The WWE-proclaimed ‘Original Diva’, Sunny will be inducted into the Hall of Fame tonight at Atlanta, GA. Diva Dirt’s Cryssi is on hand and will be bringing us live updates.
* Sunny is the third inductee.
* King, the host of the show, says Sunny always got what she wanted.
* Video package for Sunny plays. Lots of cheers and whistles from the crowd.
* King says the Divas are ‘smart, sexy, powerful and stuck up…’ Lay-Cool and the other Divas take the stage.
Diva Dirt LIVE returns tonight at 11pm ET with a post-WrestleMania special. We’ll be discussing all the action from tonight’s big extravaganza and take your calls on the show too! Call in on 347-989-8156. DIVA-DIRT.COM/LIVE LIVE FROM AT 11.15PM ET
WSU returned to action yesterday with its annual J-Cup tournament during the day and the annual King and Queen of the Ring tournament in the evening.
Full results below:
WSU Tournament Saturday Results (4/2) From Kearny, NJ
– Brittney Savage Wins The J-Cup Tournament in an Unprecedented Run; Will Challenge WSU World Champion Mercedes Martinez at The Uncensored Rumble
– Mercedes Martinez & Julio Dinero Win the King & Queen Tournament, As Martinez Continues Her Meteoric Rise in Womens Wrestling
– Major Developments & Free Videos ReleasedWomen Superstars Uncensored, the most active womens wrestling promotion today, partnered up with brother promotion National Wrestling Superstars (NWS) for two huge tournaments in one day. In the afternoon, the companies presented the 5th Annual Women’s J-Cup Tournament & at night presented the sixth annual King & Queen of the Ring Tournament.
Three well-remembered former WWE Divas will be hosting a live after show for WWE’s Tough Enough beginning tomorrow night. Candice Michelle, Lilian Garcia and Torrie Wilson will host the Tough Enough After Show for AfterbuzzTV every Monday night. The show will be streamed via Ustream and airs its first episode at midnight tomorrow following the … Read more
Diva Dirt reader Michael B. attended last night’s Remix Pro Wrestling show in Marietta, OH, which featured Madison Rayne vs Sara Del Rey. The show was supposed to feature a dream match between Del Rey and Mickie James, but due to her separated shoulder at a TNA house show a few weeks ago, James was unable to compete.
Results below:
Brie & Nikki Bella
To match their attitudes, the Bellas are wearing black dresses. To show a slight difference in personality, their styles are different: Nikki’s sporting a tighter dress, messy hair and leopard print tights while Brie’s dress has a fuller, frillier skirt and her tights are solid. It shows that they’ve put some thought into their outfits and I like that. After all, they don’t have to be clones of each other, even if they are both heels. Their poses are more serious and seductive, and it makes the photos look much less staged–I think I’m so used to them doing cutesy twin poses that I’m surprised at how interesting a photo with them just standing next to each other can be. They let their personalities show. When I’ve complained about their more gimmicky photoshoots, this was what I was asking for: simplicity. Here, the Bellas show that they’re more than capable of making ‘simple’ look interesting.
Rating: • • • • •
• View the photoshoot.
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn looks perfectly relaxed and comfortable in her poses, but perhaps too comfortable. They’re not very diverse, and make for a rather dull photoshoot. Wearing a frilly top and leopard print skirt was probably an effort to bring interest to the shoot, but it’s not enough. There’s just an obvious lack of personality in the photos, and while that may be due to the fact that Kaitlyn hasn’t really developed a character, this photoshoot is just rather lifeless. It reminds me of the early photoshoots from Kaitlyn’s fellow NXT rookies: pretty, but boring. I know she’s capable of pulling off interesting shoots, because her first full WWE photoshoot as a Diva had me hooked. This one must be her sophomore slump.
Rating: • • • • •
• View the photoshoot.
WWE.com has a backstage video with Trish:
More pictures from Sunny’s Hall of Fame induction courtesy of Mr Glamazon’s friend, Jamie! [nggallery id=480] More pictures at WWE.com.
Diva Dirt’s Cryssi is our correspondent at the annual Hall of Fame ceremony taking place tonight in Atlanta. Some early notes:
* Eve Torres and Kelly Kelly are on inductee ‘arm candy’ duty, bringing out the Hall of Famers to the stage.
* Lay-Cool sitting together.
Some more exclusive snaps from Axxess this past week sent in by David.
As previously noted, Wendi Richter was at Axxess yesterday signing autographs and looked fantastic. David noted that was incredibly personable.
Also at Axxess yesterday was none other than Snooki, signing copies of her New York Times bestselling book. (Seriously! She’s a bestseller!)
Last night’s first ever Diva Dirt fan party was a huge success!
Lots of DD readers stopped by at the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta yesterday to meet up with David, Cryssi and other Diva fans. A big thank you to everyone who came out.
Some notes and pictures from the party after the jump!
ROH’s second iPPV this afternoon features SHIMMER Tag Team Champions Tomoka Nakagawa and Daizee Haze defending against Ayumi Kurihara and Hiroyo Matsumoto.
The Embassy come out and Prince Nana says he and Princess Mia have come all the way from Ghana. He calls her the prettiest woman in the world. Nana introduces the newest member of the Embassy — Dave Taylor.
Former WWE Women’s Champion, Amy ‘Lita’ Dumas announced on Twitter that she will be at WrestleMania 27 Fan Axxess today.
She wrote: “Headed over to the Georgia Dome for Fan Axxcess to broadcast live with Project 96-1 WKLS. Come find me!”
Dumas lives in Atlanta, but up until now hadn’t been announced for any WWE events. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amy is at the Hall of Fame tonight or backstage at ‘Mania tomorrow.
Perhaps also interestingly, Trish Stratus mentioned in our interview that she’s working on doing something very cool this coming Monday on Raw. Pure speculation on my part, but Trish & Lita vs Lay-Cool would certainly fit the bill!
Brian Fritz has interviews with Natalya and Sunny from earlier in the week.
Natalya really has some wonderful words for Trish Stratus, citing her as the reason she wanted to become a WWE Diva. Watch that interview below:
ROH presents its second Internet pay per view in as many days live at 1pm ET on GoFightLive.tv. Set for today’s show is a SHIMMER Tag Team Championship match, marking the first time the belts have been defended in ROH. Champions Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa defend against Ayumi Kurihara and Hiroyo Matsumoto. ROH set … Read more
Perhaps one of the most memorable moments in WrestleMania Diva history… who can forget Molly Holly having her head shaved bald in 2004? Relive it below:
ROH presents two live iPPVs from Atlanta today and tomorrow. Tonight, Ayumi Kurihara and Hiroyo Matsumoto take on Sara Del Rey and Serena Deeb.
Princess Mia spotted during the Four Corner Survival match. She and the Embassy are accompanying Tomasso Ciampa.
During the match, Mia hits a big spin kick — in a dress — on Homicide!
Diva Dirt’s Mr Glamazon brings us her exclusive daily blog detailing her adventures in Atlanta for WrestleMania 27 this weekend. Check back each day for a new entry! Note from Melanie: Unfortunately, David was unable to write his blog today, but did send along the following pictures from yesterday’s Axxess event! [nggallery id=475]
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive clip from the upcoming revival of Tough Enough featuring Miss USA, Rima Fakih, learning to take a bump. Up until now only promos have been released, but this first piece of footage from the show gives viewers an idea of how the show will look and feel. Check out the … Read more
Recent WWE signing Awesome Kong arrived today in Atlanta for WrestleMania festivies, reports the Wrestling Observer. Though it is possible that she could debut in the coming days, it’s equally possible that she won’t. WWE usually brings in all main roster talent to WrestleMania, and considering that Kong isn’t being sent to developmental she constitutes … Read more
Welcome back, once again, to the another edition of the TNA Impact Write-Up here on Diva Dirt. You all know who I am so there is no real need for formal introductions. If you don’t know, you have a bit of catching up to do, don’t you? ;) Last week, we saw a definite improvement, in regards to Knockout matches, between two rival women who just can’t seem to get enough of beating the hell out of each other. We also saw a rather eerie and even, science fictionesque turn in the land of The Beautiful People. I can definitely say that I saw that one coming. This week, we’ve got a singles match between two newer rivals, who can’t stop fighting over a favorite blonde Canadian. There is bound to be blood.
Our first wacky glimpse of the Knockouts, comes in the form of Angelina Love and Winter standing backstage. Angelina has a red plastic cup of some concoction in her hand and Winter is stroking her hair, telling her everything is going to be alright. This is all just a small bump in the road. Winter tells her that her drink will calm her nerves. She goes on to say that Velvet Sky is a big girl and that she cost them their titles out of jealousy, she wants Angelina all to herself, to control her. Winter just couldn’t let that happen. She claims she is just trying to protect Angelina, nothing personal against Velvet.
Cue recap video package of recent months, reminding us all how this weird development came about. All those weird and SyFy channelesque moments that no one can seem to wash from their memory, leading up until last week.
Speaking to PopEater.com at the WrestleMania press conference earlier this week, Snooki revealed that she would say ‘yes’ to becoming a full-time WWE Diva.
Snooki, who heads to WrestleMania 27 this Sunday, said: “I am committed to my ‘Jersey Shore’ family, but obviously that’s not going to last forever. If I am given an opportunity to become a full-time Diva, then I would say yes.”
Watch the video of the interview below:
In a new interview with SLAM! Sports, Sunny aka Tammy Sytch discusses her WWE Hall of Fame induction this weekend.
On getting the call that WWE wanted to induct her, Sunny says John Laurinaitis called her while Raw was on and told her to tune in:
“I already had it on while I was packing for my trip to Mexico, when all of a sudden the announcement of Shawn Michaels going into the hall of fame comes on,” recalled Sytch. “I said to Johnny Ace, ‘That’s great! Good for him, he deserves it,’ as I acted happier than a pig in poop.
“Then Johnny Ace goes, ‘Well, Vince [McMahon] and I were talking and we’d like you to be the second inductee.’ I paused, and then said, ‘You’re s**ttin’ me right?’ Then he says, ‘No, I’m not s**ttin’ you.’ So of course I started crying and shaking and freaking out. I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh my God, I’m only 38, and usually the people who go into the Hall of Fame are at least 50, or dead by the time they get inducted. All I could think was, ‘Holy crap, this is awesome!'”
WWE’s annual Axxess convention kicked off yesterday in Atlanta and continuing our access-all-areas (pardon the pun) coverage of WrestleMania 27, we snapped a few pictures from the day’s events.
Appearing at Axxess yesterday were the likes of Kaitlyn, Gail Kim, Rosa Mendes, Lay-Cool, Vickie Guerrero and more!
Check out a selection of pictures from Day 1 of Axxess below:
Fans at WrestleMania Axxess this weekend are being treated to a display of Trish Stratus’ greatest hits — well, outfits — in the memorabilia section of the convention.
Several outfits from Trish’s WWE heyday are on display. Diva Dirt has exclusive photos and an exclusive video tour! Check it out below.
Also, you can hear Trish talking about the Axxess display and how/why she chose the outfits in our interview with her from earlier this week.
