Womens Wrestling Xposed brings you the latest blog updates from Diva’s past and present. Here’s Torrie Wilson’s latest post:

Hey Buddies!

Well, the trip to Orlando was great! I brought one of my best friends, Jill, with me as well as 2 of my brothers and I must say we really rocked Orlando! It took me over a week to recover, but it was all worth it!

My health is doing ok as far as back problems. I must say there are days that I wake up and ask myself why the heck I put my body through what I did the last few years but it’s all worthe it. I can never trade all of the awesome experiences that I have had in the WWE and of course all of the great life long friends that I have made along the way. I have been told by 2 back surgeons that I should never set foot in a wrestling ring again if I want to be moving around in a few years on my own. Pretty depressing if you ask me….I don’t even have some awesome memory of what my last match even was or who it was with. Hopefully it was with Victoria and I beat her! (-: I guess everything happens for a reason for sure. Regardless of not traveling with WWE as of late, I have actually been ridiculously busy lately working on more designs for my up and coming clothing line. I must say that I am soooo excited to wear some of the cool stuff that we are coming up with and I hope you are too! Only time will tell….

I had an awesome night out with my WWE friends in Orlando and also got to hit the mall with my best shopping partner ever, Michell McCool! That girl can SHOP! ..never ever thought that I could meet my match but I have and more. (-: I was pretty disappointed that I couldn’t have had some sort of role in Wrestlemania itself, but understand that priorities are not with someone that isn’t feeling their best ….maybe it’s better that I wasn’t a part of it who knows! It was pretty weird watching it as a fan though…I even had the experience of filing into the citrus bowl with everybody else and it was CRAZY!!!!!

I am heading over to Japan on the 17th of this month to host a wrestlemania viewing party with the fans and I am soooo excited! I love love love Japan and of course the show was so good that I can’t wait to watch it again.

I must say that I am absolutely going so stir crazy being home after traveling nearly 300 days per year for the last 7 years, but I am guessing that God is telling me to take a break. I hope that all of you take time for yourself sometimes because I am just feeling like time passes by wayyyy too quick! It’s actually good that I have had some time to rebuild some relationships that have been broken from all of the travel that I have done over the years.

Well, I hope that you are all doing awesome and would love to hear what you thought of the big wrestlemania show if you watched!

Talk to you soon and love you lots n lots!

-Torrie

Terri Runnels(WWE Diva Marlena) is currently available for wrestling shows, and autographs via her booking managers. Here’s the release from the former WWE women’s wrestler:

Integrity Bookings is pleased to announce their newest client addition: Former WCW and WWE Manager, Terri “Marlena” Runnels. Terri is currently available through Integrity Bookings for autograph sessions, wrestling shows, and speaking events.

Her managerial accomplishments include two of the most controversial wrestlers to ever step foot into a wrestling ring, Goldust and Val Venis. In addition, she has managed such superstars as Matt and Jeff Hardy, Raven, Perry Saturn and The York Foundation (Mike Rotunda, Terry Taylor, Ricky Morton, Tommy Rich, and Mr.Hughes). “Marlena” was always a sight to behold…cigar and all!

This Former WWE Diva has not been seen in nearly four years! Fans, convention promoters, and autograph seekers, have been waiting in eager anticipation for the return of this class act. Terri has been in demand for years, but has declined each offer due to being a mom first and foremost.

Over the last several years, Terri has been hard at work raising her daughter, Dakota. During this time away, Terri has ventured into many projects; and has dedicated her life to impacting children of all grade levels, and has even become a role model to “working mom’s”. Her speaking engagements in the school systems, and with corporations; have generated an entirely new fanbase for her as well.

Interested parties can contact TalentRelations@integritybookings.com for prices, packages, and additional information. This is your chance to book one of the nicest, and most respected women in our business. Being that Terri has opted to not do many appearances, this is your time to jump on this very special opportunity!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

J.P.

Integrity Bookings Talent Relations Department

Women’s Wrestling Xposed Take: while women’s wrestling has changed, both Torrie Wilson and Terri Runnels will be remembered for their Diva efforts.

WWE Diva Candice Michelle will be returning to the ring for a house show this Friday against Beth Phoenix. Candice was seen recently on WWE’s Raw, but the womens wrestler/diva has not done any in-ring work since her injury.

Its been announced by WWE that Maria will be signing copies of her Playboy on Thursday, March 13th from 7-9 pm at the Virgin Megastore at Hollywood Highland, LA. The release of the issue comes in one week.

Brooke Hogan recently posted on her myspace, in regards to her fathers affair with her friend:

“When your best friend and one of your closest family members that you have loved unconditionally since your first day on this earth betrays you together, you could maybe find it in yourself to forgive one day, but you will never forget the hurt they caused you and how it hurt the people who mean the most to you.”

Women’s Wrestling Xposed has learned that luna Vachon announced via MySpace (www.myspace.com/lunavachon) that she’s retiring from the wrestling business. She said that her body could not handle the rigors of wrestling, and her last match would take place at an indy show in Milwaukee later tonight. Here is her message:

You heard it here first

Hey Lunatics. I just want to let you all know how much I appreciate all of your love and support, that is why it hurts me so much to tell you all this.

On Friday December 7th in Milwaukee I will be retiring from wrestling. My body has just taken on way too much abuse and I cannot actively compete. I just want you all to know that I love you all and i will miss seeing all my wonderful fans.

If you live in the Milwaukee, Chicago area I hope you can make it out and see me one last time.

Just so you know this was not an easy decision for me, but I have to do what is best for my future.

Hope you can come and see me at Blizzard Brawl
more info here www.BlizzardBrawl.com
Love and God Bless
Luna

Mary Lillian Ellison, whose flying drop kicks, flying head scissors and hair-pulling ”flying mare” body slams brought her renown as the professional wrestler the Fabulous Moolah, died Friday in Lexington, S.C., near her home in Columbia. She was 84.

She died at a hospital after shoulder replacement surgery, said her daughter, Maryetta Austin.

For more than half a century, as a wrestler, promoter and trainer, the Fabulous Moolah was a leading figure on the women’s circuit. She held versions of the women’s wrestling championship for all but short intervals from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. World Wrestling Entertainment brought her back at age 76. Clad in a sequined jacket over a green leotard, she pinned her opponent, Ivory, in a match at Cleveland and was again proclaimed the champion.

The Fabulous Moolah enjoyed the mayhem, but she especially coveted the money.

When she started in pro wrestling in the early 1950s, the promoter Jack Pfeffer decided a name change was in order. As she told it in The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle, Pfeffer told her “the name Lillian Ellison wouldn’t do. Not flashy enough.”

He asked her why she was wrestling, and, as she recalled: ‘Annoyed, I blurted out: `For the money. I want to wrestle for the moolah.’ ”

First, she apprenticed as a valet for Nature Boy Buddy Rogers; she was billed as Slave Girl Moolah and clad in a leopard-skin outfit. Soon, she was wrestling as the Fabulous Moolah, and she won the championship belt in 1956. On July 1, 1972, when the New York State Athletic Commission lifted a ban on women’s wrestling, she was the featured attraction at Madison Square Garden.

Mary Lillian Ellison was born in the country town of Tookiedoo, S.C., near Columbia, the 13th child and only daughter in her family. When she was 10, her father took her to pro matches in Columbia and she was inspired to become a wrestler by watching Mildred Burke, the reigning women’s champion.

The Fabulous Moolah was only 5-feet-4 and 118 pounds when she began wrestling as a professional, her physique not particularly imposing. But her maneuvers wowed the crowds.

”Flying drop kick is when you jump flat-footed from the floor up as high as the person you’re looking at and kick them in the face or in the chest, wherever you want to kick them, and then you fall to the floor,” she told National Public Radio’s Fresh Air program in 2005.

”A flying mare is when you get a girl by the hair . . . and pull her over your shoulder, then slam her to the mat as hard you can. And I love doing that,” she explained.

Her jet-black hair dyed strawberry blonde, Ellison remained active in World Wrestling Entertainment into her last years, writing commercials. She was profiled in the 2004 documentary Lipstick & Dynamite about women’s pro wrestling.

In addition to her daughter, of Conway, S.C., she is survived by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Her five marriages ended in divorce. She lived for many years with Katie Glass, a former midget wrestler known as Diamond Lil, who joined with her in training wrestlers.

Ellison said she never minded the booing inspired by her roughhouse antics.

”I loved when they got mad at me,” she told The State newspaper of Columbia in 2005. ‘They called me all kinds of names. I said: `Call me anything you want. You don’t write my check.’ ”

Source: Richard Goldstein/Miami Herald

The WWE and the world of wrestling has lost one of, if not the greatest womens wrestler of all-time, as Lillian Ellison, better known as the Fabulous Moolah has passed away. According to the WWE’s website, Moolah passed away last night in Columbia, South Carolina. There was no cause of death listed, she was 84 years old according to various other sites that have picked up on the story.

Moolah was the WWE Women’s Champ 9 times, and had the longest running championship reign that is still regarded today, that being 28 years. She will likely be remembered as the heel behind the “Rock n’ Wrestling” storyline that put wrestling in the headlines back in the mid-80’s. She lost the belt in late 1984 to Wendy Richter, only to then lead Leilani Kai to the title, leading to the semi-main at the very first WrestleMania when Richter won the title back fom Kai.

After Richter fell out of favor with the company, and the WWE took the belt off of her, having Moolah dress up in a mask and win the belt back as “Spider Lady.” She lost the belt in 1987 to another lady wrestler that has now passed - Sherri Martel. She was given one last hurrah with the strap in 1999 when she beat Ivory at the No Mercy PPV in Cleveland. At the age of 76 she held the belt for 8 days.

We here at Women’s Wrestling Xposed would like to send our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ms. Ellison. The word “legend” gets thrown around way too often in the world of wrestling, but The Fabulous Moolah was truly one of the few that is deserving of the title. Rest in peace, Moolah…you will be missed greatly.