With just nine days till the iPPV, SHINE Wrestling has unveiled the first matches taking place on their 12th show, the first since the monumental SHINE 11 that saw Rain crowned the inaugural SHINE Champion. Interestingly, a match for the SHINE Champion has yet to be announced. Rain’s Valkyrie stable members, April Hunter and Ivelisse … Read more
The card for October’s upcoming Bellatrix vs. SHIMMER event has been announced, with three major championships up for grabs during the show. In the first of three transatlantic main events, Canada’s Courtney Rush will defend her Bellatrix World Championship for the first time since winning it at NCW’s “Femmes Fatales XI” in March, against the … Read more
Current NCW: Femmes Fatales Champion Mercedes Martinez is the latest name to be announced for the upcoming Bellatrix vs. SHIMMER event. Martinez joins Christina Von Eerie, Bellatrix World Champion Courtney Rush and LuFisto as the fourth name to be revealed for the event. As is the case with the other three women, Bellatrix vs. SHIMMER … Read more
It was the night an entire year in the making, and the plan was straightforward: This was going to be the night a young, mighty heroine would rise to the challenge, valiantly seeing off all who stood in her way to be crowned the first-ever SHINE Champion. A fighting champion, a just champion, ready to … Read more
SHINE Wrestling — which celebrates its one year anniversary this month — is known for its strong contingent of female stars, but there is one male who has an integral part of the promotion since its inception. Here, SHINE’s commentator Lenny Leonard reflects on the one year anniversary of women’s wrestling’s fastest rising promotion. It … Read more
Your Two Cents is our interactive feature where we ask for the opinions of our Twitter and Facebook followers. This week, we’re asking this: As part of our SHINE Week leading up to SHINE 11, we want to know: who do you think will win the tournament and become the first ever SHINE Champion? We’ve … Read more
Diva Dirt’s Fast 5 will take on a theme and present to you–in no particular order–five related things from the world of women’s wrestling. This week, with SHINE 11 taking place this Friday, we’re looking back at five matches that have defined SHINE in its first year. Click on the arrow below to see our … Read more
As SHINE Wrestling celebrates its one year anniversary this week, Diva Dirt celebrates one year of SHINE with a series of features all week long, culminating with coverage of SHINE 11 on Friday, July 12. In the fickle, judgmental world we live in today, it takes a great deal of courage, and perhaps a modicum … Read more
Yesterday, NCW Femmes Fatales XII took place in Montreal. We’ve got detailed results from the show, courtesy of Diva Dirt reader Dave Muscarella: Dark Match: Jody Milo squashed Diane Hall. Match was short and Hall got in basically zero offense. 1) Lufisto pinned Kimber Lee via Burning Hammer in a fantastic opener. Very good match. … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of independent women’s wrestling. Check it out below: RESULTS The Crash (June 14th, 2013): Jennifer Blake and Zarco def. Faby Apache and Jonathan. Toryumon Mexico “DragonMania VIII” (June 15th, 2013): Bastet, La Comandante and Mima Shimoda def. Baby Star, Dallys … Read more
Earlier tonight, SHINE Wrestling revealed the brackets for the upcoming SHINE Championship Tournament, as well as how the two remaining places will be filled. The spots, empty following Jazz and Allysin Kay‘s withdrawals from the tournament, will be contested in two four-way matches featuring a number of losing competitors from previous qualifiers. Made in Sin’s … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of independent women’s wrestling. Check it out below: RESULTS Ring of Honor (June 1st, 2013): Athena def. Barbi Hayden with the O-Face. The show took place in San Antonio, TX, so Athena was hailed as the “hometown girl”. 2CW Girls … Read more
SHINE 10 ended in controversial fashion on Friday night, with a failed sneak attack by Allysin Kay and subsequent suspension giving us the first sign of cracks in Valkyrie’s previously united and dominant front. In the main event, Valkyrie leader Rain faced Angelina Love in a rematch from their SHINE Championship tournament qualifier at SHINE … Read more
SHINE Wrestling are once again at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida tomorrow as they present their milestone tenth show, SHINE 10. The event will be broadcast live on Internet Pay-Per-View with three pricing options, the cheapest being just $9.99 (about £6). Click
The final four qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship tournament have been announced, and will take place at the company’s next event, SHINE 10, on May 24th. The draw leaves plenty of interesting possible outcomes, with many prominent feuds having the potential to be intertwined or furthered. Mercedes Martinez faces Mia Yim in her qualifying … Read more
Daffney has resigned as SHINE hostess (and possibly her commentary position), in order to “be of greater use ringside and in the locker room”. The “Scream Queen” has been hostess since the inaugural SHINE show and has decided to quit the role – in presumably a kayfabe storyline – due to the disrespectful actions of Mercedes Martinez. … Read more
When we talk of the historic rivalries in women’s wrestling, there are a certain few that spring to mind. From the pioneering battles between Mae Young and Mildred Burke in the 1950s all the way to Lita and Trish Stratus’s rollercoaster rivalry at the turn of this century, there are plenty of classic feuds to … Read more
After over seven years as one of the world’s top female wrestling promotions, with a host of international stars at every show and arguably the most prestigious women’s championship in the business today as its crown jewel, it’s a wonder that it took SHIMMER so long to broadcast their first Internet Pay-Per-View. They’ve had their … Read more
SHIMMER Women Athletes will be making their presence known at WrestleCon tomorrow as they take over the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, New Jersey for SHIMMER 53, their first foray into Internet Pay-Per-View. The main event sees SHIMMER Champion Saraya Knight put her title on the line in a Steel Cage Match against the woman … Read more
Last night NCW Femmes Fatales held their eleventh show at the Centre Saint-Barthelemy in Montreal, Quebec, where three major women’s wrestling championships from around the world were set to be defended. See below for results of the show: * Sweet Cherie def. Sassy Stephie (w/Madamoiselle Rachelle) * Kira def. Jewells Malone. Post-match, Saraya Knight came … Read more
The dream match pitting Jessicka Havok against Cheerleader Melissa will, for now, remain just a dream, as their NCW: Femmes Fatales XI match has been cancelled. The WSU Championship bout was scheduled to take place this Saturday as one of the event’s four title matches. However, Havok has had to pull out due to a … Read more
All the action of SHIMMER wrestling can now rest in the palm of your hands–literally. Filsinger Games has debuted a SHIMMER expansion to its Legends of Wrestling card game. According to the game’s website, it allows you to “run your own wrestling federation! You book the shows, set up the feuds, rank the contenders, play … Read more
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once famously said “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”. However, in the short-fused, attention-bereft world of professional wrestling, that’s a mantra that we often find ourselves questioning. So how refreshing it was at SHINE 8 to see the patience of so many people (including ourselves) pay off in … Read more
Tonight, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) held their first show since their October event titled “Full Steam Ahead”, as part of a double-header with Combat Zone Wrestling. Weather related issues caused the cancellations of the likes of Allysin Kay, Sassy Stephanie, Marti Belle, Lexxus, Tina San Antonio and Nikki Addams. The show was forced to make … Read more
The lineup for this month’s SHINE 7 iPPV has been announced, with new stable Valkyrie dominating the card. In the main event, Amazing Kong will get the chance to wreak some revenge on Rain, whose interference along with the rest of Valkyrie during Kong’s match against Mercedes Martinez at SHINE 6 cost Kong an important … Read more
February 9th sees Women Superstars Uncensored joining forces with Combat Zone Wrestling for a huge hardcore double-header. WSU’s half of the festivities is called “An Ultraviolent Affair” and will be headlined by Jessicka Havok defending her WSU World Championship against Athena, who Havok handpicked to be her opponent. Later in the evening, CZW will hold … Read more