In addition to the opening segment of tonight’s RAW, which will feature the entire roster on stage for a promo segment, we now know a Divas match scheduled for the show as well.
The NXT Women’s Champion Sasha Banks will go one-on-one with Paige as the “Diva Revolution” continues on this week’s RAW.
Tonight on #Raw, the #DivaRevolution rolls on as @RealPaigeWWE faces NXT Women's Champion, @SashaBanksWWE! pic.twitter.com/ZmxVr3v95I
— Diva Dirt (@divadirt) July 27, 2015
– Angelina Pivarnick, who appeared on the first two seasons of Jersey Shore on MTV, revealed on her Twitter account that she is training for a WWE tryout.
@WWENXT gonna start training for tryouts
— Angelina Marie (@angelinamtvjs) July 21, 2015
Wrestling is in my blood. Wanna get back out there. I know I have what it takes.
— Angelina Marie (@angelinamtvjs) July 25, 2015
After leaving Jersey Shore in 2010, Pivarnick expressed enthusiasm for professional wrestling and began training at the New Jersey-based Independent Wrestling Federation Academy. She made her wrestling debut for TNA Wrestling on the March 10, 2011 episode of iMPACT! in a six-women tag team match, partnering with Cookie (also known as Becky Bayless) and Sarita (also known as Sarah Stock and Dark Angel) against Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Winter (also known as Katie Lea Burchill in WWE). Pivarnick was pinned by Love following interference from Robbie E.
– Here is the synopsis for Total Divas airing on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 9/8 CT on E!: “Alicia, anticipating that her ex-boyfriend may be single again soon, toys with the idea of confessing her love to him; Jonathan takes heat for Eva’s bruises; and Paige is offended by Nikki’s classy take on her home turf.”
– The 2015 Special Olympics World Games opened Saturday with an appearance from Stephanie McMahon during opening ceremonies. WWE was on hand for the event and released this photo gallery.
– The dark segment after the WWE SmackDown television taping on Tuesday night in Lincoln, Nebraska saw WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and former NXT Champion Kevin Owens double-teaming Cesaro until Dean Ambrose finally ran out and made the save. Ambrose closed out the show by putting Rollins through a table to send the fans home happy.
– Corey Graves is filming “Culture Shock” at the Alternative Press Music Awards this week. Visiting this week while Graves records the show are WWE Divas Paige and Summer Rae, as well as Paige’s boyfriend Kevin Skaff.
– The latest edition of WWE’s “5 Things” web show, which you can watch below, looks at five Superstars who faced themselves.
https://youtu.be/gK0bW86THE0
– The official result of the Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WWE Battleground last night is a “No Contest,” according to WWE.com. As seen during the show last night, the Lesnar-Rollins match ended when The Undertaker returned and attacked Lesnar.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross will review WWE Battleground on his “Ross Report” podcast this week with The Fight Network’s John Pollock. The show will be available tomorrow night at PodcastOne.com.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair took the following photo backstage at WWE Battleground last night with his daughter Charlotte, as well as Paige and Becky Lynch.
. @BeckyLynchWWE @RealPaigeWWE @MsCharlotteWWE @WWE @WWENXT pic.twitter.com/Ve0fv3a7X1
— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) July 20, 2015
– Former WWE Women’s Champion Candice Michelle revealed Friday on Twitter that she has given birth a daughter.
She has arrived! We’re are all healthy safe and I’m so in love with my new creature! ????
— CANDICE MICHELLE (@DIVACANDICEM) July 18, 2015
Michelle has two other daughters: AkiAnne Rose, born May 2010, and Ryumi Grace, born October 2012.
– Here is the synopsis for Total Divas airing on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 9/8 CT on E!: “Paige ditches Alicia for a new man; Nattie infuriates her husband with her unwillingness to say “no”; and Nikki confronts Bryan about not liking her.”
– WWE.com has released this photo gallery of Roman Reigns and The Bella Twins joining celebrities and athletes on the red carpet of the 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday. Stephanie McMahon and The Miz also walked the red carpet, but are not featured.
As things stand right now, there is no WWE Divas Championship match officially scheduled for Sunday’s WWE Battleground pay-per-view. Originally, WWE had planned to have Nikki Bella defend the WWE Divas Championship against Paige at Battleground, however that was before the angle was shot on Monday’s RAW where the NXT Divas were called up to the main roster.
Speaking of Sunday’s Battleground event in St. Louis, as of Wednesday, WWE had sold only 10,500 tickets for the 14,600 seat setup they have for the show. This marks the weakest advance for a regular WWE pay-per-view this year, not counting Elimination Chamber, which was originally a live event in a smaller venue that wasn’t promoted as a pay-per-view at first.
(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)
– Former NXT Diva Becky Lynch posted the following on Twitter regarding her main roster debut on Monday’s WWE Battleground “go-home” edition of WWE RAW in Atlanta, Georgia.
Walking on air. Dreams do come true. Thank you Dream for helping me realize mine #RAW pic.twitter.com/EysBqdPVkL
— Rebecca Quin (@BeckyLynchWWE) July 14, 2015
– Charlotte tweeted this one out about her RAW debut.
Tonight was for my brother Reid & Dusty… #NXTStrong & Proud ???? NEW GENERATION of Flair @WWE @WWENXT WOOOO!
— Charlotte Flair (@MsCharlotteWWE) July 14, 2015
On Monday’s WWE Battleground “go-home” edition of RAW, Stephanie McMahon announced a revolution of women’s wrestling in WWE.
Stephanie brought up the success of women in sports these days and went on to bring Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks to the main roster.
The storyline appears to be three groups of six, as Team Bella consists of The Bella Twins and Alicia Fox, while Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Paige were grouped together, and the trio of Naomi, Tamina and Sasha Banks were paired together.
The main roster debuts of Charlotte and NXT Women’s Champion Sasha Banks have been spoken about quite a bit over the past few months.
This coming Wednesday on WWE NXT the pair will face off against each other for the NXT Women’s Championship after Charlotte joined forces with Banks last week to take on Dana Brooke and Emma.
It’s expected that when the pair do come up to the main roster, they’ll be featured in the feud that Paige is currently having with The Bella Twins.
Their debut was speculated on last week’s episode of RAW, and again some are expecting it to take place again tomorrow night (July 13th) but this could all change.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer, the WWE have recently provided staff down at NXT with a memo which states who they won’t be using in upcoming storylines for later in the year.
Neither Sasha Banks or Charlotte were featured on that list is a strong indication that their main roster debuts could be imminent.
– Former WWE Diva AJ Lee and current WWE Diva Paige reunited while in Los Angeles, California on Thursday. The hashtag “FreaksAndGeeks” trended worldwide for several hours today after Paige posted a photo of the two together, which you can view below.
https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/619282419128995840
https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/619324642369499136
– Chris Jericho tweeted the following about this week’s WWE Tough Enough episode scoring the best rating of the season thus far.
Wow last nights episode of @WWEToughEnough did the HIGHEST RATINGS yet! Things are getting good…See u next week! #hostwiththemost #MUSTSEETV
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) July 8, 2015
– While Stardust (Cody Rhodes) was back at television this week, WWE decided not to use him. The belief is that WWE isn’t ready to turn Stardust babyface, and due to the fact that he is Dusty Rhodes’ son and people probably won’t want to “boo” him, they are waiting to bring him back.
– At one point, a few of the NXT Divas, Charlotte being one we can confirm specifically, were scheduled for this past Monday’s edition of WWE RAW. This wasn’t the first time NXT Divas were set to make their main roster debuts only for plans to be changed. As noted recently, Charlotte and Sasha Banks are expected to be brought up to the main roster in time for SummerSlam, and they are likely to be involved in the Paige vs. Team Bella angle, siding with Paige.
(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)
– Chris Jericho suffered a neck injury during his match in Japan with Neville this past weekend. The injury happened when Jericho caught Neville on a dive spot. Originally, the injury was believed to be a serious one, however he has reportedly recovered from it already and is under the belief that it will be completely gone in a few days.
– In addition to the announced matches for this month’s WWE Battleground pay-per-view, Randy Orton vs. Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler vs. Rusev and Nikki Bella vs. Paige are expected. While Bella-Paige isn’t official yet, we can confirm that it was on the books for the event as recent as a week ago. In the case of Ziggler and Rusev, WWE is doing an angle where Ziggler is “out indefinitely,” so they might hold off on that match.
(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)
While there has been a lot of speculation about the outcome of the current storyline involving Paige taking on Team Bella (Alicia Fox and The Bella Twins), we can now report what the current working plan is.
According to PWInsider.com, NXT Diva Charlotte is scheduled to make her main roster debut at next month’s WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view. Another NXT Diva, likely current NXT Women’s Champion Sasha Banks, will be debuting alongside Charlotte to help Paige.
There was some discussion of calling up Bayley for this storyline, however she is dealing with a broken hand, so the talk now is that Banks will be the second Diva called up for this angle.
TNA Knockout Mickie James recently appeared as a guest on The Roman Show and spoke about her goals. Below are some highlights from the interview.
On Working With Paige is She Makes a WWE Return: “Paige. I am going to take her out now. If you don’t see her it’s not my fault. The girls have been killing it in NXT. Kudos to the girls of NXT for killing it. It’s a tough one. They are all so good. I would like to take on Charlotte. That would be fun because I’ve been friends with Ric Flair. He does nothing, but brag about her. He is proud of her as he should be.”
On Reaching Her Goals: “I don’t know. That would be amazing,” she said about returning to the WWE. “I got into wrestling to be a WWE superstar that was my goal. I watched WWE as a child. I was a fan. That’s where I wanted to be. I was fortunate and blessed to achieve that goal. I am grateful. But if I had the opportunity to come back of course I would be back to kick their butts. Easy competition. Just kidding.”
Check out the complete interview at RodolfoRoman.com.
WWE Diva and Total Divas star Paige recently spoke with Biz Journals to promote the return of WWE Tough Enough. Below are some highlights from the interview.
On what she has learned business-wise in her career thus far: “That’s what I got told as soon as I got [in the entertainment industry], because you could be gone tomorrow and you don’t want to be completely screwed. Also, stay humble and hungry.”
On her favorite moments of her career: “Getting signed to the WWE was the biggest accomplishment I could do and also being at such a young age and being the WWE Diva’s champion was big.”
On having issues handling money: “This goes back to the saving money plan. The first year and a half that I was here, I thought “man, I have money. What should I do with it? Save it? No.” I would buy stuff immediately, but I got into a lot of trouble. I had to get surgery, I got into a car accident and someone took all of the money I had in my bank account and all of it came at once and I fell into debt. After that, I learned that I needed to be very smart with my money.”
Check out the complete interview at BizJournals.com.
– Paige’s ongoing storyline with the Bella Twins talking about bringing change to the Divas division will likely culminate with one of the NXT Divas being called up to the main roster.
Ric Flair’s daughter Charlotte is a strong possibility, since she’s been considered ‘ready’ for quite some time now.
– Bayley is currently working through a broken arm. She was wearing a cast at this past weekend’s NXT live events.
– Joey Styles confirmed on Twitter that the July 4th WWE live event from Tokyo, Japan will air live on the WWE Network in its entirety. Aside from the Kevin Owens vs. Finn Balor NXT Championship match, Brock Lesnar and Chris Jericho will also be in action on the show. (Full Card)
– The following is Part 1 of WWE’s new in-depth look at Finn Balor as he prepares to face Kevin Owens for the NXT Championship on July 4th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCv7R2c1tA
The E! Network issued a press release this week touting the return of “Total Divas” on Tuesday, July 7 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT., and Alicia Fox is not at all mentioned. Despite the snub, she has not been dropped as a regular cast member like Cameron and Rosa Mendes.
Fox appears in the above video previewing the upcoming season and she mentioned on Instagram on Friday that she was in Mexico with her “sisters”—The Bella Twins, Natalya and Paige were filmed this week at a resort in Tulum.
The press release also previews the main storylines for Season Four. In regards to Eva Marie, she “becomes public enemy number one when word gets out that WWE has big plans in raising her profile.”
THE POWERFUL WOMEN OF WWE® RETURN IN SEASON FOUR OF E!’S “TOTAL DIVAS” PREMIERING TUESDAY, JULY 7 AT 9PM ET/PT
The Bella Twins™, Natalya™, Eva Marie™, Paige™ And Naomi™ Are Back With Their Hit Series Followed By The Series Premiere Of “Hollywood Cycle” At 10pm ET/PT
Los Angeles, CA, June 11, 2015 – E!, WWE® and Bunim-Murray Productions’ “Total Divas” returns for its highly-anticipated fourth season on Tuesday, July 7 at 9pm ET/PT. “Total Divas” continues to give the exclusive, outside-the-ring look at WWE’s top Divas, and this season all it takes is just one spark! The Bella Twins™ (Nikki and Brie Bella), Natalya™ (Nattie), Eva Marie™, Paige™ and Naomi™ (Trinity) are back and ready to heat up the summer. The ladies will continue to give viewers an inside glimpse on balancing life in the spotlight with the drama of their personal lives, and the non-stop action of their professional careers, taken to new heights with Nikki Bella as the current WWE Divas Championship titleholder.
Season three of “Total Divas” remained a powerhouse for E!, reaching 1.73M Total Viewers and 1.12M Adults 18-49 in L3 ratings, solidifying its spot as one of the network’s hottest programs. In the season three finale, the Bella Twins were contemplating signing a three-year deal with WWE, but were reluctant to commit because Brie wanted to start a family and Nikki was looking into alternative business opportunities. While the Bellas were considering the next step in their careers, Natalya, Eva Marie and newcomer, Paige, were all working on their respective romantic relationships. Paige decided to put an end to her budding romance after realizing that they just weren’t a match. Nattie and her WWE Superstar husband, Tyson Kidd™, were working through the ups and downs of their second year of marriage, and Eva Marie and her husband put their relationship, as well as her relationship with WWE, at risk when he began working as her manager.
This season, emotions will rise as all of the ladies must truly learn the art of harmonizing their rocky personal ventures and their in-ring personas. Brie Bella struggles with the injuries endured by her husband, WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan™, as well as their fertility issues. Nattie has to overcome some personal obstacles her father is battling, meanwhile dealing with her sister moving in with her and her husband. Eva becomes public enemy number one when word gets out that WWE has big plans in raising her profile. Paige lands a role in WWE Studios’ film “Santa’s Little Helper” co-starring WWE Superstar The Miz™ and wearily ventures into a new romantic relationship. Trinity navigates the unfamiliar terrain of being a stepmom to the children of her husband WWE Superstar, Jimmy Uso™, while also transitioning her in-ring character from a hero to a villain. With each Diva now becoming a serious contender for Nikki’s WWE Divas Championship title, this season is sure to be a knockout.
Season four of E!’s hit “Total Divas” returns on Tuesday, July 7 at 9pm ET/PT followed by the series premiere of E!’s “Hollywood Cycle,” a never before seen look inside the uber-popular, highly competitive world of indoor cycling at LA’s Cycle House.
“Total Divas” is produced by WWE and Bunim-Murray Productions. Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins and Russell Jay are Executive Producers for Bunim-Murray Productions. Kevin Dunn and Chris Chambers are Executive Producers for WWE.
On Monday, WWE confirmed two new title matches for this Sunday’s WWE Money In The Bank pay-per-view event.
Below is the current official lineup for WWE Money In The Bank 2015:
WWE World Heavyweight Championship
(Ladder Match)
– Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dean Ambrose
Money In The Bank Ladder Match
– Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. Neville vs. Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Kane
WWE Intercontinental Championship
– Ryback (c) vs. Big Show
WWE Divas Championship
– Nikki Bella vs. Paige
WWE Tag-Team Championship
– The New Day (c) vs. The Prime Time Players
– John Cena vs. Kevin Owens
WWE Money In The Bank Kickoff Show
– R-Truth vs. King Barrett
WWE Money In The Bank is scheduled for Sunday, June 14, 2015 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Make sure to join us here at SEScoops.com for live results of the event!
WWE taped the following matches for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars on Monday prior to WWE RAW.
– Paige def. Layla in Divas action in the first of two matches taped for the show. The finish saw Paige score the pinfall after hitting Layla with her “Ram-Paige” finisher. Jimmy Uso was on commentary during this match.
– The Ascension def. The Lucha Dragons in tag-team action in the second of two matches. The crowd chanted “Lucha! Lucha!” a lot during the match. In the end, Kalisto scored the pin on Konnor, giving The Lucha Dragons the victory.
Paige and her boyfriend Kevin Skaff appeared on the Rad Times YouTube series to talk about how they met.
Paige revealed that a certain un-named WWE Diva met Kevin through a dating app, but they only hung out a few times. This led to the two hanging out at a bar and Skaff later trying to score Paige’s phone number on Twitter.
Paige also recalls how Skaff tried to get her to send a nude photo.
For this edition of Rad Times, we switched it up a little to bring you one of our favorite duo’s, Kevin Skaff and his femme fatale, Paige from the WWE. Both very successful entertainers obviously have incredibly demanding schedules, so we had to know how they could end up with each other. They told us here…
– Variety is reporting that The Rock is in talks to star in a remake of the classic 1980s film, “Big Trouble In Little China.” The Rock would likely be playing the lead role of truck-driver Jack Burton, originally played by actor Kurt Russell. Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are writing the script, while The Rock and his production company partners Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are producing the movie through their 7 Bucks Entertainment company.
– In the following RAW Fallout video, Adam Rose and Rosa Mendes explain why they are WWE’s hottest couple.
– In the next RAW Fallout clip, The Bella Twins talk about Nikki Bella’s victory last night.
– In the follow-up, Bella’s opponent — Paige — vents her frustration.