Friday, June 27, 2025
Submit News

Maria Kanellis

Maria Kanellis Says, ‘Never Say Never’ On A WWE Return

by

Maria Kanellis is currently not signed to any promotion in wrestling. She most recently was with AEW/ROH managing her husband Mike Bennett and Matt Taven as the group called The Kingdom. Kanellis took part in a recent virtual signing for Signed By Superstars and (just like Justin Bieber) she had a “never say never” response … Read more

Countdown to WrestleMania: Ranking All Women’s WrestleMania Matches No. 38 & 37

by

The countdown to this year’s WrestleMania is in full swing. WrestleMania 41 takes place on the weekend of April 19 and 20. 52 (really 55) matches in the history of WrestleMania include women. Diva Dirt will countdown two matches daily to rank all 52 leading up to this year’s event. Now onto 38 & 37! … Read more

Maria Kanellis Confronts Rachael Ellering On This Week’s ROH

by

Maria Kanellis is still harboring some feelings about Rachael Ellering and Leyla Hirsch not wanting her services from several months ago. Ellering, who returned after a hiatus, cut a promo in a backstage interview where she smelled desperation in the air. Desperation to prove herself and there’s nothing more that she loves than women’s wrestling. … Read more

Maria Kanellis-Bennett Comments On New ROH Women’s TV Title

by

On the Dec. 21 episode of ROH, Tony Khan unveiled a new championship for the women, the ROH Women’s TV Championship. Backstage, Lexy Nair was interviewing Maria Kanellis-Bennett on her thoughts. Maria states that Khan was finally listening about the women’s division and that this new belt is a great opportunity for the women. Maria … Read more

Maria Kanellis Still Considers Herself A Diva – ‘Bring Back the Butterfly Belt’

by

In 2016, WWE took a major step in its Divas Revolution by dropping the moniker ‘Diva’ and rebranding its women as ‘Superstars’. Since then, all references to that name have mostly been dropped in an attempt to distance today’s WWE from the previous booking of the women’s division. One woman who came into WWE right … Read more

Latest Update On Maria Kanellis Bennett And ROH Women’s Division

by

Maria Kanellis Bennett is currently contracted with IMPACT and according to the most recent report by Fightful Select, she has a few months remaining on her current deal. Prior to joining IMPACT earlier this year, Maria was the brains behind the ROH women’s division blossoming. In 2021, ROH saw a rebranding of its women’s division … Read more

Maria Kanellis Bennett Teases Women’s Wrestling Army Project

by

Maria Kanellis Bennet has taken to social media to provide a teaser for creating an army, a Women’s Wrestling Army. In a promo video for the wrestling project, Maria is seen walking us through her journey in the professional wrestling industry. As she goes through the motions of her own career she gets to the … Read more

Mike Bennett recalls Maria Kanellis Bennett’s initial reaction to ROH hiatus

by

As previously reported, ROH has shockingly decided to take a hiatus for the first quarter of 2022. In addition to the hiatus, the company has stated that it will release all of its in-ring talent and personnel by the end of this year. Heartbreaking as this announcement was, it came as a huge blow to … Read more

Vita VonStarr removed from the upcoming ROH Women’s Title Tournament

by

Vita VonStarr will no longer participate in the upcoming ROH Women’s Title Tournament. She didn’t play by the rules.

On the June 9 episode of Women’s Division Wednesday, VonStarr received a golden ticket into the tournament after Bateman pled her case to be in it. She recently had a match against former Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai. She came up short in that match but held her own and felt that she should still be placed in the tournament.

Board of Directors member and the mind behind the upcoming tournament, Maria Kanellis Bennett, gave in and granted her a spot. However, she gave a stipulation. As long as she can prove that she has the passion and the focus to participate in the women’s division she can. By this, if she interferes in the men’s matches again then she will be out of the tournament. She interfered.

In the clip below you can see where Maria stands firm in her decision to remove VonStarr from the tournament despite the anger from Victor.

With VonStarr being removed, and as long as the punishment is kept, this opens up another spot for the tournament which is still not finalized. The participants are as follows:

  • Angelina Love (first round bye)
  • Allysin Kay
  • Rok-C
  • Willow
  • Trish Adora
  • Miranda Alize
  • Mazzerati
  • Mandy Leon
  • Nicole Savoy
  • Max the Impaler

Alex Gracia has had a Women’s Division Wednesday match recently against Willow in which she came up short. Despite these matches not being qualifiers anyway, Gracia made it a point to get the attention of Maria to get another shot to prove herself. Maria responded in person. Gracia will be getting another chance in the future which may mean she may impress Maria enough to earn a ticket to gold.

https://twitter.com/MariaLKanellis/status/1407448315864694785?s=20

Who else do you think will round out the tournament for the new ROH Women’s World Championship? A date for the start of the tournament has not been provided at this time.

Check back in with Diva Dirt for all your news on ROH as they rebuild their women’s division and look to crown a new champion.

Maria Kanellis Bennett was previously told that an Evolution event would never happen again

by

In an upcoming interview with Women’s Wrestling Talk, Maria Kanellis Bennett unveiled what she was told in regards to another Evolution pay-per-view event. The one and only women’s pay-per-view event that has had many fans wanting a second one was told to Maria that it would never happen again. She was told this by former … Read more

Maria Kanellis-Bennett says that Stephanie McMahon’s advocacy for women’s rights feels “promotional”

by

WWE’s dedication to women’s wrestling has been something that has been up for debate recently. Both fans and talent have shared their thoughts on the company’s current treatment of female talent. Even former SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella has vocalized a lack of opportunities for women into question. Both Mickie James and Chelsea Green have been … Read more

Maria Kanellis-Bennett announces ROH Women’s Tournament coming this summer

by

Ring of Honor is finally able to announce that they will have a women’s tournament this summer to crown a new champion. As a part of restructuring its women’s division, the company attempted to have a tournament last year along with introducing a new title. This title will replace the Women of Honor Title that … Read more

Maria returns to Ring of Honor promoting The Experience

by

Maria is officially back with the Ring of Honor promotion and is front and center to provide an announcement for them. She announces an open forum called The Experience where they want the fans to say what they want to see. They want the fans to #ChooseYourHonor.

The full statement about this is listed on their website and says the following:

Ring of Honor has always strived to give the best wrestling fans on the planet what they want. Now the fans will have an open forum to tell us directly what they want.

In January, ROH takes The Experience to the next level of fan engagement by empowering the members of Honor Nation to make their voices heard.

The Experience is not a singular event. It’s a movement.

Fans are encouraged to join the ROH The Experience Facebook group to share their thoughts and opinions about all things ROH.

Which outside talents do you want to see in ROH? Which ROH stars should be getting title shots? What match stipulations do you want to see?

ROH wants you to #ChooseYourHonor.

Maria Kanellis Bennett is leading the charge for The Experience. She made the announcement about the groundbreaking concept on ROH’s social media platforms.

“Ring of Honor has cultivated an environment where the wrestlers and the fans are the experience,” Kanellis Bennett said. “I want wrestlers to thrive and I want to give you the fans what you truly desire.

“I want Ring of Honor to be yours. No … I want Ring of Honor to be ours.”

Maria joins her husband, Mike Bennett, who has already reappeared for the promotion. Prior to this announcement of The Experience, Mike was recently interviewed by Wrestling Inc. about his thoughts on if Maria would return to ROH.

He had the following to say on if Maria would return:

“Maria, I’ll never say no because she’s my wife, so if she ever wants to come back, she’s always more than willing to. The Kingdom’s just as much her as it was me, and Matt and [Adam] Cole,” Bennett noted. “The door’s always open for her. I will say this about Maria though, she’s very, as most people know, she’s very methodical. She’s very methodical in her decisions.

“When Maria comes back, she’ll come back when she wants to come back on her terms, doing what she wants to do because that’s how she’s always done it, and I’m sure as hell not going to tell her any other way. I will never say never, Maria back to the Kingdom, but where Maria’s mind is at now, I would definitely say when she returns to wrestling, it’ll be her decision [and] her choice doing what she wants to do. She’s been doing this a long time, and she’s done a lot in this industry. So she’s deserved a rest, and she deserves to come back when she wants to.”

Maria and Mike both stood alongside each other in the ROH promotion from 2011 to 2015. They both were recently released from WWE in April as part of the cutbacks from the pandemic.

As far as the women’s roster in ROH, they had planned to crown a new champion with a new lineage to their women’s belt. This was to take place at the time that the pandemic had shut everything down back in April.

What do you make of Maria being back with ROH? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Slammiversary announced; Maria Kanellis to appear

by

IMPACT Wrestling has officially announced their next pay-per-view of the year and it will be their annual Slammiversary. It will take place on July 18. Last year’s event saw Tessa Blanchard in the main event against Sami Callihan. Blanchard would lose this match. This led to her long road of the chase for the Impact … Read more

Maria Kanellis says she has an announcement to make tonight during RAW *Updated*

by

Update: Maria and Mike Kanellis announced on Twitter that they will be doing a podcast. It will be called Nonessential Wrestler Podcast. This was the announcement that she was planning to make during RAW. Maria Kanellis, along with her husband Mike, were two of the many talents that WWE released last week during their decrease … Read more

Additional names officially released by WWE

by
Maria Kanellis

It was announced earlier today that WWE would be either letting go on placing some of their employees on furlough (leave of absence). This is as a result of cutting costs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Logan was the first female in-ring talent that has been released from the company. Below is … Read more

Ranking Tag Team WrestleMania Matches

by
Australia

Hello readers, it’s Mykel, Diva-Dirt’s equivalent of Asia O’Hara on Fashion Photo Ruview! It’s WrestleMania weekend! We have been prior list ranking the Women’s Title matches at WrestleMania, so I thought ”Hey, why not tag matches too?” We will only look at the women’s parts here because we are all about the women here on … Read more

Team RAW vs. Team SmackDown Survivor Series 11/23/08

by

Happy Free Match Friday, which is the Friday prior to Survivor Series that is taking place this Sunday. In honor of this event, that will feature for the first time all three brands in the traditional Survivor Series match, we have decided to go back to 2008. In this match, we saw Team RAW which … Read more

IMPACT Wrestling lists memorable wedding moments

by

IMPACT Wrestling is about to embark on another wedding moment as Melissa Santos and IMPACT World Champion, Brian Cage celebrates their pending nuptials. The couple in real life married in July, but on-screen their engagement took place just a couple of weeks ago.

As a result of this exciting news, IMPACT Wrestling has compiled their top five list of wildest weddings in the history of the company. Here is what they came up with:

Credit: TNA/IMPACT Wrestling

5. ODB & Eric Young

As the very last TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions, ODB and Eric Young met each other in the ring to tie the knot. The engagement took place after the two won the tag titles. Young would become the only man in history to win a women’s title for the company.

After their win, ODB accepted the proposal. They would defend their titles multiple times before being stripped of the title due to Young being a man after a 478-day reign. They would even defend the title in a steel cage match at Lockdown against Sarita and Rosita. The titles were retired after their reign.

4. Brooke Hogan & Bully Ray

This wedding took part during perhaps the longest drawn out stable in wrestling history – Aces & Eights. During the ceremony, Tazz would interrupt the ceremony revealing he was a member of that stable. They would attack Ray and Hulk Hogan. It would later be revealed that Ray was actually the President of Aces & Eights turning his back on the Hogans.

3. SoCal Val & Jay Lethal

This wedding would break down as Sonjay Dutt, Lethal’s best friend, had something to say during the ceremony. He admitted he had feelings for Val and that it should be him and not Lethal that marries her. Dutt would then attack Lethal.

After the attack, Dutt would find himself in a terrible position as Jake Roberts would unleash a snake on him. Val would leave crying heading up the ramp.

2. Karen & Jeff Jarrett

The Jarretts would renew their vows, but their ceremony wouldn’t end blissfully. Kurt Angle was forced to walk down Karen down the aisle after losing a match to Jeff. With her being Angle’s real-life ex-wife the sheer humiliation was enough to make him snap.

After the ceremony was concluded, Angle would retrieve an axe and destroy the set causing the couple to retreat.

1.Laurel Van Ness & Braxton Sutter

Van Ness and Sutter would start an on-screen relationship that led to their wedding. At the ceremony, Sutter couldn’t take it anymore and would get into a verbal altercation with Maria. He would profess his love for Allie (his real-life wife).

This would result as the end of Ness’ relationship with Saxton. She would then move to her maniacal “psychotic bride” gimmick

What are your thoughts of IMPACT’s top five wedding list? What were some of your favorites? Discuss your thoughts in the comment section.

DIVA DIRT

The Home of Women’s Wrestling News

A CHANNEL 70 PROPERTY

Navigation

Advertise

Copyright

Contact Us / Submissions

Privacy Policy

Commenting Policy

Terms of Use

popular topics

WWE

AEW

TNA

OSZAR »