It has been a huge week for the stars of WWE. NXT had their first two-night TakeOver: Stand & Deliver on Wednesday and Thursday, and WrestleMania 37 weekend has just come to a close. WrestleMania weekend saw two former NXT stars win their first-ever main roster titles. Royal Rumble winner Bianca Belair defeated Sasha Banks … Read more
When the Royal Rumble rolled around this past January, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair were odds on favorites to win the match. In Bianca, many saw the hope and promise of a dream match with reigning Smackdown Women’s Champion, Sasha Banks. This had the promise of a great, fresh matchup, and representation for many young … Read more
NXT’s first-ever two-day event, TakeOver: Stand & Deliver took place over the past couple of night and offered up a division changing main event and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships on the line. The CWC looked great and the extra fans in attendance made a welcome return to the wrestling landscape. But enough about … Read more
Io Shirai spoke recently with Sports Illustrated prior to her title match and Stand & Deliver and said she would love to face Bayley on a big stage such as WrestleMania. Shirai lost the NXT Women’s Title after holding it for over 300-days at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver last night to Raquel Gonzalez. This loss … Read more
NXT’s first-ever two-night event is here. Night one of NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver takes place tonight and features the highly anticipated women’s title match in the main event. Io Shirai defends the NXT Women’s Championship against her toughest opponent to date, Raquel Gonzalez. The match is months in the making. Ever since Gonzalez pinned … Read more
NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver is about to take off as Night One starts tonight with Night Two concluding tomorrow. There is currently one women’s match on each show on the main card. NXT has now announced that on the pre-show of Night One, the rising star Zoey Stark will be facing Toni Storm. Stark … Read more
NXT’s historic two-day event, NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver is here, and it offers up two exciting and intriguing women’s matches. The first is Io Shirai defending her NXT Women’s Championship against her most dominant opponent to date, Raquel Gonzalez. The two have been at each other’s throats for weeks and got into a brilliant … Read more
The last show before TakeOver: Stand & Deliver hit on all levels and did not disappoint. The women’s roster continues to be well represented throughout the show. If only RAW and SmackDown could do this very same thing. Hopefully, a few women will move to those rosters after WrestleMania. The amount of talent they have … Read more
Tonight’s NXT is the last show before their big two-night TakeOver event next week. Stand & Deliver currently has only one women’s match over the two-night show that will see the NXT Women’s Title on the line. The champion Io Shirai got what she asked for and will be facing Raquel Gonzalez. They will take … Read more
Welcome to another edition of Diva Dirt Discussions What Went Down. A lot went down in the world of women’s wrestling this week and we talk about it all. In the video, we discuss Rhea Ripley challenging Asuka for a title match at WrestleMania. Charlotte Flair announcing she got COVID-19 and Sasha Banks dropping Bianca … Read more
There has been a change to the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship match set for tonight’s show. Jessi Kamea is out with an injury according to an official report by WWE. Therefore, Aliyah and Robert Stone have looked to a former member of The Robert Stone Brand to help – Mercedes Martinez. Aliyah and Martinez … Read more
Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon came out of last week as the NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions and now the whole roster has their eyes on them. First to step up to the champs are none other than The Robert Stone Brand. Aliyah and Jessi Kamea interrupted the champions who were backstage soaking in their … Read more
With the introduction to the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles and Io Shirai retaining her NXT Women’s Title last week a lot went on. The follow up from last week on tonight’s episode should be entertaining. After Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez became the inaugural tag team champions, they lost to Ember Moon & Shotzi … Read more
This week’s NXT certainly had a rollercoaster of emotions. Io Shirai retained her NXT Women’s Title, we had the introduction of the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles with two different champions, and Xia Li received some retaliation. The show started out with General Manager William Regal making the announcement that he promised from last week. … Read more
As quickly as Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez became the first NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions they are now just as quickly the former champions. From being presented with the tag titles (as a result of their Dusty Cup win) and marked as the inaugural champions by William Regal earlier in the night, they also … Read more
Toni Storm is getting ready for her NXT Women’s Title match this week as she faces the champion, Io Shirai. With her eyes firmly on gold, she also commented on the possibility of the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships being introduced. On last week’s NXT, Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez were poised to becoming the … Read more
WWE announced that SmackDown Women’s Champion, Sasha Banks and her WrestleMania opponent, Bianca Belair will team up once again. They will face WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler at Fastlane. Banks and Belair teamed to challenge the tag team champs last month at WWE Elimination Chamber. The champions successfully retained when … Read more
After tonight’s Women’s Tag Team Championship match on NXT, Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax are still the champions. The storytelling was there, the action was there, but when it came to Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez getting the win it wasn’t in their favor. What caused them to lose however was controversial in nature. Kai … Read more
Tonight’s NXT is a big night for two women in particular. Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez will face Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax for the Women’s Tag Team Championships. For Gonzalez, this will also be her first televised title opportunity in NXT. As for Kai, this is a full-circle moment. She debuted facing Jax and … Read more
On last night’s RAW, Charlotte Flair threw out the idea of challenging Asuka and her RAW Women’s Title. Prior to laying out the challenge, Flair says that when she returned from her hiatus that her thought wasn’t to be in the championship picture. In fact, she said she didn’t want to be around the RAW … Read more
RAW has been a lot of the same as lately week after week, however, now that Charlotte Flair and Asuka are seemingly no longer a team where does this leave both women? Asuka hasn’t had a logical feud for her RAW Women’s Title in a number of months. She had a brief run-in with Alexa … Read more
Dakota Kai is currently on the best run of her NXT career. Along with Raquel Gonzalez, she made history, becoming the first-ever women’s Dusty Classic winners. But it has been a long and challenging journey to success for Kai, who came back from a near career-threatening injury in 2019. In a recent interview with Wrestling Inc, … Read more
Another overall great outing for the ladies of NXT. Zoey Stark had a massive push by facing the NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai in her second match in NXT. Going one-on-one with not only the champion but against the high level of Shirai is a huge rub for someone the WWE audience hasn’t seen much … Read more
For this week’s NXT there are a couple of matches being advertised. As reported earlier today, the newly signed Zoey Stark will be receiving a great opportunity by facing the NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai in a non-title match. This match could be really good and/or it may just be a setup to allow Toni … Read more
Finally! On tonight’s RAW, Rhea Ripley has finally been announced as coming soon to the red brand. A video package aired in order to promote Ripley’s arrival to RAW. She is the first and so far only woman to have won both the NXT UK and NXT Women’s Championships. Originally starting in the NXT UK … Read more
Since the poorly booked Elimination Chamber pay-per-view is now in the past it is time to continue to move forward to WrestleMania. There is one last stop of Fastlane which will take place on March 21. Hopefully tonight’s RAW can start the build for that a lot better. What did take place over the weekend … Read more