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Taya and Johnny Mundo announce engagement

Congratulations are in order for Worldwide Underground’s “La Wera Loca” and Lucha Underground’s resident rockstar and champion, Taya and Johnny Mundo as the couple announced their engagement. In a series of twitter posts the couple revealed “she said yes!” I said yes!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/XGNk4IGgs2 — TAYA VALKYRIE (@thetayavalkyrie) June 14, 2017 She said yes!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/k0kCPucNh2 — … Read more

Paige reportedly close to making in-ring return

After nearly a year out of action due to injury, WWE Superstar Paige is reportedly close to making her long awaited in-ring return. https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/874684344748605440 The former two-time Divas Champion took to Twitter to announce she was receiving the results of her last set of x-rays and a follow-up report from PWInsider adds that if everything … Read more

SmackDown Discussion Post: June 13th, 2017

Tonight on the final SmackDown before Sunday’s Money in the Bank PPV event, Charlotte Flair squares off with Natalya. Read WWE.com‘s preview to tonight’s show below: “With the historic Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match drawing near, Charlotte Flair and Natalya will square off in singles competition tonight on SmackDown LIVE. There is no … Read more

GLOW earns positive reviews as critics weigh in

And the reviews are coming in! GLOW, Netflix’s first foray into the world of women’s wrestling, is garnering favorable feedback from critics on the eve of the new show’s release on June 23. According to Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Frainich: Part sports drama, part showbiz satire, part birth-of-the-modern-woman allegory — all heartbreaking glitter-blasted humanity — Netflix’s GLOW … Read more

Raw Discussion Post: June 12th, 2017

After last week’s Raw Women’s Title match between Nia Jax and the champion Alexa Bliss ended in disqualification, what will happen on tonight’s show? Read WWE.com‘s preview below: “Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss promised Nia Jax a title opportunity, and Raw General Manager Kurt Angle ensured that the self-proclaimed ‘Goddess of WWE’ honored her word. … Read more

Sasha Banks on her chemistry with Bayley

Three-time Raw Women’s Champion Sasha Banks was recently interviewed by the Wrestling News Source Podcast where she discussed her chemistry with Bayley dating back to their NXT days, advice for upcoming wrestling hopefuls and the much anticipated Mae Young Classic. Highlights and transcript of the interview (courtesy of WrestleZone) below. Her chemistry with Bayley: “It was … Read more

Week ending June 11th, 2017

Each week, The Backpage will wrap up some of the smaller news stories, rumors, editorials and gossip making the rounds in women’s wrestling. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. * Ruby Riot gets five stitches during NXT’s first day at the Download Festival in Derby, England. She was busted open after taking … Read more

Impact Write-Up (June 8th, 2017): Common ground

Hola Knockout fans and welcome to this week’s Impact Write-Up. We are (thankfully) taking a trip away from the Impact Zone and will settle the next month in Mumbai, India all leading up this year’s Slammiversary. We kick off Impact’s tour India with a Knockouts title match as the champion Rosemary defends the belt against … Read more

Reby Hardy gives birth to second son

Congratulations are in order for Reby Hardy and her husband Matt Hardy who have welcomed a second son to their family. Reby announced on Twitter the baby’s name is Wolfgang Xander Hardy: https://twitter.com/rebyhardy/status/873106684754788352 Matt Hardy also took to Twitter to chime in on the wonderful news: "Wolfie" Wolfgang X Hardy debuted/was born on June 8th at … Read more

NXT Redux (June 7th, 2017): Don’t count out the Iconic Duo yet

[media-credit name=”twitter.com/totaldivaseps” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome to this week’s NXT review! We’re back after a week off without any women’s action last week. Let’s dive into it. We start off with action between newcomer Sarah Logan, formally known as Crazy Mary Dobson,  and one half of the Iconic Duo, Peyton Royce! Despite absolutely no matches last … Read more

Naomi shares details on upcoming TV project

Rumors were swirling last week that Naomi could possibly be getting a spin-off reality show after reports that cameras followed her and her husband Jimmy Uso and his brother Jey Uso in Hawaii last week. In an interview with Chuck Carroll of CSB Sports, Naomi sheds some light on the rumors, confirms her return for … Read more

Gail Kim opens up on the nature of her injury

Impact Wrestling Hall of Famer Gail Kim has been off Impact Wrestling television since the start of 2017 and last competed inside Impact’s six-sided ring back in October when she took on Maria Kanellis in a No DQ match. Despite not being contracted by Impact Wrestling, the six-times Knockouts Champion has always called the company her … Read more

Lucha Underground Analysis (June 7th, 2017): A betrayal leads to gold

[media-credit name=”Lucha Underground” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome back Believers! Finally Lucha Underground is back and for the women, we quickly pick up where we left off in the saga between Kobra Moon and Drago. But, before we get to that, Sexy Star makes an appearance to help her friend Mack during his second chance at the Lucha Underground … Read more

SmackDown Redux (June 6th, 2017): Ask and you shall receive

Hola SmackDown fans and welcome to this week’s SmackDown Redux! It’s Josue once again and I’ll be covering SmackDown for Abir this week and my what an eventful SmackDown it was! There was the long awaited debut of Lana, the unveiling of the Women’s Money in the Bank briefcase (don’t worry guys, it isn’t pink!), … Read more

SmackDown Women’s Title match added to Money in the Bank

On top of the historic Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder match, a second Women’s match has been added to the upcoming PPV event. As seen on tonight’s episode of SmackDown, Lana made her debut to the blue brand and quickly picked a fight with the SmackDown Women’s Champion Naomi, costing her the win during … Read more

Lana makes her SmackDown debut

After nearly two months of dancing vignettes, Lana made her official SmackDown debut on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. With great RISK, comes great REWARD! @ShaneMcMahon has revealed the FIRST-EVER WOMEN'S #MITB briefcase!!! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/9YjKJGjTgO — WWE (@WWE) June 7, 2017 During the show’s opening segment, SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon gathered Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, … Read more

RAW Redux (June 5, 2017): RAW’s not-so Welcoming Committee

If you read my review of Extreme Rules last night, then you’d know that I’m not exactly in high hopes with the state of the RAW women’s division. The writers of RAW needed to step it up, so let’s see if they managed to in this week’s RAW Redux! #RAW GM @RealKurtAngle had no intention … Read more