Over the course of the past year, and even prior to Bayley’s injury, she has had a rivalry with Bianca Belair. On-screen, Belair has received the better outcome from their encounters overall, but the Raw Women’s Champion also comments on how selfless Bayley is. Belair has had pretty substantial rivals with three of the Four … Read more
Akin to the Power 25 Rankings that WWE used to post, Diva-Dirt is announcing the debut of its own Power 15 rankings where we will evaluate all of the women’s wrestling across WWE, AEW, and Impact from the week and attempt our own ranking. (Note: We are including Royal Rumble in this week’s rankings) This … Read more
Several WWE Superstars are set to appear on a future episode of Wheel of Fortune. According to their social medias, we know Bayley, Liv Morgan, Bianca Belair, Natalya, Sonya Deville, Austin Theory, and Big E will all appear. WWE week on the long running game show is said to be airing on March 27. The … Read more
The 2023 Royal Rumble is almost here! One of the fan’s favorite events of the year will take place this Saturday and it will hold the sixth women’s Royal Rumble match. A favorite match type of many, for women’s wrestling fans we weren’t able to have the full joy of the women participating in this … Read more
Bianca Belair hits another milestone in her career as she has reached 300 days as Raw Women’s Champion.
Belair has held the gold since she defeated her rival Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 38. This puts her just five days behind Charlotte Flair’s total combined days (with six reigns) of 305 and just nine days behind Asuka (with two reigns) at 309. The only two women who have a longer combined day reign are Alexa Bliss and Becky Lynch.
Belair has successfully defended her title against the likes of Sonya Deville, Becky Lynch, Asuka, Carmella, and Bayley. Her last title defense against Alexa Bliss ended in disqualification. The two will be facing each other in a rematch at the Royal Rumble on Jan. 28.
Check back in with Diva Dirt to discuss the Royal Rumble on Jan. 28 in the Discussion Post.
Currently in WWE as champions, we have Bianca Belair as the Raw Women’s Champion and more recently Charlotte Flair crowned as the SmackDown Women’s Champion. Flair made her return at the end of December and became a 14-time women’s champion after defeating Ronda Rousey in quick fashion. Rousey had just retained the gold against Raquel … Read more
A former WWE writer by the name of Chris Dunn was a recent guest on the Public Enemies Podcast. He spoke about some topics for the women’s division that never end up happening. One of them was a unique partnership considered between the current Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair and former WWE Women’s Tag Team … Read more
Two upcoming big matches were confirmed on the Jan. 16 episode of Raw. Raw XXX will be taking place next week and that will also be the go-home episode before the Royal Rumble on Jan. 28. The first glimpse into the women’s division on this week’s Raw was Becky Lynch coming down to the ring … Read more
On the Jan. 9 episode of Raw that will take place tonight, Alexa Bliss is set to explain her actions against the Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair. Last week, Bliss had a championship match against Belair that broke down into a vicious attack. The match ended in a disqualification when Bliss attacked the referee and … Read more
To start off the new year, Alexa Bliss went one on one with the Raw Women’s Champion. Bliss had every intention heading into the match to win her first singles title since 2018 but that didn’t happen after an attack on the referee caused the match to end. The battle between Bliss and Belair ended … Read more
The Raw Women’s Championship will be on the line to kick off 2023 as Alexa Bliss will be challenging the champion, Bianca Belair, on the first Raw of the new year. Bliss won a number one contenders match after first winning a Triple Threat and then a match against Bayley. After defeating Bayley last week, … Read more
She took on Bayley to start off Raw this week and came away with the victory after delivering Twisted Bliss. The WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Dakota Kai and IYO SKY accompanied Bayley to the ring. However, Becky Lynch arrived and attacked both Kai and SKY taking them out threw the crowd and away from the ring prior to the match starting. Belair came out to ringside to watch the match.
After Bliss picked up the victory she went to give Belair a hug in the ring and caught the Raw Women’s Champion in Sister Abigail. She wouldn’t execute the move releasing Belair as the two backed away from one another. Just before the Sister Abigail tease, the Bray Wyatt symbol appeared on the big screen behind Belair.
The second match of the night was the advertised Candice LeRae taking on IYO SKY. The two have a lot of history from NXT and LeRae was looking to finally get a win over SKY.
Prior to the match, LeRae had a backstage segment with Johnny Gargano and Dexter Lumis. For another week, Nikki Cross appeared behind LeRae spying on her. SKY would end up winning the match after delivering her moonsault. Damage CTRL celebrated in the ring following SKY’s win. LeRae is still winless against SKY in singles matches.
Lastly, the third women’s match had Asuka taking on Rhea Ripley. Although we have seen this match recently, this time felt different as Asuka came to the ring and wrestled without her normal face makeup on. During the match, commentary brought up Asuka’s recent Twitter postings being unusual. For those who have not been caught up, Asuka has been posting her prior to WWE character Kana frequently on social media since last week.
Asuka would take the loss in this match after she spit mist in the face of Dominik Mysterio. This allowed Ripley to deliver the Riptide.
After embracing the WWE Universe, Lynch made her way out into the crowd and started incorporating them into her promo confirming that she is the man of the people. Shortly after, Bayley came out to address her. While Lynch was still in the crowd, Bayley and The Man exchange words back and forth getting the crowd members involved.
This takes place until the rest of Damage CTRL (IYO SKY and Dakota Kai) attack Lynch. As Bayley joins, the three-on-one assault escalates up to the merch stand until all parties involved are pulled apart by officials.
Directly after this, a small video of Rhea Ripley is played before she comes out to face “Michin” Mia Yim. The two rivals who participated in WarGames just 48 hours ago were putting on a stellar match until Judgment Day and The OC got involved which caused a no-contest finish. This then turned into the four-on-four tag team match that was highly anticipated between both factions.
Much like Yim vs. Ripley, this match was also very well received and it included the women even briefly interacting with the men instead of acknowledging mixed tag team rules. The result would come down to Yim and Ripley (as it should) with Ripley picking up the win for Judgment Day off of Riptide. This was after Yim bodyslammed Finn Balor and then targeted Dominik Mysterio.
Moments later, a video was shown about Candice LeRae and how she was taken out a month ago by Damage CTRL. She is back and was walking down a hallway backstage. She was stopped for an interview where she addressed Dakota Kai in particular because she had a match with her later in the night. While LeRae was walking down the hallway, Nikki Cross was hiding as we saw her peek out to take a glance at LeRae.
As stated, LeRae and Kai have a match later in the night. The match was given plenty of time and showcased both women very well. LeRae started the match quickly by attacking Kai when she was making her entrance. Bayley and SKY would attempt to come down to the ring to help but were sent to the back so there was nobody out at ringside. Despite Kai pulling out many moves in her arsenal including the scorpion kick, she wasn’t able to get the victory. LeRae defeated one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions with a top rope neck breaker.
Finally, three women from WarGames we hadn’t seen yet were Asuka, Alexa Bliss, and the Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair. Commentary stated that due to the WarGames match, the three women weren’t cleared to compete. They also said despite Bayley and SKY being involved in the brawl earlier in the night, they were also not cleared to compete on Raw. SKY had on a neck brace during the brawl.
There was a backstage interview with Asuka, Bliss, and Belair where they were commenting on WarGames and including Becky Lynch as the final member paying off for their team. Belair stated that every plan Damage CTRL had backfired since SummerSlam. She also would say she is happy to put all of that behind her. Before they began to speak, the Wyatt 6 symbol appeared on the screen behind them. Bliss was checked out during the interview and not engaged. After Asuka spoke, Cathy Kelley asked Bliss if she had anything to add. After clearly being zoned out during the interview, Bliss woke up and said she agreed with what Belair had to say.
Both Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair have been two of the biggest stars in WWE for 2022. Even with Lynch being out of action for several months, she has been polarizing during her time on screen. Belair has held the Raw Women’s Championship since WrestleMania where she defeated Lynch and then the two ended their … Read more
Team Bianca Belair are the winners of this year’s WarGames match. Belair was the first competitor in the ring for her team against Dakota Kai for Team Damage CTRL. Thanks to Rhea Ripley, Team Damage CTRL had the advantage of having the next competitor enter. That would end up being the other half of the … Read more
Rhea Ripley wants big things for herself and Bianca Belair. Ripley and Belair have had a similar path in WWE. Both participating in the Mae Young Classic, going through NXT together, and moving to the main roster around the same time between 2020 and 2021. Ripley and Belair also held championships at the same time … Read more
On the go-home episode of Raw for Survivor Series WarGames, Rhea Ripley took on Asuka in the main event. The winner of the match earned the WarGames advantage.
Before we got to the match, there was a promo for the WarGames match. The Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair entered the ring with teammates Alexa Bliss and Asuka. The fourth member of the team, Michin (Mia Yim) wasn’t out with her team but did have a brawl with Ripley earlier in the night.
Belair teases the fifth unannounced member of her team. She says they will be announced this Friday on SmackDown. Damage CTRL, Ripley, and Cross then made their way to the ring. Bayley says that Belair won’t find her fifth member because nobody even respects her. This includes Belair’s own teammates because according to Bayley they are just sucking up to her to be next in line for the title.
Belair says that while Bayley and company are playing games, her team is ready for war. Bliss adds that she will throw Nikki Cross in the trash where she belongs. Asuka says they are ready for war but nobody is ready for us.
The match between Ripley and Asuka came right after and was given plenty of time in the main event. In the final moments of the match, Damage CTRL and Cross plus Belair and Bliss would come to ringside to support their respective team members. Asuka thought she had the match won with a submission but Ripley was able to escape. Ripley would lastly deliver Riptide to get the pin and the victory. Team Damage CTRL has the WarGames advantage.
Post match, the two teams brawled. Michin would eventually join the fight and she and Ripley would brawl into the audience. Asuka delivered a crossbody from the turnbuckle onto the rest of the women to end the show.
Now that Crown Jewel is over, Survivor Series hosting WarGames is the next and reportedly last premium live event of the year. On the Nov. 7 episode of Raw, the field for the women’s WarGames starts to take shape. We already know from the Survivor Series video that the match will be five-on-five. With a total of 10 women in the match we know of seven confirmed names.
The Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair along with Alexa Bliss and Asuka first entered the ring to address what took place at Crown Jewel. Belair was the last woman standing to retain her championship, however, Bliss and Asuka’s reign as tag team champs was left extremely short when Damage CTRL took back the gold.
Damage CTRL would interrupt Belair, Bliss, and Asuka. The two teams would trade words including an argument between Asuka and IYO SKY in Japanese. Bliss would also add that the only reason why Dakota Kai and SKY won the gold back was because of Nikki Cross. The six women would erupt into a brawl before Belair confirmed that they will end this once and for all in WarGames.
Cross would then enter the ring and give the numbers advantage to Damage CTRL as they laid out Belair, Bliss, and Asuka to end the segment.
Later in the night, Cross was seen backstage with Damage CTRL seemingly joining them as the fourth member of their WarGames team. She took on Dana Brooke for the 24/7 Championship and captured the title. With Brooke left in the ring, Bayley would place the championship belt on the shoulder of Cross as the four walked up the ramp.
Moments later, Cross was seen walking with Damage CTRL as she tossed the 24/7 Championship in the trash can (well it fell down next to the trash can).
Also on this week’s Raw, Mia Yim returned and joined The O.C. to combat Rhea Ripley and The Judgment Day. More on that can be read here.
There were separate backstage interviews from The O.C. and The Judgment Day separately about Yim’s return. After Ripley was done with her interview, she ran into Belair on her way to the ring. They shared glances with Ripley acknowledging Belair as champ.
Bianca Belair is still the Raw Women’s Champion as she defeated Bayley in a Last Woman Standing Match at Crown Jewel.
The match had it all. The common weapons of kendo sticks, ladders, tables, and chairs. Both women found out earlier on in the match that they will have to end up trapping their opponent to prevent them from getting up before the count of 10.
Bayley tried to capture Belair both in the ring steps as well as in a road case at the top of the stage to try and keep her down. A golf cart entered the mix before Bayley went through a table. The brawl goes back in the ring with steel chairs and a ladder. Belair hits a KOD to Bayley’s knee first on a steel chair. She places Bayley inside a ladder and pushes her into the corner under the turnbuckle so that she is unable to escape. The referee counts to 10 and Belair is still the Raw Women’s Champion.
Earlier in the night, Damage CTRL regained the Women’s Tag Team Championships. You can read more on that here.
Rhea Ripley and Scarlett were two women who also were on the show. Scarlett attempted to help Karrion Kross in his steel cage match against Drew McIntyre. Even though she pulled out the mace to spray in McIntyre’s eyes, it would be McIntyre who won the match.
Ripley helped out The Judgment Day as per usual to defeat The O.C. Commentary continues to say who can fight off Ripley with Michael Cole even saying someone needs to kick her ass. Ripley wore a Beth Phoenix-inspired hairdo saying that it was to honor the late great Beth Phoenix.
Crown Jewel takes place tomorrow, Nov. 5 in Saudi Arabia. The show will air at Noon ET and WWE held a press conference today as Michael Cole kicked off the broadcast. This was followed by WWE Co-CEO Stephanie McMahon and CCO Triple H who welcomed everyone. The first to make their way out to the … Read more
A series from WWE is coming to Hulu that will feature the current Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair and her husband and fellow WWE Superstar Montez Ford. The couple announced their engagement in 2017 and have been married since the following year in 2018.
The announcement for this series was confirmed by WWE Co-CEO Nick Khan on the 2022 third quarter earnings call. A premiere date and further details on the show were not provided at the time of the announcement.
Khan also added that WWE and Hulu reached an extension for the WWE Raw re-air rights.
Nick Khan reveals a WWE series focused on Bianca Belair and Montez Ford is coming to Hulu.
They also extended their Raw re-air rights deal with Hulu.
We have new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions which was decided in the Raw main event on Halloween night. The women started and ended the Oct. 31 episode of Raw this week. The show opened with the emerging unhinged Nikki Cross taking on the Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair in a non-title bout. Cross returned … Read more
WWE has confirmed that Bianca Belair will be taking on Nikki Cross this Monday on Raw. On the Oct. 24 episode of Raw, Nikki A.S.H ditched her mask and Almost a Super Hero persona to return to her Nikki Cross name. She would appear in the main event as an unknown assailant who attacked Damage … Read more
The Raw Women’s Championship will be on the line one week from Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Crown Jewel premium live event. Following her loss to Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair at Extreme Rules in a Ladder Match, Bayley will get one more shot at the gold. This time, the two will battle it out … Read more
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) has released its annual top 150 women in professional wrestling for 2022. This is the second year in a row that the women’s list has been expanded to 150. It was a list of 100 prior and originally a list of only 50 when it started in 2008. For the first … Read more
Nikki A.S.H is no more, welcome back Nikki Cross. Before we get to the reemergence of Nikki Cross, the first women’s segment of the night was a backstage interview between Candice LeRae and Cathy Kelley. Candice was going over her life recently and how she went from NXT to motherhood to career uncertainty and now … Read more
