WWE taped a qualifying round match for the recently announced Divas Championship tournament for this Thursday’s episode of WWE Superstars. Click the ‘+’ to read:
Thoughts after the cut:
WWE.com have finally acknowledged Melina’s injury, announcing that the now former Divas Champion will be out for six months. They write: After suffering an injury in a match on Dec. 29 in Manchester, N.H., Melina underwent an MRI today, which confirmed that she tore her left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Due to this, she will … Read more
WWE taped a qualifying round match for the recently announced Divas Championship tournament for this Thursday’s episode of WWE Superstars. Click the ‘+’ to read:
Thoughts after the cut:
The Knockouts Championship shockingly changed hands just moments ago on the three hour live episode of TNA Impact. ODB regained the title after rolling up Tara with a handful of tights. The switch means that Tara’s second title run logs in at just 15 days, up five days from her initial 10-day run with the … Read more
The ratings are in for last Thursday’s New Year’s Knockout Eve and it’s good news! The four hour show drew a 0.8 rating in the usual Impact timeslot of 9-11pm, down just two tenths on the usual average. Meanwhile, the additional two hours [7-9pm] drew a respectable 0.6. It was always expected that the first … Read more
WWE has posted a blurb on their official website confirming that Melina has vacated the Divas Championship due to her injury at a house show last Tuesday night. An 8-Diva tournament will begin tonight to crown a new champion. The tournament will likely consist of: Alicia Fox, Brie Bella, Eve Torres, Gail Kim, Jillian, Kelly … Read more

With two matches announced for tonight’s live three-hour episode of Impact, the Diva Dirt team have chimed in with their predictions for tonight’s show:
Knockouts Championship: ODB vs Tara
Erin: Unless TNA feel like repeating the mistake they made last time in yanking the Knockouts Title away from Tara waaayy too soon, Tara’s walking out as champ. She deserves a nice, long run and her losing would make absolutely no sense. Still, I guess they could swerve us, but it wouldn’t be of much use–TNA demonstrated that they didn’t have much confidence in ODB as an engaging champ as they stuck her in the middle of other feuds (Tara/Kong, Saritaylor/TBP) instead of giving her have actual feuds over the title. With all that in mind, I’m going with Tara to retain.
Melanie: Very predictable. Tara will retain, far too soon to drop the title now. I feel as though this will be the blow-off to this feud with Angelina Love coming out and attacking Tara after the match, leading to a revival of that feud. The Ang involvement is all I’m excited about to be honest.
Steven: It looks like Tara is propped and ready to take on TNA’s top babyface role now that she has the gold. I expect Tara to come out on top tonight. With the rumored return of Angelina Love, I expect her to get involved in some way, picking up their feud where they left off.
Tiffany: Tara will win. I really don’t see TNA making the same mistake it made during Tara’s first run. She obviously isn’t ready to lose the title just yet. Not even TNA can screw this up.
Knockouts Tag Team Championship after the cut:
Kind of a random place to make an announcement, but it seems as though Mickie James is once again the #1 Contender for the WWE Women’s Championship according to WWE.com’s POWER 25. For the week ending January 1st, Mickie came in at #18 with the description: The beautiful Diva was impressive on SmackDown, defeating the … Read more
In a pretty cool vote of confidence in the young Diva, Alicia Fox ranks #2 on a new WWE.com feature in which they count down the ten Superstars who are destined to win championship gold this year. They write: Ever since moving on from being Edge’s wedding planner, Alicia Fox has shown she is capable … Read more
In perhaps a sign of the tide turning, WWE has finally acknowledged Mickie James‘ budding music career on their official website. At the end of last year, Mickie received some buzz from music blogs including CMT about her upcoming country album [due in April], which WWE.com has picked up on. They write: The Internet is … Read more
NBC officially confirmed today, the cast for the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice. As previously leaked, our own Diva, Maria Kanellis is one of the names competing along with Sharon Osbourne, Cyndi Lauper and former WCW star Bill Goldberg. Peep the official cast photo below featuring the contestants with Donald Trump. Filming on the … Read more
Tonight is a big night for fans of WWE and TNA, as the latter goes head to head with WWE’s Monday Night Raw in a three hour live extravaganza. It’s also a big night for us Diva/Knockout fans and here’s why… Impact * Knockouts Title: ODB vs Tara * Knockouts Tag Team Titles: Awesome Kong … Read more
Former WWE Diva and four-time Women’s Champion, Lita reacted to her Woman of the Decade win last month on her radio show, Punkrockalypse earlier tonight. Lita — real name Amy Dumas — mentioned that she was left a lot of messages about her win and seemed surprised that she won, according to a listener who … Read more
Looks as though WWE aren’t taking TNA’s ‘Monday Night War’ revival very seriously. According to the Wrestling Observer website, WWE officials are amused that the only matches announced for tomorrow’s live episode of Impact are Knockouts matches. The website writes: “There were jokes told in the last few days of putting Maryse out every time … Read more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Unwrapped! As always, we will be grading all of the new photoshoots (or “eye candy”, as we like to call them) from the week gone by, judging them like so:
You, the reader, will also get the chance to grade the “eye candy” yourself by giving your opinion on each shoot and voting for your favorite out of the whole bunch. Now, dive in!
Note: We missed a Bella twins shoot from a few weeks ago, so I’m covering it now. I do not hold responsibility for any possible overdose on the Bellas suffered during the viewing of this post.
Brie & Nikki Bella‘s Goaltending
Grade: Sour. Continuing with the “Bellas do sexy sports shoots” trend, Brie and Nikki are posing in front of a goal with hockey sticks. I’m not quite seeing the point of the Bellas doing a hockey-themed shoot, and I see even less of a point of doing it the way they’re doing it here. The poses are pretty dumb, especially the ones using the sticks in a “suggestive” manner–it just looks silly and about as subtle as a hammer to the head. That, paired with their clashing outfits (Brie in a baseball-type shirt and skirt and Nikki in a dress) make for a confusing photoshoot. It’s like they took a meh concept and injected it with so many different ingredients that it came out stinking to high heaven instead of just being boring. I vote that the Bellas take a break from the contrived sports-themed shoots and do more shoots like the one below..
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Brie & Nikki Bella‘s Marigolds
Grade: Sweet. Unlike the shoot above, the Bellas keep it pretty simple in this one, relying on their matching outfits and twin chemistry to drive the shoot. Personally, that’s how I like these tandem shoots to be done instead of the bar advertisement-worthy ones the WWE ropes them into sometimes. The ring gear they’re wearing here is bright gold and chock-a-block with ruffles–it probably isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I like it for the theme they have going with their gear. As long as they keep it the a single color, these tights can keep from looking too tacky. Their poses, without the lame props to detract from the shoot, simply consist of them standing next to each other, but they compliment each other well and make it interesting–they play off each other well and don’t just look like two random girls put into the photoshoot together. This, I believe, is how the Bellas’ photoshoots should be–plenty sexy, but not cheesy.
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Read more to see the rest of this week’s photoshoots.
Two new names could soon be joining the Knockouts roster as TNA management is said to have been impressed by April Hunter and Lorelei Lee who wrestled at the New Year’s Knockout Eve taping a couple of weeks ago. A source tells us that the taping was a tryout for the duo who wrestled against … Read more
News of Angelina Love’s return may still be giving you goosebumps, but how about two for the price of one? Another former Knockout has hinted at a possible TNA return — Jackie Haas. Writing in her ‘decade in review’ on her official website, Jackie writes: And who knows, if the door of professional wrestling comes … Read more
In late breaking news overnight, the Wrestling Observer website reported that Angelina Love has been signed to a new TNA contract. Last month, it had been rumoured that Love would make her return on this coming Monday’s live three hour episode of Impact. According to PWInsider, word of Love’s return has been spread around the … Read more
SmackDown Diva, Natalya and her fellow Hart Dynasty team mates will be appearing on Raw this coming Monday as the show will be hosted by Nattie’s uncle, Bret Hart. With Melina expected to relinquish the Divas Championship on Monday night, it would be momentous to see Natalya shockingly take the title, wouldn’t it? Especially on … Read more
We were a little saddened that Natalya‘s match got cut from this week’s SmackDown, but the good news is that FCW is here to [more than] make up for it. The Hart Dynasty Diva takes on FCW’s little firecracker, AJ Lee on this week’s episode of FCW. Watch below: This was a nice little match … Read more

Rather than edit this post, I figure I’d just make a brand new one. We have high quality videos! Spend a lazy Saturday catching up with Thursday night’s New Year’s Knockout Eve show! All 8 matches are below. Check them out and tell us what you think in the comments:
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The 2009 Year-End Awards are a wrap and 5000 votes later, you have crowned everything from your Diva, Knockout and Match of the Year as well as Most Stylish, Best Photoshoot and others! And through the medium of Twitter, we have gotten several reactions from the Divas/Knockouts who’ve picked up wins! On being voted as … Read more
I had hoped to avoid this but I think it needs to be said. There has been some backlash over yesterday’s Year-End Awards result and frankly, some of the reactions have been extremely over the top. * Any awards or anything of that nature is subjective and there will always be people that agree and … Read more
The first Divas match of 2010 ended in a fight for dominance for the SmackDown Divas, as three of the Divas tried to show the others who’s boss. But before that, we got to see another match between Beth Phoenix and Mickie James. It may be a new year but some things never change! Watch … Read more
A second Divas match taped for tonight’s episode of SmackDown was cut from the broadcast, it seems. A six person tag team match saw Diva of the Year, Maria team with Slam Master J and Jimmy Wang Yang against Natalya‘s team, The Hart Dynasty. According to spoilers for the taping, Natalya attacked Maria after the … Read more
Diva Dirt has independently confirmed reports that Divas Champion, Melina has torn her ACL. The newly crowned Diva Dirt Diva of the Year was given a full diagnosis yesterday. As of now, Melina could be out for three to five months, though it is too soon to tell. Melina is awaiting results of an MRI … Read more
The Diva Dirt readers have spoken! In our 2009 Year-End Awards, Divas Champion Melina and new Knockouts Champion Tara took top honours as Diva and Knockout of the Year, respectively. Melina had more reason to celebrate as she along with Maryse received the most awards. Melina picked up four singles wins including the aforementioned top … Read more