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Welcome to Wrestlemania 28! 

Despite not being healthy enough to do coverage, I will do my coverage anyway since WrestleMania is ONLY once a year.

I will be back to covering Raw and WWE PPVs in May since I will receive surgery this coming week.

Now for what you really want to hear about!

Pre WrestleMania Match

Epico & Primo vs. Usos vs. Tyson & Gabriel saw the tag champs (Epico & Primo) win. Rosa Mendes was pleased.

Daniel Bryan and AJ Lee are backstage in an interview. They kiss and AJ does the “YES” dance like a silly.

Now it’s time for Mania.

Lilian Garcia does a TREMENDOUS  job with the anthem.

AJ Lee  helps Daniel Bryan to the ring. She gives him a kiss and Daniel gets flatten by Sheamus.

AJ tries to console the former champion. BLESS!

Backstage, Team Johnny is babbling. Miz tries a pep talk but Brie Bella and Vickie Guerrero give him scary looks.  David Otunga (who thinks he is a stripper) drinks his FAKE coffee everywhere.

Just to let people know, Wrestlemania 29 is in New Jersey. VERY CLOSE TO THIS HAPPY LADY!

Orton loses on his birthday. :(

Cody loses his title in his dress. :(

We see a hype video for divas (all divas minus Kharma and Maxine were shown!) Lots of Layla shown! (Plus, throughout the night we seen footage of the Mania  week featuring superstars and divas!)

Maria Menounos & Kelly Kelly vs. Eve Torres & WWE Divas Champion Beth Phoenix

Eve comes out with Beth (who thinks she is a bird).  Kelly Kelly and Maria then come out.  K2 and Eve start out. They roll around. Kelly takes Eve to the corner for the back elbow  to no avail. . Eve goes up top for the moonsault but Kelly knocks her down. Maria tags in. She and Kelly do a double “sweet face” to Eve in the corner. Eve takes Maria down  and spanks her everywhere.

Finally, Maria tags K2 back in. K2 goes nuts on Beth.   K2 goes up top and hits Molly Holly’s  Molly-Go-Round pinning Beth but  Eve breaks it up. K2 blocks the Glam Slam into a bulldog.  Maria takes ninety years to go on top. Beth lifts Maria over head until Kelly makes the save. They do a dance and Maria rolls up Beth for the win.

Winners: Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos

They honor the HOF’ers.  Congratulations to them all!!!

Brie Bella introduces Team Johnny, who have Vickie Guerrero as the flag bearer.  Nikki Bella introduces Team Teddy, who has Eve sniffing Zack Ryder and Aksana sniffing Teddy.  Vickie cackles EVERYWHERE! She and Aksana get into a catfight which the Bellas join in for fun.

At the end of the match, Eve rolls in and fist pumps with Zack  distracting him, so he loses for his team. BLESS. After the match, she kicks him in the now flat balls.

Why didn’t Aksana rip her weave off?

Torrie Wilson is sitting in the front row with an idiot.

For some reason,  I’m still swooning over how nice CM PUNK looked in his suit in the Hall of Fame. Bless me.

Cameron and Naomi dance with Brodus Clay. Brodus’ MOMMA and her Bridge club dance. They have scared my Uncle, which I’m eternally grateful to them. THANK YOU!

I would like to know if catering at this event was any good….

Awwh Cena is nice to Betty Skaaland, Arnold Skaaland’s wife.

Bless WM 28! Next year better be off the charts or WWE will not know what hits them when messing with the Big Apple!!!

In the new Bloodstained Memoirs DVD, TNA Knockout Christy Hemme talks about her time as a wrestler and brings up iconic WWE Diva Trish Stratus.

The above video is a short extract of Christy’s part in the DVD, entitled “Model in Paris”. She bluntly states that she was never a proper wrestler, but admits she tried. She recalls looking back on herself and thinking “Aww, look. It’s so cute, she’s trying!”

The DVD also features former WWE Diva Molly Holly, who introduces it, and can be purchased here.

Remember when Mickie James got a little L-I-licky-C-K-licky-Y with her hand gestures during her match with Trish Stratus at WrestleMania 22? Personally, I thought it was brilliant! It elevated the storyline between the two Divas in 2006 but it turns out a very important person wasn’t happy with the gesture… Vince McMahon! Oh dear! In an interview with Wrestlecast, which was published on the Sun’s website, Mickie reveals that she got yelled at for that spur of the moment gesture.

You can view the full article here, where she also reveals that she wrote the storyline involving Trish Stratus, but intending it for Lita, six months prior to her being called up from OVW to make her WWE Raw debut.

The storyline peaked at Wrestlemania where Mickie won her first major title, but contained a controversial moment.

Mickie, whose character had developed crazed lust-like feelings for her opponent and rival, touched Trish’s crotch and provocatively made a gesture towards the camera insinuating lesbian intimacy.

WWE boss McMahon was unhappy and ordered the gesture be edited out of future DVD releases.

Speaking on SunSport’s award winning Wrestlecast podcast, Mickie recalls: “The only people that remember that are the people watching or who were there live and in person. It didn’t make the DVD.

“I came back through the curtain and Vince was really mad. In the moment it had seemed amazing to me. I thought ‘Vince will love this’.

“‘Crass’ was the word I got. He didn’t like it at all. He told me ‘We’re going to have to go back and edit that out. Do you know how much time (this will take)?’

“This was my first Wrestlemania, my mum was in the audience, I’m freaking out already. I’m back through the curtain and I’m already in tears and an emotional mess. And I got yelled at.”

Today’s Video of the Day is inspired by a fan’s Twitter question to WWE Superstar Randy Orton. What does this have to do with Divas, you ask? The fan asked Randy “whats your most embarrassing moment on live tv??” in which Randy replied with:

when I hosted the diva lingerie show on Raw. AWFUL

Well, let’s just re-live that, shall we? Check it out in the video below!

Lance Storm was recently asked some questions on his site – www.stormwrestling.com . It was rather interesting to see what he thinks about the Women’s Division today. He also spoke about Dawn Marie‘s wrestling and her valeting. Take a look!

Q: I know from the endorsement that Trish Stratus gave you for your SWA that you helped the women back in 2001-2003. Looking at how far women’s wrestling has fallen in WWE today, do you think you could, with a straight face, consistently help the current divas plan 1 minute and 40 second title matches?

A: I think the problem is bigger than just helping these girls plan matches. I think in many cases (certainly not all) the current women’s roster is not as talented and the office is booking them a lot less credibly, so just helping them put better matches together is not the problem, and if it were Fit Finlay is still with the company, he can do every bit as good of a job as I can at it and quite probably far better.

Q: Did Dawn Marie ever give you personality/promo tips when you were paired together and vice versa? Would she have been a viable wrestler? I don’t recall her in too many matches, outside of the ‘catfights’.

A: She did not attempt to give me promo tips at any point. As for her as a viable wrestler I guess it depends on the time frame; by today’s standards certainly but during the Trish Stratus era probably not. Dawn was best as a valet; she was AWESOME on so many levels. That was her calling in this business and she was often underutilized in that role

In my opinion, Dawn Marie was a good wrestler. I agree with Lance that she was underutilized as a valet/manager, but also as a wrestler. Even back then during what he dubbed as the Trish Stratus era, she was a veteran. She pulled out decent matches with girls with limited abilities. You can look back at her matches with Torrie Wilson, Jackie Gayda, and Michelle McCool. These girls were as wrestlers say very “green‘. They were rookies. To be able to get into the ring and work with them and furthermore, push them as workers took  a lot of effort from Dawn.  She wasn’t considered a female wrestler.

To go off into the wild blue yonder with the WWE  Women’s Division is another story. The women today are a different breed of lady wrestlers.  Very few come from the independent scene.  Most of them are WWE grown. The problem may lay within that. However, you have cases of MICHELLE MCCOOL who is a very good wrestler. She came out of the productions of WWE developmentals. I think the issues deal with time constraints and  monetary issues rather than wrestling talent. I think the time frame of matches really hurts all the girls.  In very short matches, you tend to have to hurry through the moves and botches are more evident. Longer matches, some botches are forgotten as the competitors bounce back.

What do you guys think?

Just to notify everyone who’s been asking and wondering where the FCW videos have been this month,  the youtube uploaders have NOT been able to get their hands on the downloads of the shows. Therefore,  OhSoDivalicious.org CANNOT post about the shows. Hopefully, we will be able to see our favorite FCW Divas in action as soon as possible, until then, we will have to be happy with spoilers.

Layla El (Showgirl and cheerleader)
Where did Layla El come from? Well, London to be exact. However, before coming to WWE, Layla was a showgirl for Carnival Cruise Lines. She also had a short stint as a Miami Heat cheerleader before entered the WWE Diva search and doing what she does today.

Mickie James (Exotic Dancer, Waitress)
That’s how Mickie James got her start, some say. It wasn’t for very long, and she opted to go train for pro wrestling instead of that life.
Independent wrestlers don’t make much dough, so she had to get a job as a waitress at the Olive Garden. Mickie James also posed nude in an infamous set of photos in the Leg Show fetish magazine.

Michelle McCool (Teacher)
Yes, she has an athletic background. Michelle McCool (her real name) played softball in college and competed in a number of fitness competitions. But McCool made her bread by teaching seventh-grade science for four years in her home state of Florida. That should come as no surprise with it being the family business. Her mother is a teacher and her father, a superintendent.

Beth Phoenix (Boys high school wrestler)
No, we’re definitely not saying Beth Phoenix was once a boy.
But if it looks like Beth could roll you up and beat you down in three seconds, that’s because she probably can. Elizabeth Carolan spent her entire athletic career wrestling, and not just the pro product we all enjoy. She was an amateur wrestler in high school in New York, on the boys team because no other girls participated in the activity.
She got some national notoriety as well as some people wondering if such an (well) intimate sport should be co-ed. Regardless, Beth Phoenix wound up being better than all the boys on her team and even in the entire northeast. She actually won first place in the freestyle regional tournament in 1999 at age 18.

Tiffany (Playboy model)
Of course Tiffany (Taryn Terrell) was a Playboy model. I mean c’mon. Did you also know she leads a volunteer group called Hope’s Children Home for abused and neglected kids. Did you know she’s a vegan and an animal rights activist. We’re not joking. I bet you didn’t.

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If you are a big fan of DQ finishes, meaningless title changes and cringeworthy comedy, then you’d have loved it.

For us purists, there is still something missing.

Most obviously missing in action were the Brits. William Regal was shunted to the Superstars dark match held before the commentators even came out, while the gorgeous Katie Lea didn’t even make it that far.

In a day when the WWE’s women are as interchangeable as the belts they hold, why have Eve Torres win the Divas championship in the Raw opener when Lea could have got the huge hometown pop and made the gold really mean something given the same opportunity?

Still, having Knight Rider car Kitt there was cool and we enjoyed seeing Divas in Baywatch outfits — even if it was just a prelude to the usual Hornswoggle/Santino skit.

If you want to read the full article, click here.

This is a major  development in the realm of Florida Championship Wrestling! The Queen of FCW will be no more as they will crown  a FCW Diva’s Champion!

It was announced at last night’s WWE developmental show that over the next few weeks, there will be a tournament to determine the first-ever FCW Divas Champion.(CREDIT: lordsofpain.net)

This is awesome news! The staff of OSD can’t wait to see this develop! These girls deserve to have a real title belt rather than the crown!  The trio of Trisha, Marc, and myself ( Marcella) would like either Rosa Mendes, Liviana, or Courtney Taylor to pin up this high honor.  Most likely it will go to AJ Lee!

What would it be like to interview your idol? The guy/girl that you spent years looking up to and sometimes emulate actually speaks to you! It’s almost like a Cinderella Story, something like rags to riches. OHSODIVALICIOUS.ORG was given an opportunity to grow and be recognized! I know former and current staffers are absolutely thrilled no matter what their opinion is of our esteemed guest. Now, when Marc & Marcella received word about this super duper interview, we couldn’t contain our joy and excitement.  We told former staffer, Lisa Jane ( owner of Cody-Unlimited.net & other websites ;) )!  She knew that this was a huge opportunity for her dear friends and offered up her services to help us with this massive interview. I mean c’mon a legend is in the house!!  It’s the biggest feature we have to date! We go in depth about her personal life, career before wrestling, WWE career, and life after the square circle. To view the interview in its entirety, continue after the break! A sincere big thank you to all!

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