WWE Diva News and Updates

"The Wai-In" has a two part interview posted on YouTube with former WWE Diva Trish Stratus.
Trish talks about her yoga studio, pro wrestling and more.
You can see part one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDM7gAnyKo

Trib.com has an article up about Torrie Wilson and her being on "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!" on NBC.
I hope she does better than Ashley Massaro did on "Survivor: China".
You can read the full article here

Speaking of Ashley, I missed her birthday on May 26th.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY!

Indy wrestler Serena Deeb is still a maybe with the WWE.
She appeared on an episode of ECW on Sci Fi, but has yet to sign a developmental contract.
Serena has worked for Shimmer and Ohio Valley Wrestling and in OVW she has held the Women's Championship six times.

And while they are trying to get one diva into the WWE another has been sidelined for nine months.
Jenny Quinn, a WWE developmental women's wrestler in Florida Championship Wrestling tore her anterior cruciate ligament and will be out rehabing it.
Jenny is known as "Fifi" and Jenny Cash in FCW.
You can keep up with Jenny at her MySpace page here.

WWE SmackDown! Diva Eve Torres is taking classes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the Gracie Academy in Los Angeles, California, as are several of her fellow Divas.
You don't think the WWE read what I posted on my other blog about turning the Divas division into submission style wrestling seriously do you?
If so...where is my writers fee?
LOL

In it's "WWE Outside The Ring And More...." section, there is an article about Mickie James touring the garden of 9-year-old Sarah Lindauer.
Sarah is the latest "WWE Community Champion."


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WWE Diva News and Rumors

Last night on WWE Raw, Mickie James took on Maryse in a non title bout.
Mickie got the win with a DDT.

In case you missed the match, here it is...




Evidently the WWE is not too happy with Tiffany being the GM of ECW.
There is talk of maybe putting Tommy Dreamer in the role.


Don't expect to see Candice Michelle on SmackDown anytime soon.
According to her Twitter account " In hawaii with family! Its beautiful here! Went swimming w sharks today and doing therapy in the sunshine!"
Think about it....having to do ankle theraphy isnt exactly great, but getting to do it in Hawaii?
Awesome.


The WWE has signed Indy wrestler Miss April (April Jeanette) to a developmental contract.
She had been working with National Wrestling Superstars and Women Superstars Unleashed.

Former WWE Diva Amy Dumas (Lita)

Former WWE Diva Amy Dumas (Lita)

The Luchagors is a punk rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is fronted by Amy Dumas, better known as Lita to pro wrestling fans of the WWE. During her last wrestling match at Survivor Series 2006, Dumas was seen wearing a Luchagors t-shirt.

After retiring from professional wrestling, Dumas moved back to Atlanta, Georgia and became romantically involved with her high-school crush Shane Morton. They began to write songs together and formed the band in the summer of 2006.

The name Luchagors is a homage to the term Luchador, a Lucha libre performer. Dumas performed this style early in her professional wrestling career. It is combined with the word gore, as in horror films, of which Amy and Shane are fans.

The band started out playing small gigs in and around the Atlanta area. Shortly afterwards, four tracks made their way around the Internet. Three can be found on the band's MySpace ("White Boy", "All There Is" and "Already Gone"), while live performances of "Burn" and a cover of "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones have shown up on YouTube.

The band's world premiere show was at the Rock-n-Shock event, which was held at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia on September 14, 2006. The event took place to honor Sean Shocker.

In early 2007, they began recording their debut album, which is being produced by Skid Row bassist, Rachel Bolan. They finished recording the tracks for their album, on March 17, 2007. However, in August 2007, an original member of the group, Troy the drummer, left the band.

Their self-titled debut album was released physically and as a download through online outlets on September 11.
http://www.luchagors.com/

Amy is a known animal lover. In 2003, she founded the animal charity Amy Dumas Operation Rescue and Education (A.D.O.R.E.).
http://www.adoreyourpets.org/



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RIP: Nancy Elizabeth Daus Sullivan Benoit (May 21, 1964 - June 25, 2007)

Ring name(s) Fallen Angel, Devil Woman, Robin Green, Woman
Born May 17, 1964
Daytona Beach, Florida
Resides Atlanta, Georgia
Pro Wrestling Debut: 1984

Nancy Elizabeth Daus Sullivan Benoit (May 21, 1964 - June 25, 2007) more commonly known by her in-ring names as Woman and Fallen Angel, was a professional wrestling valet and manager who had retired from the business. She was married to WWE SmackDown! Superstar, Chris Benoit.

All of my U.S. women's wrestling blogs are going to be this one updated entry I made back in February.
I guess it's a way of expressing sadness at a life cut short.
I can't even begin to express the shock I felt hearing the news. It reminds me of the when Eddie Guerrero passed away.
Sherri Martel last week and now this.
And this seems so senseless.
Nancy Elizabeth Daus Sullivan Benoit, valet,manager,wife,mother.

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News Flash: WWE releases Trinity

Now the WWE has released Trinity.
Well they might as well, they sure werent doing anything with her!
As I have mentioned before the WWE looks like it might just be feeding TNA's womens division.
Trinity worked for TNA once so it's not that much of a stretch.
Could you imagine Gail Kim, Jackie Moore, Jackie Gayda, Shelly Martinez, Ms.Brooks, Christy Hemme( okay thats a stretch, but Christy in the past has acted like she really wanted to learn to wrestle) and Trinity all in one division?
Gail, both Jackies and Christy were all one time WWE Divas.
Played right, TNA could get really nasty with this.



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Kimona Wanalaya / Kristina Laum

Manager: Kimona Wanalaya
Real Name: Kristina Laum
Born: November 23, 1976,Seoul, South Korea
Hometown: Born in Korea
Height & Weight: 5'1" - 100 lbs.
Trained by: WCW Powerplant
Pro Wrestling Debut: 1996
Previous Gimmicks: Kimona Wanalaya,Leia Meow (WCW)
Finishing Move: Hurricanrana
Favorite Moves: Suicide Dive

Kristina Laum, currently residing in Maple Shade Township, New Jersey, was a pro wrestling valet and manager in ECW and WCW. She used the names Kimona Wanalaya (sometimes spelled Kimona Wanaleia) and Leia Meow.

Kristina Laum was asked by her friend Raven to go into professional wrestling while she was working as a dancer at a club.

Kristina started in the ECW in 1996 as Kimona Wanalaya. She was Raven's valet and would occasionally get into catfights with his opponents' valets. She would often provide semi-sexual entertainment for the fans. Laum performed a striptease at one ECW event in order to appease a rowdy crowd. She also engaged in a (then shocking) lesbian kiss with Beulah McGillicutty, which shocked Tommy Dreamer, Beulah's boyfriend.

Laum later left ECW and worked for Jersey All Pro Wrestling for a while as Kimona. She was signed by WCW in 1999, but they didn't know what to do with her for several months. She eventually debuted alongside The Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner) as the cheerleader, Leia Meow. She was forced to do pushups and to jump on a trampoline at ringside whenever they demanded it.

This angle soon ended and she became the manager for the "Jung Dragons" (Jamie-San, Yun Yang and Kaz Hayashi). She would interfere in matches with a flying bodypress off of the top rope onto their opponents. She also had a dominatrix gimmick and carried a whip. She used it to attack Pamela Paulshock after Paulshock had won the "Miss WCW" contest that Meow participated in on September 25, 2000. She was then attacked by Midajah and had a brief rivalry with her leading to a fight on the following Thunder during Mike Awesome's Lava Lamp Lounge segment.

By the time WCW was sold to Vince McMahon, she had been fired from WCW due to roster cuts.

She went to the X Wrestling Federation where she was a member of the X-Girls, a dance team that included Gorgeous George and Chiquita Anderson of the Nitro Girls. She was known as Kris during her time in XWF. When XWF folded, Kristina retired from wrestling.

She is now working as a stripper in the United States.


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Female Wrestling - Beulah McGillicutty

Trisa Hayes Laughlin was born Trisa Hayes on March 14th, 1969 in Muskegon, Michigan,
She is better known by her stage name, Beulah McGillicutty, an American professional wrestling valet and occasional wrestler. Beulah is best known for her appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in the late 1990s and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2006. .

Beulah made one appearance in Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, Alberta in 1988 as Brian Pillman's sister. She was dating Pillman at the time and they had her appear in the crowd to be harassed by the heels so that Pillman could get over as a face by standing up for her.

While attending the 1995 Super Bowl in Miami with former San Diego Padres baseball player Ron Gant, Beulah met the professional wrestler Raven at a nightclub. She told Raven that she wanted back into wrestling. He talked to his boss, Paul Heyman (the owner of ECW), and Heyman agreed to hire her.

Beulah was introduced soon after the outset of the epic Raven / Tommy Dreamer feud. Her backstory was that, while Raven and Dreamer (allegedly former childhood friends) had been attending a summer camp in their teens, they had met Beulah, then fat. Beulah had fallen in love with Tommy Dreamer, but he rejected her, so she slept with Raven. Raven's lackey Stevie Richards brought Beulah to ECW so she could gain revenge on Dreamer by helping Raven. Beulah became Raven's valet, and suffered several piledrivers at the hands of Dreamer during the course of the feud.

At the same time, Beulah feuded with Francine and Luna Vachon, and was involved in several catfights with each of them. Her first match was on September 17, 1995, when she pinned Luna after Richards whacked her with a chair. In 1996, she claimed that she was pregnant and told a shocked Raven that it was Dreamer's baby, intensifying their feud. Beulah eventually left Raven and aligned herself with Dreamer. However, at the 1996 Hostile City Showdown Shane Douglas informed Dreamer that Beulah was never pregnant, and also had been cheating on him. When Dreamer demanded to know who with (suspecting it was Douglas) Douglas pointed to Raven's new valet Kimona Wanalaya, who proceeded to kiss Beulah to the mat. After some hesitation, Dreamer kissed both women, proclaiming "I'll take em both, I'm hardcore!"

In 1997, Beulah and Dreamer teamed up for a few inter-gender tag team matches against Francine and Douglas, with Beulah surprising fans by performing moonsaults in the matches. Later in the same year she defeated Bill Alfonso.

When the ECW wrestlers invaded the World Wrestling Federation, appearing on an episode of Monday Night Raw, Beulah was at Dreamer's side.

In 1998, Beulah was attacked by Justin Credible and was put out of action. Tommy would arrive with her pet bulldog and the fans would wonder when she would return. She returned to help Dreamer feud with Credible and his entourage. A few months later, Beulah grew tired of wrestling and was written out of storylines by having The Dudley Boyz "break her neck" by giving her their 3-D finisher.

After retiring from wrestling, Hayes returned to college. On October 12, 2002 at the Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester, New York, Hayes married Thomas "Tommy Dreamer" Laughlin, with whom she later had twin girls, Brianna Laughlin and Kimberly Laughlin. The twins appeared in the season six episode of "The Sopranos" called "The Ride" as Domenica Baccalieri Tony Soprano's baby niece.

Beulah returned to the ring on June 12, 2005, at the World Wrestling Entertainment-produced ECW One Night Stand 2005 pay-per-view. She interfered in the main event, helping Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman, but their opponents, The Dudley Boyz, won despite her efforts. Beulah was involved in a catfight with Francine, who had just kicked Dreamer in the crotch.

On June 7, 2006, it was announced that Beulah would be in the corner of Dreamer and Terry Funk against Mick Foley and Edge at ECW One Night Stand 2006 as an equalizer to Lita. On the day of the PPV, the tag match was later changed to a six-person mixed tag match pitting Edge, Foley, and Lita against Dreamer, Funk, and herself. Wrestling barefoot, Beulah handled Lita and appeared on the verge of victory. However, Dreamer, Funk, and Beulah lost the match when Edge speared and pinned Beulah. She has yet to appear in WWE's new ECW brand even though she is still apparently under contract with them.

TNA / AAA: Tiana Ringer

Ring name(s) Tiana Ringer
Tianna Taylor
Billed height 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Billed weight 127 lb (57 kg)
Born September 3, 1985,South Palm Beach, Florida
Resides Woodbridge, Ontario
Trained by Rob "El Fuego" Etcheverria
Wrestling Debut June 2004

Tiana Ringer is an American professional wrestler who moved to Ontario, Canada to train and become a wrestler. She predominantly works in Ontario and the North Central United States.

Ringer made her professional debut in June of 2004. That same year she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary Slam Bam which aired on the Discovery Channel.

Ringer currently works for several independent wrestling promotions including Blood, Sweat & Ears in Ontario, SHIMMER Women Athletes, the Pure Wrestling Association in Ontario, Ring Divas and the Universal Wrestling Alliance.

Tiana was a participant in ChickFight 6 held in San Francisco on September 1, 2006.

On September 17, 2006, Tiana made her wrestling debut in Mexico wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.

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ECW: Shelly Martinez / Ariel

Ring name(s) Desire,Shelly,Halloween Barbie,Cle-Ho-Patra,Ariel
Billed height 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Billed weight 120 lb (54 kg)
Born February 9, 1980,Chino, California
Trained by School of Hard Knocks,WPW Lucha Libre,Revolution Pro,UPW Ultimate University,Inoki Dojo,Ohio Valley WrestlingPro Wrestling Debut December 2001

Shelly Martinez (born February 9th, 1980) is an American model, professional wrestler and a professional wrestling valet currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand under the ring name Ariel where she portrays a Vampire character.

In April 2005, Martinez signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). By July of that year she was placed in WWE's primary developmental territory, contra for further training. Shelly debuted in OVW as the co-manager for Aaron Stevens along with Beth Phoenix, a group which broke up within the year. While training in OVW Shelly participated in numerous feuds with the likes of Beth Phoenix, Serena, Sosay, and Fuji Cakes. Martinez beat Mickie James to win her debut singles match at an OVW house show on October 29. In late December, Shelly and Beth Phoenix revived their "co-manager" gimmick to accompany Aaron Stevens to the ring at several WWE SmackDown! house shows for tryout matches. They also appeared together on the January 27, 2006 episode of WWE Heat as part of The Heart Throbs "Throb-o-Meter" section, dancing in the ring with The Heart Throbs and teasing a kiss, before being interrupted by Trevor Murdoch.

At the February 22, 2006 OVW TV Tapings, Shelly came to ringside and attacked Sosay during an Elijah Burke vs Robbie Dawber match. Around this time she started a gimmick of being "obsessed" with Paul Burchill who, at the time, was using a pirate gimmick on SmackDown!. On the May 6, 2006 edition of WWE Velocity, Martinez appeared as buxom wench Shelly to manage Paul Burchill in his pirate gimmick for Burchill's match against The Road Warrior, however the angle was dropped after one match. Martinez then became involved in Seth Skyfire's ongoing feud with Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Roni Jonah.

Shelly debuted in World Wrestling Entertainment as Ariel, working on their ECW brand as a tarot-reading fortune teller on the June 20, 2006 episode of ECW on Sci Fi. She was later joined by Kevin Thorn, a vampire character who had previously been seen stalking ECW arenas, as she announced that she "saw a future that held blood" followed by Thorn spitting blood at the camera. From there, she began acting as a valet for Thorn, joining him at ringside for his matches and kissing him during them. On September 5, Ariel turned a lot of heads when she gave commentator Joey Styles a lap dance. On September 19, she got into her first ECW catfight when Francine accompanied Balls Mahoney to ringside for a match against Thorn. Ariel made her (ECW) in-ring debut against Francine on September 26 in an "Extreme Catfight", ruled a no-contest due to interference from both Thorn and Mahoney. The angle was soon dropped when Francine was released from WWE. When the ECW brand held its first pay per view, December to Dismember, Ariel and Thorn defeated Kelly Kelly and Mike Knox in a mixed tag team match. In February of 2007, Ariel along with Kevin Thorn joined The New Breed faction.

http://www.desirelive.com/

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Donna Adamo - Elektra

Ring name(s): Elektra
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 122 lb
Born: November 12th, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York
Trained by: The Fabulous Moolah, Johnny Rodz

Donna Adamo (better known as Elektra) is a former model, professional wrestler and manager who has worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

As Elektra, she has managed Danny Doring and Roadkill, Dangerous Alliance (CW Anderson and "Wild" Billy Wiles), with Lou E. Dangerously, EZ Money and Hot Commodity (EZ Money, Julio Dinero and Chris Hamrick).

Donna Adamo grew up in New York City, and being a child of the club scene, Elektra was headed for a modeling career, when she decided instead to follow her heart and train as a pro wrestler. After learning the ropes under the Fabulous Moolah, Lelani Kai, and Velvet McIntyre, Elektra began working the Northeastern Independent circuit. Eventually she found her calling when she debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling. The 'extreme' promotion was run by an old friend from her club days.

Elektra made her debut as a gift from 'Cyrus the Virus' to Danny Doring when he was in his deepest misery. Elektra provided both ringside assistance and an alluring distraction for opponents of Danny Doring and Roadkill, but she finally opted to align herself with a superior team, Lou E. Dangerously's Dangerous Alliance, CW Anderson and Billy Wiles.

Lashing out at her "old friend" ECW Executive Producer Paul Heyman for not helping her when he was in a position to do so, Elektra declared she would have her revenge by siding with Lou. Stunningly beautiful and 'stacked' enough for two women, Elektra has no fear of entering the ring to defend her men.

Was once married to wrestler Big Dick Dudley and she was one of the “Bada-Bing Girls” that appeared on the TV series The Sopranos.
She owns the club that is portrayed as "Bada-Bing."
In 2003, WWE did a photo shoot with then diva Dawn Marie Psaltis in that same club.





Donna Adamo/Elektra, posted to http://beautiful-wrestling.blogspot.com/

Tammy Lynn Sytch - WWF - ECW - WCW

Tammy Lynn Sytch was born on December 7th, 1972 in Matawan, New Jersey.
She was a professional wrestling diva for ECW, WCW, WWE and various independent promotions. Tammy achieved her greatest success as "Sunny" in WWF in the mid to late 1990s.

Tammy's career has more up and downs than a rollercoaster.

Although in late 2005 and early 2006, WWE made several subliminal messages regarding Sytch's WWF tenure as Sunny. The company website featured "Sunny Month" on WWE 24/7 Online, a Flash puzzle baring her likeness, not to mention the usage of her old WWE theme music "I Know You Want Me" on the WWE Divas section of the site. This all seemed highly unusual considering that WWE rarely promotes talent unaffiliated with the company.

As it turned out, the individual in charge of WWE.com, Chris Chambers, contacted Sytch in November 2005 in hopes of having her participate in a photoshoot and interview for "Sunny Month" on WWE 24/7 Online in January 2006. Chambers was a good friend of Sytch during her WWF tenure - he helped produce some of her promos. The outspoken Sytch has never been one to shy away from an interview, but there was a dilemma regarding the possibility of a photoshoot. Juxtaposed to her earlier stint as Sunny, WWE fans who are unaware of her whereabouts in recent years would be in for quite a surprise if they saw Sytch in her present-day physical appearance - which has considerably altered since she was last seen in WWE in 1998. Albeit shapely and curvaceous, Sytch is no longer in "bikini-shape" due to the amount of weight she's gained over the years (Sytch hasn't been publicly seen in a bikini since 2002). Henceforth, a flattered Sytch turned down Chambers' offer as she didn't want to leave a bad impression with WWE fans if they were to see her in current full-figured state in revealing clothing. However, Sytch didn't completely rule out the offer as she stated that would be willing to go through with the photoshoot and interview if and when she was able to lose her excess weight - or as she likes to refer to losing weight as getting back into "Sunny Shape." Although, WWE revoked Chambers' duties as Head of WWE.com in March 2006 and the occasional references on the site regarding Sunny lessened. Nonetheless, Sytch stated that she has spoken to Vince McMahon and that he has opened the door for Sytch to come back whenever she's ready to return, which is when she believes to be in "Sunny Shape." Sytch hopes to make a return to WWE in late 2006 or early 2007.

Sytch was also featured in the 2006 WWE DVD The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers. The DVD paid tribute to Sunny blazing the trail for future WWE Divas, but also seemed to put the blame on Sytch for her personal problems and drug abuse. Many clips of her past were shown, however, it is unclear if she actually participated in the DVD. Sytch, in her present-day appearance, didn't physically appear in the DVD, but she partially narrated her segment. Archived Sunny audio clips were likely used for her DVD segment as her voice has considerably lowered in the past few years.

Rena Mero-Sable - WWF/WWE

Rena Mero
Ring name(s) Sable,Rena Mero
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight 120 lb (54.88 kg)
Born August 8, 1967 ,Jacksonville, Florida
Resides Delano, Minnesota
Trained by Marc Mero
Pro Wrestling Debut: March 1996

Rena Mero (born August 8th, 1967) is an American model, actress, and professional wrestler. She is mostly known for her stints in World Wrestling Entertainment as the buxom Sable character. As Sable, she was one of the first WWE Divas, gaining considerable popularity and gracing the cover of Playboy several times.

As Sable, Mero had several signature professional wrestling attacks and throws. While still associated with "Marvelous" Marc Mero, she used Marc's cutter, which he had dubbed the "TKO". She also used a variety of kicks, including a rainbow-style crescent kick and a roundhouse kick. In addition, she used a hurricanrana called the "Sablecanrana", a double leg takedown and the slap, a common move for most WWE divas. Her finishing maneuver was a regular powerbomb, (an out-of-the-ordinary move for a female wrestler at the time) known as the "Sablebomb".

WWE - Jaime Koeppe

Jaime Jacqueline Koeppe (born October 13th, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia) Miss Molson Indy Canada 2002 Contest Winner, Fitness Expert, and also the first winner of the WWE Diva Search in the summer of 2003.

The competition was a live internet contest and there was never a Diva contest on air or a WWE talent contract involved as there has been ever since. However she did receive a photo shoot in the November 2003 edition of RAW Magazine as well as a great deal of extra publicity which jump started her career in the modeling industry. Jaime's win in the first WWE Diva Search was due in part to the overwhelming support by her official fan club which was started by her former friend and non-contract media promoter, DJ Wysocki.

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