEN: 6PM
BELLTIME: 7PM
TICKETS $15 in advance, $20 day of the eventWomen Superstars Uncensored, WSU, the leader in womens wrestling today and the company that provides more womens wrestling than anyone else, is proud to announce that we will kick off 2011, with arguably what may wind up being the biggest main event in WSU history, when we present “THE FINAL CHAPTER”.
This show will be headlined with Mercedes Martinez defending her WSU World Championship against Angel Orsini, who will be defending her All Guts, No Glory Championship, in a Winner-Takes-All Ladder Match.
Full details on how this match was made below.
Here is the match card for 1/22. There will also be more matches taking place as well:
MAIN EVENT
THE FINAL CHAPTER
WINNER TAKE ALL
LADDER MATCH
For the WSU World & WSU All Guts Championships
Mercedes Martinez vs Angel OrsiniUNCENSORED RULES
Jessicka Havok vs Nikki RoxxAlicia & Sassy Stephanie vs Rick Cataldo & WSU Spirit Champion Brittney Savage
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More big news today as Diva Dirt contributor and SHIMMER co-founder, Allison Danger has been announced as the president of Pro-Wrestling SUN, a new all-female promotion to run in conjunction with WORLD-1 Wrestling.
Details below:
SHIMMER Volume 33 is now shipping!
The latest edition to the SHIMMER series was taped this past September and features the main event of Madison Eagles in her first SHIMMER Championship defense against Cheerleader Melissa. The volume also marks the return of Serena Deeb. Details below:
Features Madison Eagles vs. Cheerleader Melissa for the SHIMMER Title; Ayako Hamada vs. Tomoka Nakagawa; Ayumi Kurihara vs. Daizee Haze; plus more.
1. Rachel Summerlyn & Jessica James vs. Athena & Bonesaw
2. Jamilia Craft vs. Cat Power
3. Allison Danger vs. Leva Bates
4. Taylor Made vs. Melanie Cruise
5. Misaki Ohata vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
6. Serena Deeb vs. Kellie Skater
7. Nevaeh vs. Sara Del Rey
8. Jessie McKay vs. Nicole Matthews
9. No Countout: Ayumi Kurihara vs. Daizee Haze
10. Ayako Hamada vs. Tomoka Nakagawa
11. SHIMMER Title Match: Madison Eagles vs. Cheerleader MelissaPlus Amber Gertner interviews Nikki Roxx!
Click here to order.
WSU original Alicia successfully won the open contract match for the WSU World Championship on Saturday night defeating Nikki Roxx. Elsewhere, Kristin Astara successfully made her debut defeating Niya. Results below:
“Alicia vs Roxx II” started off with WSU Spirit Champion Brittney Savage coming to the ring in an impromptu fashion. Savage stated that she had fractured her wrist, but it didn’t matter because the fans in Dunnellen, NJ didn’t deserve to see her wrestle anyway. Savage said she was going to do something she’s never done before in WSU and that was join the WSU commentating team! Savage called the entire night on DVD with WSU’s Robert Sternberg. Make sure to check out the DVD of this show to hear commentary of the entire show by the WSU Spirit Champion!
After Savage got to the broadcast booth, ring announcer Destiny was ready to start the show. However, she was interrupted by the WSU “All Guts, No Glory” Champion, Angel Orsini. Orsini, who recently had her belt sanctioned, has been on a tear in WSU defending her championship against all comers.
Angel Orsini announced that her scheduled opponent, Athena, had flight problems and was not here as scheduled. Orsini put out an open challenge to anyone in the locker room. Orsini’s challenge was quickly answered by Rick Cataldo. Cataldo said that his opponent Melissa Coates also was not here as scheduled. (Details on Athena/Coates, in our BACKSTAGE NEWS section below.) Cataldo said that Melissa Coates was off getting a vasectomy, but her loss was his gain and said he wanted to add some holiday weight, in the form of the All Guts, No Glory Championship, to his waist.
ANGEL ORSINI d. RICK CATALDO in 30 seconds to retain the AGNG Championship
Orsini made quick work of Rick, putting him away with a Kiss of Death.Orsini said she wanted a real match tonight and asked if there was anyone else in the back. Jamilia Craft, not scheduled for the show, came out to accept.
ANGEL ORSINI d. JAMILIA CRAFT to retain the AGNG Championship
In a competitive match, Orsini put away the newcomer. However the story of the match was that Craft did hold her own against one of WSU’s best.
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River City Wrestling held a show yesterday in Texas with Alissa Flash and Mercedes Martinez on tap. Results and pictures below courtesy of Brandon.
Last night, everyone expected some intergender action from Alissa Flash as she was suppose to take on Jax Dane and Ray Rowe for the RCW title. Frankly, that wasn’t the case. The night started off with RCW founder Brandon Oliver, and co-commissioners Jeremy Sage and Ray The Voice the ring. Ray the Voice, along with Ray Rowe, announced that Alissa Flash was removed from the title match because he want no “broads” to represent the company as champion. He had paperwork to where Flash can’t compete for the title. That enraged Sage, and he turned heel, quit his job as commissioner and stormed out. Oliver agree to make the match “No Countouts and No DQ” for Jax Dane vs. Ray Rowe. BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
After the first match, Ray the Voice was in the ring, and out comes Alissa Flash, all pissed off. She said that Ray screwed her out of the title, twice now, and either demands to compete with any male talent or Ray himself. Ray responded by having a team of male wrestlers fight Flash and a partner of her choosing, but claims that there is no one in the back that wants to pair up with her. Correction, there is one – Mercedes Martinez! Her music started playing and she got the mic and told Alissa that she had some great matches with her, and it would be her pleasure to team up with her, and face two MEN in a tag match. She also stated that “women are the stronger sex” and whoever Voice picks for them will step in the ring with the best wrestlers in the world.
Fast forwarding to the match, Mercedes and Alissa (sidenote – came out to “My Chick Bad” by Ludacris. lol) wrestled the team of “Mr. Beautiful” Rudy Russo and his partner “Playboy” Andy Dalton. Lots of comedy spots in this match. Dalton struts like Ric Flair and shows his body to the crowd (insert puke). They had a “Sex Off” to see who shows more sex appeal, and obviously Alissa and Mercedes won that battle. Then they had a knip-up battle to see who kips up better. Flash did hers flawlessly, but Dalton stumbled twice, until Russo came in and assist him, but the women haters got double clotheslined by Flash. The girls then struck the boys in the back with chops, which sails them out to the floor, then come charge at them, pump the brakes, and chop them to their backs. The girls tried it again, but Alissa slides out to the floor, which scared the boys back in to the ring, where Mercedes is right behind them, and double chops them to the back, and give them a double clothesline.
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On tonight’s episode of Florida Championship Wrestling which just aired moments ago, SmackDown Diva Rosa Mendes became the new Queen of FCW.
Rosa defeated former NXT Rookie Diva, AJ who had held the crown for quite a while.
The Queen of FCW crown is not to be mistaken with the FCW Divas Championship which is still held by Naomi.
It’s time to hand out some proverbial gold stars! Based on the week’s TV and news, each of the Diva Dirt team members have picked one female who they deem to be their ‘Star of the Week’. Read below…
April: I am going to be unbiased in my opinion here and give Mickie James huge props for her determination. I may not be her biggest fan but she put on a hell of a show this past week on Impact. She and Tara both gave the cage match their all but I think Mickie really stood out. It isn’t everyday that we see female wrestlers in a cage match. The match kept my attention, in spite of the slow moments and the high risk Lou Thesz from the top of the cage was the perfect exclamation point. Major thumbs up to Mickie James for her presentation this week. I applaud her aggression and again, her determination as a wrestler.
Cryssi: Is it possible to have two stars of the week? I make my own rules, haha, so yes. I’m picking two. Lets call it a tie. Anyway, we often gripe about TNA and accuse them of turning into the WWE in regards to their Knockouts division. We have seen crappy short matches in the past and rather pointless happenings that basically mean nothing to the division. But as of late, they’ve sorta picked things up and this week on Impact, two highly respected Knockouts headlined the show and competed in the main event. Mickie James and Tara faced off against each other in a steel cage match which saw some vicious spots and one hell of an ending that had Mickie leaping off the top of the cage. For the fact Mickie would go for a bump like that and Tara would take it makes them both stars in my beautiful hazel eyes. So yes, here’s to you Mickie and Tara. May the Knockouts division continue to deliver action like this.
David: My Star of the Week is Mickie James. After a deflating loss to Tara at “Final Resolution”, Mickie exacted sweet revenge on this week’s TNA Impact. First she broke up Tara’s brutal performance of “Broken” (which could have won her my award all by itself) and then she defeated Tara in an exciting steel cage match. I thought it was cool this was the main event of the show and it featured some solid wrestling action. I feel badly that Tara got injured in this match; hopefully she’ll be OK soon. In the end, Mickie’s Lou Thesz Press off the top of the cage was incredible, proving for one week at least that she is indeed…Hardcore Country.
Former WWE Diva, Serena Deeb will be heading to Japan in January to compete for the promotion, SMASH which is run by former WWE star, Tajiri.
Tajiri made the announcement via his Twitter page that Deeb will be part of the January 29th show.
Thanks to John Hyperion for the tip.
Spoilers for next week’s Tribute to the Troops show below:
WWE taped its annual Tribute to the Troops special today in Ft. Hood in Texas. The special will air next Saturday on NBC.
As usual, the Divas donned their sexy Santa outfits for the annual event. Pictures can be seen below via Joey Styles’ Twitter.
Styles also confirmed that Eve Torres and Rosa Mendes taped a segment with special guest Sherri Shepherd which will air on ‘The View’, the show she appears as co-host on.
Tribute to the Troops will air next Saturday, December 18th at 9pm on NBC. Additionally, an extended two hour version will air on Wednesday, December 22nd at 9pm on USA Network.
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Monday’s Slammy Awards special episode of Raw will see a Divas battle royal to determine who wins the ‘Diva of the Year’ Slammy.
Elsewhere, Beth Phoenix eliminating Great Khali from the Royal Rumble match in January and Mae Young defeating Lay-Cool on ‘Old School’ Raw are both nominated for ‘Knucklehead Moment of the Year’.
Full nominations here.
Thoughts: Although the Slammys mean very little in terms of actual recognition (they are storyline devices), WWE did a great job in giving it to Beth in 2008 and incorporating into her character and making her seem that much more important. Yet this year as well as last year are pretty much a joke. The Slammy could be used to enhance storylines as it did with Beth, but nope.
WWE will be serving up a live episode of SmackDown during Christmas week, according to PWInsider.
But that’s not the only change: the day, time and network will also be different.
SmackDown will go live on Tuesday, December 21st at 9pm on USA Network instead of Syfy. Airing the episode a few days early means that it won’t have to have a first-run airing on Christmas Eve when audiences are generally lower for television shows.
With a live pay per view on the 19th, a live Raw on the 20th and now a live SmackDown on the 21st, it’ll be a fun few days for WWE fans before Christmas.
So this week on WWE television we were treated to a double dose of Lay-Cool (Layla and Michelle McCool for those of you who are new to WWE wrestling…) as the former co-Diva Champions appear on Raw and their home show, SmackDown. On Raw, we were privy to their innermost thoughts as they joined the team of Jerry “The King” Lawler, Josh Matthews, and CM (God) Punk for commentary. Post Natalya/Melina match, Lay-Cool treated the champ to a beatdown. Typical Lay-Cool, eh? Well on SmackDown, Natalya made sure the same fate didn’t await her as she took on Layla in a singles match. The hot Canadian Diva brought a partner down to the ring with her.
Beth Phoenix, the Glamazon. Lets take a look at what went down.
Lay-Cool head to the ring first and can I just break kayfabe here for one second and say, my damn Michelle looks fierce tonight?! At times, she truly does put other women to shame. But anyway, Lay-Cool are walking to the ring and up on the Titan Tron a video package highlighting what went down between Lay-Cool and Natalya at the conclusion of Monday’s match against Melina started to play. Lay-Cool were quite proud of their actions and Layla even started to stroke her imaginary beard as the girls got settled inside the ring. Natalya’s music hits and the WWE Diva’s Champion makes her way onto the stage. She pauses and smiles (while she wears my favorite outfit of hers) and she looks down at the ring. That smile gets even brighter when Natalya’s music fades and the Glamazon’s music hits. Beth walks out and joins Natalya, much to the chagrin of Lay-Cool, and both blonde beauties walk down to the ring.
More spoilers from tonight’s Impact taping. Unsure when this will air as they’re taping so much out of sequence; it will either be December 30th or January 6th.
We are pleased to welcome new Diva Dirt writer, April, who is taking over the Impact Write-Up.
This week on Impact was just saddlebags full of Knockout action. First, we saw the vacating of the Knockouts Tag Team Championship, the return of the Scream Queen, Daffney and a first for TNA: a Knockouts steel cage as the main event, between Mickie James and Tara. Take a deep breath, you’re gonna need the oxygen…
Our first glimpse of the TNA Knockouts on this episode of Impact comes via video package from August 05, 2010 where Taylor Wilde and Hamada win the TNA Knockouts Tag Titles. Mike Tenay announces that Hamada has left the company due to passport issues. With Hamada gone, the titles are obviously up for grabs and their new owners will be determined tournament-style. It is announced that Sarita will be teaming with the returning Daffney (odd team, much?) against The Beautiful People, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky.
Later, Tara is seen backstage, tuning up for what is meant to be Tara: Live in Concert. Pray to whatever God you pray to because this is going to take some major miracle workmanship. Generation Me is with her. All means of importance go out the window here. True, they may appear to look like Knockouts but they, indeed, are not. Tara’s attempt to one up Mickie James is up next.
Following her intense cage match with Tara on Impact, Mickie James made her next move known on TNA Reaction: she’s coming for the gold.
Watch the two segments below:
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Post-show interview with Angelina Love and Velvet Sky following last night’s Impact:
The Knockouts weren’t the only ones in the main event picture last night. Though obviously less prestigious (this is WWE Superstars after all!), former Divas Champions do battle this week on Superstars, Alicia Fox takes on Eve Torres Watch below:
Oh hey there, Ashley Valence! The short-lived NXT co-host has resurfaced and found herself on ring announcing duties on Superstars after a couple of months of brushing up in FCW. Not a bad job.
Eve is out first and is referred to as ‘Steve Torres’ on commentary by CM Punk. Umm, I’m not even going to touch that.
After Alicia comes out, it’s go time as the Divas get off to an iffy start before Eve rolls across Alicia’s back in a back body drop attempt and counters into an armdrag. Nice maneuver by Torres. After another arm drag, Eve applies an arm-lock on Alicia as the Foxy Queen tries to fight out before eventually whipping Eve into the corner. Eve uses the bottom rope to help elevate her into a kick but Alicia ducks and then slams her against the canvas by the hair. Fox grabs her by the hair and again slams her against the mat before hitting her with knee strikes across the face and we see a near fall. Punk, meanwhile, cracks a joke that some days he wants to propose to Eve & others he wants to hit her with a shovel. Yikes!
Last weekend was a big one for relative newcomers, Mia Yim and Jamilia Craft. The duo picked up a big victory over veterans Daizee Haze and Sara Del Rey at Real Championship Wrestling. Highlights of the show are below.
Keep an eye out for Mia’s awesome bump as she’s kicked off the apron by SDR!
Two notable independent shows this weekend. The first is Women Superstars Uncensored holding its last show of the year featuring the debuts of Kristin Astara and Athena. That show takes place in New Jersey.
Also tomorrow in Texas, River City Wrestling returns with Alissa Flash and Mercedes Martinez in action. All the details below:
WSU Announces 12/11 Joint Show with NWS
WHAT: WSU Returns on 12/11 with our final show of the year!
WHERE: The Dunellen Knights of Columbus at 647 Grove Street in Dunellen, NJ
WHEN: December 11, 2010
BELLTIME: 7:35PM
TICKET INFORMATION: $19 Adults/$17 Kids/Seniors
TICKET ORDERING Info: Call 732-888-1704 or email [email protected]Coming off the heels of our successful debut on iPPV, WSU has announced one more show for 2010, as WSU teams up with our big brother promotion, NWS. WSU has been working with NWS since our inception in March 2007, and this will be another WSU/NWS joint show, featuring 6 WSU matches.
MATCHES ANNOUNCED:
MAIN EVENT
Battle of Former WSU World Champions
Winner Receives A Contract To Challenge For Any Championship They Want At Any Time, Any Place
Alicia vs Nikki RoxxFor the WSU All Guts, No Glory Championship
(c) Angel Orsini vs AthenaKrissy Vaine vs Niya
Submission Match
Jana vs Cindy RogersIntergender Battle
Melissa Coates vs Rick CataldoFor the WSU Tag Team Titles
(c) The Belles Saints vs Jennifer Cruz & a Mystery PartnerAlso appearing on the card will be ECW original Little Guido aka Nunzio and the stars of NWS in three NWS matches!
For complete details on this show, including free videos & match previews, visit WSUWrestling.com or our Facebook page at Facebook.com/wsuwrestling
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Get your weekly dose of Knockouts action on tonight’s Impact and then stay tuned for even more on TNA Reaction. To watch, tune into Spike TV from 9pm ET.
Discuss the show in the comments!
Spoilers for the December 23rd and 30th Impact below:
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While we know that Hamada is definitely gone, a new report in today’s Wrestling Observer suggests that her tag team partner, Taylor Wilde — real name Shantelle Malawski — may also be done with TNA.
The Observer writes: “Wilde’s contract may have expired as well. Was told for now she’s done, but they are open to bringing her back.”
During her time in TNA, Taylor made history as the first Knockout to have held both the Knockouts and Knockouts Tag Team Championships. She held the latter on two occasions: once with Sarita as the first ever champions and most recently with Hamada.
Wilde also recently announced her engagement.
Though viewers will have gathered as much from this past Monday’s episode of Raw, there are plans for Melina to turn heel according to the Wrestling Observer.
WWE planted the seeds on Raw this week as the camera cut to Melina walking away as Lay-Cool beat down Natalya following their match.
It’s said that the heel turn will be a ‘slow burn’, resulting in her feuding with Natalya.
The Observer adds: “The idea was first talked about weeks ago and apparently she got heat because there were indications she was negative about it. They instead started a deal where she was going to get back with Morrison, but that was dropped after one week.”
Thoughts: I’m very excited to see where the writers go with this. I’ve been wanting to see Melina turn heel for a while now and honestly, the heel side needs strengthening because they’re relying far too much on Lay-Cool. Melina vs Natalya is a feud that many would like to see. I enjoyed the match this past Monday and think their work together could get even better. As for the ‘heat’, I find the word ‘indications’ to be telling. So she gets heat because someone thinks she’s being negative? I know WWE is less tolerant with its Divas but yeesh.
