SHINE Wrestling has posted a video that appears to show some shady dealings between new SHINE Champion Rain and Saraya Knight. The video, taken before Saraya’s match against Jessicka Havok at SHINE 11, appears to show Rain offering Saraya a good bit of cash. We can’t hear the pair’s conversation, but it’s pretty clear what … Read more
Last night’s SHINE 11 featured a number of unforgettable moments, including the crowning of the first SHINE Champion. Perhaps its most unforgettable moment took place early on in the night, during the match between Jessicka Havok and Saraya Knight. Most of the match took place outside of the ring, as the two hard-hitting competitors brawled … Read more
It was the night an entire year in the making, and the plan was straightforward: This was going to be the night a young, mighty heroine would rise to the challenge, valiantly seeing off all who stood in her way to be crowned the first-ever SHINE Champion. A fighting champion, a just champion, ready to … Read more
Tonight at SHINE 11, Rain stood alone, besting 13 other women to become the first ever SHINE Champion. In the culmination of an epic night that saw the entirety of the tournament run its course, Rain faced Mia Yim in the finals. When VP of Talent Relations Lexie Fyfe banned Rain’s Valkyrie team members Ivelisse … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of SHINE 11, airing on iPPV tonight. This month’s show will feature the SHINE Championship Tournament in its entirety, where fourteen women will compete for the chance to be crowned the first ever SHINE Champion. SHINE 11 comes to us live from the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida and starts … Read more
SHINE Wrestling — which celebrates its one year anniversary this month — is known for its strong contingent of female stars, but there is one male who has an integral part of the promotion since its inception. Here, SHINE’s commentator Lenny Leonard reflects on the one year anniversary of women’s wrestling’s fastest rising promotion. It … Read more
Diva Dirt’s SHINE Week continues with our latest SHINE-related feature, and it’s a big one! Coinciding with SHINE’s one year anniversary, we’ve had the privilege to speak with the promotion’s founder, women’s wrestling mainstay Lexie Fyfe, about everything SHINE, from its inception to its future. In this exclusive interview, Lexie talks about the process of … Read more
Diva Dirt’s Fast 5 will take on a theme and present to you–in no particular order–five related things from the world of women’s wrestling. This week, with SHINE 11 taking place this Friday, we’re looking back at five matches that have defined SHINE in its first year. Click on the arrow below to see our … Read more
As SHINE Wrestling celebrates its one year anniversary this week, Diva Dirt celebrates one year of SHINE with a series of features all week long, culminating with coverage of SHINE 11 on Friday, July 12. In the fickle, judgmental world we live in today, it takes a great deal of courage, and perhaps a modicum … Read more
With one week to go until SHINE 11 and the inaugural SHINE Championship Tournament, SHINE Wrestling today revealed the first pictures of the title belt that the winner will be presented with. The belt, pictured above, features the SHINE logo on white leather with outlines of the Americas and Europe on either side to represent … Read more
Independent standout Allysin Kay is set to become the latest female wrestler to ply her craft in the Land of the Rising Sun, Diva Dirt has learned exclusively. The SHINE and WSU star will be heading to Japan for a three month tour with the Diana promotion next month, which creates for an interesting dilemma … Read more
Earlier tonight, SHINE Wrestling revealed the brackets for the upcoming SHINE Championship Tournament, as well as how the two remaining places will be filled. The spots, empty following Jazz and Allysin Kay‘s withdrawals from the tournament, will be contested in two four-way matches featuring a number of losing competitors from previous qualifiers. Made in Sin’s … Read more
SHINE Wrestling has announced that they are holding an emergency meeting to fill two open spots in the SHINE Championship Tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be held at SHINE’s one year anniversary show, SHINE 11, on Friday, July 12th. Jazz, Saraya Knight, Rain, Jessicka Havok, Leva, Mia Yim, Santana and Allysin Kay all advanced … Read more
SHINE Wrestling has just announced that former WWE Diva Jazz has been forced to withdraw, due to injury, from their tournament to crown the first ever SHINE Champion. In defeating Ivelisse back on SHINE 9, Jazz had qualified for the tournament. Read the full statement from Lexie Fyfe, SHINE VP of Talent Relations, below: I … Read more
SHINE 10 ended in controversial fashion on Friday night, with a failed sneak attack by Allysin Kay and subsequent suspension giving us the first sign of cracks in Valkyrie’s previously united and dominant front. In the main event, Valkyrie leader Rain faced Angelina Love in a rematch from their SHINE Championship tournament qualifier at SHINE … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of “SHINE 10”, airing on iPPV tonight. The show includes the final four qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship Tournament, as well as Jessicka Havok putting her own tournament spot on the line against Portia Perez. SHINE 10 comes to us live from the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida and starts … Read more
SHINE Wrestling are once again at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida tomorrow as they present their milestone tenth show, SHINE 10. The event will be broadcast live on Internet Pay-Per-View with three pricing options, the cheapest being just $9.99 (about £6). Click
The final four qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship tournament have been announced, and will take place at the company’s next event, SHINE 10, on May 24th. The draw leaves plenty of interesting possible outcomes, with many prominent feuds having the potential to be intertwined or furthered. Mercedes Martinez faces Mia Yim in her qualifying … Read more
Daffney has resigned as SHINE hostess (and possibly her commentary position), in order to “be of greater use ringside and in the locker room”. The “Scream Queen” has been hostess since the inaugural SHINE show and has decided to quit the role – in presumably a kayfabe storyline – due to the disrespectful actions of Mercedes Martinez. … Read more
When we talk of the historic rivalries in women’s wrestling, there are a certain few that spring to mind. From the pioneering battles between Mae Young and Mildred Burke in the 1950s all the way to Lita and Trish Stratus’s rollercoaster rivalry at the turn of this century, there are plenty of classic feuds to … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of SHINE 9 airing on iPPV tonight, with the main event of Leva Bates vs. Kimberly inside a steel cage. The event will also feature the first qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship tournament. SHINE 9 emanates from the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida and starts at 9pm ET. Order … Read more
SHINE Wrestling will take its first steps towards crowning its inaugural champion this Friday at SHINE 9 with the first qualifying matches of the SHINE Championship Tournament. Sixteen wrestlers will compete in the qualifiers, four of which will be held at SHINE 9 and four at SHINE 10 on May 24th. The eight winners will … Read more
April 19th will see a host of stars from around the world loom upon the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida, as SHINE prepare themselves for an International Invasion at SHINE 9! Flying the flag for Britain is Saraya Knight, hoping to still be SHIMMER Champion after the forthcoming SHIMMER iPPV and tapings over the next … Read more
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once famously said “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”. However, in the short-fused, attention-bereft world of professional wrestling, that’s a mantra that we often find ourselves questioning. So how refreshing it was at SHINE 8 to see the patience of so many people (including ourselves) pay off in … Read more
Diva Dirt presents live coverage of SHINE 8 airing on iPPV tonight, with the main event of Valkyrie’s Rain, Ivelisse, Allysin Kay and Taylor Made versus Amazing Kong, Angelina Love, Mia Yim and Christina Von Eerie. Order the event by clicking here. Live results of the show below: All times are GMT. 11:25 PM: The … Read more
Tonight sees SHINE Wrestling return to the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida for their eighth monthly show, SHINE 8. The main event sees the insurgent Valkyrie members Rain, Ivelisse and Made in Sin (Allysin Kay and Taylor Made) go up against the all-star face team of Amazing Kong, Christina Von Eerie, Mia Yim and a … Read more