Happy Thanksgiving! This week, NXT gave us Diva fans plenty to be thankful for, setting up two big bouts for NXT TakeOver: London. No matches have been officially announced yet, but the picture is becoming a lot clearer thanks to two major confrontations. The theme for this week’s show appears to be “collusion”, as Emma … Read more
Surprise! This week’s NXT isn’t just offering you a Women’s Title main event match: it’s presenting you the most Diva-heavy episode yet. We’ve got three (count ’em, three) Diva matches on deck, as well as countless storylines to set up, with twists galore just around the corner. Suddenly, the Diva Revolution doesn’t feel quite so … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Let’s take a look at this week’s top five: Asuka Asuka … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Each Friday, The Wrap will wrap up the week in women’s wrestling by compiling the week’s smaller news stories, rumors and gossip – anything not normally covered by Diva Dirt. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. Here’s this week’s roundup, in no particular order: * At last … Read more
Last night on NXT we were treated to not one but two Divas matches on NXT. Any women’s wrestling fan would be cheering but many last night actually expressed their disgust that Eva Marie and Cameron were the highlighted Divas competing. Most of the complaints I saw were about how these women aren’t wrestlers and … Read more
Welcome, welcome to another NXT Redux! On this week’s show, NXT continued their pattern of booking two enticingly fresh Divas matches, both playing their own role in establishing a new status quo for the division. Everyone’s favorite intimidating Diva Asuka takes on a returning Cameron, while Eva Marie wrestle her first match in a few … Read more
Join Diva Dirt’s Chris, Erin and Jake for a special Halloween edition of Diva Dirt Weekly. We look back at the past two months in the women’s wrestling world, covering the biggest stories we missed during our ongoing hiatus, tossing in plenty of belated Halloween hijinks along the way. Listen below or download by right … Read more
Each Friday, The Wrap will wrap up the week in women’s wrestling by compiling the week’s smaller news stories, rumors and gossip – anything not normally covered by Diva Dirt. Got a tip for next week? Send it in. Here’s this week’s roundup, in no particular order: * The latest Taste of Tenille shares Emma’s … Read more
As far as transitionary periods go, this is far from boring. NXT’s Divas division’s new era is still coming together, but you wouldn’t know it by watching this week’s show: Bayley‘s first post-Sasha Banks title challenger is far from a lightweight, Nia Jax is breaking the mold of the “monster” and the Dana Brooke/Emma vs. … Read more
Happy Halloween! We’re celebrating our eighth anniversary of dreaming up Halloween costumes for the women of wrestling. This year, we’ll be splitting up the women into three categories: NXT, TNA/Lucha Underground and WWE. But before you see this year’s picks, be sure to catch up on the past seven years of this feature: 2008 2009: … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Let’s take a look at this week’s top five: Alexa Bliss … Read more
As NXT’s Divas division continues to evolve into its newest form, this week’s show worked to refine the audience’s perception of some of its biggest players. Alexa Bliss, the unofficial challenger to Bayley‘s Women’s Championship, took on Peyton Royce, looking to live up to the hype she’s built up around herself. Asuka, meanwhile, takes to … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Note: Events from this weekend’s SHIMMER tapings will be included in … Read more
Respect, indeed. Last night at NXT TakeOver: RESPECT, NXT Divas received their biggest opportunity yet: a spot in the main event. If that wasn’t enough, there was the added Iron Man stipulation, which guaranteed 30 minutes of wrestling and story that would surely hook the crowd. For me, this was cemented as the most inspiring … Read more
Tonight at NXT TakeOver: RESPECT, Asuka made a memorable first impression, to say the least. The Japanese star made her NXT in-ring debut in a match against Dana Brooke, unleashing her trademark kicks and submissions to great effect. To her credit, Dana hung in for most of the match, putting up a bigger fight than … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Tonight at NXT TakeOver: RESPECT, Asuka makes her NXT in-ring debut against Dana Brooke. Does Dana stand a chance against the Japanese phenom? The Diva Dirt team weighs in: Chris: I’ll keep this short. In the words of Whoppi Goldberg- Dana, you in danger girl! Asuka wins. Erin: NXT has … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: wwr-stardom.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome back to another edition of the Joshi Roundup! We are back with injury updates, a new promotion starting, and spotlighting the one and only Act Yasukawa! Joshi News Photo: battle-news.com To update a story from a few months ago, Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestler KANNA fractured her eye socket in … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] NXT Women’s Champion Bayley recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the future of NXT’s Divas division, who she wants to defend the Women’s Title against, changing the term “Diva” and more. The status of the NXT Divas division after recent changes: “I see that it has a million possibilities to … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″][/media-credit] Yesterday, Triple H conducted a media conference call to hype tonight’s NXT TakeOver: RESPECT, answering questions about Bayley and Sasha Banks‘s main event Iron Man match, Asuka‘s in-ring debut and the future of the Divas division. Transcript courtesy of PWInsider. Bayley vs. Sasha at TakeOver: Brooklyn: HHH thinks the match … Read more
We’re less than a week away from the biggest night in the NXT Divas division so far, but the surprises are still coming for NXT TakeOver: RESPECT. Apparently, Bayley and Sasha Banks‘s history-making main event Iron Man NXT Women’s Title match isn’t enough, because we now have another Divas match on the card. Which will … Read more
Another Divas match have been announced for next week’s TakeOver: RESPECT live special: Asuka vs. Dana Brooke. The match was announced on this week’s episode of NXT: JUST ANNOUNCED: @DanaBrookeWWE will face @WWEAsuka at @WWENXT #NXTTakeOver: Respect next Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/dT2b4nVdSl — WWE (@WWE) October 1, 2015 This will be Asuka’s first match for the NXT … Read more
Whose star shone brightest this week? You tell us! With our Star of the Week poll, we’ll pick the week’s top five women in wrestling and let you choose who is number one. The poll will open each Saturday and close on Sunday afternoon. Let’s take a look at this week’s top five: Asuka Asuka … Read more
For the second week in a row, NXT’s Divas got the Superstar treatment. After last week’s huge TakeOver: RESPECT main event announcement, we have another bit of history before us in the form of Asuka‘s debut. Never before has a Diva signing been treated with such pomp and circumstance, recalling the signings of Finn Balor, … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: WWE.com” align=”alignright” width=”620″][/media-credit] Acording to a report from the Wrestling Observer (via via Lords of Pain), WWE may have new plans for the NXT women’s division. As we reported, the original plans called for Eva Marie to be the one to take the NXT Women’s Championship off of Bayley, but officials may have … Read more
[media-credit name=”Photo: battle-news.com” align=”alignright” width=”620″][/media-credit] Welcome back to another edition of the Joshi Roundup! This is a special edition of the column, as there has really been one news story that overshadowed everything else this week. On September 20th, 2015, the talented Joshi wrestler Mio Shirai retired from professional wrestling. Joshi News Photo: battle-news.com At … Read more
This week on NXT, the Diva Revolution finally got around to fulfilling the “revolution” part of its mission. After a week spent marking out, we finally got to see the official booking of a humongous match: Bayley will defend the NXT Women’s Title against Sasha Banks in the main event of TakeOver: RESPECT…in a 30 … Read more