Former WWE Diva Angela “Savannah” Fong participated in the finals of the Tropic Beauty bikini pageant in Los Angeles last week. Here’s a photo:

— Former WWE Divas Champion Jillian Hall responded to comments regarding her shift in weight after appearing noticeably heavier at an independent wrestling show and autograph signing on Saturday.

“Yeah… I gained some weight! Forgive me for being pregnant then being depressed,” Hall wrote. “Guess I was right about not wanting to come back so quickly.”

Hall announced in March that she had suffered a miscarriage fourteen weeks into her pregnancy.

— Former women’s wrestling champion Madusa (a/k/a Debrah Miceli) wed her fiancée of six months this past Saturday in Memphis, Tennessee. She had the wedding broadcast online.

— Former WWE talent Maria Kanellis and Angela Fong (a/k/a Savannah) are advertised to appear at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in City of Industry, California on Saturday, August 27 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Visit www.frankandsonshow.com for more information.

— Matt Hardy stated in a recent interview with Fanhouse.com that World Wrestling Entertainment released him from his contract two weeks before it was officially announced on WWE.com on Oct. 15. Providing he’s telling the truth, his ninety-day no-compete clause would have began during the first week of October and thus would be technically free to appear at Sunday’s TNA Genesis pay-per-view. However, one TNA source said there has been no indication that Hardy will be Immortal’s handpicked opponent against Rob Van Dam at the event. (source: Pro Wrestling Torch)

— Former WWE talent Angela Fong (a/k/a Savannah) was asked yesterday on Twitter if she has had any contact with TNA Wrestling, to which she replied she had. The former WWE Diva revealed being offered a tryout by the organization in October.

“I was offered a tryout in Oct, but I had to respectfully decline,” she wrote. “I was so busy at the time that I wouldn’t be able to commit fully…but never say never! You never know for the future.”

— Former TNA Knockout Jacqueline celebrates her 47th birthday today.

— Reigning TNA Women’s Knockout Champion Madison Rayne and Angelina Love recently shot footage for the custom wrestling match website SlamminLadies.com. Below is a photo of the two TNA Knockouts battling it out inside an empty room.

For prices starting as low as $250, the website allows fans to draw an outline of a pro-style match between any two women wrestlers featured on the site. Photo sets are also offered.

A number of past and present TNA Knockouts are featured on the website including Awesome Kong, Velvet Sky, Taylor Wilde, Cookie, Daffney, Sojournor Bolt, Roxxi Laveaux, Rhaka Khan, Ms. Payton Banks (a/k/a Rain) and Rosie Lottalove. Former WWE Diva Savannah (a/k/a Angela Fong) is also featured on the site.

— TNA Wrestling has made iMPACT! available to UK viewers while their television situation in the country gets resolved. The following instructions were posted on the company website: “Log on to TNAondemand.com, click the launch button, then click on the Impact UK button on the bottom left of the page. This free service is only available for the UK.”

— As we saw on Monday’s RAW and Tuesday’s live SmackDown, WWE has begun a new feud between John Cena and CM Punk. Original creative plans called for the Cena/Punk angle that kicked off on last night’s Raw to begin next month, but was bumped forward because the “Straight Edge” wrestler returns to action this weekend. The current plan is for the feud to continue through the Royal Rumble, with CM Punk getting the best of Cena, with the feud culminating at WrestleMania XXVII in April.

— Former WWE star Sean “X-Pac” Waltman commented last night during Raw that Michael Cole’s heelish persona isn’t really an act. He wrote on Twitter:

“Cole was such a whiney, smug, aloof person when I was there. I can only imagine how he is now.”

— Former WWE Diva Savannah is accepting appearance bookings and inquiries via angelafongdirect@gmail.com.

(source: f4wonline.com)

— Commenting on her release from World Wrestling Entertainment last week, Angela Fong (a/k/a Savannah) remarked the following on Twitter:

“It’s been a wk since my release and has felt like the longest wk of my life! It was so unexpected and I didn’t see it coming. But, I have to accept and I’m moving onwards and upwards. 3 yrs w/WWE.. it was an incredible time. I learned so much..not just how to wrestle. @ FCW,I was passionate 2 learn as much as I could, and I felt that I did. What hurts, is that I never wrestled on TV, something I really wanted. Perhaps 1 day! Thank u 2 all my FANS..hope u continue to support me. Thnk u to @WWE for everything. I will miss it! Journey has just begun 4 me! See u all soon!! :) love u!”

The former WWE ring announcer is currently accepting bookings for autograph signings, wrestling performances and ring announcing. Those interested in booking Fong should contact Steve Woolf at celebritysignings@sbcglobal.net.

— Jerry Lawler’s recently re-launched Memphis Championship Wrestling television show drew a 0.1 rating with 1,620 viewers for its June 19 episode, a far cry from the 20+ ratings and 70 market share in the Memphis market in the same time slot a number of years ago. (source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

— NXT ring announcer Jamie Keyes is on Twitter at the following link.

(source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

As reported Wednesday, ring announcer Savannah (Angela Fong, 25) was released from her WWE contract. She was recently replaced by Jamie Keyes as the ring announcer for NXT and instead moved to a backstage announcer role on Raw. It’s said her flubbing lines on last week’s Raw while interviewing Wade Barrett was the reason for her dismissal from the company.

Prior to entering the wrestling industry, Fong was a cheerleader for the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League, as well as a bikini model. She tried out for the 2007 Diva Search and although she didn’t make the final cut, WWE would sign her to a developmental contract a few months later. It had been long rumored that Fong would be called up to the main roster in a wrestler capacity, but she instead made her WWE debut as a backstage announcer on ECW. She assumed the role of ring announcer following Lauren Mayhew’s departure from the company last November.

Fong reportedly garnered heat with some in the company over a topless scene she filmed for a direct-to-DVD movie called Ratko: The Dictator’s Son, a National Lampoon production. She filmed the scene before being hired by WWE, but company officials were unaware she had until video stills of Fong appearing topless surfaced online earlier this year.

— Quite like 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Matt Hardy vows to make 2010 “the year of Matt Hardy.” The SmackDown Superstar released the following mission statement urging fans to “get ready for the biggest run of Matt Hardy’s career.”

— Making her first public comments since being released by World Wrestling Entertainment, Savannah remarked the following yesterday on Twitter: “It has been quite a day….my head hurts…need some sleep..I appreciate all the support and I will write tomorrow…i love my fans..gnite.”

— The latest addition to WWE’s Alumni section comes in the form of former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader. You can view his page here.

The official WWE website made the following announcement this evening:

Savannah released
Written: June 23, 2010

World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of NXT season one announcer and WWE Diva Savannah as of today, June 23, 2010. WWE wishes Savannah the best in all future endeavors.

— The Wrestling Observer reports that a few more releases are discussed and could be taking place as early as this week. There are particular names who people with power are trying to save. Of the five released this past week (Maria, Paul Burchill, Gregory Helms, Charlie Haas and Scott Armstrong), there were people who tried to save Helms.

— The WWE website has removed Savannah and Josh Mathews from its ECW Superstars section. While both individuals now appear on WWE NXT, they have yet to be added to the WWE NXT section.

— WWE returns to the Fed-Ex Forum in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 5 p.m. Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 10 a.m. (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

Hot off the heels of pictures of Tiffany surfacing in Playboy magazine, another “Sexy, smart and powerful” WWE Diva has also turned up naked.

WWE Diva Savannah, under her real name Angela Fong, is featured in a topless scene in the upcoming direct-to-DVD National Lampoon film RATKO: The Dictator’s Sun.

Much like Tiffany’s Playboy photos, Fong took part in the filming of the movie prior to her joining World Wrestling Entertainment.

You can purchase RATKO: The Dictator’s Sun on DVD at Amazon.com.

— Reigning WWE Women’s Champion Mickie James has hired fashion designer Natasha Rawls of NaJo Creations to design her clothes for her live country music debut on Monday, Feb. 22nd in Nashville. Rawls will also design James’ outfit for the annual WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. (WWE Diva and Country Artist Mickie James taps new designer)

— As a result of the demise of ECW, Tiffany, Rosa Mendes and Savannah have returned for Florida Championship Wrestling for further in-ring training.

— Speaking of Tiffany, both she and Intercontinental Champion Drew McIntyre signed autographs before last night’s Florida Championship Wrestling television taping.

— ECW ring announcer Angela Fong (a/k/a Savannah) was a victim of a fraud as she noted on her Twitter account last Friday that someone charged more than $1,000 on her credit card.

— Melina has apparently changed her tune on social networking sites as the multi-time champion has opened an account on Twitter. You can follow her at twitter.com/RealMelina. She has also opened an account on the WWE Universe website at the following link.

— Today is Kelly Kelly’s birthday, who turns 23 years old.