SmackDown Diva Kelly Kelly was apparently injured during her match last night at a house show in Portland, Maine. Kelly faced co-Women’s Champion Layla and at some point in the match, tweaked either her shoulder or neck reports PWInsider. The match was stopped and the ‘X’ sign signalling injury was thrown up by the referee. … Read more
TNA Knockout and one half of the Knockouts Tag Team Champions, Velvet Sky has signed a new, long term deal with the company she has revealed. Bucking the trend of negotiations falling apart [Tara, Kong], Velvet wrote on her MySpace page: “I ain’t going anywhere!” Not that there was any doubt she was going anywhere. … Read more
Earlier this week, we wrote about a possible heel turn for Sarita based on her actions on the first episode of a newly relaunched Xplosion. Well, you can now watch all the Knockouts action from the show below — and there’s a lot of it!
We kick off with a video package featuring Daffney and Taylor Wilde:
Follow the cut for the match and backstage segment:
The WWE Divas took part in a new feature on WWE.com voting which Superstar they felt best fitted each category including ‘Most Handsome’, ‘Best Listener’ and more. The majority of Divas voted SmackDown’s Cody Rhodes as the most handsome Superstar — but he also won ‘Most Conceited’. Check out who the Divas voted for by … Read more
How’s that for a beach body? SmackDown Divas Kelly Kelly and Rosa Mendes look amazing as they pose for the July edition WWE Magazine, which is on newsstands on Tuesday. Both Divas look gorgeous in their summer bikinis! You can download the the image as a desktop wallpaper by clicking here.
Only in WWE could an altercation be incited by gasp, a jump rope. The starring role, it seems, of tonight’s Divas segment went to said jump rope and it looked to me as though it got even more screen time, focus and attention than any of the Divas. In the words of The Miz: “Really? REALLY?” ‘Jump rope-gate’ came across as silly child’s play and made me wonder whether SmackDown had been transported to a kindergarten playground. These are grown women, right? Is it that hard to come up with real, personal animosity to sell storylines for the women? Apparently so. Watch ‘Friday Night Jump Rope’ below:
The segment opens with Rosa Mendes in the ring skipping in the ring. Sure, she’s got jump rope game but why is this on our TV? Out comes Kelly Kelly accompanied by Tiffany before Lay-Cool come out with Kaval and join commentary. Matt Striker explains that last week, Lay-Cool told Rosa to get in shape and that’s why she’s jumping rope. Hey Rosa, couldn’t do that backstage? Cue some funny comments from Lay-Cool and yes, I am still loving the rolling R’s. [“Rrrrrosa… Rrrrring”]
The bell rings, Rosa goes to hang up her rope, gets clubbed from behind by Kelly. Kelly hits the K2 and in the words of Bugs Bunny, “That’s all, folks!” So, the entrances took up two minutes and the whole match, bell to bell, lasted what… 10 seconds?
After the ‘match’, if it can even be called that, Kelly shows off her jump rope game before throwing the rope at Lay-Cool who are at the announce table. Layla and Michelle get heated and try to enter the ring to confront Kelly but Tiffany evens up the numbers and the co-Women’s Champions back off. Wait… haven’t both Layla and Michelle beaten Tiffany? Not that logic applies to WWE’s writing but wouldn’t it be easy for Lay-Cool to take out Tiffany considering she’s fallen to both of them before? Then couldn’t they just gang up on Kelly? It doesn’t seem all that ‘smart’, as Matt Striker put it, to me. Then again, you can see both Layla and Michelle are in expensive shoes and short skirts so it was given that there’d be no scuffle here. At least make it believeable!
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Last week, Angelina Love declared her mission: to demolish The Beautiful People and regain “her” Knockouts Title at Victory Road. She said she would take out TBP one person at a time. She did so, starting with Lacey Von Erich, planting her head into a steel chair at the end of last week’s match. It may have gotten Love disqualified, but she couldn’t have cared less. The camera caught her saying, “One down… two to go.” The next person to feel her wrath is her former BFF, Velvet Sky. Will Vel-Vel come out victorious or will the Love Express roll over her? Watch below…
We catch Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky in a restroom, Madison primping her hair (which has some prominent black streaks in it, like Velvet’s) in the mirror while we see Vel in the background, head down, very somber look on her face. (A public restroom? For shame ladies! I would’ve thought TBP had their own private, sparkling bathroom. I am aghast!) Madison talks about Lacey being in the hospital: “At least she’s used to lying on her back!” She laughs but notices Velvet didn’t respond. She turns and puts a hand on Vel’s face, forcing it upwards, asking if she was paying attention since she made “a funny!” Velvet takes Madison’s hand and removes it rather forcefully. At that point, Rayne tells Sky to get her head in the game because Angelina’s coming to take back what she thinks is rightfully hers. Velvet doesn’t reply; instead, she just stares at Madison and then walks away.
Part two of the match after the cut:
This week on WWE Superstars we have Jillian taking on the Bella Twins. Okay, so she’s really facing Brie Bella, but by now we know that when you face one Bella, it’s pretty much a 2-on-1 affair. Watch the match below:
Jillian comes to the ring all microphoned up and in keeping with the World Cup fever sweeping the world, she sings the “Olé Olé” tune until she’s interrupted by the entrance of the Bellas. With Brie in the ring and Nikki at ringside, the match begins. They start with a tie-up, Brie getting control and wrenching Jillian’s arm, but Jillian slams her to the mat. Brie regains control, twisting her arm behind her back, but Jillian quickly trips her up and causes her to hit face-first onto the mat. For good measure, I suppose, she slaps Brie on the butt. Good lord, I hope that doesn’t become some recurring thing. I can only dread what the WWE would do with a spanking gimmick.
Brie seems to take this as a personal insult, as she immediately leaps onto her and starts a bit of a tussle on the mat. After all the scrambling and hair-pulling, Jillian reverses an Irish whip into the corner. Brie braces herself against the corner, leaping and latching her legs around Jillian’s neck, but it’s telegraphed and Jillian pulls her free of the turnbuckle, letting her fall full-on onto the mat. Jillian then chokes her against the second rope, bashing her throat against it. After toying with her a bit, Jillian hits a snapmare and kicks her square in the back, attempt a pin that only garners a 2-count.
She grabs Brie by the arm and twists it back, wrenching her shoulder. When Brie starts to fight out, she simply slams her face onto the mat. Jillian hits her with a scoop slam and goes for her cartwheel splash, but is met in the midsection with Brie’s knees. This slows her down considerably, and allows Brie to go on the patented Diva babyface offensive tear (I’m sure it’s in the manual somewhere, with illustrations of dropkicks and clotheslines), hitting a series of dropkicks, a clothesline, and a bulldog. She goes for the pin, but Jillian kicks out at 2.
Hot on the heels of an awesome YouShoot with Maria Kanellis, the TNA President herself, Dixie Carter is next on the hotseat. Check out the trailer below for the live, in-studio YouShoot with Dixie below: The DVD goes on sale July 20th via KayfabeCommentaries.com.
Two big all female events are taking place this weekend. Anarchy Championship Wrestling presents its second annual American Joshi Queen of Queens Tournament in San Antonio, TX on Sunday. The event is a one night tournament featuring 8 female wrestlers. On the bill for this year’s tournament are Athena, Daffney, Daizee Haze, MsChif, Nicole Matthews, … Read more
It’s official: Angelina Love will challenge Madison Rayne for the Knockouts Championship at Victory Road. The pay per view airs on July 11th. In recent weeks, fans have seen Love make her way through each member of The Beautiful People leading up to her title match with Rayne.
Get your weekly dose of Knockout action on tonight’s Impact. To watch, tune in to Spike TV at 9pm ET. Discuss the show in the comments!
Another former Diva is due to star in a shoot interview soon: this time The Kat aka Miss Kitty, real name Stacy Carter, is on the hotseat — or rather bed with her boyfriend Sinn Bodhi. Check out the preview below: This shoot will be available via Highspots next week.
Speaking to Alex Marvez, five-time Women’s Champion Mickie James says that her release from WWE in April ‘broke her heart’ and she even considered saying that she was done with wrestling. Read below: “It broke my heart (to get released). I admit it,” said James, who initially landed a WWE developmental contract in 2003 after … Read more
Could former Knockouts Tag Team Champion, Sarita be turning heel? Diva Dirt reader Michael writes: Hey Diva Dirt, was just watching TNA Xplosion here in Australia and noticed some interesting Knockout action, it featured a backstage segment between Sarita and Taylor Wilde, basically Sarita was upset that Taylor was receiving a singles match against Daffney … Read more
The latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter suggests that former Knockouts Champion, Tara could be heading back to TNA. Dave Meltzer writes: Lisa “Tara” Varon is expected back. From what we’re told, she was leaving when her contract expired and they did the retirement stipulation in her match. Then, actually before the match took … Read more
Former Diva and TNA Knockout, Shelly Martinez posted a video on YouTube tossing her name into the hat to appear as a contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Check it out below: Shelly previously campaigned for a TNA return which didn’t quite pan out. Former Diva, Stacy Keibler is a ‘Dancing’ alumni while Maria … Read more
In an update on yesterday’s post, new WWE Diva Ashley Valence‘s real name is Ashley Ann Vickers. Ashley is a model from Orlando, Florida, though currently living in Nashville, Tennesse due to her job as in-arena hostess at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. For more on Ashley including some posed bikini pictures, check out her … Read more
Independent wrestler, Mia Yim, who had a tryout match with TNA last week has posted some pictures online of the match on her Facebook page. The pictures were taken by TNA’s photographer, Lee South and include a few posed pictures too. From what I’m told, Mia and Taylor Wilde had a good match, plus she’s … Read more
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After reading the comments last week, a few of you expressed your opinions and said that you didn’t enjoy the long recaps and whatnot. The majority of you, however, enjoyed having the whole show spoken about so in the interest of fairness (I’m not a World Cup referee), I’ve decided to try and come to a compromise. Hopefully no one will complain about my writing style this week, and if you do, then oh well. It’s not my problem because at least I tried. Anyway, lets get down to it! Last week, Kaval saw his first in-ring action against standout rookie, Alex Riley. He came up on the short end of the stick, but this week he had a chance at redemption against creep-o, Eli Cottonwood. Were Michelle McCool and Layla able to cheer their man to victory or did John Morrison’s psych ward reject steal the win?
Kaval versus Cottonwood begins after a commercial so that means we have to miss Kaval’s entrance. That saddens me because this week Laycool is standing at ringside. They have on matching tops and skinny jeans, with porn star shoes, and of course, yours truly is already jealous. These two are so hot! Speaking of hot, the man who needs no mic skills comes out with Eli Cottonwood and Josh Mathews begins throwing out a million different analogies to describe this match. Kaval tries to start the match off on his terms, striking the much larger man in the legs. Cottonwood just brushes it off and bullies Kaval into the corner. Kaval fights back and gets Eli to back off, and he hits him with a fancy air move. Eli staggers but he doesn’t go down, much to Lay-Kav-Ool’s chagrin, I’m sure. Kaval bounces off the ropes and attempts to slide under the legs of Eli, but the monster freak catches our plucky little Brooklyn boy and carelessly tosses him half-way across the ring into a turnbuckle.
Cottonwood takes over the match and begins to punish Kaval for just getting into the ring against him. Eventually he ends up lifting Kaval up into a huge bear hug. Laycool begin cheering on their man and bless him, Kaval begins to fight back. He strikes Eli in the head a few times and that prompts the big man to slam Kaval into the opposite corner from where they began. Kaval keeps trying but Eli grabs him by the throat. Kaval doesn’t give up and he turns Eli’s offense into an illegal submission armbar or something on the ropes. Now that’s pretty damn cool. Kaval breaks the hold right before the five and stands up on the second rope. Eli lumbers towards him but Kaval kicks him back. Eli presses forward and tries to throw Kaval across the ring again. The crafty Kaval lands on his feet and runs towards the ropes. He springs off the middle one and nails Eli in the mouth with a stunning kick.
WWE.com has announced that former ECW and NXT ring announcer, Savannah has been released. Savannah, real name Angela Fong, joined WWE in 2008 and reported to FCW where she received much praise for how quickly she took to wrestling. Last year, Savannah became the first ever Queen of FCW. Later in 2009, Savannah was called … Read more
Diva turned singer turned… window display? Maria Kanellis has released the video to her debut single, ‘Fantasy’ which sees her gyrating in a store-front display for some dude. I wonder if he got paid to do the video? Double bonus! Click here to purchase the video on iTunes.
We now know the identity of new NXT host, Ashley Valence. She is a sports arena hostess who works at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, home of basketball team, the Memphis Grizzlies. Valence’s role includes hyping up the crowd and hosting ‘time-out activities’ during games. MemphisSport.com reports: Grizzlies co-emcee Ashley is now WWE’s Ashley Valence. … Read more
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Tonight: We discuss Alicia Fox as Divas Champion and Angelina Love’s comments on Lay-Cool.
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