The awards keep rackin’ up for Layla and Michelle McCool. As well as several Diva Dirt Year-End Awards between them, WWE Magazine has also voted Lay-Cool its ‘Beauties of the Year’ for 2010. You can read their ‘acceptance speech’ in the January issue of the magazine.
Following in the footsteps of Mia Yim last year, SHIMMER Academy graduate Jamilia Craft is the latest female wrestler to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s ‘One to Watch’ ranking. Craft is profiled (as seen above) in the March 2011 issue of PWI which is on sale now. Jamilia made her professional match debut just one … Read more
Interesting anecdote from ROH star, Colt Cabana on his latest Art of Wrestling podcast. Cabana claims that while he was in WWE’s developmental territory a few years ago along with the Bella Twins, Brie and Nikki threatened to quit the company if they weren’t called up to the main roster. During a discussion about his … Read more
Independent wrestler, Lizzy Valentine has revealed that she turned down the opportunity to audition for WWE Tough Enough and will instead be joining Lucha Libre USA. Earlier this month, Valentine — who was once part of MTV’s Wrestling Society X with WWE Superstar, Evan Bourne — noted that she was asked to submit an application … Read more
Season two of Lucha Libre USA will see the addition of two familiar faces. Former NXT rookie, Isis the Amazon (Aloisia) and former TNA Knockouts Champion, ODB have been signed up to appear at tapings in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Isis will debut at next weekend’s tapings, however is in Albuquerque doing promotion for LLUSA this … Read more
Oops… we did it again! A big thank you to Lethalwow.com and their visitors for voting Diva Dirt ‘Website of the Year’ for the second year in a row. You can read more here.
Texas-based Anarchy Championship Wrestling has two big female matches this weekend. First up is Rachel Summerlyn vs Athena in a ‘10,000 Tacks Match’. The feud between these two has been brewing for some time in ACW, which is home promotion to both. The tacks came into play at last November’s ACW show when Athena viciously … Read more
Get your weekly dose of Knockouts action on tonight’s Impact. To watch, tune into Spike TV from 9pm ET. Discuss the show in the comments!
Good news for Christy Hemme: she’s landed another hosting gig! ‘TNA Knockouts: Mad Sexy’, the pay per view compilation show dedicated to the ladies of TNA, has been renewed for volume two. The company announced the latest volume in its fan newsletter. You can read more here. The original volume aired on demand via cable … Read more
It’ll be SHIMMER co-founder versus SHIMMER Champion on March 20th at Pro Wrestling SUN, the new all-female promotion from Allison Danger and WORLD-1 Wrestling.
Danger will face Madison Eagles in the main event of the debut show in Jackson, NJ.
But there’s more…
In case you missed it on Tuesday night (and you’re forgiven if you did), here’s the double date segment that featured the Bella Twins, Daniel Bryan and his rookie, Derrick Bateman. Continuing the sisterly bickering, Nikki Bella once again showed us just why she is one of the Divas to keep an eye out for … Read more
Former WWE Diva, Sunny continues her talk with WWE.com today in the second part of her ‘Where Are They Now?’ feature.
In the final part of the article, Sunny discusses her long-standing heat with fellow former Diva, Sable saying:
“It wasn’t professional jealousy at all, it was personal differences,” she said. “I’m not going to go into it, but to me she wasn’t a quality human being and that’s why I didn’t like her.”
Furthermore, Sunny reveals why she was released from her WWE contract all those years ago:
Spoilers for the January 27th episode of Impact:
WWE.com caught up with the self-professed original Diva, Sunny for their latest ‘Where Are They Now?’ feature. In the piece, Sunny attempts to explain why she feels she’s the ‘original Diva’ in WWE, commenting: “My definition of a Diva is that all-around, well-rounded performer,” Sunny said. “The girls who came before me were so one … Read more
Diva Dirt LIVE is back tonight at 10pm ET right here at Diva-Dirt.com. Tonight we’ll be discussing thoughts on Taylor Wilde’s retirement from wrestling, her retirement match. Plus, we ask the question: “What is the cut off age for female wrestlers on TV?” in light of Taylor’s comments, as well as WWE reportedly not hiring … Read more
2010, what a year. Talk about highs and lows! In April all of us Beth Phoenix fans celebrated her championship victory at Extreme Rules only to have the Glamazon injure her knee several weeks later, in effect ending her title reign. When Beth officially lost the belt to Layla (and Michelle) it felt like a funeral, a cruel twist considering how well Beth’s face turn had been handled and how emotional she seemed when she won. Then it was announced Beth would be out of action for many, many months. Basically the rest of the year; it felt like ‘the longest time’.
Top of the mountain to the bottom of the barrel. Obviously this was terrible for Beth, but it was also terrible for her fans. Truthfully, I didn’t handle it very well. My inspiration, my role model, my main reason for watching WWE was going to be out for a long period of time. How could I even watch “Smackdown” anymore? How could I even watch WRESTLING anymore? I could just see myself bored to tears, basically ‘sleeping with the television on’. I shut down. I was hoping I could pick myself up and find enjoyment in wrestling again, at least until Beth returned, but I was constantly haunted by the same thought, “What if she didn’t recover?” Gulp. It was going to be hard to ‘keep the faith’ and I knew I wasn’t going to get through this alone. I started spending a lot of time with ‘Captain Jack’ (or Johnny, as I call him).
My wife is usually very supportive of my wrestling habit but she got tired of me moping around the house every day moaning about bad luck, knee injuries, and co-Women’s champions. Of course I thought she was completely overreacting. So what if I wouldn’t take off my Glamasuit…that ‘ain’t no crime’ in my book. I started resenting her as a way to channel my frustration. As a result there was a definite ‘storm front’ brewing.
Spoilers for Friday’s episode of SmackDown below:
Independent wrestler, Divina Fly, received a tryout with TNA tonight prior to the Impact tapings. Fly, best known for her work in Women Superstars Uncensored, wrestled Angelina Love in a losing effort. Love won the match with a bicycle kick, according to Wrestling News World. Divina is 20 years old and from Queens, New York. … Read more
Spoilers for next week’s Impact below:
That is the sound of angels clapping… WWE has finally pulled its finger out and given us a piece of Diva merchandise that looks like it’s worth every penny. This looks like the most effort that’s gone into Diva merch in quite some time. This cute t-shirt features several of the Divas in animated form … Read more
TNA Knockout, SoCal Val has her own web talk show, ‘Pillow Talk’ at TNAwrestling.com. The latest episode sees her interviewing Ms Tessmacher. Watch below:
It looks like a Divas match may have been cut from tonight’s episode of Raw due to time constraints. On WWE.com’s Raw photos section, there was a link to photos for a match between Natalya and Maryse, which obviously didn’t take place. By the placing of the link, it seems the match was supposed to … Read more
No Divas on Raw tonight but they will be on Superstars. Spoilers below:
Get your Monday night Divas fix by tuning in to Raw tonight at 9pm ET on the USA Network. Be sure to tune in to the Post-Raw Show LIVE at 11pm ET following Raw! Discuss the show in the comments!
Spoilers for Thursday’s Impact:
