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Wrestling’s Black History Month: Part 2 90’s & 2000’s

February 25, 2025 by Juanofhonor

To commemorate Black History Month, Diva Dirt made these slides to pay tribute and celebrate the contributions of African American women wrestlers who paved the way and changed the wrestling industry for the better. Today we will focus on three women that defined the 90’s and 2000’s in mainstream wrestling. Apart from the slides, you … Read more

IMPACT 1000 Concludes With Huge Knockouts Tag Team Main Event

September 21, 2023 by Colby Applegate

IMPACT 1000 continued this week with what is being hailed as “the greatest fight in Knockouts history” — an all-star five-on-five bout that pitted Knockouts World Champion Trinity, Gail Kim, Awesome Kong, Jordynne Grace, and Mickie James against Angelina Love, Deonna Purrazzo, Tasha Steelz, Gisele Shaw, and Savannah Evans. Trinity and Love started the bout … Read more

Tasha Steelz And Mickie James Return, Traci Brooks Gets HOF Nod On IMPACT 1000

September 14, 2023 by Colby Applegate

The first week of IMPACT 1000 featured two big returns and a major announcement for this year’s IMPACT Hall of Fame class. To kick things off, President Scott D’Amore welcomed Gail Kim to the ring. We saw a video package highlighting the Knockouts greats before The Beautiful People returned and trashed Kim and the other … Read more

Trinity & Jordynne Grace To Team With Gail Kim & Awesome Kong At IMPACT 1,000

August 31, 2023 by Nick Wilkinson

We have a 10 Knockouts Tag Team Match set for IMPACT 1,000. It was previously announced that Gail Kim and Awesome Kong would be returning for one more match and would team together. Now we know they will join the Knockouts World Champion Trinity, a returning Jordynne Grace, and a mystery partner. They will take … Read more

Awesome Kong To Make In-Ring Return At IMPACT 1,000

August 29, 2023 by Nick Wilkinson

The former two-time Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong is announced for the upcoming IMPACT 1,000 event. Per the announcement it states she will be back in the ring. An opponent has not been named at the time of this writing. This will be the first time that Awesome Kong will be wrestling in over three years. … Read more

The Coven Scores Upset Win; Kong & Beautiful People Set For IMPACT 1000

August 3, 2023 by Colby Applegate

This week’s IMPACT opened with Trinity returning to Chicago, the same city she made her IMPACT debut. Similarly, Deonna Purrazzo interrupted her and declared that Trinity won’t beat her twice. The Coven followed suit with KiLynn having a lengthy promo. But when all was said and done, a brawl broke out leading to an impromptu … Read more

Awesome Kong Talks Asking For A Raise While At The Top Of TNA

July 6, 2022 by Nick Wilkinson

TNA/IMPACT Hall of Famer and one of the most polarizing women in wrestling history, Awesome Kong, recently sat down with Chris Van Vliet to talk about a whole bunch of topics. In it, she spoke about her retirement, AEW, GLOW, her brief moment as Kharma in WWE, and her time with TNA. Kong’s time in … Read more

A WrestleMania clash between Beth Phoenix vs Awesome Kong almost happened

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021 by John Duffy

WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix and the legendary Awesome Kong were set to clash at WrestleMania according to Freddie Prinze Jr. On the latest episode of his new podcast Wrestling with Freddie, the actor and former WWE creative team member revealed plans for an angle between the two legends. Prinze Jr disclosed he was tasked … Read more

Awesome Kong gets inducted into the IMPACT Hall of Fame

October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 by Nick Wilkinson

Awesome Kong becomes the second woman [first was Gail Kim] to ever enter into the IMPACT Hall of Fame. At Knockouts Knockdown, Kong received her flowers as Christy Hemme came to the ring to make the announcement. Kong officially retired from the ring at the end of August at NWA EmPowerrr in a surprise announcement. … Read more

Gail Kim learned of Awesome Kong’s retirement when the fans did

September 19, 2021 by Nick Wilkinson

Considered by many, Gail Kim and Awesome Kong have held up as the greatest rivalry when it comes to the IMPACT Knockouts. At NWA EmPowerrr, Gail Kim embraced with her former on-screen foe as Kong announced her retirement from pro-wrestling. What many didn’t know was that Kim only found out about Kong’s retirement [in the … Read more

Awesome Kong announces her retirement at NWA EmPowerrr

August 28, 2021 by Nick Wilkinson

At tonight’s historical NWA EmPowerrr event, Awesome Kong made a shocking appearance. During a speech given by Gail Kim, Taryn Terrell interrupted her former foe in TNA/IMPACT with Jennacide and Paola Blaze (Mayfield) as her backup. Terrell insisted that Kim leave the ring but it would be Terell who ended up leaving – the hard way. … Read more

AEW doesn’t renew the contracts of Awesome Kong and Shanna

June 1, 2021 by Nick Wilkinson

It is being reported by the Wrestling Observer that Awesome Kong and Shanna will not have their AEW contracts renewed. Their profiles have been removed from AEW’s website. The company hasn’t made an official announcement. Awesome Kong was last seen in a match against Skyler Moore on Dark in January 2020. She was a member … Read more

MsChif vs. Amazing Kong SHIMMER Vol. 9 – 04.07.07

May 22, 2020 by Nick Wilkinson

This week’s Free Match Friday is brought to you by SHIMMER. As a result of indie shows not being able to perform at the moment, it is good to recall past matches that stole the show.

This match featured a big name for the SHIMMER promotion and that is MsChif. She eventually became a SHIMMER Champion, but before the title was brought forth she feuded with the likes of Cheerleader Melissa and Daizee Haze. She would eventually go on to become SHIMMER Champion for an impressive 715-days.

This particular encounter though she had her hands full with a formidible foe – Amazing Kong.

The two put on quite the match in which MsChif showed just how determine she was to never quit. Enjoy this week’s match to see who took away the victory.

Leave your thoughts on this match in the comment section below.

AEW writes off Awesome Kong with an “injury”

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 by Nick Wilkinson

On last night’s AEW Dark, The Nightmare Collective has already started to implode. The tides changed for the stable after Mel took on Hikaru Shida. Despite Awesome Kong’s efforts to interfere in the match, Mel still came out with a loss. This loss did not sit well with Kong. Kong and Mel would exchange words … Read more

AEW releases first women’s rankings of the year

January 8, 2020 by Nick Wilkinson

As previously reported, AEW is resetting their rankings for the new year. What was stated as a result of this reset was that the records would still be cumulative but the annual records would reset each calendar year. The last rankings of the year saw newcomer Kris Statlander at the top spot with a 3-0 … Read more

10 Game Changers of the Decade

January 3, 2020December 31, 2019 by Mykel Cesare

Once upon a time, not long ago, the 2010s just started, NXT had its first all women’s season, Laycool dominated the WWE, TNA had their infamous Lockbox 8 woman elimination tag. We saw old faces return to wrestling; Trish, Lita, Chyna, Traci Brooks. We lost Chyna and Mae Young, had Snooki Mania, witnessed the first … Read more

Winners & Losers: AEW Dynamite 13/11/19

November 14, 2019 by John Duffy

This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite was memorable for all of the Full Gear fallout, none of which, unfortunately, included the women’s division. On this edition, we saw Nyla Rose return in an ok squash match, Allie cut a cringe-worthy promo and Awesome Kong collect another “scalp”. Oh yeah, we saw the AEW Women’s Champion … Read more

Riho successfully defends AEW Women’s Championship at Full Gear

November 11, 2019November 10, 2019 by John Duffy

AEW Full Gear took place at the Royal Farms Arena, in Baltimore, MD on Saturday and featured AEW Women’s Champion, Riho defend against Emi Sakura. We also got Britt Baker vs Bea Priestly on the pre-show and saw the return of women’s wrestling legend. The AEW Women’s Championship match was billed as Student vs Teacher … Read more

Awesome Kong has high hopes for AEW’s women’s division

October 19, 2019 by Nick Wilkinson

AEW is certainly still in its infancy stage. With only a hand full of pay-per-views and a few weeks on tv under its belt, it is hard to expect a fully rounded women’s division. In fact, there has been only one women’s match booked a week since AEW Dynamite has debut earlier in the month. … Read more

Awesome Kong vs. Tara Six Sides of Steel Turning Point 11/15/09

October 11, 2019 by Nick Wilkinson

It is time again for another Free Match Friday.

Enjoy this gem from TNA’s Turning Point which took place almost 10-years ago. In the unforgiven Six Sides of Steel match, Awesome Kong and Tara battled it out. This match came just months after Tara’s debut in TNA in 2009.

Click the video above to see how this match ends! Which Knockout came out with the victory?

Kylie Rae makes her surprise return to the ring

September 22, 2019 by John Duffy

Kylie Rae returned to the ring last night for Freelance Wrestling’s Game of Genders. It was announced via twitter that “Smily Kylie” Rae would be appearing in her first match since leaving AEW to face off against Isaias Velazquez. She became a replacement for Shotzi Blackheart who was originally booked for this match but could … Read more

Best Returns In Women’s Wrestling

August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 by Mykel Cesare

Every fan of women’s wrestling has seen their favourite come and go. At times, it could be due to injury, retirement, or creative having nothing to do with them and they need some reinvention. This list, however, looks at the best returns I have seen and mostly enjoyed during my years of watching wrestling. The … Read more

Awesome Kong on feeling forgotten & nervous about her return

June 25, 2019 by Nick Wilkinson

Awesome Kong returned to the ring in May to AEW’s Double or Nothing debut pay-per-view. This was her first time stepping back in the ring since 2016. She plays Tammé “The Welfare Queen” Dawson on Netflix’s hit show GLOW so she hasn’t been completely out of the spotlight. Regardless of that fact, Kong still felt nervous … Read more

AEW President Confirms Women’s Tag Team Championships

June 18, 2019 by Sarah Hirsch

All Elite Wrestling’s President Tony Khan looks to have big plans when it comes to women’s wrestling. On The Steve Austin Show podcast, Khan revealed that there are plans for a Women’s Tag Team Championship. The news comes along with a Women’s Championship as well. While Khan confirmed AEW’s plans for the women’s division, he … Read more

GLOW Season 3 receives release date

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 by Nick Wilkinson

The Emmy Award-winning series GLOW is back on Netlfix for a third season. The new season finally has a release date of Aug. 9. The show is airing later in the year compared to the prior seasons that aired in June. The show is based off the syndicated television show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). … Read more

Double or Nothing results, Awesome Kong is All Elite

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 by Nick Wilkinson

AEW had their first event this weekend live from Las Vegas. The Double or Nothing pay-per-view has been a highly anticipated debut event for the newly formed organization. There were two women’s matches on the card that involved several female talents. The first match had quite a surprise to many. That surprise was Awesome Kong. … Read more

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