At a press conference earlier today, one of the biggest stars of modern Joshi, Ayumi Kurihara, announced that she is to retire from wrestling later this year. Best known to us in the West for her appearances in SHIMMER, the 28-year old’s eight-year career has been riddled with injuries, most notably a broken clavicle in … Read more
The dream match pitting Jessicka Havok against Cheerleader Melissa will, for now, remain just a dream, as their NCW: Femmes Fatales XI match has been cancelled. The WSU Championship bout was scheduled to take place this Saturday as one of the event’s four title matches. However, Havok has had to pull out due to a … Read more
Forget Fandango, some more important dancers (well, to us at least) have a match at WrestleMania. WWE.com has announced that the funky will square-off against the fine as “Tons of Funk”, Brodus Clay and Tensai, will team up with their Funkadactyls, Cameron and Naomi, to face the team of “Team Rhodes Scholars”, Cody Rhodes and … Read more
Dolph Ziggler may have his hands full with AJ Lee on WWE TV, yet it seems like another Diva has caught his eye: Naomi. The Funkadactyl will be in action on tonight’s WWE Main Event, and Ziggler took to Twitter last night to express how impressed he was with the NXT Season 3 runner-up. He … Read more
Below are spoilers for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event:
After last night’s tussle and match between former friends AJ Lee and Divas Champion Kaitlyn, rumors have naturally sprung up about the two going head-to-head at WrestleMania. Though a Divas match has yet to be booked for the Pay Per View, two matches are rumored to have been considered: one with Maria Menounos making a … Read more
All the action of SHIMMER wrestling can now rest in the palm of your hands–literally. Filsinger Games has debuted a SHIMMER expansion to its Legends of Wrestling card game. According to the game’s website, it allows you to “run your own wrestling federation! You book the shows, set up the feuds, rank the contenders, play … Read more
Tara‘s TNA character isn’t unfamiliar with drama (Lockbox Showdown, anyone?), but now she’s going to be portraying a whole new dramatic persona in a (dun dun dun..) soap opera. Tara, real name Lisa Marie Varon, and her Impact Wrestling on-screen boytoy Jessie Godderz, have both been cast in “Tainted Dreams”. The soap, created by Emmy … Read more
FINALLY!!!!! The Raw Redux has returned to Diva Dirt! This is truly a momentous occassion. I was starting to wonder if I would ever write one of these things again, truth be told. Khaleesi-esque Reduxes are about as rare as the WWE Champion appearing on WWE programming these days, and that is a whole lot … Read more
A Divas match was taped for WWE Superstars earlier today in Philadelphia. Spoilers below:
Get your Monday night Divas fix by tuning in to Raw tonight on the USA Network at 8pm ET. Discuss the show in the comments!
Each week, we see the lovely ladies of wrestling appear on screen in some stunning outfits. There’s rhinestones, feathers and lots of spandex. Most of the time they look incredible, but every once in a while there’s a bit of a.. miss. With that in mind, Diva Dirt has decided to feature each week’s fashion … Read more
Good day NXT universe and welcome to this weeks recap of all the latest happenings from our trusty developmental program. If you’ll recall, last week the ever so coordinated Emma stepped up to the Summer school plate, but unfortunately for her, a deathly spin kick sent her packing. After the match though, Paige made her … Read more
First you gain the biggest win of your career and then, two days later, your boyfriend proposes to you. Talk about an amazing few days for Reby Sky! The self-proclaimed “Diva Overachiever” tweeted the following message earlier today: “So… @MATTHARDYBRAND asked me to marry him !!!”. A few moments later, she let the fans know … Read more
Soon-to-be WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus has been a major talking point on the road to WrestleMania, and so has the topic of her inductor. Many have given their opinion on the matter, but who does Trish want to be inducted by? We here at Diva Dirt provided our predictions back in January and Trish herself … Read more
It’s been 10 years since Trish Stratus was named Diva of the Decade as part of Raw’s 10th Anniversary celebration. With Raw’s 20th Anniversary just behind us, we think it’s time to look back at the last decade and crown a Diva of the Decade for the 2003-2013 period. Will Trish hang on to the … Read more
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once famously said “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”. However, in the short-fused, attention-bereft world of professional wrestling, that’s a mantra that we often find ourselves questioning. So how refreshing it was at SHINE 8 to see the patience of so many people (including ourselves) pay off in … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of SHINE 8 airing on iPPV tonight, with the main event of Valkyrie’s Rain, Ivelisse, Allysin Kay and Taylor Made versus Amazing Kong, Angelina Love, Mia Yim and Christina Von Eerie. Order the event by clicking here. Live results of the show below: All times are GMT. 11:25 PM: The … Read more
If you’re itching for Stephanie McMahon to get involved in Triple H and Brock Lesnar’s No Holds Barred match at WrestleMania 29, you may be getting your wish. Most of us fondly remember the firey encounter between the Billion Dollar Princess and Lesnar’s manager Paul Heyman at last July’s Raw 1000, in which Stephanie called … Read more
Tonight sees SHINE Wrestling return to the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida for their eighth monthly show, SHINE 8. The main event sees the insurgent Valkyrie members Rain, Ivelisse and Made in Sin (Allysin Kay and Taylor Made) go up against the all-star face team of Amazing Kong, Christina Von Eerie, Mia Yim and a … Read more
What’s up Diva fans and welcome to a slightly belated WWE Main Event Redux! On Wednesday night, the Divas appeared for only their second Main Event match, with Aksana being the only girl to appear in both bouts – go Aksana (it’s the best thing she has going for her right now.. I jest!) The … Read more
Hot on the heels of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky landing superhero roles, their former colleague Rosita has been cast in a film of her own. Rosita–real name Thea Trinidad–will play a character named Lawson in Tom DeNucci’s “Army of the Damned”. According to the movie’s IMDB profile, the movie’s plot will be based around … Read more
“Your Two Cents” is our interactive feature where we gauge the opinions of our Twitter and Facebook followers on different discussions in women’s wrestling. This week, we’re asking this: Rumor has it that Maria Menounos will once again compete at WrestleMania. We want to know: if you could put any other celeb in her place, … Read more
What’s up, ladies and gents? Welcome to the Impact Write-Up. I’m Eleri, and I’ll be your host. But hopefully you knew that! There was little action this week in terms of a match, but we got a great dose of the Knockouts by way of a firing, and then a re-hiring! Before that, we caught … Read more
WWE taped 5 weeks worth of NXT last night at Full Sail University. Spoilers below: