Michelle McCool - Former WWE Diva

One of the hottest WWE Divas ever, Michelle McCool was born on January 25, 1980 in Palatka, Florida.

She is a female professional wrestler who worked for the WWE on their SmackDown brand, where she was the very first WWE Divas Champion.
Before Michelle got into wrestling, she was a seventh grade teacher in Palatka, Florida.
Michelle started out with the WWE back in 2004 WWE Diva Search. She didn't win, as a matter of fact, she was the fourth woman eliminated.

Regardless, the WWE signed her to a three-year contract in November 2004. She went to Smackdown and was first seen helping Rey Mysterio "stretch out" before a match as a personal trainer.

The WWE sent her down to their developmental wrestling facility, Deep South Wrestling (DSW), for training. There she wrestled, performed interviews, hosted segments, and provided commentary on matches. Her first feud in DSW was against Angel Williams (current TNA Knockout Angelina Love) .
Michelle moved from DSW to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). While she was in OVW, she began managing the duo of Amish Roadkill (former ECW star Roadkill) and K.C. James.
She finally was moved up from OVW back to Smackdown and began her " hot teacher" gimmick. Slightly disturbing considering she had actually been a seventh grade teacher.
Michelle turned heel and started teaming up with Kristal to start a feud with (then-face), Jillian Hall and Ashley Massaro.

On November 28th, Michelle was hospitalized with an enlarged kidney, a broken sternum, and an electrolyte imbalance.This was the second time she had been medically sidelined, the first was back in DSW when she was hospitalized after taking prescribed medication.
She returned to the WWE on March 30, 2007, taking part in a 10-Diva Tag Team match on Smackdown. After the match, Michelle did a face turn coming to the aid of Ashley who was begin attacked by her former partner and now heel Jillian Hall.
Michelle began a storyline with Chuck Palumbo and Jamie Noble and after that storyline ended, the matches began to decide the first WWE Divas Champion.

She competed against Victoria, Eve Torres, Maryse and Cherry in a series of matches and came out on top.
Then At The Great American Bash on July 20, 2008, Michelle defeated Natalya to become the first WWE Divas Champion.
This made Michelle the second Diva Search contestant to win a WWE title. ( Candice Michelle was the first).
Considering her lean muscular look, this 5' 10" lady could have been a model or fitness competitor, but instead she chose wrestling.
Michelle is about to debut a new finisher since WWE management decided that her old finisher "Wings of Love" was too rough on the other divas.
Michelle lost her WWE Diva's Title to Maryse.

That signaled her "Heel Turn" and she went on a spree defeating Eve Torres, Gail Kim and Melina, WWE Women's Championship.
She teamed up with Layla El, creating the WWE's version of TNA's The Beautiful People, Lay-Cool.
Michelle was named the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) number one female wrestler of 2010.
And she won two "Slammys" in 2010, the Slammy Award for Diva of the Year and the Slammy Award for Knucklehead Moment of the Year.
Of course this winning streak and all of the accolades has nothing to do with her dating and marrying the Undertaker.
Right?

2011 didn't start out too well for Michelle as at WrestleMania XXVII on April 3, 2011, Michelle, Layla and Dolph Ziggler took on The Jersey Shore's Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Trish Stratus, and John Morrison in a 6-person mixed tag team match.
Michelle lost the match for her team, being the one pinned....by Snooki.
Then Layla and Michelle had a falling out and started a feud which ended in a Loser Leaves WWE match which Michelle lost at Extreme Rules.
She also became the first Diva to taste the wrath of the debuting Kharma after losing that match.

Although she left the WWE in 2011, Michelle was at WrestleMania 33 and 34 in April 2017 and 2018 to support her husband The Undertaker.
Then on January 22, 2018, she was honored as part of a segment involving women that contributed to the company's success on the WWE Raw 25 Years special episode.
The week after that, she was a surprise entrant in the inaugural women's Royal Rumble match at the 2018 Royal Rumble, scoring the most eliminations in the match at five before being eliminated by Natalya.





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WWE NXT Divas International

If there is one thing you can say about the WWE NXT Women's Roster, it's diverse.
You have....

WWE NXT Diva Taynara Conti, the first female wrestler from Brazil to wrestle in WWE.

WWE NXT Diva Dakota Kai, a New Zealand professional wrestler of Samoan and Irish descent.

Scottish WWE NXT Diva Nikki Cross

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WWE Divas Charlotte and Asuka

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Mickie James Then and Now

Mickie Laree James-Aldis made her pro wrestling debut back in 1999.
She has wrestled under the names Alexis Laree, La Luchadora, Vickie Adams, Princess Alexis, Queen Alexis, Superball and of course Mickie James.
And she has worked for a ton of wrestling promotions like CyberSpace Wrestling Federation, Ground Xero Wrestling, International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom, Premier Wrestling Federation, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and of course World Wrestling Entertainment.

Mickie James then....

...and now

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WWE Diva Zelina Vega

Thea Megan Trinidad was born on December 27, 1990 in Queens, New York City, New York.
This five foot one, 106 pound beauty is a pro wrestler, wrestling manager, model and actress.
In the WWE she is known as Zelina Vega, but you may also know her from her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), as Rosita.
And you may also remember that there, she held the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Sarita (Sarah Stock aka Dark Angel).
In the upcoming film Fighting with My Family, she will play AJ Lee.

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WWE Divas Alexa and Asuka

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The Bella Twins and Trish Stratus - WWE Royal Rumble

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Mandy Rose - WWE Diva

Mandy Rose (Amanda Rose Saccomanno) was born on July 18, 1991 in Westchester County, New York.
Before wrestling, Mandy was a WBFF Pro Bikini Diva.
Mandy competed in the WWE competition WWE Tough Enough and placed second.
She then signed a contract with WWE and joined the reality television show Total Divas.
When she first appeared I heard a few people call her "Eva Marie 2.0" but so far she seemed to have avoided generating the heat that Eva did with fans.
I guess time will tell.

You can follow Mandy here:
https://www.instagram.com/mandysacs/
And here:
https://twitter.com/wwe_mandyrose

Carmella vs. Nikki Bella, Twice

On WWE SmackDown, Nikki Bella got all she wanted of Carmella.

Twice.

First Nikki was in the ring with Renee Young making her official SmackDown roster debut when suddenly Carmella Pearl Harbors her, beats her down and for good measure, gives her the Bella Buster.

Then on WWE Talking Smack, Carmella jumped Nikki again mid-interview and again delivered a beat down

Is AJ Gonna Be The Next Lita?

We all know that now retired WWE Diva AJ Lee (Brooks) idolized Lita.
But now that she is gone, will she join the ranks of her idol Lita and Trish Stratus as Divas that we wished never left the WWE?
Quite possibly.
Celeste "Kaitlyn" Bonin (Bodiez) recently said in an interview....
"AJ has this weird ability to accomplish anything that she visualizes. So when she worked her way up to the top, she stayed up there. No one has been like her, and no one will ever be like her."
The fans loved her and still do.
We dont know for sure what she will be doing in the future, but the fans miss her already.

Charlotte vs Sasha Banks - NXT

Well I have tried to keep the focus of this blog on TNA Impact wrestling and the TNA Knockouts, but boy it is hard.
They are just not giving me much to work with at all.

So to supplement the posts here, I am gonna start adding back in some WWE Divas, but I am gonna try to stay with NXT here.
To me the best thing is NXT, well there are several things actually, but the main one this time is the feud between NXT Women's Champion Charlotte and "The Boss of NXT" Sasha Banks.

Besides being a battle between former BFFs, this has turned into quite a "ground war" with submission moves and holds galore.
And truthfully, some of the NXT Divas matches are way better than the WWE Divas.

So Far Sasha hasn't been able to score a win over Charlotte and take the title.
But give her time.

The champion has to win every time.
The challenger only has to win once.

WWE Friday Night Smackdown - Eva Marie and Natalya Vs AJ Lee and Tamina Snuka

Natalya having to protect Eva Marie from Tamina.
That looks hot for some reason and I cant figure out why.
Maybe I need more therapy....

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Kelly vs Beth Phoenix - WWE Night Of Champions PPV

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Last Night at the WWE "Night Of Champions" PPV, Kelly retained her WWE Divas Championship.
K2 came out to the boos of the crowd which really wasn't much of a suprise.



No...not because she can't wrestle, it was because they were in Buffalo, New York where the announcers said Beth was from.
Actually Beth was born and raised in Elmira, New York which is like 150 miles from Buffalo but what the heck....
Anyway, The crowd treated K2 to a "Kelly sucks" chant during the beginning of the match but the crowd loved it when Beth grabbed Kelly, draped her over her knee and spanked her two or three times.
She followed that up with a clothesline and a superplex from the top rope.
The end of the match came when Beth went for the Glam Slam but Kelly slid out and rolled Beth up to get the three count.
Again, K2 was treated to huge boos for her effort.

Remember when Trish Stratus and Mickie James had their feud?
Trish was supposed to be the good guy, but she got booed and no matter how psycho Mickie acted, she got cheered.
Maybe all this booing will help ease K2 into that heel role.....

Kelly or Eve Torres - New WWE Heel?

As you probably already know, the Wrestling Observer is reporting that the WWE is thinking about having either Kelly or Eve Torres turn heel, then have them feud with each other.
K2, the current Divas Champion (I never dreamed I would be typing that) and Eve have a fairly tight on-screen friendship.
But, back on June 20th, she lost the vote on WWE Raw to be the Diva that faced Brie Bella for WWE Divas Championship (again...never thought I'd be typing that).
And she lost to...Kelly.
Kelly went on to win the title.
Then on Raw on June 27th, Kelly beat Nikki Bella in submission match and got jumped afterwards.
Who made the save?
Eve.
On the Fourth of July Raw, Kelly and Eve beat the Bella Twins.
Then Eve accompanied Kelly Kelly in her Divas Championship match at the Money in the Bank PPV.
Kelly and Eve have been teaming up and saving each other ever since.
But...wouldnt it be cool to have Eve say that it was all an act, and that she had been working herself in closer to Kelly to gain her confidence and learn her weaknesses (wrestling).
What would make this cool would be the idea that this storyline had been formulating for four months, rather than four weeks like most WWE storylines.
Remember back in the day when heel turns took months?
Eve could be Kelly's worst nightmare, having trained beside her and fought beside her in and out of the ring.



Of course I am probably putting wayyyy too much thought into this.
Kelly will probably just snap on night and the next week be totally evil.
Only the brave Eve will be able to stop her and Kelly will go back to face in about a month.

But wouldn't Eve make a great heel?

The WWE Loves Alicia Fox

According to the Wrestling Observer, WWE officials are very high on current Diva's Champion Alicia Fox.
And why not?
She's....well she's....and then she's.....
Okay, having Alicia Fox as Diva's Champion makes about as much sense as Eve Torres.
(Although I checked, and Eve outranks Alicia in internet searches almost 2 to 1, so it may not have been such a good idea from a publicity stand point)
She's been wrestling for a whole four years, and not counting the OVW Women's Championship, the Diva's Championship is the only belt she's ever held.

How does she rank up against the other SmackDown! Divas?
Well she's better than (or equal to) the Bella Twins, Eve Torres...
Hmmm, that’s about it I think.
That leaves Gail Kim, Jillian, Maryse, Melina, Natalya and probably Tamina that are better than her.
(Okay, I'm sure Tamina would take Alicia's lunch money and stuff her in a locker, but I'm trying to be nice here)

And yes I put Maryse on that list because even though she started out as another "model sign up" in the WWE, she has put in a LOT of effort in her four years with the company.
She was trained by some of the greats like Al Snow, Steve Keirn, Tom Prichard, Finlay and Ricky Steamboat, and she has some martial arts background as well.

And here's even more fun for wrestling fans...
The WWE has signed her sister Christina Crawford, and she's training at the FCW developmental facility.

So can we expect Christina Fox as the WWE Diva's Champion in 2014?
Probably, if not sooner.

On the upside, maybe they are doing this so when Melina does come back, she can have a title match with Alicia on SmackDown!, beat her in like 30 seconds and end this.



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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?

WWE Diva News: Kelly Kelly, Victoria, Mickie James

Kelly Kelly took on Divas Champion Maryse on Monday Night Raw this week.
Kelly had gotten a win a few weeks back by disqualification but disqualification doesn't win any belts.
So this week she climbed into the ring and the Divas Champion came out on top.
Maryse wasn't satisfied with just winning though, and afterward slapped Kelly which brought in Mickie James who had been sitting at ringside providing additional commentary.
Of course this lead to more heat for the Maryse / Mickie James feud.

Although she isn't a WWE female wrestler, she is still very well liked.
But could Lilian Garcia be leaving Raw?
Evidently the WWE has put out a notice to talent agencies that reads:

"WWE Announcer/Singer / Female / All Ethnicities / 20 - 30

Description: WWE is looking for a young, attractive female to sing the national anthem and be our regular ring announcer every week, for one of our most popular TV shows (WWE is estimated to be seen in 500,000,000 households in 150 countries/30 languages)...

This is a breakout job for any young singer. Please specify on submissions if anyone has appeared on American Idol, making the Band or any show of this comparison.

Rate:depends on talent"

Lilian made her debut on the August 23, 1999 episode of Raw, so she has been with the company quite a while.
Lilian leaving though is..well...unthinkable.

Victoria (Okay I know she's Tara now, but will that ever take?) has posted on her MySpace blog about why she left the WWE, why she joined TNA, and if she is continuing with her goal of an MMA career.
You can read it here

Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes will be taking on Nikki and Brie Bella in a tag team match this week on WGN America's WWE Superstars.

Female Wrestling News: Lena Yada, Christy Hemme, Candice Michelle and More.....

Former WWE Diva, Lena Yada will take on Christina Von Eerie this Saturday in San Franciso, CA. at ChickFight.
ChickFight is part of Pro Wrestling Revolution’s big show this Saturday.
This is Lena's first match since leaving the WWE.
You can read more about the match up here:
http://www.chickfight.tv/2009/06/02/former-wwe-diva-lena-yada-takes-on-christina-von-eerie-in-san-francisco/



ShortAndSweetNYC.com has an interview with Another former WWE Diva and current TNA Knockout, Christy Hemme up over at their website.....
" Christy Hemme has been many things: a model, a Juggy Dancer on The Man Show, a wrestling Diva in the WWE and a Knockout in TNA and she even makes time to visit the troops in Afghanistan. Now you can add musician into the mix as her band Hemme recently dropped their first EP Where Are You and has a full length album coming out next year. I had the chance to sit down and talk to Christy about her recent wrestling neck injury, music, and more."

You can read the full interview here:
http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/2009/06/interview-christy-hemme.html


And finally, Candice Michelle will be returning to WWE Smachdown! tonight, teaming with Layla and Alicia Fox against Gail Kim, Melina and Eve.
So Candice is back as a heel huh?

UPDATE: Nope...it wasn't Candice Michelle, it was Michelle McCool.

Should I even mention that at the WWE Extreme Rules PPV, the only semi womens match will be Vickie Guerrero against Santina Marella in a Hog Pen match for the title of "Miss WrestleMania"?
Nah...I didnt think I should either.

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.