Velvet Sky "Wrestling's Sexiest Woman"?

Well I said in the last entry that the last minute add on women's wrestling match at Wrestlemania 26 would probably be Kelly Kelly, Eve and Gail Kim taking on Michelle McCool, Layla and Maryse.
I wasn't far off.
It was Michelle McCool, Layla, Maryse, Alicia Fox and Vickie Guerrero taking on Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Gail Kim and Beth Phoenix.
See?
The WWE isn't predictable at all.

Michelle McCool, Layla, Maryse, Alicia Fox and Vickie Guerrero won at Wrestlemania, so they turned around and repeated the same wrestling match the next night on Raw.
This time the winners were Eve Torres, Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, Beth Phoenix, and Gail Kim.

BTW...the WWE has some new Divas Wrestlemania pics up at their website here:
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/photos/wrestlemaniadivasphotos/

They also have a gallery of the WWE Divas in their gowns at Saturday's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony that you can see here:
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/photos/halloffamedivasphotos/

And the WWE has signed yet another model, but at least this time they are going to use her as a ring announcer.
Florida model Brittney Beede has been signed to a developmental deal and she is using the name Jamie Keyes.
You may remember her as the winner of Kevin Nash's search for a new valet on TNA last year.


And speaking of TNA, remember what I said about TNA with Tara and Daffney?
Well they didn't go all the way with that, BUT, on the last TNA Impact, they did have Tara face Daffney in a First Blood Match for the TNA Knockouts Championship.


And in more TNA Knockout news, in the annual "PWI Poll" issue, Pro-Wrestling Illustrated named Velvet Sky "Wrestling's Sexiest Woman".
The list went like this....

Velvet Sky (TNA) - 14%
Maryse (WWE) - 12%
Melina (WWE) - 9%
Lacey von Erich (TNA) -7%
Kelly Kelly (WWE) - 6%
Cheerleader Melissa (Was TNA but now Indy) - 5%
Madison Rayne (TNA) - 3%
Others- 39%

So out of seven named women, four were TNA.
Are the Divas losing their edge?

Wrestling News and Rumors - Maria, Mickie James, Trish Stratus and More

WWE Diva and fan favorite Maria will be off WWE shows for awhile while her appearance on Celebrity Apprentice airs.
Maria has a clause in her contract that she can't appear on any other TV shows while Apprentice is airing.


Couple of quick Mickie James notes....

Mickie will be showing up at the Newburgh Mall - Center Court in Newburgh, NY from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, January 30.
You can find out more info here:
http://www.northeastwrestling.com/

Mickie also has a new website up that refers to her as "country music artist Mickie James".
You can see that here:
http://mickiejames.com./


A belated happy birthday to WWE Diva Michelle McCool who turned 30 on January 25th.
Speaking of Michelle, have you noticed that she won the WWE Women's Championship back on June 28, 2009?
If you don't count the 10,778 day claim by the WWE for the Faboulous Moolah (WWE does not recognize any of the title changes before 1984) , that makes Michelle the twelfth longest reigning Women's Champion so far.


Over at http://trishstratus.com/, former WWE Diva Trish Stratus will be giving away one of four Trish Stratus outfits.
Donate ten dollars to Carmelina's Home there and you will be entered in the contest with a chance to win one of the costumes, including the one she wore at WrestleMania XIX in Seattle when she won the WWE Women's Championship.
Carmelina's is a holistic program in the treatment and recovery of addictions, substance abuse and/or emotional issues for women looking to transform and change their current life journey.


And another former WWE Diva, Lilian Garcia just sold the dress she wore at WrestleMania 21 on eBay for 780.00.

Looks like you can pick up a lot of wrestling gear on eBay these days....

And finally, the beautiful (and under-rated) Katie Lea Burchill has been moved back to the Raw roster.
As you recall, Katie was on Raw before being moved to the wasteland known as ECW.

Female Wrestling News - Mickie James, Beth Phoenix, Jenna Morasca and More

www.prowrestling.net is reporting that TNA Knockout Jenna Morasca will not be appearing on TNA programming for at least a few months.
She is currently in Samoa working as a contestant on the upcoming twentieth season of Survivor.
Filming has already started and will last through next month.



Pro Wrestling Illustrated has named Mickie James the number one female wrestler in the second annual PWI Female 50.
The PWI Female 50 ranks the best women's wrestlers in the United States in 2009.
Last years winner was TNA Knockout Awesome Kong.
I've seen this mentioned at several sites, but the first place I saw the news was at Diva Dirt.




I've mentioned a few times about the WWE not using Beth Phoenix recently, and now the Wrestling Observer reports that WWE officials have soured on Beth Phoenix.
As you may recall, Beth went almost a month without appearing on TV, and people were begining to worry about her future with the WWE.
One rumor was that she was "too big" for the WWE's tastes.




The Kurt Angle situation is beginning to sound like a bad Lifetime movie with Kurt, Rhaka Khan, Jeff Jarrett and Karen Angle, restraining orders etc.
And add to that what people have been saying for months about Rhaka being a looney.
Remember the Rhaka Khan/Roxxi incident?

WWE Diva and TNA Knockout News, Victora / Tara, Maryse and Melina

Former WWE Diva Victoria did show up on TNA, and now her name is Tara.
Tara?
In case you missed it, you can see "Tara" take out the Beautiful People.....



As of right now, WWE Diva Maryse has had the longest run of any WWE Divas Champion.
Well there's only been two....but so what?
She has held the title for 157 days and counting, which breaks Michelle McCool's previous record of 155 days.
Yay?

Speaking of Michelle, she said in her WWE Universe blog that Melina broke her nose in a recent match.



And continuing on with Michelle, she and Triple H will be in Japan in July at the MTV Japan Movie Awards.
They wil also be doing promotional events to help promote WWE's tour there.

Tonight on WWE SmackDown!, you'll get to see Melina versus Alicia Fox, and Eve Torres versus Layla El.

Breaking News: Ayako Hamada to Wrestle for TNA

Wow...this kind of amazed me.

Female Japanese wrestling star Ayako Hamada has signed with TNA.
Her final match in Japan will be on April 19th at the Ito Dojo show.
Ayako has wrestled for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), HUSTLE, ARSION, GAEA Japan, Grupo Internacional Revolucion, NEO Japan, Universal Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Association among other promotions.

She made her pro wrestling debut August 9, 1998 and since then has held several wrestling titles.
I can only imagine how much this will boost the TNA Knockout division.

TNA looking for a new lead Knockout

Ms.Payton Banks (Rain)

TNA is looking for a lead face Knockout to replace the void left by Gail Kim.
The Sarah Stock signing looks like it's marred in paperwork at the moment with her having to fulfill commitments to CMLL.
So where do they go to get the "next big thing"?
TNA has a habit of getting REAL wrestlers, so dont look for any bikini models.
I figure they will go to the Indys, SHIMMER in particular.

They have already used Ms. Payton Banks (Rain), and I think they should have kept her.
(BTW, Angelina Love and Rain have a limited edition poster for sale on ebay. It's personalized and autographed and you get a certificate of Authenticity AND a 4x6 picture of Angelina and Rain signing the poster.
You can see the auction here
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180336146947
The current bid at this moment is $58.00. )

How cool would it be to see MsChif in TNA?
Daffney (Shannon Spruill) is already there, so that combo as a tag team or Daffney as her manager...awesome.

Sara Del Rey?
VERY talented.

Mercedes Martinez?
Again, very talented and experienced.

Victoria?
She left the WWE. But it looks like we may see her in MMA first.

Daizee Haze?
I think Daizee would be a good choice, and she has worked some TNA matches in the past.

Allison Danger?
That would be too good. Allison and Cheerleader Melissa on the same show?

WWE Divas News

Candice Michelle, healed in time for Wrestlemania?

Catalina White (aka Saylor James) was released from FCW (WWE's training ground) for getting a tattoo.....?
Since her ring name was "James" there was a rumor she would be brought up to the WWE as Mickie James "sister".

There is a rumor floating around that Chris Jericho is dating Kelly Kelly.
Isn't Chris married?

Candice Michelle is still recuperating from her ankle injury.
The accident prone Diva is expected to be back in action by March 23 for the WWE Raw show in Kansas City, Missouri.

Lilian Garcia will be singing "God Bless America" at the Big East Semi-Final Championship on March 13th at Madison Square Garden.

It appears Madusa will not be at Wrestlemania 25. She said on Madusa.com that her wrestling was in the past.

TNA Wrestling, Traci Brooks and SoCal Val

On March 14th through the 25th, several celebrities from sports and entertainment will be making a trip to Iraq to support our troops there.
Among the celebrities that are going will be TNA Knockouts Traci Brooks and SoCal Val.
This is Traci's second trip to Iraq for the troops, the first was in 2006.
Traci and SoCal also have a new photo shoot up at TNAwrestling.com, that looks like they may be pushing the idea that SoCal had for the TNA Knockouts to pose for a certain well known men's magazine that the WWE supposedly isn't going to work with anymore.
Besides the new photo shoot, you can get updates on the Traci / SoCal trip to Iraq there as well.
They also have footage posted from Traci's first trip.

TNA Knockouts and WWE Divas News

UGO.com has an interview up with TNA Knockout Angelina Love.
You can find out what her favorites horror movies are, whos her favorite wrestler and if she parties or not.
http://www.ugo.com/sports/angelina-love/

And speaking of Angelina and TNA, on tonight's TNA Impact, The Beautiful People will face Taylor Wilde and Madison Rayne.

Former WWE Diva Amy Weber has announced on her MySpace page that she is pregnant.
You can see for yourself at http://www.myspace.com/amyweber

Really nice article about WWE Diva Natalya Neidhart here
http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1452336

And finally...
You know Wrestlemania 25 isn't that far away.
What's the Divas match going to be?
Please tell me it's not gonna be a gimmick match, or an intergender match.
Please just let two divas get the spotlight that night with no extra baggage.

The Return of GLOW ?

Today we take a step away from WWE and TNA.....

Big Vision Entertainment (the creators of Wrestling Society X) look to be restarting GLOW.
They had an open casting call on Tuesday January 27th. 2009, looking for new wrestlers.
Well not just new wrestlers, as their press release said, " You do not need experience in professional wrestling to take part. We are looking for a very wide range of types and styles of people. "

So I'm guessing what they are doing is getting good looking women, testing them for camera presence and then going on to train them as wrestlers?
As you probably already know, GLOW was formed in 1985 by David B. McLane along with Jackie Stallone (yes Sylvester Stallone's mother).
It was kinda like Hee Haw with wrestling.
It had colorful characters, beautiful women, and over-the-top (read dumb) comedy sketches.

As you may also know, that's where Lisa Moretti (WWE's Ivory) got her start as Tina Ferrari, and Mando Guerrero (the son of legendary Gory Guerrero and the brother of Chavo, Hector Guerrero and Eddie Guerrero) was the original GLOW trainer.

I'm interested to see how this will pan out.
Even though I watched GLOW in it's heyday, I can't sit through an entire episode now.
Are they going to reboot the series?
Make it serious this time?
Female wrestling does fairly well in Lucha Libre and Joshi Puroresu is a constant draw in Japan.
How could GLOW expect to out do SHIMMER in the US?

WWE Diva Victoria to Retire From Wrestling

Okay, here is some news I'm not happy to be reporting.
The rumors have been running around for awhile, but it seems now that WWE Diva Victoria really is retiring from wrestling .
I know it's probably for her best, but I have to admit I'm gonna miss her.
I've loved her since she first turned up on Raw and blindsided Trish Stratus.
I remember wincing the first time I saw the Widow's Peak applied.
But she's been in the WWE longer than any other Diva (I think) and I can understand her wanting to move on.
Victoria, you'll be missed.

Candice Michelle, Roxxi and Cherry

Former WWE Diva Cherry will be getting back into wrestling action at Who's Slamming Who professional wrestling on Saturday night, December 6th, 2008 at 3-2 Count Athletic Training Facility.
The Former WWE Diva will be taking on a current TNA Knockout Roxxi, making this the first "Diva vs. Knockout" match that I can think of.
For more info, e-mail: info@fanslamwrestling.com

And Candice Michelle is in the new issue of Muscular Development Magazine, with a multi page pictorial.
Okay I know Candice is hot and all, but Muscular Development Magazine?
Does the WWE have some kind of agreement with them?
Beth Phoenix I could see doing that.

Taylor Wilde versus Velvet Sky

Taylor Wilde defeated Velvet Sky by disqualification last night, retaining the TNA Knockout Title.
Of course after this, The Beautiful People jumped Taylor, till ODB and Gail Kim ran in for the save.
Watching this made me realize something...
Several years ago, when the WWE was having such trouble with their Diva division, I thought " Why dont they just get some of the hard working Indy ladies and use them?"
TNA pretty much did that.
As I have said before, these ladies work like the wrestlers of the 60's and 70's, some working full time jobs, getting off work and hitting the road to make that nights show. You have to LOVE wrestling to do that.

Former WWE Diva Lita News

Former WWE Diva Lita ( Amy Dumas), along with her band, The Luchagors will be at the S.I.S Bar in Wilmington, California tonight.
I'm happy to see another Ex-WWE Diva doing what she loves.


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WWE Diva Ashley Massaro Asking For Release From the WWE?

Ashley Massaro said on her Myspace account that she has asked for a release from the WWE. She says that her daughter is sick and she simply can't do both.
No matter what the controversy surrounding her release, I wish her well.
I always liked Ashley and saw a lot of potential there.
Above all, I wish her daughter a speedy recovery.
Again we have another example of a WWE wrestler putting their family first.

WWE Diva Melina updates......

After her little run in with Beth Phoenix, Melina has seemingly turned face.
I hope that is the case and not a swerve, because I recall reading about Melina before she came to the WWE.
Melina said that she wanted to be a role model to the young latinas.
Well now she really can.
The bad thing is, that on June 23, 2008 Melina injured her ankle when she fell from the turnbuckle in a match where she and Mickie James took on Natalya and Victoria. Nothing really concrete yet, but the rumor is that she either fractured her heel or tore ligaments in her ankle and will likely need surgery.
BTW, did you know Melina is supposedly seeing Batista?

WWE Diva Maria Kanellis Interview

WWE Diva Maria Kanellis Interview

WWE Diva Maria Kanellis, known simply on television as Maria, has lived a charmed life since debuting on WWE television on 2004 as a member of the first Diva Search. Starting as the ditzy backstage reporter/interviewer, she revealed her intelligence when asked to testify against Eric Bischoff; she revealed her brawn, meanwhile, when having to wrestle Edge and Lita with a tag team partner of some repute -- John Cena.
http://sports.ign.com/articles/881/881879p1.html

Former WWE Diva Kristal Marshall Expecting

Well, Former WWE Diva Kristal Marshall, 24, is due to give birth soon.
And the childs father is her boyfriend Bobby Lashley!
That's the reason Lashley didn't want to make any long-term commitments, because it would put him on the road too much.
I really respect that out of Bobby,he loves wrestling, but he loves his family more.
And the WWE talks about role models. They had one, well two right there.
I wish them both, well all three, the best.

Michelle McCool versus Trish Stratus

Now according to the WWE, Michelle McCool has beaten Trish Stratus in queries online.
I don't really see how, considering Trish is getting HUGE buzz over her new Travel Channel show.
And her yoga, and showing up on RAW again.
Okay, the RAW thing was just one night but still.

Anyway, MY stats still show Trish WAY over Michelle. By a big margin.





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Natalya vs.Cherry on WWE Smackdown!

Natalya vs.Cherry on WWE Smackdown!

Natalya (Nattie Neidhart) picked up a win last night on WWE's Smackdown! defeating Cherry.
The cool thing to me is Nattie, sorry, Natalya, using the Sharp Shooter for the win.




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