Just when you thought it was okay to stop covering your eyes after Monday’s ‘Pajama Pillowfight’ trainwreck, here’s a blistering reminder. Personally, I find the whole gimmick photoshoot, and the segment on Raw itself, creepy. It sexualises things that are associated with young girls and blurs the boundaries of what’s appropriate for supposedly PG viewing. … Read more
Two former Divas who were extremely popular despite not being considered ‘wrestlers’, Dawn Marie and Stacy Keibler have been added to WWE.com’s Alumni section. Both were part of what many consider to be the ‘golden age’ of the Divas roster and are in company with fellow Divas from that period including Lita, Torrie Wilson and … Read more
Meet Maria’s replacement… In a minor spoiler from last night’s SmackDown taping, former ECW GM Tiffany made her debut for the brand. Tiffany’s SmackDown debut airs on Friday.
Spoilers for this Friday’s SmackDown are in. Click ‘show’ to read:
Thoughts after the cut:
In an update to this post, there are five new Diva video packages on the WWE.com website dedicated to Beth Phoenix, Layla, Melina, Michelle McCool and finally a video bundling together all of the other Divas. They must feel so appreciated. Anyhoo, check out all the clips below:
The longest clip of the bunch, Beth’s is nearly two minutes long and concentrates mainly on her awesome Glamazon moments such as smashing Melina against a locker on Raw.
Rest after the cut:
In line with recent years, WWE is expected to book a multi-Diva match or a tag team match for WrestleMania 26 at month’s end according to the Figure Four Weekly newsletter. The reason that the Divas have all been bundled onto the show in the past several years is because it’s a way to give … Read more
Following yesterday’s awesome ‘History of the Divas’ clip, WWE has released today two individual video packages: one dedicated to Divas Champ, Maryse and the other to mainstay Mickie James.
WWE has really been doing a great job with all the Diva love on their website in the past couple of days. If only they could put that same attention into their shows.
Watch the packages below:
Mickie after the cut:
Well, now that we’ve gotten past that pesky Divas Championship Tournament, it’s time to set the division back several years and have a good old fashioned pajama pillow fight. Of course, this is in keeping with this week’s guest GMs, Cheech and Chong, not that their names are synonymous with pajamas or pillow fights. I’m just guessing the Divas sitting in a circle and passing around a bong wouldn’t have been in keeping with their PG rating. But of course, the Divas looking all jailbait-y while bouncing up and down and fighting with pillows is totally PG, right? Shh.. it’s not supposed to make sense.
Speaking of sense, it’s fantastic that the WWE is starting off Women’s History Month with a sufficiently degrading match. Nothing like celebrating the accomplishments and advancement of women like making them boner-fodder for Cheech and Chong. And it’s only March 1st, people! There’s a whole month left! I can only hope a water balloon fight is next.
Watch the “match” below:
Guest GMs Cheech and Chong come to the ring, make a few jokes about how high they are, and introduce the Divas. The babyfaces come first, with Kelly Kelly leading out Gail Kim and Eve Torres. Next, appropriately, they introduce the heels as “the.. other ones!”. The other ones (also known as Maryse [I wouldn’t bring the Divas Title out for this shitfest either, girl], Alicia Fox, and Jillian) make their way to the ring. I kinda of appreciate how serious Alicia looks. With something as silly and degrading as this, it kind of takes the sting out to see the heels show how “over” this they are. Cheech and Chong seat themselves in recliners at ringside.
Maryse takes a long moment to pose for the crowd, and the rest of the Divas gang up on her. Soon this alliance breaks down and Jillian just decides to clothesline everyone. I admire her tenacity–while everyone else looks silly fighting with down feathers, she just decides to mow everyone over. She then pounds every Diva with a pillow and belts out a celebratory high note. Kelly stuffs her pillow in her face to stop the sound and hits a sloppy looking K2–bare feet don’t provide the best traction, after all. She goes for the pin, but Jillian kicks out at 2.
Showing no sign of letting down despite leaving WWE, Maria Kanellis took to the red carpet last night at TheWrap.com’s celebration for this year’s awards season nominees in Beverly Hills. Maria went for minimalist this time with a simple draped red dress and barely there makeup. I have to say, I love this new post-WWE … Read more
Yes, you read right. Reports suggest that Gail Kim may have been hurt during last night’s scintilatinjg ‘Pajama Pillowfight’. Kim was supposedly helped to the back by officials after the match. Hopefully Gail is okay though it confounds me how she was hurt in a match of this type as opposed to, you know, an … Read more
WWE is reportedly working on a new DVD release on the WWE Divas. The DVD will concentrate on the history of the Divas division and feature classic matches and segments with commentary from several past and present Divas. The legendary 7-time WWE Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus has been confirmed for the project.
WWE is reportedly working on a new DVD release on the WWE Divas. The DVD will concentrate on the history of the Divas division and feature classic matches and segments with commentary from several past and present Divas. The legendary 7-time WWE Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus has been confirmed for the project.
Pot comedy legends Cheech and Chong are hosting Raw tonight. Tune in for weed jokes a plenty and Maryse’s first Raw as the new Divas Champion. Discuss the show in the comments!
Awesome Kong, one half of the Knockouts Tag Team Champions just posted the following tweet: I’d like to thank Dixie Carter and all of the employees at TNA for wishing me the very best in my future endeavors. We hope to have confirmation on this soon but it’s been no secret that relations between TNA … Read more
Last week, we announced that former TNA Knockout Sojo Bolt aka Josie had signed with Wrestlicious and now today, as we gear towards the premiere of Wrestlicious TakeDown tonight, Josie tells us all about her decision to join the new all female promotion. Josie talks to us about how she joined the company and the … Read more
WWE has released a new video package entitled ‘History of WWE Divas’ to celebrate Women’s History Month. The clip, which features voiceover from Mickie James, packages the past few decades into just over a minute which may seem a little short, but it is a pretty cool video. Overall, it’s a really nice touch by … Read more
Along with Raw and the premiere of Wrestlicious, Ring of Honor is throwing it’s hat into the race with a rare Women of Honor match on their HDNet show. SHIMMER stars Sara Del Rey will take on one half of the Tag Team Champions, Portia Perez of the Canadian Ninjas. Tune in at 8pm on … Read more
WWE.com is celebrating Women’s History Month with some of the WWE Divas revealing their dream match. While most of the picks were the standard ‘Trish’ or ‘Moolah’, two of the picks were a little more interesting… Women’s Champion, Michelle McCool would want to face… herself. She says: “There’s really nobody on my level in WWE, … Read more
After six years on the roster, Maria Kanellis‘ WWE shockingly ended last Friday when the company announced her release. In a new audio, Melanie and Steven reflect on Maria’s release and the highlights of her WWE career. To download the clip to play on your computer, right click and save this link (13.6mb). Alternatively, you … Read more
We have just received word from Wrestlicious’ producers that the show will stream live tonight simultaneously with the telecast at 11pm ET at www.bite.ca/wrestling. The stream is available to fans worldwide! Just to clarify: TakeDown will air on Mav TV in America and Bite TV in Canada tonight at 11pm ET with a simultaneous live … Read more
Former WWE Women’s Champion, Mickie James, speaking about her upcoming CD release ‘Strangers & Angels’, comments on why she ‘started over’ as a country music singer even though she already has a successful career in wrestling: “I don’t know. Why not? I’m always up for a challenge and I like to challenge myself. When I … Read more
Tonight’s the night! Wrestlicious premieres it’s brand new show, TakeDown at 11pm ET on Mav TV and Bite TV in Canada. If you can’t catch it tonight, don’t worry — you’ll be able to watch the episode in full at bite.ca/wrestling tomorrow. Also, Mav TV will be airing repeats on Wednesday and Friday at 11pm … Read more
Just 24 hours away from the premiere of Wrestlicious TakeDown, the exclusives continue! This time, our guest is an independent wrestler who plays country cowgirl Tyler Texas in the series — it’s Lorelei Lee. If that name sounds familiar, it’s perhaps because she was part of TNA’s New Year’s Knockout Eve last year when she … Read more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Unwrapped! As always, we will be grading all of the new photoshoots (or “eye candy”, as we like to call them) from the week gone by, judging them like so:
Sweet (Great) • Bland (Iffy) • Sour (Awful)
You, the reader, will also get the chance to grade the “eye candy” yourself by giving your opinion on each shoot and voting for your favorite out of the whole bunch. Now, dive in!
Eve Torres‘ Close Knit
Grade: Sweet. According to Shad Gaspard, she’s the hottest Diva in the WWE and looking at this photoshoot — we can see why. Eve brings sexy, glamorous and girl next door into a single photoshoot with ‘Close Knit’. The Diva, wearing a navy blue knitted sweater dress doesn’t look overtly sexual, but manages to bring the sexy anyway. With an outfit like this and legs like that, Eve doesn’t really rely on posing as much and some of her poses may seem a little boring. But overall, this is a sexy photoshoot!
• Click to see the rest of the photoshoot.
Maria‘s Curtain Call
Grade: Sour. Who will do a photoshoot every single week now that Maria’s gotten the axe? In her final photoshoot for WWE, Maria gave us all the things we’ve become accustomed to in her pictorials: pouty lips and outlandishly garish outfits. Unfortunately, Maria’s patented gloves didn’t get to make their curtain call. It’s all you’ve come to expect from Maria and honestly, that’s not a good thing. Nonetheless, au revoir Maria!
• Click to see the rest of the photoshoot.
Read more to see the rest of this week’s photoshoots.
Making her first public appearance since her WWE release yesterday, Maria Kanellis joined the Special Delivery Show on XM satellite radio just under an hour ago to speak for the first time on her departure and also premiered in full, for the first time, her debut single ‘Fantasy’. In the interview, Maria said she believes … Read more
We’re back with another Wrestlicious exclusive ahead of the series premiere of Wrestlicious TakeDown on Monday night. Our guest this time is a former ROH and SHIMMER star who was coaxed out of retirement to play the voodoo queen White Magic in Wrestlicious. You know her as The Lovely Lacey — not to be confused … Read more