As noted earlier in the week, Decade Diva Lilian Garcia was given a bonus send-off after Raw went off the air on Monday night. Lilian’s fiance came out to the ring and they danced to “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” Footage has now popped up on YouTube of said ‘last dance’ and Lilian … Read more
Having already been prominent in the music and film industry, 23-year-old Lauren Mayhew is about to be shot into a stratosphere of it’s very own — the sports entertainment industry. As reported earlier this week, WWE debuted Lauren as their new ring announcer on Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahama, one night after ten-year veteran Lilian … Read more
Diva Dirt has confirmed an all new, exclusive interview with former WWE Diva and TNA Knockout, and Queen of our Hearts, Shelly Martinez. Have a question for Shelly? Aimes-vous the “Koffin Kitten?” Have your say in the comments!
Both WWE and TNA are already gearing into their next pay per views. For WWE it is Hell in a Cell on October 4th, meanwhile TNA holds it’s fifth annual Bound for Glory on the 18th. Currently scheduled for the WWE pay per view is a Divas Championship match between Alicia Fox and Mickie James. … Read more
Former SmackDown and Raw General Manager, Vickie Guerrero will return to WWE as a special guest during next week’s SmackDown 10th anniversary special. Guerrero was handed the invitation last week and has accepted. The appearance will mark the first time Vickie will appear for the company since she left in June of this year. At … Read more
Welcome back to ‘Weekly Savannah Watch’, where we, the ECW-uninclined Diva Dirt team do our own spot of animal Diva-watching. In this here ‘feature’ we’ll be using our binoculars to spy a rare breed indeed — the “ECW Diva interviewer lady.” Watch as this rare specimen who we believe is dubbed Savannah interviews an orangutan … Read more
It appears as though the WWE may have already found a replacement for Lilian Garcia in 24 year old Lauren Mayhew. She debuted tonight with the SmackDown brand, so it appears as though they may hold off on her actually taking Lilian’s spot until she gets her sea legs. The similarities–blonde hair, musical background–certainly aren’t … Read more
Check out spoilers for Thursday night’s episode of Superstars below. Show airs at 8pm on WGN America. Click the ‘+’ to read:
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Thanks to our TNA tapings correspondent Camden, we have the first images of new Knockout Lacey Von Erich in her TNA debut. If you wish to read about what happened, view the spoilers here. Check out the full-sized images by clicking the thumbnails below. Remember, you saw them here first!! [nggallery id=331] Also, if you’re … Read more
Spoilers for the second night of Impact tapings are now out, courtesy of our TNA tapings correspondent Camden! These will air a week from Thursday (October 1st) on Spike. Click the ‘+’ to read:
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Hey y’all, sorry for the delay! It’s been a crazy few weeks but I saw this on Facebook and thought it would be a cool thing to do for Vainety Fair. Hope I don’t bore y’all too much!!! It’s called “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me”… 1. I love coming home to a clean … Read more
So much to discuss coming out of last night’s Raw! It was sad to see the legendary [yes, we are gonna start calling her that now so STFU and STFD] Lilian Garcia retire from WWE. However, a star was born last night in Alicia Fox. Congratulations Foxy, you have truly arrived! Questions coming out of … Read more
The legendary Trish Stratus made a huge announcement last week — her own video game. ‘Stratusphere’, a yoga-based fitness game will be available exclusively on the Wii next year. Talking about it for the first time, Trish dishes in this interview with Gamedibs.com. Highlights below: On whether she will be used as a ‘character’ in … Read more
Former TNA Knockouts Champion, Angelina Love was backstage at the Impact taping last night reports PWInsider. So that should answer whether she had returned to her native Canada. Love, real name Lauren ‘Angel’ Williams, was visiting friends says Mike Johnson. Hopefully this issue will be resolved soon so she can return to the company. In … Read more
Decade Diva, Lilian Garcia was given one final goodbye off-screen last night at Raw. As well as her emotional on-air speech, Lilian was given a send-off from DX members, Triple H and Shawn Michaels and even had a ‘last dance’ with her fiance: Triple H then started again but said that something was missing. They … Read more
In a show of class you rarely see in wrestling these days, the WWE allowed Lilian Garcia to give a farewell speech live on tonight’s Raw, which marked her final appearance in what was a 10 year career with the company. PWTorch has a breakdown of what she said: • Lilian was given the next-to-last … Read more
Tonight’s Raw is hosted by actor and comedian Cedric the Entertainer. It is also, as we’ve mentioned, Lilian Garcia‘s final night with the WWE. Witness Lilian’s swan song along with us and discuss any Diva action in the comments below!
Spoilers for this week’s Impact are now out, courtesy of our TNA tapings correspondent Camden! The show airs September 24th on Spike. Click the ‘+’ to read:
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Ten years and some 500* episodes later, tonight we say goodbye to a WWE’s first ever Decade Diva, Lilian Garcia. Since making her debut in August 1999, Lilian has been the voice of Monday Night Raw for a generation and will be incredibly missed. Despite being but a ring announcer, Lilian has solidified a fanbase … Read more
This year’s No Surrender marked a staple in Knockout history. Sarita and Taylor Wilde faced Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky for the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship.
Saritaylor debut some new music and a new entrance. It isn’t any better, but hey it’s different. In all honesty, now they really just look like a hot-n-heavy couple doing the tango. Keep trying ladies, I’m sure you’ll get it eventually.
Tazz continues to spoil the outcome of the match (like he has done from the very beginning of the tournament), but it’s not like the result wasn’t utterly predictable.
The Beautiful People make their way to the ring in such a ridiculous manner that makes me absolutely miss Angelina Love. Call me crazy, though I prefer “incredibly loyal.” There’s no TLC without Left-Eye, there’s no Alice in Chains without Layne Staley, and there sure as hell ain’t no Beautiful People without Angelina Love. Wherefore art thou, Love? This entrance isn’t nearly the same without you. Bleh…I guess I’ll just have to settle for this Knockout knockoff for the time being.
Mike Tenay hits the final nail in the coffin by mentioning Angelina Love’s release onscreen, which makes it “legit” in some way. He even pulls the “future endeavors” line…which, as everyone knows, is the wrestling version of “Rest in Peace.”
Earl Hebner and his (oddly fitting Nazi-authoritarian) mustache assert themselves as the officiator to this match, playing off of Slick Johnson’s past history with the Beautiful People.
Sarita and Taylor Wilde waste no time in starting off the matchup. Madison Rayne is sent to the outside while Taylor Wilde basically slams Sarita on top of Velvet Sky, in quite an unique showing of offense… if I do say so myself. Velvet Sky kicks out. Sarita maneuvers a brief headlock into an armlock into a series of pin attempts. Madison breaks up the count, however, during. Taylor forges a tag and takes advantage. She and her partner take down Velvet with a double back elbow, and Sarita elevates Taylor into a moonsault for the 2-count. Tsk tsk…that’s cheating, ladies. Old Hebner knows no difference as Velvet tags out to Madison Rayne.
Taylor effortlessly breaks down Madison with a drop toehold and an elbow. Sarita makes the tag this time and delivers an elbow of her own. Sarita is whipped into the corner and suffers a sudden burst of gonash from miss Madison, resulting in a near fall. Madison is perplexed, as she is not used to arguing with referees. Madison takes Sarita into the corner, who endures a few kicks to the midsection. Madison tags out. The Beautiful People attempt some tandem action with a double straight jacket neckbreaker. Velvet makes the cover, but Sarita kicks out at 2. Velvet doesn’t go apeshit just yet. Instead, she bides her time with a couple mat slams. Velvet tries a sunset flip, but cowers out of it, avoiding a dropkick in the process. So much for mat initiative. Eh. Velvet puts the boots to Sarita, but Sarita kicks out at 2. After a modified curb stomp to the throat, Sarita kicks out again.
Madison tags in and puts Sarita in a headlock and then drops into a spinning neckbreaker for the 2-count. The Beautiful People continue to cut the ring in half with the quick tags. Velvet becomes a bit overzealous, allowing Sarita to recover amidst a float-over DDT. Both competitors make the hot tag out to their respective partners.
Madison runs into a dropkick and a rollover fireman’s carry slam, as well as a swift backbreaker. Taylor tries to ensure a victory for her team, but Velvet Sky breaks up the pin. For the finish, Sarita lays a springboard dropkick onto Madison Rayne who is subsequently taken down with a German suplex for the win.
Sarita and Taylor Wilde make history as the first ever TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions. Victory dance! No? Okay. I guess Old Hebner and his ‘serious business’ ‘stache won’t allow it.
Next up commences a battle of the sexes for the TNA Knockouts Championship.
The folks at Playboy sent out the following press release, touting Knockout Traci Brooks’ photoshoot for Playboy.com’s Cyber Club. The first part of the photoshoot was made available last Thursday with the second part being delivered this Thursday. In the press release, Traci discusses what she plans to do after wrestling noting she wants to … Read more
As we reported this morning, Lacey Von Erich has signed a deal with TNA to become the company’s latest Knockout. As mentioned, TNA and Wrestlicious came to terms for a unique contract for the third generation star which will allow her to work for both companies. That is quite unprecedented on TNA’s part, up until … Read more
The new Knockouts Tag Team Championship will get their first workout this Thursday night on Impact. First ever champions, Sarita and Taylor Wilde will defend the gold against ODB and Tara. We’ll have live spoiler updates from the Impact Zone tonight.
Diva Dirt can reveal that third generation star, Lacey Von Erich has signed with TNA Wrestling. Von Erich, who is due to be part of the new Wrestlicious series, has been granted a release from her contract in order to work for TNA and will begin this week. Under a new deal between TNA and … Read more
The first ever TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions were crowned just moments ago. Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People in the opening contest of No Surrender. For Wilde, this marks two lots of history as she becomes the first woman to hold the Knockouts Championship and the Tag Team Championship.
In order to consolidate our Eye Candy coverage, we’ve developed a new feature: Unwrapped! We’ll take all the new photoshoots from the week and grade (or “brand”) each based on the following criteria:
Kelly Kelly‘s Little Black Dress
Appearance: Kelly’s wearing a rather casual dress that reminds me of an Ed Hardy style, and that’s not a good thing. It just looks kind of trashy, especially with the way she’s got it sitting off her shoulders. Clearly it’s not supposed to sit like that, and just makes Kelly look bigger in the awkward way its crumpled around her. It’s not so much a sexy dress as it is an over-sized t-shirt, and it looks like it.
Poses: This is a bit better than the standard “Kelly-bot” posing–it’s cute and sweet and she’s doing more than just the “hands on hips” stuff–but her face is still stuck with the same facial expression. I know she can’t be as vacant as she looks, but these photos aren’t giving me any proff to the contrary.
Uniqueness: Kelly’s never been a barrier-breaker when it comes to photoshoots, and this one falls in line with the others.
Grade: Bland. Kelly tends to rely on her clothes to make the shoot, so this one is let down by a “blah” dress.
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Michelle McCool‘s Solid Gold
Appearance: A gold, poncho-like dress is super shapeless, but is so short that she’s not sacrificing the sexy. Gold accessories keep her looking like a million bucks, but is it a bit too much?
Poses: This is where the photoshoot hits a snag. Michelle’s trying to convey her heel persona in her poses, with serious faces and sneers, but God help me if I don’t get more of a “slow” vibe from them. It’s just the heavy lids don’t look as sexy as she’s intending, more like she was halfway through blinking when they took the photo. Michelle just needs to find a way to look evil without looking possessed.
Uniqueness: Not too many Divas take the risk of wearing shapeless ensembles, but Michelle shoots and scores in that department.
Grade: Bland. She’s getting more serious in her photoshoots, that’s for certain. I just don’t know if she’s got the formula down just yet.
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Natalya‘s Hart Breaker
Appearance: It’s yet another ring attire shoot for Natalya, and quite frankly, they’re all blending together. The pink and black might as well be the same as we’ve seen in every other shoot, but she doesn’t look bad by any means.
Poses: The poses are what intrigue me–her screams and crazy facial expression as classic Natalya, and they set her apart from just about every Diva. A few are even kind of sweet. Nattie can show her personality in photoshoots better than almost any Diva, and I love her for it.
Uniqueness: It’s another ring gear shoot, and Nattie is rarely seen in anything other than hot pink, so this is almost the opposite of unique in a Natalya sense.
Grade: Sweet. The outfit might not be new or remarkable, but her poses are fantastic, and they elevate the shoot.
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Nikki Bella‘s Indian Summer
Appearance: Is it just me, or do the Bellas just throw on random costumes from time to time? And not just costumes, but horrible ones at that. Here, Nikki tackles a well-treaded stereotype by smearing on some “war paint” and tying on a couple of feathers. It just looks ridiculous and makes her look kind of dim witted–who in this day and age still dresses up like the old Pocahontas-style Native American? (I mean, aside from Mickie James.) Now, I don’t want to act like some butthurt overly politically correct person, but this is just dumb and not well thought out, down to the title.. “Indian Summer”?? Really????
Poses: The sky background is kind of cool and unique, but Nikki looks like she smells something bad. Maybe it’s the cheesiness of her outfit.
Uniqueness: This is unique, but not in a good way. It’s proof that being different and unique isn’t always a good thing.
Grade: Sour. Please get some common sense and stop dressing like you’ve got the mentality of a Kindergarten student on “dress up day”.
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Read more to see the rest of this week’s photoshoots and vote for your favorite.