What If? : Women’s Wrestling Edition #2

What If

“What If?” is a weekly column where I discuss the “what ifs” of women’s wrestling that could’ve/would’ve/should’ve happened, from championship reigns to returns/debuts to storyline options.

This week’s What If is:

Beth Phoenix had never broken her jaw?

Beth Phoenix made her WWE debut when she attacked Mickie James after Mickie had just defended her Women’s Championship against Maria and went after Trish and her shoulder injury. In the coming weeks, Beth continued to go after Mickie, eventually leading to the fans finding out that Beth and Mickie had bad history with each other and Beth becoming Trish’s new friend and RAW’s newest diva. Beth Phoenix won her first WWE match when she teamed up with Torrie Wilson to defeat Victoria and Candice Michelle.

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Recent “Glamazon” Beth Phoenix interview

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Courtesy: www.MondayNightMayhem.com

Former three-time WWE Women’s Champion and former WWE Divas Champion, “The Glamazon” Beth Phoenix, was the featured guest on this week’s edition of the award-winning Monday Night Mayhem, hosted by The Big Mosh & “The Chairman of the Board” Todd Vincent. Take part in #MNM11, the eleven-year anniversary celebration of “Your Home of Wrestling Radio” right now on Facebook (at www.Facebook.com/MondayNightMayhem &www.Facebook.com/FeelTheMayhem), and follow The Mayhem on Twitter (at www.Twitter.com/FeelTheMayhem).

The former WWE Diva joined The Big Mosh & “The Chairman of the Board” Todd Vincent for her highly-anticipated MNM return, which is now available for download on the Wrestleview Radio Network:

Beth Phoenix/Monday Night Mayhem Interview (MP3 Streaming Audio):

http://www.wrestleviewradio.com/WVIP_Preview/mnm031113.mp3

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Recent Kia Stevens interview

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Courtesy of LordsofPain.net:

In the spring of 2011, Kia Stevens, famously known as Awesome Kong, burst onto the WWE scene by decimating members of the Divas division. Then, almost as suddenly as she first appeared, the internationally-acclaimed grappler took a leave of absence, with her affiliation with the sports-entertainment organization ultimately ceasing last summer. Speaking to Wrestling101.com, Stevens recalled her brief stint in WWE.

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The Diva Chronicles – “Turning the Page”

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Right at the start of the year Eve Torres announced she was leaving WWE to pursue other interests.  My first reaction was “wow, another Diva is leaving the company.  The exodus continues!”

Overall I thought 2012 was a good year for the WWE, but sadly the Divas division continued to lose their top stars.  First the Bella Twins.  Then Kharma.  Then Kelly Kelly.  Then Beth Phoenix.  And now Eve.  I’ve written about this before, but the number of Divas that have left the company in the past two years is stunning.

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Recent “Glamazon” Beth Phoenix interview

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Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) of theScore Television Network, Baltimore Sun and Layfield Report spoke with former WWE Diva Beth Phoenix.

Here are the highlights:

  • On giving back to her community and returning to her high school in Elmira, New York for a charity basketball event.
  • How she feels about her life, post professional wrestling.
  • Has she had the itch to return to professional wrestling yet?
  • “I never wanted to be that person who said, I’ll never come back, I’m retired, I’m done and then in a couple of years get the itch. I haven’t said I’ll never ever be back because I don’t know what opportunity will come up that I’ll find to be really awesome.”
  • How Edge’s transition to retirement and being in her support system is helping her ability to deal with leaving the WWE.
  • The number of divas that have left the WWE in the past year. Is it a coincidence?
  • “I think it just timed out that way because lots of times with the girls there is a window of opportunity and a lot of the girls that left kind of came in at the same time. The women’s division there are so few of us, you can only see me wrestle Kelly so many times.”
  • Her feelings towards Trish Stratus being inducted into the Hall of Fame, and how her advice helped her career.
  • In her opinion, what made Trish Stratus an icon?
  • “Sometimes people like to remember the controversy, that’s what stands out, but I think I would rather look at the content of someone’s career. She always welcomed whatever kind of physicality that needed to take place in the ring. She was tough as nails, she never complained and worked for what she had and you have to respect that.”
  • How she feels about the Divas division right now, including NXT.
  • Her advice for the current and upcoming WWE Divas.
  • The highlights of her career and what her favourite matches were.

FULL INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://www.layfieldreport.com/Beth-Phoenix-talks-Divas-Divisi.news

Beth Phoenix featured on New York news channel WENY-TV

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Courtesy of Diva Dirt.com:

Former WWE Diva Beth Phoenix has been featured on New York news channel WENY-TV, discussing her return to her hometown of Elmira for a celebrity charity basketball game this Friday.

Beth’s team will face the Harlem Wizards and will be playing to raise money for the Southern Tier Smoke travel softball team.

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WWE stars who came from the “audience”!

Courtesy of WWE.com:

WWE fans should never jump over the barricade and interfere with the action inside the squared circle. However, there have been times throughout WWE history when a Superstar made their debut appearing as fans. There was always a motive behind their actions and many went on to become successful WWE Superstars.

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WWE pays tribute to Beth Phoenix’s career

Upon news of her leaving the company, the WWE posted a collection of Beth Phoenix’s best matches and moments.

The website says:

“Multiple-time Women’s and Divas Champion Beth Phoenix was unceremoniously FIRED [kayfabe] on Monday Night Raw by Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero. What did The Glamazon have to say in her final farewell, exclusively on WWE.com?”

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OWW’s Women’s Wrestling Write-up – 10/2/12

After a small absence, welcome back to the Women’s Wrestling Write-Up here at Online World of Wrestling. I’m Jack and after a few weeks of settling back into university life (aka planning my dissertation with a bit of partying in between), it’s time to combine work and play in the best way I know how, writing this column for you mad lot! This week was somewhat mediocre until WWE gave us the best possible match up we could have asked for in terms of the girls on their roster. Find out what that match was later on. In addition to history being made in the form of the ‘dream’ match I’ve already alluded to, we’ve had accusations aplenty on TV and departures aplenty behind the scenes. With so much to discuss and scrutinise, I say we should get on with things!

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