[media-credit name=”Southside Wrestling” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Melina is making her return to the ring for Southside Wrestling’s first Queen of the Ring tournament to crown a winner for the Queen of Southside title. The event takes place October 2nd in Sheffield. She took to twitter to announce her impending return. It's true. I've decided to get back … Read more
[media-credit name=”SHIMMER” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] SHIMMER kicks off their three day weekend event in Chicago tomorrow, June 24th, with SHIMMER 81. In addition to the match-up between Jessicka Havok and a debuting Viper, three championships will be on the line. https://twitter.com/SHIMMERwomen/status/745811125309104129 SHIMMER Champion Madison Eagles will defend her title against Courtney Rush. Tonight has us in … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome to this week’s NXT Redux! Bayley is back and better than ever this week as she takes on one of the busiest indy darlings out in the field, Deonna Purrazzo. We’ll also see the return of Nia Jax after losing her match at TakeOver, so she’s back and deadlier than … Read more
New details regarding what initially seemed to be the detainment and arrest of WWE Superstar Paige, have been addressed by MLW Radio hosted by Court Bauer, Mister Saint Laurent and Konnan. According to the trio, Paige and Alberto Del Rio were enjoying the Absinthe show together in Las Vegas after Sunday’s Money in the Bank. … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] While the jury is still out on who really started the “divas/women’s wrestling revolution,” one of the first shots were fired in NXT by Summer Rae and her work with the BFFs in laying the foundation for a stronger division. Naluda recently sat down with Summer, real name Danielle Moinet, where … Read more
Below are spoilers for this week’s episode of WWE Main Event, airing internationally and on Hulu.
[media-credit name=”Women\’s Leadership LIVE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Linda McMahon spoke with Sports Illustrated about her role in helping build WWE, her life with Vince, newest venture with Women’s Leadership LIVE and more. On helping build WWE into its massive brand: She worked behind the scenes to create publishing, music, and licensing deals–like action figures–for the company, … Read more
WWE applying logic to their product? Well I never! Welcome to a very positive edition of the Raw Redux here on Diva Dirt. Stephanie McMahon was M.I.A this week, but we were treated to a WWE Women’s Championship match and some straight fire was lit under a secondary female feud. One match, two backstage segments … Read more
[media-credit name=”Impact Wrestling” align=”alignnone” width=”559″][/media-credit] Former WWE Tough Enough contestant Chelsea Green has signed a deal with TNA. Chelsea made the surprise announcement on her official Instagram page: View this post on Instagram A post shared by ?????????CHELSEA GREEN (@chelseaagreen) Since the start of 2016, Chelsea has made several appearances in TNA. She first made … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Was WWE Superstar Paige arrested after last night’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view? Wrestling News Source has obtained images of Paige being taken away in a police van by a police officer, which can be seen below. WWE Star Paige arrested?! – https://t.co/3QfWR8Qq6I #wwe pic.twitter.com/JyVIJGdYhA — WrestlingNewsSource (@WNSource) June 20, 2016 … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] WWE revealed more information this morning regarding its hotly anticipated brand draft which will split superstars’ rosters between its flagship Monday night Raw brand and Tuesday night SmackDown. The draft will take place during SmackDown’s first live show on Tuesday, July 19 at 8 pm ET. WWE issued this statement about … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Tonight at Money in the Bank, the team of Charlotte and Dana Brooke managed to defeat the self-proclaim team Hart & Fire, collectively known as Natalya and Becky Lynch. Becky and Natalya dominated the beginning of the match, hitting Dana and Charlotte with as many tag team maneuvers as they could. … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] This week on WWE Superstars, fans were treated to the second match up in Sasha Banks and Summer Rae‘s budding feud. The two former BFFs have been colliding since Sasha’s recent return to the ring earlier in the month. This week, there were not any lengthy promos between the two adversaries, … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: @BellaTwins/Twitter” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Each week, the Social Media Catch-Up will bring you a roundup of our favorite social media postings by the women in wrestling and present them to you here. Have you found a post we should include next week? Send it in. Here’s what we found from this week: The Bella … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Let’s take a look at this week’s top five: Carmella Carmella … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] As a fan of women’s wrestling in WWE, you get used to seeing either phenomenal work or complete nonsense. That is, except for this week. The work we see this week isn’t exactly going to be remembered years from now as the “glory days”, but it isn’t entirely something we should … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE.com” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Each week, The Wrap will wrap up the week in women’s wrestling by compiling the week’s smaller news stories, rumors and gossip – anything not normally covered by Diva Dirt. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. * Trish Stratus spoke to WWE.com about her upcoming movie “Gridlock” (WWE.com) … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Stephanie McMahon participated in a Facebook Q&A session where her responses ranged from her favorite promos, memorable programs with other female superstars, beliefs about her character and more. Transcript courtesy of WrestlingInc. On her favorite promos: The one she cut on Shane McMahon while getting the Legacy of Excellence Award, she … Read more
Fresh off their Slammiversary PPV on Sunday, TNA had big plans of bringing fans a special “live” episode of Impact on Tuesday night. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be, as technical difficulties from Pop TV! and/or TNA production team caused a near two hour delay! Poor TNA can’t seem to catch a break. Also unfortunate for … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”alignnone” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome to this week’s NXT review! It’s the beginning of a new chapter in the brand and even though it still feels a bit like the old one, our division is moving forward with a strong showing by Carmella as she takes on Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer … Read more
[media-credit name=”WWE” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Is Sasha Banks in agreement with the majority of women’s wrestling fans regarding WWE’s recent booking of their female talent? It would certainly appear so, if implicit reblogging of fans on Tumblr are anything to go by. Sasha shared two posts from fans, questioning the storylines (or lack thereof) currently on … Read more
[media-credit name=”Lucha Underground” align=”aligncenter” width=”500″][/media-credit] Welcome to this week’s Lucha Underground Analysis! In what I assumed would be one match out of many on this week’s show, the Six to Survive elimination match actually filled the entire broadcast! Ivelisse and Taya are in this Number One Contender’s match, taking on each other and Johnny Mundo, … Read more
Below are spoilers for next week’s episode of Impact Wrestling.