It looks like we’ll finally get to see TNA’s One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown Pay-Per-View next month. A promo for the show, posted by UK channel Challenge TV, reveals that fans in the UK will be able to see the Knockouts-only show starting September 11th. Judging by the release of the previous One Night Only … Read more
The Perfect 10 has returned, and it’s better than ever! Each week, the Diva Dirt team will compile a list of the top 10 women in wrestling. Placement is determined by performances and achievements from the past week. The Perfect 10 will be posted every Monday, taking into account any Pay-Per-View events. Ready to dive … 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
Tonight at SHINE 11, Rain stood alone, besting 13 other women to become the first ever SHINE Champion. In the culmination of an epic night that saw the entirety of the tournament run its course, Rain faced Mia Yim in the finals. When VP of Talent Relations Lexie Fyfe banned Rain’s Valkyrie team members Ivelisse … 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
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
SHINE Wrestling has announced that they are holding an emergency meeting to fill two open spots in the SHINE Championship Tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be held at SHINE’s one year anniversary show, SHINE 11, on Friday, July 12th. Jazz, Saraya Knight, Rain, Jessicka Havok, Leva, Mia Yim, Santana and Allysin Kay all advanced … 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
As announced during the SHINE 10 broadcast, a match between Mia Yim and Ivelisse Velez has been added to the EVOLVE 22 card. The show will take place on on June 2nd at The Orpheum in Ybor City, FL. Outside of SLAMMIN’ Ladies, this will be the first singles meeting between the two. They previously … 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
“Your Two Cents” is our interactive feature where we gauge the opinions of our Twitter and Facebook followers on different discussions in women’s wrestling. This week, we’re asking this: With SHIMMER tapings taking place this weekend, we want to know: what has been your favorite SHIMMER match and why? We’ve read your responses on our … Read more
WrestleMania week is upon us and sure to bring plenty of Twitter-related goodness as the Divas and other women of wrestling tweet their thoughts, pictures and even videos from various events over the course of the weekend. We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets of the day over the next few days to give … Read more
Independent star and WSU Spirit Champion Marti Belle is Diva Dirt’s official guest video blogger at WrestleCon in New Jersey this weekend. Check back throughout the weekend for exclusive videos from Marti! Day 2 of WrestleCon and SHIMMER was in town, so we sent our roving reporter Marti Belle to get some scoop from the … 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 sees SHINE Wrestling return to the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida for their eighth monthly show, SHINE 8. The main event sees the insurgent Valkyrie members Rain, Ivelisse and Made in Sin (Allysin Kay and Taylor Made) go up against the all-star face team of Amazing Kong, Christina Von Eerie, Mia Yim and a … Read more
With so much attention on who wouldn’t be part of the show, it was certainly curious to see who would actually appear at the TNA One Night Only: Knockout Knockdown pay per view taping in Orlando, Florida today. Diva Dirt can confirm exclusively that joining the current Impact Wrestling stars are former TNA Knockouts Cheerleader … Read more
It seems like everyone and their grandmother has created a “Harlem Shake” video, but you haven’t seen one quite like this. At last weekend’s SHINE 7 event, a number of the show’s competitors took to the ring to record their own version of the YouTube craze. Women spotted in the video include Su Yung, Tracy … Read more
Former WWE star Kharma, aka Amazing Kong, will face off against Mia Yim in her SHIMMER return in April. Kong, who left WWE last year, has been off the market while several young names have emerged on the independents over the past couple of years, including Yim, which makes this match a pretty exciting one. … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of women’s wrestling. Check it out below: 25-year old Irish wrestler Rebecca Knox returned to wrestling yesterday. For Fight Factory Pro Wrestling, she teamed up with Katey Harvey and B. Cool to take on Lucy Lasso, Danger Dawn and Captain … Read more
Diva Dirt is back with another fix of news, notes and tidbits in the world of women’s wrestling. Check it out below: New names are set to debut for SHINE Wrestling at their fourth event on October 19 at The Orpheum: SHIMMER stars Davina Rose, Kellie Skater, Shazza McKenzie and Rhia O’Reilly, as well as … Read more
It’s been quite the 2012 for Mia Yim, who will this Friday night face Jessicka Havok in a meeting of two of the biggest stars to emerge on the independent women’s wrestling scene over the past two years; Yim has had several high profile feuds in promotions such as CZW and AIW, made her in-ring … Read more
Diva Dirt can reveal exclusively that independent standout and Ring of Honor star, Mia Yim, has signed a contract with the REINA promotion in Japan. Yim, who has expressed interest in competing full time in Japan for much of her career, will soon depart for Japan where she will compete exclusively for REINA. The ROH … Read more
The latest episode of Ring of Honor TV features a match pitting Princess Mia Yim against Sara Del Rey. Maria Kanellis also makes an appearance in response to events that took place at the Boiling Point iPPV. Watch the match (and its aftermath) below: Skip to 2:30. RELATED: In Video: The “First Lady Edition” of … Read more
Tonight, AIW is holding their seventh “Girls Night Out” show. The show will be headlined by Allysin Kay defending her AIW Women’s Championship against Mia Yim in a Steel Cage match. This grudge match stems from an event at Girls Night Out 5 in January 2012, where Yim broke Kay’s nose in three places with … Read more