Ronda Rousey has been absent from WWE since WrestleMania 35 where she lost the RAW women’s championship to Becky Lynch in a triple threat match. This match also included Charlotte Flair. Rousey was going to take a break regardless from the company after WrestleMania to focus on starting a family. It seems like we are … Read more
Krissy Vaine is making her return to wrestling and is ready to sit down and answer your questions on The Curtain Call!! This return match is set to take place on September 14 at WrestlePro and will be her first match in eight years. She retired in 2011. Her comeback match will be against Kris … Read more
It was officially announced earlier today via Twitter by WWE that there will be a mixed tag team match on RAW this Monday. It will feature the RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch teaming with the Universal Champion Seth Rollins. They will face the team of Zelina Vega and Andrade.
The match was originally teased in a WWE Exclusive after SmackDown this week as seen above. Zelina Vega and Andrade challenged the champs to a mixed tag team match.
This past week on RAW, Maria Kanellis and her husband Mike faced off against the power couple. The match didn’t go quite according to plan as Maria announced her pregnancy which made Lynch back off.
Vega promises that unlike Maria she is not pregnant so she will not be running away from Lynch. She made a guarantee that once she is finished with the champ that she will not be wrestling anymore.
What are your thoughts about this upcoming match? Would you rather have Zelina Vega/Andrade in the title picture instead of Lacey Evans/Baron Corbin? Share your thoughts in the comment section!!
This week we get to see Shayna Baszler and Mia Yim face-off prior to joining WWE and their NXT brand. This match took place in April 2016 and happened in the indie promotion Absolute Intense Wrestling. Baszler is the current NXT Women’s Championship where she has defeated Yim in the past to retain her title.
Did Yim seek the same fate to Baszler in this match? Watch and see!
Enjoy this match and discuss your thoughts in the comment section.
Check back in with Diva Dirt next Friday for another Free Match Friday!
Longtime former ring announcer for WWE, Lilian Garcia spoke recently with Daily DDT. During the interview the topic of Evolution, the all women’s pay-per-view from last year, presented itself. Many fans have been hoping for a second Evolution to take place this year but unfortunately, nothing has been announced yet. She did return at that … Read more
In another Diva Dirt Exclusive, Gerry Strauss speaks to up and comer Tasha Steelz on The Curtain Call. Hailing from New Jersey, Steelz speaks to Strauss about her love for wrestling while growing up. She started training freshly out of high school. She dives into her first training experience and the transition to the Team … Read more
WWE’s yearly Extreme Rules pay-per-view is just a week from Sunday and all eyes are on the Winners Take All mixed tag team match. This match has recently received Extreme Rules implications added to it. Recently women have been ushered into matches that were predominately just for the men. Last year there was an Extreme … Read more
Former three-time WWE Divas Champion Aj Lee (Mendez) spoke recently with Kristine Leahy on Fair Game. Since leaving WWE in 2015, Lee has become a writer with her book Crazy is My Superpower which debuted at number 10 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Along with becoming a writer, she is also a … Read more
SmackDown Live had a lot to live up to from RAW this week. The main thing that put RAW over SmackDown this week was simply the surprise of Maria Kanellis. The women’s division has been stagnant since WrestleMania that a new face is going to get people talking. SmackDown, unfortunately, did not have someone such … Read more
AEW put on their second show this past weekend from Daytona Beach, Fla. The promotions President, Tony Khan, answered several media questions after the event concluded. The topic of intergender wrestling taking place for AEW’s talent was brought up. Khan states that you will probably not see these types of matches wind up in AEW. … Read more
As we enter a new month that means that the next pay-per-view event is rapidly approaching. Extreme Rules is on July 14 which is only one week from Sunday. It was made public last week that Becky Lynch will team up with her real-life boyfriend Seth Rollins in a Winners Takes All match. They will … Read more
It was previously announced during RAW last week that Becky Lynch will team up with Seth Rollins to face Lacey Evans and Baron Corbin at Extreme Rules. This match will be a mixed tag team match and it will be a Winners Take All match. The Universal Title and the RAW Women’s Title will be … Read more
Pro Wrestling EVE presented their Wrestle Queendom II event this past weekend from York Hall, Bethnal Green, London. The event produced brand new champions as the EVE Tag Team Championships were decided in its inaugural match. A new EVE International Champion was crowned as well as two different women winning the EVE Championship before the … Read more
Diva Dirt’s own Gerry Strauss is back with The Curtain Call and this time we have Ray Lyn! Ray Lyn opened up to many topics including her family dynamic growing up, her early days in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), and her employment outside of professional wrestler. Prior to becoming a pro wrestler, Lyn worked two … Read more
There have been many reports recently about frustrations with the creative process in WWE. Most notably since WrestleMania the women’s tag team division has taken a back seat to just about everything else. Paige recently talked to The SunSport about this exact problem. Managing The Kabuki Warriors has been a way to keep Paige on … Read more
An NXT Live event took place Saturday evening in Venice, Fla. Prior to the event, Chelsea Green announced on Twitter that she will be returning. Her return is from being sidelined from a broken wrist in March. Green let Venice know that they were in for a treat this evening in her social media post. … Read more
All Elite Wrestling’s second pay-per-view Fyter Fest is today and the main card offered one women’s match. The encounter was a three-way match between Nyla Rose, Riho, and Yuka Sakazaki. Riho pulled out a win via pinfall on Rose. Coming into the match, Rose may have been the odds on favor simply due to a … Read more
WWE LIVE takes to their tour of Tokyo, Japan with massive intensity as The Kabuki Warriors earn a win over The IIconics. This win propels them into a future title opportunity for the tag team belts. Their mouthpiece Paige laid down the challenge in a backstage segment just last week. The Kabuki Warriors pick up … Read more
EXCUSE ME!!!!! That’s right the former General Manager herself is ready to sit down and dish with Diva Dirt! Guerrero had an impressive nine-year run with WWE where she served many managerial roles for countless superstars. We witnessed her having on-screen romances with Edge and Dolph Ziggler, partnering up with LayCool, and having a distaste … Read more
Being underrated is a term that gets tossed around a lot when it comes to professional wrestling. Of course, every fan has their favorites which is all part of the fun. At some point though credit should be given where credit is due. Inspired by Ring The Belle’s most recent upload on YouTube, Diva Dirt … Read more
For this week we travel back to about three years ago when the SmackDown Women’s Championship was introduced. It took place at Backlash. This moment was shortly after the brand extension/split was reintroduced and the SmackDown women’s division was considered at the top of its game.
This was a six-pack challenge elimination match. It included, Alexa Bliss, Becky Lynch, Naomi, Carmella, Nikki Bella, and Natalya. All six women were vying for the chance to become the first-ever SmackDown Women’s Championship.
If you know your history, you know the outcome of this match. Regardless it was a massive step in the women’s evolution.
Only time will tell how WWE’s new Executive Directors for RAW and SmackDown will benefit the women’s locker room. It was announced today by WWE that Paul Heyman will be the Executive Director of RAW. Eric Bischoff will take on the same role for SmackDown.
WWE.com reported their roles to include the following:
“In their executive roles, Heyman and Bischoff will oversee the creative development of WWE’s flagship programming and ensure integration across all platforms and lines of business. The creation of these roles further establishes WWE’s ability to continuously reinvent its global brand while providing two distinct creative processes for its flagship shows.”
These newly created positions will still have to report directly to the Chairman and CEO, Vince McMahon. Both Heyman and Bischoff have served as Presidents themselves in the past to both ECW & WCW respectively.
So how may all of this affect the women’s rosters?
Heyman has been known to create an impact in the careers of many women in wrestling history. More predominantly women such as Renee Young, Beth Phoenix, and Natalya have cited him as an influencer in their careers. All three spoke highly of him on his “My Name is Paul Heyman” DVD.
ECW & WCW weren’t exactly known for their women’s wrestling. Although this may have been the case, these two men have worked in other promotions that highlighted women’s matches.
In May, an article by 411Mania transcribed 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff where he focused on why women in WCW never went anywhere. Bischoff had the following to say:
“Well, there just wasn’t as many credible, athletic, believable women in 1997 as there are today,” Bischoff said. “It wasn’t like there were women all over the United States, or all over the world, training to become professional wrestlers, number one. There was no Performance Center, not too many women were interested in coming down to the Power Plant to train, to become professional wrestlers. You couldn’t really put an ad in the paper and expect to have much luck. So there just wasn’t the talent pool in 1997 of women wrestlers as there are today. It wasn’t until recently — we’re talking about 2019.”
It has further been announced by PWInsider that Heyman has been talked to about this role since February. Bischoff’s involvement has been more recent within the past few weeks.
What are your thoughts on this new development? Do you think that Heyman and/or Bischoff will benefit women’s wrestling in WWE? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section!!
Love is in the air, and with that WWE has a new power couple. At the climax of WWE Stomping Grounds, real life couple Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins was brought together in a storyline thanks to Lacey Evans being the special guest referee in the WWE Universal Championship match. There, Evans would take advantage … Read more
Slammiversary is quickly approaching for IMPACT Wrestling and they have added another match to its growing card. Previously it was reported that there will be a four-way Monster’s Ball match for the Knockouts Championship. Now we have an intergender match featuring Tessa Blanchard as she goes one-on-one with Sami Callihan in singles action. Blanchard has … Read more
AEW will have its second pay-per-view event, Fyter Fest, this Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla. Although she is not scheduled on this event as of this writing, Diva Dirt’s own Simon Hannig had a chance to talk with one of AEW’s top female talent – Dr. Britt Baker. Doctor by day, professional wrestler by night, … Read more
History was made this week on NXT in the women’s division. Shayna Baszler defended her championship in the first-ever NXT women’s Steel Cage against Io Shirai. This was placed in the main event spot. This wouldn’t be the first time Shirai had a crack at the NXT Women’s Championship. She failed to become champion at … Read more
