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Beth Phoenix Return Plans

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The Glamazon, Beth Phoenix is being scheduled to feud with Michelle McCool upon her return to WWE, reports the Wrestling Observer. Dave Meltzer notes that Beth’s return will likely fall around December. It had previously been thought she’d be back in October. Beth has been sidelined since May. Interestingly, the Observer says the feud will … Read more

Former WWE Diva Becomes MMA Dancer

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Former WWE Diva, Savannah aka Angela Fong has joined MMA organisation, Xtreme Fighting Championships, as a dancer in the XFC Cage Dolls. Angela, who was released from her contract in June made the announcement via her Twitter page, adding that she would be heading to Greece in October for her first performance. XFC has aired … Read more

NXT Rating Plummets Amidst Stiffer Competition

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The launch of the fall TV season had a big effect on last night’s NXT season three rating, despite being the best episode thus far in the season. The show scored a 0.81 cable rating with 1,050,000 viewers reports PWInsider. That is way down from last week’s 1.01 rating. It should be noted that Monday’s … Read more

Mickie James Signing with TNA

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Diva Dirt has just received word that former WWE Women’s Champion, Mickie James has either signed or is expected to sign a contract with TNA Wrestling today. A reliable source tells me that word has been floating around in the past 24 hours that James would finalise her deal today. No more details at this … Read more

NXT Redux (September 21st, 2010): The Most Ridiculously Awesome Episode of NXT Ever

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Last week on NXT, Jamie Keyes and Kaitlyn secured their statuses as NXT winner worthy. Jamie shined in the ring and on the mic, and Kaitlyn came off as a homewrecker who could kick some ass and do an obstacle course. You gotta love this show. This week, we were treated (or not) to a game of musical chairs, a Talk the Talk challenge, two matches, and of course, the goddess-like presence of the self-proclaimed co-Unified Divas Champions, Michelle McCool and Layla. How did the show play out? Well lets take a look!

Josh Matthews is seen at the broadcast booth all by his lonesome when NXT starts tonight. Michael Cole left the show last week and everyone rejoiced. Matthews says we can take our televisions off mute tonight. The theme music of CM Punk (which I like to sing every morning on my way to school) starts to play and he walks out in his ring gear and this hideous brown jacket. He walks to the broadcast table, tells Josh to shut up, and announces himself as Cole’s replacement. He tears up Josh’s autograph picture and says that he loves women, then throws it up to our blue eyed host, Matt Striker. Striker introduces the rookie Divas: Kaitlyn, Maxine, Aksana, AJ Lee, Naomi, and Jamie Keyes.

CM Punk: “I thought she won NXT season two…my bad. I thought she was Kaval.”

Tonight is going to be epic.

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ROH Recap (September 20th, 2010): Sara Del Rey vs Taeler Hendrix

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After a mini hiatus, we are back with the ROH Recap! In this edition, ROH’s resident Queen of Wrestling, Sara Del Rey is taking on Taeler Hendrix, who hails from New England Championship Wrestling. Watch below: Skip to 03:20 The match starts off with Taeler making the ultimate mistake by falling for Sara’s attempt of … Read more

Mr. Glamazon’s Hitting the Ropes (Issue #16) – All Dressed Up

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Like a lot of readers on this site I am in love with a pretty brunette from Los Angeles.  No, no, no…it’s not Melina, although I will admit she is pretty sensational.  Great looking, great worker.  But c’mon, she defeated my beloved Glamazon at the 2009 Royal Rumble and stole her Women’s Championship.  An egregious crime that I may never get over.  Not only do I look more and more like an elephant as I get older, I have a memory like one too.  Sorry Melina…it still hurts.

No, this particular brunette has been a part of my life for 23 years now, and to this day she still gives me butterflies and makes me feel light-headed.  It all started back in the summer of 1987 when I was attending basketball camp at Franklin & Marshall College.  At the end of the week my parents took me to the school bookstore so I could get a t-shirt or pair of shorts.  As I was making my way back to the clothing section I passed the magazine rack and…BAM…something hit me right between the eyes.  I felt like I had been hit by a bulldozer.  Staring back at me was the most picturesque, beautiful woman I had ever seen.  There she was, like an angel, on the cover of that month’s SPIN magazine – Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles.  I’m not sure I believe in love at first site…but that was definitely the first time I felt incredibly attracted to a woman.  I didn’t know a lot about the Bangles in general, but I knew I would soon be finding out much, much more.

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NXT Discussion: September 21st, 2010

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Watch and root for your favorite as the rookie Divas compete for dominance in the 3rd season of NXT. The show airs at 10pm ET on Syfy. Be sure to tune in to the Post-NXT Show LIVE at 11:30pm ET following the show! Discuss the show in the comments!

The Five to Watch 2010: Britani Knight

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Welcome to The Five to Watch 2010! Diva Dirt is always on the look-out for bright, young talent breaking into the scene in women’s wrestling. Always with a finger on the pulse of up and coming talent, over the next week, we will bring to you the five talents we that we feel could be breakout stars in the future. Meet the Class of 2010…

BRITANI KNIGHT

Who is she?
At the age of 18 years old, Britani Knight is the best female grappler in Europe. Hailing from Norwich and the legendary Knight Wrestling Dynasty (including father “Rowdy” Ricky Knight, mother Sweet Saraya and brothers Zebra Kid & Zak Zodiac), Britani has already chalked up five years of experience around the halls of the UK and more recently mainland Europe. Trained out of the Knight family-run WAW Training Academy, Britani has cut her teeth wrestling for promotions such as WAW, HEW, Premier Promotions, RDW, Pro-Wrestling EVE, All Star Wrestling, NWF (Norway), BCC (Belgium), GSW (Germany), DPW (Denmark) amongst others.

Her story so far…
It’s hard to look at the composed and talented Britani Knight in 2010 and reconcile the fact that she only just turned 18 years old over the summer. Of course, as noted, it’s five years since the fresh-faced Britani made her debut as one half of the popular tag team “The Norfolk Dolls” with friend Melodi. When ‘Dolls’ partner Melodi retired, Britani found herself thrust into the singles ranks, where she has excelled ever since. Early matches with both her mother Saraya and generation rival Jetta helped her gain experience in this transitional period, but it was in 2009 that the pieces started to fall into place that turned the young Miss Knight into a bonafide star in her own right. A vicious turn on her mother allowed Britani to step out of her family’s long shadow and establish herself as the de-facto undisputed British Ladies Champion by capturing consecutive singles titles in HEW, WAW, RDW & RQW.

Britani vs Wesna Busic (Part 1)

More after the cut:

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Raw Redux (September 20th, 2010): Layla’s Flawless Victory

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In what I’ll assume is an attempt to make up for the total lack of Divas action on last week’s Raw, WWE booked TWO Divas matches this week. First up, Melina invokes her rematch clause after losing to Michelle McCool at Night of Champions, but this time she has to take on the other half of Lay-Cool: Layla. Check out the match below:

Out first is Layla, accompanied by Michelle and both are sporting shiny, new Divas Championship belts. (I wonder who has the replica. Hmm…) Melina comes out next and she looks like she’s all business. As she does her usual entrance, Michelle joins the commentary booth and informs us that she and Layla are both Unified Diva Champions. She also lets us in on the plan between her and Layla at Night of Champions that fooled everyone into thinking LayCool was on the outs.

The referee signals for the bell and Layla immediately goes on the attack, charging straight for Melina. Unfortunately for Layla, she charges straight into a few vicious forearms, courtesy of Melina. Melina continues the assault with few punches to the midsection, but Layla pushes her away in an attempt to gain the advantage over the former champion. Melina keeps the heat on Layla, knocking her to the mat with a strike to the back and laying her out with a modified curbstomp.

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Diva Dirt Meets Manami Toyota: Full Report and Q&A Highlights

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This past weekend US based women’s wrestling fans had a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet me.. err, I mean see Manami Toyota perform for the first time on American soil when she wrestled a weekend of shows for CHIKARA. Despite having seen SHIMMER only a weekend before, I knew I had to experience the woman widely known as ‘The Greatest Women’s Wrestler of All Time’ for myself. I also wanted to give my adoring fans a chance to admire me for themselves. I am as generous as I am humble…

Apparently, many others felt the same way, as the show not only sold out but the venue was also filled wall to wall with standing room spectators AND according to ringside gossip which I was, of course, privy to, 200+ fans were turned away at the door. Fellow wrestlers ‘The Rate Tank’ Kellie Skater and ‘Bonesaw’ Jessie Brooke felt it a necessity to attend this show and both told me that it was a dream come true to see Manami Toyota wrestle in person.

Following the event, Manami Toyota signed autographs in the lobby. Knowing that the demand for a moment with the living legend would be of epic proportions (Diva Dirt fan John Hyperion and I even met one fan who flew out from Japan to see Manami wrestle in America), CHIKARA provided the entire bar area for Toyota’s signing, which lasted close to an hour. During this time I had the privledge of meeting and speaking with Yolanda Jerigan, owner and founder of GIMICK$, a t-shirt line that is very over with the wrestlers themselves (she designed the ‘I Love Heels’ shirts featured in that infamous Awesome Kong/Alissa Flash photo). Ms. Jerigan is also a designer of wrestling fashions (ring gear) and designed the gear Sara Del Rey wore in the main event that night. While Ms. Jerigan had every reason to sit back and allow me to praise her talents and beg for free fierce fashions (which I would still like please), she instead chose to tell me how much she loved Diva Dirt, how her company checks it everyday and how she views us as THE Women’s wrestling website. The success of this site continues to amaze me and is in large part thanks to the loyal readers who allow the staff to experience moments like these.

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Beth Phoenix, Mickie James Comment on Retirement of Women’s Championship

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Two former WWE Women’s Champions, Beth Phoenix and Mickie James took to their Twitter pages last night to comment on WWE’s decision to retire the historic 50+ year old Women’s Championship. Beth, a three-time champion, wrote: It saddens me to see the historic Women’s Title moved into retirement, but I am so grateful to have … Read more

Raw Response: September 20th, 2010

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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!

WWE Retires Women’s Championship

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As seen tonight on Raw, WWE has officially retired the 50+ year old Women’s Championship. Going forward, the Divas Championship will be the sole belt for the women’s division and is currently being referred to as the Unified Divas Championship. If the recent re-naming of the Unified Tag Team Championship to simply the WWE Tag … Read more

Raw Spoilers for Tonight

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If you can’t wait another 20 minutes for the show to go on air, spoilers for tonight’s Raw below. The show was taped earlier as WWE is taping two episodes tonight, including next week’s Raw in a cost-cutting measure regarding the October 1st live episode of SmackDown.

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