Every WWE Fan Can Name These Divas
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World Wrestling Entertainment or WWE is a sports entertainment brand that now hosts over 570 live events, each year, in the United States and outside the country. They currently have a host of male and female Superstars (150+), under exclusive contracts, that are said to be "highly trained and motivated independent contractors".
Since the 2000s, WWE buffs have said the term 'Divas' (used to describe female wrestlers) discredits the work that talented women put into entertaining viewers with live professional wrestling matches. But to some fans, 'Divas' reminds them of the will and power of those women who adhered to ridiculous demands to make WWE reach where it is today in terms of female wrestling events.
If you are 20+, you probably lived through the 'Stratusfying' times of WWE history. Trish Status, a fitness model, was signed as a manager for the tag team of Test and Albert and left a profound impact on the brand of female wrestling aka Divas. Next, we had WWE's principal owner, Chief Brand Officer and one of the "Most Powerful Women in Cable". Stephanie McMahon who reckoned with the powerful men of the time to create an unparalleled brand in WWE history.
If you are a real fan of WWE, you should be familiar with the controversies and talent that it takes to be a real Diva.
This Diva defeated Brie Bella for the Divas Championship on the Raw “Power to the People” edition in 2011.
For the first question, you have it easy. In 2005, this Diva was an exhibitionist on the relaunched 'Extreme Championship Wrestling' (ECW). Her debut gig was as ECW's dance troupe with Layla and Brooke followed by years of work and harnessed talent to reach the elite 'Superstar' status. She was the first woman from WWE to appear on the mainstream 'Maxim' magazine in December 2011. This Diva left WWE in September 2012 and returned this January for the first-ever women's Royal Rumble.
This Diva is a two-time SmackDown Women’s Champion.
She is a brilliant athlete with an IFBB professional status (competitive bodybuilding) and a track record in participating in kickboxing, cheerleading and softball events. She was a two-time Smackdown Women’s Champion (when she joined Smackdown LIVE) and the first Superstar to win the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championship. This double win occurred after a Superstar Shake-up at Monday Night Raw. This Diva has competed with the likes of Carmella and Bayley during her professional career as a wrestler in WWE.
In 2007, this Diva made her singing debut at 'No Way Out'.
While Rihanna was out with her song 'Umbrella' and Britney Spears with 'Gimme More', WWE buffs were out with their earplugs. This Diva made her singing debut at 'No Way Out' in 2007 and was met with an unenthusiastic sound of 'boo' from the audience. Speaking of self-confidence, she went on to release "A Jingle with ___ (insert Diva name)" on iTunes in 2007 that was her first most successful move in her WWE career after defeating Mickie James for the Championship.
This Diva was nicknamed "The Ninth Wonder of the World".
Now that is a heavy title. This late Diva, billed "The Ninth Wonder of the World" was known for her stunning victories in WWE history during her brief stint. As an original member of D-Generation X, she was a bodyguard to Triple H and Shawn Michaels before she achieved her own brand of success. She literally broke gender barriers as the first woman to qualify for the Royal Rumble Match and King of the Ring tournament. She also held the Intercontinental Championship on two occasions.
This Diva is known for her signature move “Twin Magic”.
This WWE Diva made her debut in 2008 on SmackDown where she wrestled Victoria with the “Twin Magic” move. She used this technique in 2011 as well to defeat Eve and win the Divas Championship. Her move was “cunning” and complete with the help of her twin sister, Nikki, on the show. She is half Mexican and half Italian and starred in an E! reality show called “Total Divas” along with Eva Marie, Rosa Mendes, Alicia Fox, Paige, Summer Rae and other WWE Divas.
This Diva was a part of the wrestling stable team, Xtreme, with Matt and Jeff Hardy.
She won the Women’s Championship four times in her professional career and was part of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015. Her real name is Amy Dumas and she released an album in collaboration with her band “The Luchagors” in 2007. This Diva was at loggerheads with Trish Status during her time in WWE but is recently a part of “Team Bestie”. They recently completed a tour in US and UK to visit expos, conventions and exhibitions to meet their fans.
This Diva’s jaw was rearranged during a match against her competitor Victoria.
This Diva grew up watching WWE and became the first female on the varsity wrestling team at her school. She graduated with a degree in criminal justice and was forced to take time off to fix her mandible after a match with WWE Diva Victoria. In 2008’s Judgment Day, she picked up both Melina and Mickie James on her shoulders (yes, at the same time). In the October airing of Raw, Vickie Guerrero fired this Diva after a poor performance.
The Diva won the first-ever SmackDown Women's Championship at Backlash 2016.
This Diva joined NXT in 2014 where she was friends with Bayley and Sasha Banks (Team B.A.E.). She defeated Naomi, Natalya, Nikki Bella, Alexa Bliss and Carmella in a six-pack elimination and was crowned as the first-ever champion at the SmackDown Women’s Championship at Backlash 2016. She surprised the WWE community when she became a part of the “Women’s Evolution” with Charlotte and Paige. This Diva has fiery red hair, is from Dublin, Ireland, and trained in wrestling at the age of 15.
This Diva came on board as a wedding planner for Edge and Vickie Guerrero.
She has appeared on SmackDown, WWE NXT, and Raw and made WWE history as the first African- American woman to win the Divas Championship. This Diva entered WWE as a wedding planner for former SmackDown General Manager Vicky Guerrero for the on-air nuptial ceremony. She has defeated Maryse, Eve, Gail Kim, The Bellas and Beth Phoenix on her journey to win the Divas Championship. This Diva hails from Florida, starred on the E! show “Total Divas” and was recently injured and out of the Royal Rumble match.
In 1995, this Diva entered WCW’s Nitro and dumped her WWE Women’s Championship title in the garbage can.
In December 1995, this Diva became famous for entering the sets of WCW’s Nitro and dumping her Women’s Championship title in a garbage can on live television. She started out in Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association with the ring name Madusa Miceli and made her way to the 'All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling' where Bull Nakano and Aja Kong had battled. After she dumped the WWE Women’s Championship title, this Diva went on to defeat Evan Karagias to win the WCW Cruiserweight Title and was made a part of the WWE Hall of Fame.
This Diva starred in CSI: Las Vegas, Melrose Place, Pacific Blue, The Young and the Restless and Baywatch.
This former WWE Diva search contestant resigned from WWE in February 2005 because she said she was not happy with the pay and “the 'frat house' like environment”. She is an American actress and film producer who also released a single titled “Ghost” and featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and country musician Toby Keith’s music video for “Whiskey Girl”. She also starred in Scarlet Mirror, Pumpkin Karver, Starforce and had a supporting role in Unbeatable Harold. Name this Diva.
This former Diva was a backstage interviewer for SmackDown.
This Diva made her debut as a backstage interviewer for SmackDown in October 2007 with her first interview with Rey Mysterio and was out of the show in January 2008. She was also a participant on “Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll”, a reality TV show. The former Diva was replaced by a third place runner-up on the Diva Search, Lena Yada. There are speculations on the reason for her departure from the show but on a MySpace blog she said she is on to “bigger and better things”.
This Diva was an avid video gamer who made a debut on SmackDown in 2011.
This WWE Diva was 5-foot-2 and a major competitor to any Diva on the show. She hailed from New Jersey and was introduced to the WWE community in the third season of WWE NXT. Fans remember her “lucha-inspired” moves, comic book reading habit and her love for gaming. She made her debut on SmackDown in May 2011 and was a crucial part of the outcome of the World Heavyweight Championship Match at WrestleMania XXVIII. She was romantically involved with Daniel Bryan and WWE Superstars Kane and John Cena.
This Diva’s finishing move was Star-struck (a second rope elbow drop).
This Diva is known for her 'Top Turnbuckle Crossbody' and 'Star-struck' trademark moves and was the winner of the Raw Diva Search in 2005 where she defeated Layla and Elizabeth for a prize of $ 250,000. She was the winner of various fitness competitions including Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada and Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA and was also a part of Smallville, WWE Smackdown and WWE Raw. In 2008, she took a break from wrestling to be with her seven-year old daughter.
This Diva was second on the NBC reality show "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!”
The WWE Diva started in 2001 after two years at rival WCW. At the point that she joined WWE, the opportunities for female wrestlers were regressive and quite different from what exists today. She appeared on Playboy magazine in 2003 and was second on the NBC reality show "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!” after she finished her time with WWE in 2008. This Diva was dating Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees player, from 2011 to 2015 and is currently promoting a fitness brand.
This Lithuanian Diva made her debut on the third season of WWE NXT.
This Diva made her way to WWE (on the third season of WWE NXT) after a stint in fitness modeling and international bodybuilding competitions. She is of Lithuanian origin. She was earlier married to Goldust on NXT and was speculated to date Antonio Cesaro and Teddy Long. This Diva has wrestled at WrestleMania and previously defeated The Bella Twins (Nikki and Brie) and Natalya in her steps towards becoming a WWE champion. She also competed with Alicia Fox in SmackDown.
This Diva aka Miss Tessmacher is a former three-time TNA Women's Knockout Champion.
The Diva worked as a swimsuit model and dancer in WWE’s Extreme Expose. She was a three-time Knockout Champion and even a competitor on the Amazing Race. She was featured on the second season of Rattled on TLC with her fiancé Weston Piper as part of their journey as parents and their concerns regarding their finances after she lost her source of income as a wrestler. She previously worked on Impact Wrestling in 2016 and announced her exit when she was around five months pregnant.
This Diva was a Playmate of the Year and one of the final ten in the 2004 Diva Search.
She was one of the final 10 contestants of the competition (Diva Search) when Christy Hemme was announced the winner. Post the announcements of the results, this Diva confronted the winner and participated in 'Taboo Tuesday'. The type of match for 'Taboo Tuesday' was decided on by an audience poll where 56 % of WWE buffs voted for a pillow fight for the women. Christy defeated the Diva in the match which led to the end of this Diva’s time with WWE.
The first Diva Search contestant to win the Women’s Championship.
This Diva shifted to Los Angeles to take up a career in show business as an actor and model. She later applied to the 2004 WWE Diva Search where she was signed on to the roster at WWE Raw. She trained with Arn Anderson and competed with Trish Stratus and Mickie James. In 2007, she won the Women’s Championship after defeating Melina. The title was later lost to Beth Phoenix at 'No Mercy'. She was a part of WWE until 2009.
She is the daughter of a 16-time World Champion.
This Diva wrestled with Natalya at the NXT Takeover and won the eight-women competition in 2014. She made her debut as a Superstar in WWE where she was the first athlete to win the Raw Women's Championship. She held the title four times after this, had 16 pay-per-views and became one of the first women to event a pay-per-view where she wrestled WWE Diva Sasha Banks. In 2017, she was a part of SmackDown LIVE where she won the Women’s title.
This Diva was a roller skater and managed the team Deuce ’n Domino.
She was well known in the WWE community as the manager for Deuce ’n Domino where she took them to the Tag Team Championship, as a roller skater and, after she separated from the team of Deuce 'n Domino, her professional work in wrestling with WWE Divas like Maryse and Natalya. She left WWE in August 2008 and was quoted to be “America's sweetheart” and the “most innocent” Diva. She was friends with Michelle McCool on the show who helped her work on individual matches.
This WWE Diva recently delivered quadruplets.
She was the winner of the first WWE Diva Search where she won a one-year contract with WWE for $250,000 and then joined TNA (Total Nonstop Action) or Impact Wrestling in April 2006. This Diva was a ring announcer until 2016 and recently delivered quadruplets in January 2018. The 37-year-old WWE Diva tweeted that her surgery went well and she delivered three boys and one girl in a high-risk pregnancy after documenting her journey through the pregnancy for her fans.
This Diva was known by her alias “Ariel” on the ECW Weekly in 2006.
This Diva was previously known as Desire in Ultimate Pro Wrestling and signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2005. She was one of the managers for Aaron “Idol” Stevens with Beth Phoenix and wrestled with Beth, Serena and Mickie James in her career. During the new ECW Weekly, she worked on backstage segments as a tarot card reader and vampire roles with Kevin Thorn. She had brief confrontations with Kelly Kelly and Francine during ECW. In 2007, she was part of “The New Breed” along with Thorn.
This Diva was on E! reality series Total Divas and slapped Jerry Lawler on Raw.
She is a former model that appeared on the famous E! show Total Divas, where she had been the center of controversy. She famously slapped Jerry “The King” Lawler on her first episode on Raw and created waves in the WWE community. WWE even gave her a 30-day suspension for violating WWE's wellness policy that she said was caused by a delay in providing paperwork on an Adderall prescription. This Diva had also started training independently with former WWE Tag Team Champion “The Brian Kendrick” for WWE NXT.
She is a former local news reporters and was on KFC and Budweiser commercials.
This Diva had a long stint in television before pursuing her career in World Wrestling Entertainment. She was an anchor, local news reporter and model for KFC and Budweiser national advertisements during her time as a model and actor. She started her career in WWE as a ring announcer on NXT after which she took over working as an announcer on SmackDown and conducted interviews for WWE.com (Raw). She was even featured on Maxim Magazine before her brief work as an announcer on the show.
She was Mr McMahon’s legal assistant and was in a relationship with Al, Torrie Wilson’s father.
This Diva was controversial with her involvement in the personal lives of her competitors. First, she drew attention with her relationship with Mr Wilson, Torrie Wilson’s father, where the two married in the wrestling ring wearing their underwear. Next, she claimed she had an affair with Jackie’s fiancé, Charlie Haas. She wrestled with Miss Jackie during Armageddon and, in 2005, worked with Lance Storm on ECW One Night Stand to help him defeat Chris Jericho. She left WWE soon after the collaboration.
This Diva competed at the 'All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling' as a teenager.
Her look is described as equal parts of “Tokyo scream queen and Bowery punk rocker”. This Diva was a competitor at the 'All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling' when she was a teenager and became a regular name in WWE after her big victory against Alundra Blayze in 1994 where she won the Women’s Championship in the Tokyo dome. In the world of sports entertainment, this Diva battled competitors like Manami Toyota and Aja Kong in Japan. She had a brief stint as a professional golfer before she finally retired from wrestling in January 2012.
This Diva was married to professional wrestlers Steve McMichael and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
She started her professional journey in wrestling with her husband Steve McMichael in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and managed the Jeff Jarrett and Owen Hart team until Hart’s death in 1999 at 'Over The Edge'. She was a part of the Sudden Death Match in Survivor Series in 1999 and participated as a ring announcer at Backlash in 2000. Her trademark moves include the High Speed Slap, DDT, Spear and the Stunner that was adopted from Stone Cold's trademark move.
Her trademark finisher, the Eclipse, was asked to be banned.
This Diva often indulged in her trademark finisher that created fear in competitors with Kay and Peyton Royce unsuccessfully calling for its ban and Asuka, long-time NXT Women’s Champion, working to avoid the The Eclipse. She was at the top of the NXT Women’s Division in November 2017 when she won the Women’s Title in a '4-Way Match at TakeOver: War Games'. Her athletic abilities and mysterious moves work in her favour in WWE. Guess the name of this WWE Diva.
This SmackDown Superstar recently had a successful shoulder surgery.
WWE recently confirmed that this Diva suffered a right shoulder "supraspinatus tear” or torn rotator cuff. Her real name is Sarona Reiher and she is a professional wrestler of Japanese descent. Her father is the WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka and her sister is former WWE Superstar Sim Snuka. This Diva's finishing moves include the Superfly Splash (Diving splash) and Superkick and signature moves are the Samoan drop, Headbutt and Running headbutt drop. She was featured on three WWE video games.