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WWE just announced the top 10 Smackdown Diva Moments in the history. You can view them here.

They are as follows:

10. Michelle McCool is SmackDown’s All-American Girl

9. Six-Diva Halloween Tag Team Match

8. Eve makes her singles debut

7. Maria wins the Las Vegas Dice on a Pole Match

6. Michelle McCool is SmackDown’s Top Diva

5. Divas Olympics Tag Team Match

4. Surprise – the Bellas are twins!

3. Divas Championship announced/Natalya wins Golden Dreams

2. Victoria retires

1. Divas Champion Maryse wins the title

TNA Wrestling taped the March 12th edition of Impact from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida earlier tonight. Below are exclusive taping results by myself and Wrestling News World Orlando correspondent Julio Hernandez. Please do not reprint these results without giving a link to WrestlingNewsWorld.com.

TNA Impact (Airing this week on Spike TV on 3/12):

* Kurt Angle comes out and cuts a promo, asking Jeff Jarrett to come out so he can kick his ass. Jarrett comes out but Mick Foley and BG James stop him. James takes him to the back while Foley cuts a promo on Angle. Foley says if Angle wants to fight someone then it should be him. Angle stood face-to-face with Foley but ends up backing down and leaving the ring.

* A video is shown of Jim Cornette’s office, Sting comes in and Jim tells him that he and Angle will pick a wrestler to represent them to fight tonight and they will be in their corner.

* A 6-Man Elimination Tag Team Match is up next. Team 3D & Abyss vs. TNA Tag Team Champions Beer Money, Inc. & Matt Morgan. James Storm pins Brother Devon, Storm gets disqualified, Brother Ray pins Robert Roode, Matt Morgan pins Brother Ray, Matt Morgan pins Abyss to win the match.

* After the match, Lauren comes out to protect Abyss when Morgan emptied a bag of tacks in the ring. Morgan teases a chokeslam on both of them but Abyss is able to make the save.

* Taylor Wilde w/Roxxi & The Governor b. Madison Rayne w/The Beautiful People & Cute Kip via pinfall with Traci Brooks as the referee. After the match a brawl breaks out and the heels lay out the babyfaces.

* Mick Foley is at the broadcast table with Mike Tenay when Booker T comes out with Kevin Nash to confront Foley. TNA security pulls Booker off, Scott Steiner hits Foley from behind with a pipe.

* Lethal Consequences & LAX b. Booker T & Scott Steiner & The Motor City Machineguns when Hernandez hit the Border Toss on Chris Sabin for the pin. It looks like the Motor City Machineguns are full fledged heels as they came out of the heel entrance and worked well with Booker and Steiner.

*Impact Main Event: Kurt Angle picks Rocco (bigger guy of the Main Event Mafia bodyguard staff) and Sting picks Eric Young. Young pins Rocco to win the match. After the bout, Kurt Angle attacks Sting and the bodyguards take out Young. Triple team on Sting ensues. Foley comes out to make the save then Steiner and Nash run back out to take the advantage back Jarrett runs out with a chair and connects on the bodyguards. Jarrett is about to hit Nash and Steiner but Sting steps in the way. The Main Event Mafia get out of the ring, Jarrett gets on the mic and says to Angle he’s had enough of the three ring circus acts. Jarrett names himself as referee and Mick Foley as the Special Enforcer for Kurt Angle vs. Sting for the TNA Championship at Destination X. This ends the show

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WWE Superstar Batista has an interview on Thee Philippine Star. Here are a few highlights:

What made you decide that wrestling was what you wanted to do for a living?

Originally, I was looking to make some money. I’m sorry, but to be honest, I didn’t really appreciate it or fall in love with it until after my first tryout. When I first tried out, it was so hard and it was so challenging. It wasn’t at all what I thought it was going to be. I just kind of developed a passion for it.

Tell us about your tattoo. The one with the Greek flag and the Philippine flag.

All my tattoos are very personal. I was just always really proud of being Filipino and Greek. And I get asked all the time what nationality I am. People guess Italian, Spanish and every once in a while people think I’m Middle Eastern. (The tattoo) is just one of those things that’s a bold statement of what my heritage is. I’m very proud of it.

What’s in store for Batista at Wrestlemania?

I don’t know. Honestly. And that’s an honest answer. I think I’ll be physically ready to go by that time but Wrestlemania is our biggest show of the year and we really build up for it. The storylines are built up for Wrestlemania. Without much time to be built up with a storyline, I don’t think I’ll be fortunate enough to be a part of it.

Read the full interview: The Animal unleashed in Manila

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TNA Wrestling taped half of next week’s edition of Impact from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida tonight. Below are exclusive taping results by myself and Wrestling News World Orlando correspondent Julio Hernandez. Note that TNA may have not taped the matches/segments in the order in which they will air on the broadcast. Please do not reprint these results without giving a link to WrestlingNewsWorld.com.

TNA Impact (Airing on March 5th on Spike TV):

* TNA X Division Champion Alex Shelley w/Chris Sabin b. Kiyoshi via pinfall to retain. After the match, Suicide comes out and lays out the Motor City Machineguns. He poses with the X Division Championship and leaves the ring.

* LAX comes out and cuts a promo, they accept Beer Money’s “Off The Wagon Challenge” for later tonight.

* Mick Foley comes out and cuts a promo in the ring and introduces Sting. Sting comes out and Foley thanks him for the save last week. Foley tells Sting he hopes he leaves the Main Event Mafia. Sting says he appreciates the kind words but his problem is with Kurt Angle and not with the remaining members of the Main Event Mafia. The Main Event Mafia minus Angle comes out and Kevin Nash says that Sting shouldn’t be listening to Foley. Sting says he has no problem with them but with Angle because of the disrespect of spitting in his face. Nash says he hopes Sting makes the right decision and they all leave.

* Out of nowhere, Don West is seem storming away from the broadcast table and quickly see Kurt Angle beating Jay Lethal from the stage to the ring.

* LAX b. TNA Tag Team Champions Beer Money, Inc. in an “Off The Wagon Challenge” via disqualification when Robert Roode hit Hernandez with a char. After the match, Beer Money continues to hit char shots on LAX. Team 3D hit the ring and make the save. Brother Ray cuts a promo, accepting Beer Money’s open challenge for TNA Destination X.

* Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett in an anything goes match is up next. Both fought in street clothes all over the Impact Zone. The fight ends when Jarrett throws Angle out of the arena and shuts the door. Mick Foley and Team 3D are there giving high fives to Jarrett and they all go out to the ring and celebrate.

Arizona will play host to the Grandest Stage of Them All

GLENDALE - At a WWE Superstar-studded press conference this past Tuesday, the announcement rang forth that on Sunday, March 28, 2010, WrestleMania XXVI will come to Arizona’s University of Phoenix Stadium.

John Cena, Chris Jericho, Kelly Kelly, Kofi Kingston, Women’s Champion Melina and others were joined by Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs, Arizona Cardinals’ coach Ken Whisenhunt and University of Phoenix Stadium General Manager Peter Sullivan, all of who enthusiastically welcomed WWE at the University of Phoenix Stadium. PHOTOS

This marks the first time the Glendale/Phoenix area will play host to WrestleMania and the electrifying, history-making phenomenon promises to add to the marvelous splendor and financial prosperity of its gracious host. In 2008, WrestleMania XXIV pumped $50 million into the local Orlando economy and set the Citrus Bowl attendance record with 74,635 fans from all 50 states, five Canadian provinces and 21 countries.

This year, the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania will take place in Houston’s Reliant Stadium on April 5, where it is expected to set the stadium attendance record.

WrestleMania XXVI will be televised to more than 100 countries, proving once again that it is truly an international sensation. Visitors from around the world are expected to flock to Arizona and participate in a week’s worth of activities that will culminate with WrestleMania XXVI. The week-long celebration will feature WrestleMania Axxess, WWE Hall of Fame, WrestleManiArt, exhibition, Monday Night Raw and a WrestleMania “Rocks the Block” street party.

The theme centered around for next years WrestleMania XXVI will be “Destruction in the Desert”.

The following was posted on Bourne’s Myspace bulliten:

I return next week on ECW!!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen try to contain yourselfs.

You see… Evan Bourne is back!!
Did ya miss me?
Since I’ve been gone Mike Knox has been attacking my friends, even after he attacked me several times, and hit my injured ankle with my crutch!
Mike Knox I have not forgotten about you! Beleive that!
Also, Jack Swagger has became ECW Heavyweight Champion?
Christian Cage Returned to WWE?
This is a mission statement.

I will return to WWE next week or the week after that depending on the creative team, however most likely it will be next week.

I will qualify for the Money in the Bank Ladder Match at Wrestlmainia 25.

I will become the 2009 Mr. Money in the Bank.

I will cash in Money in the Bank on one of the three World Championships.

No. Not the ECW Championship.

Who wants to see Evan Bourne as the WWE Champion of Monday Night Raw?
I will become a champion this year and prove I am one of the best.

Protect your chins, because when I return your jaws will hit the floor hard.

- Future WWE Champion Evan “Air” Bourne

Smackdown’s Kizarny speaks for the first time on WWE Universe:

KIZARNY: Feizurst Bleizog!!!

“EDITOR’S NOTE: Kizarny’s blog has been translated to English by WWE.com for ease of reading…”

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and cats, canaries and girraphs, elephants and squirrels, smurfs and midgets etc… WEIZELCOME!!! Welcome to my very own lil fun house located right HERE Smackdown smack dab in the middle of the WWE Universe!

Please forgive my lack of saviness as it pretains to the world wide interesting net. Techology is NOT my fortay! Warp cores! Dylithium crystals! Flux capasitors! Fan belts! Spark plugs! I still haven’t figured out 90 % of the gizmos on my nifty new cell phone… I am still used to having two styrofoam cups attached to a reeeeeeally long string! Perhaps the computer nerds at WWE.com like Joey ‘OMG’ Styles and YOU— the lovely humans that make up the meat n’ potatoes of the WWE Universe— can help me figure it out?! Once I figure out what a blog is I promise to fill them blogtacularly with fart blossoms of wizdom and stories! Yes, I might suck at technology BUT (and that is a big ‘BUT’) I do know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff!… I know how to bend iron bars in my teeth (eat your heart out Mark Henry)… I know the secret recipe for the infamous ‘poisonous green mist’ used by wrestlers, ninjas and midgets since the dawn of time!… Heck, I paint my finger nails green with the stuff!… AND out of all the fun, scary, weird, helpful, bizzare, painful and deliscious stuff that I know my favorite blip of knowledge is being expertly skilled in the art of making balloon bunnies!!! Weeeeee!!!!!

I intend on sharing with you the WWE Universe as much as I can… You will find that I wear my heart on my sleave (as it is the only way I know how to live). I will gladly share road stories from the uhhhhh road! I will share stories from the sideshows and rasslin shows and LIFE that has made me into the friendly neighborhood carnival freak that I am today!

Step right up and look into my eyes, they are the windows to my soul (and they are 20/20 too!). You will see me turn my opponents lives into a three ring circus! It will be fun, fun, fun as I turn life’s rat race into a parade! Ohhh happy day!!! I once heard a musician sing that ‘Happiness is not a fish you can catch’… Well I am here in the WWE to live my dreams happily ever after and I have a kung-fu grip on my happy fish! Here fishy, fishy, fishy!… Hey, what do you call a fish with no eyes?… Fssshhhh!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaahahah!!!!!….

The Wizard Beach Wildman,

KIZ

The following is Candice’s WWE Universe blog:

Candice Michelle’s Defining Beauty with her new commercial! check it out!

Hey guys-

Just wanna update yall with some fun stuff that has been happening! First of all, thanks for all who joined me on the live blog I really had a blast talking with you guys! I’m releasing the brand new link to my new godaddy commercial with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Keselowski! wow we had a blast filming this and it has already launched for the nascar season! Hope you enjoy it, its really cute!

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I will be filming a few more with Danica Patrick in Vegas! However, in this case what happens in Vegas WONT stay in Vegas>>>well most of it anyways! Always get a discount with Godaddy.com just enter the password…Candice

Enjoy-

Candice Michelle

“Defining Beauty!”

Wrestling Observer reports:

Speculation of Stone Cold Steve wrestling at Wrestlemania 25 is highly unlikely since he will be inducted into thw WWE Hall of Fame the night before.

Those inducted into the Hall of Fame have generally being retired from wrestling.

The current plan is for Stone Cold Steve Austin to referee the RKO/Triple H match at WrestleMania 25.

The NewYork Mag.com caught up with Mickey Rourke for a couple of quick questions.

Rourke told us he’ll still be there, just not in the ring: “We’re gonna go in support. Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Rick Flair have been such a part of the movie … So whatever support I can give back to all those people from WWE, I’m gonna do that.”

NYMag asked: Who torpedoed Rourke’s plans to actually wrestle at WrestleMania, him or his publicist?

His Lackey responds ” “We don’t need to talk about that” and pulled away.

-CNBC.COM reports that Bank analyst, aka JBL’s wife, Meredith Whitney is leaving Oppenheimer & Co. after 15 years of service to start her own stock advisory firm.

Matt “The Black Cloud” Hardy has posted an update on WWE Universe on why he didn’t interfere during the elimination match at No Way Out. Here you see Matt going into character on calling his brother out, that there is no room for both of them in the WWE. Jeff has until Friday On Smackdown to make up his mind.

You’re Welcome Jeffrey Nero..

At No Way Out in Seattle, I gave you the opportunity to win the WWE Title inside of the Elimination Chamber. I listened very closely to what you had to say on Smackdown last week. You said you were going to “move on” and win the WWE Title regardless of what I wanted. You also mentioned that you hoped this issue between us will one day pass over.

So from the bottom of my heart, I didn’t interfere with your Elimination Chamber appearance and/or match. Nor did I need to.. You failed like you always do. I wanted to reinforce to everyone what a failure you truly are-how you can never pull through and succeed in a “big time” atmosphere. How you always choke. It’s nothing new though.

So from this point on, my generosity ENDS. No more denying me, no more avoiding the things you’ve done to me and the situations you’ve put me in. I will not allow you to “move on” with your life until you deal with our issues. Starting at Smackdown this week, I will FORCE you to deal with the injustices you have committed towards me. I’m afraid the WWE is not big enough for the both of us. I recommend you do the smartest thing possible for your life and livelihood right now. And that’s walk out of the WWE and my life. You have until Friday to make your decision.

“The Black Cloud” Matt Hardy

WWE taped next week’s edition of SmackDown at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Special thanks to readers, Mike Alston, and Jared Ramseyer and Johnny P for sending text-message updates. If you are attending a WWE television taping in the near future and would be interested in sending us text-message updates, please email your name, mobile number, and show date to wnwryan [at] yahoo.com. Thanks for your support!

Dark Match:
* Kung Fu Naki b. Zack Ryder

SmackDown: (Airing Next Week 02/06)
* The Brian Kendrick, Curt Hawkins, Zack Ryder, Chavo Guerrero, Vladimir Kozlov, MVP, Carlito, Primo Colon, Jesse, Shelton Benjamin, The Great Khali, Scotty Goldman, Kung Fu Naki, and R-Truth all compete in a battle royal for a spot in the Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out.
- Vladimir Kozlov to earn a spot in the Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out by eliminating R-Truth in the battle royal.

* Backstage segment with Hurricane Helms. He talks about how wrong Matt Hardy did Jeff at Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view. He says that Matt’s has always been a jerk.

Matt Hardy comes out the the ring and calls out Helms. Helms comes out and gets dominated by Hardy.

* Shelton Benjamin comes out to cut a promo. He says that MVP should change his name to “VPM” - Very Peyton Manning because he always blows the big game even when he has all the fans behind him. He receives tons of heat from the live crowd.

* MVP b. Shelton Benjamin in a non-title match.

* The Miz, John Morrison, & The Brian Kendrick b. R-Truth, Primo Colon, & Carlito

* Michelle McCool b. Eve via submission. Typical divas match. After the match, Maria comes in the ring to help Eve.

* Umaga b. Kung Fu Naki

* Triple H & Undertaker b. Edge & Big Show
- Triple H & Undertaker got the win after Big Show turned on Edge.

Kevin Eck got an phone interview with “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, here are some highlights:

Let’s move on to your career. We haven’t seen Christopher Daniels on television since the Feast or Fired thing in 2007. So what has Christopher Daniels been up to?

I’ve being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times. In October I was over for a pro wrestling expo. I’m always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I’m still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it’s a positive step in my career. As far as the states, I didn’t do as much this past year as I wanted to do, but it gave me a chance to recuperate from some nagging injuries that I had and to just kind of watch wrestling from the edge of the bubble rather than being deep in the thick of it.

We all know that loser leaves stipulations and retirement stipulations never hold up, so is there any legal loophole that will allow “The Fallen Angel”` to return to TNA?

Well, I have been trying. It’s not like I walked away from TNA and haven’t called them back. I’ve been very adamant about trying to get back in. I don’t think there’s a legal thing that says I can’t be rehired, but I just haven’t yet. I guess it just goes to the point that so many people are trying to get into TNA these days, and I’m not sure of it’s going to happen for me or not. Fingers crossed.

After you left TNA, a masked wrestler from Japan showed up named Curry Man. Did you get a chance to see him? If so, what are your thoughts? Have you ever met him?

(laughs) I’ve talked with him briefly over the phone. I sort of helped get him in there. It was my recommendation. With the New Japan deal [with TNA] – I was still with New Japan before I got fired – they asked what guys would be good to bring over, and I told them Curry Man would be a good guy. I didn’t realize he was going to stay over as long as he did, though. I was hoping that I’d be able to meet him when I finally came back to TNA, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen now. I’ll have to meet him when I go to Japan again.

Earlier you talked about how you have given thought to how many more years you can wrestle and what you’re going to do when you do hang it up. Do you have a time frame? And do you think you’d stay in the business, perhaps as a producer, or would you look to do something outside of wrestling?

I actually do want to stick around in wrestling in some way, shape or form. If I had my choice, I would like to get into the commentating side of it. I’ve done some stuff in the past with TNA and I feel like I could contribute to the product in that way. If I couldn’t do something on air, I’ve talked in the past about doing stuff behind the scenes as far as producing or what not. I do feel as if I have something to contribute to wrestling when I’m done falling down for a living, like I said. What I get a chance to do is still up in the air. I don’t have a timetable as far as like, “Oh, I’m going to retire in ‘X’ amount of years.” I’ve always said as long as it’s still fun I’m going to keep doing it. I’ve been extremely lucky in terms on injury. Very few injuries over the course of, this is the beginning of my 16th year. I know a lot of guys that have had a lot shorter careers and a lot more injuries, so I knock on wood every day. As long as I can keep doing it at a certain level, have fun and be safe and healthy, I’m going to keep doing it. When the day comes when I can’t do that, then I’ve got avenues that I can explore.

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW: Q&A with Christopher Daniels

Jim Ross has posted yet another update, here are a few highlights:

JR says McMahon actually got hurt on Monday Night Raw, when Orton “punt” to the head of Vince McMahon: Mr. McMahon got pretty banged up from being punted by Randy Orton Monday night. Word has it the Chairman may have sustained a concussion (unconfirmed) but he did receive a cut either on or above his ear from RKO’s boot laces. Ouch.

Special feature of The Wrestler on Smackdown:There is a special feature Friday night in Smackdown on the feature film “The Wrestler.” I hope to see this film before I leave Saturday evening for Detroit.

New WWE show to debut: No one seems to know who will be broadcasting the new WGN Superstars of Wrestling show which airs, I think, after WM25. From what I can tell, and trust me this could change, the WGN bouts will be 1st run and would likely be taped on Mondays before Raw when Raw is in the eastern and central time zones.
ECW and Smackdown would then return to their Tuesday partnership. Thank God the days of the Smackdown doubleheaders are nearing an end. They are as challenging as watching the Mets die a natural death every fall. Again, this info is subject to change. Not sure of the announce talent, either, but I would LOVE to hear more of Grisham & Striker.

READ THE FULL BLOG

PWInsider reports: CM Punk has now become a triple crown champion in WWE after his Intercontinental Championship win on last night’s Raw. Punk has won the triple crown (In World Wrestling Entertainment, the term Triple Crown Champion has traditionally been used to describe a wrestler who has won the WWF/E Championship, the WWF/E Intercontinental Championship, and the Tag Team Championship.) faster than anyone else in the history of the company in just 203 days.

The only person who has reportedly come close is Kevin Nash who become a triple crown champion in 227 days.