Milena Roucka might be beautiful to look at, but you don’t want to cross this Latino spitfire, or you might find yourself in a lot of pain.

“I love beating people up,” said the current Ohio Valley Wrestling women’s champ. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win; lie, cheat, whatever. Hearing the 1-2-3 is all that matters to me. It’s priceless.”

Before coming to OVW, Roucka was training for K-1, a form of mixed martial arts, and doing some modeling on the side. Then she heard about the World Wrestling Entertainment’s Diva Search, and she decided to enter the 2006 competition, where she finished as a semi-finalist. The WWE then signed her to a developmental contract in August of that year and sent her to OVW for training. “It couldn’t have worked out better for me,” Roucka said.

Since coming to OVW, Roucka, despite her beauty, hasn’t made too many fans. Of course, that might be due to the fact that she aligned herself with Mike W. Kruel, one of the most hated men in OVW.

“I respect Mike,” Roucka said when asked why she joined his stable. “He’s a very talented guy. I’m like the female version of him. I respect him so much. He’s amazing.”

Not many people share her respect for Kruel. Of course, that really doesn’t concern her. Winning is all that matters to her. That, and “The Roucka Show,” which airs during OVW broadcasts.

The show was originally “Kat’s Cradle,” and was hosted by Katie Lea. When Lea went overseas for a trip, Roucka jumped at the chance to take over the spot.

“It’s my show now,” Roucka said. And what about when Lea returns? “She’s going to have to deal with it. I’m the champ. She hasn’t done anything.” One thing’s for sure: She doesn’t lack for confidence.

When asked who she considers the top contenders for her belt, the answer was simple: Nobody.

“I’m the best,” she said. “I’m sure Kat (Katie Lea) will be trying to get the title back, but I plan on keeping it around this beautiful, Latino waist.”

While modeling, Roucka said she felt like something was missing from her life. An extremely competitive and feisty person, she was looking to show people a different side of her. Once she found wrestling, she knew this was what she had been looking for.

“It’s a passion of mine,” Roucka said. “Fighting, wrestling, martial arts. I really enjoy performing in front of people, whether they cheer me or boo me. I guess you could say I’m an adrenaline junkie.”

Before getting into the sport, Roucka watched wrestling, and idolized Trish Stratus and the late Sherri Martel. “I’m sad that she’s not with us anymore,” Roucka said of Martel, who passed away recently. While she loved watching those two wrestle, she tries to be herself in the ring.

“What you see is pretty much me,” Roucka said. “My personality is aggressive, confident and cocky. I want to be myself.”

And while getting the call up to the WWE is every wrestler’s goal, Roucka said right now she’s just concentrating on her OVW title, which she won from ODB.

“I always live for right now,” she said. “It’s in God’s hands. I just live for the moment.”

Her ultimate goal is to be the best women’s champion ever, and to perfect her craft.

“I’m in this for the long haul,” she said. “I’m not in this just to be on television. I want to be the best I can be, and I want people to respect me. Coming from modeling, that makes it harder. But I want people to look at me not as a model, but as a great athlete.” She added that wrestling has been very challenging, and she now knows this is what she wants to do.

“I haven’t been so sure about what I wanted to do in life as I am about wrestling,” Roucka said.

And she has this message for the fans in London.

“I work hard, so you better respect me,” Roucka said. “I don’t care if you like me or not, just respect me. For those that love and cheer me, thank you very much. And respect Mike Kruel as well, Disrespecting him is like disrespecting me.”

Ohio Valley Wrestling will be in London, KY Saturday night.

Source: The Sentinel Echo

Recently released WWE talents Krissy Vaine and Ryan O’Reilly have spoken for the first time since their departure from the company in a new interview with Slam! Wrestling. The couple wanted fans to know what their reasoning was behind asking WWE for their release. Basically, the two chose to put their families before their wrestling career at this time. Apparently being away from home and family was beginning to take its toll on the two. When it comes down to it, you really can’t blame them. Both of them like the idea of wrestling in TNA in the future, where O’Reilly worked in the company’s early days.

RAW Diva Jillian Hall has posted a new blog on her official MySpace and speaks on some personal problems going on in her life, noting this past week has been a rough one. Jillian says her new motto is “Don’t trust anyone.” Jillian also says she won’t be joining the WWE superstars currently on tour in Europe until RAW on Monday.

This weekend WWE debuted it’s newest Diva, Katherine, who appeared in a bikini contest with Maryse, Michelle McCool and Victoria. Katherine has been working in OVW wrestling at Katie Lea. Katherine has feuded with Beth Phoenix in OVW and is a former OVW Women’s Champion.

As we reported yesterday, Empress Sayuri was seriously injured at the latest Ring Divas house show taping in Charlotte, NC. Due to this injury, the Board of Directors have announced that the Womens World title and the Fight Girls World title have been vacated. We will keep you informed as more news breaks on this story.

Melissa Coates was one of the most photographed women in professional bodybuilding, and reached top 10 in the world status before making the decision to go into pro wrestling. Although not under contract, Coates trained in the WWE development system at OVW and Deep South. She is currently a featured performer with NWA Anarchy.

Q: I wanted to ask you about your family background. In your bio, you said the rest of your family was pretty conventional.
Coates: I’m from Thunder Bay, Ontario. My father was a doctor. My mom was a nurse, and she was also an amateur actress, which is probably where I got some of performing interest from. My two brothers are doctors. My sister has written a few books, but she’s actually more of a social worker now. She also studied philosophy. I also went to school and got degree in Biology. I just ended up enjoying weightlifting and started doing powerlifting, and from there it progressed. I played a lot of sports when I was younger. I really loved tennis. At the time, the person I most looked up to was Martina Navratilova because of her muscular build, so I actually started using weights to train for tennis and I developed really easily, and it just kind of went from there. I have my college degree. I can fall back on it, I suppose, but I just enjoy sports. I’m the best athlete in my family. That’s what I enjoy, and lucky for me, I’ve had some success doing it. Read more »

TNA will be crowning their first ever Women’s Champion in a 10-women gauntlet match at their annual Bound For Glory pay-per-view next month in Atlanta.

Jim Cornette noted that the match would feature “five girls you know” and “five girls you don’t know.” Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, Ms. Brooks, Jackie Moore and Roxxi Laveaux are pretty much locks to appear in the match.

According to WrestlingInc.com, the five other names contacted and likely booked for the match include Northeast women’s wrestler Talia Madison, former ECW Diva Shelly “Ariel” Martinez, ODB (who regularly appears on OVW shows, but is without a WWE developmental contract), Angel Williams, and international women’s wrestler Amazing Kong. According to WrestlingInc.com, Talia Madison and Shelly “Ariel” Martinez have been 100% confirmed to appear in the match.

The girl who seems to have the best chance at securing a permanent spot in the company is Martinez because TNA is already thinking about using her as a valet for LAX or James Mitchell’s group. Also, TNA is very interested in using Angel Williams and also feel that Amazing Kong would be make for a great addition to the company.

Other names being tossed around for the women’s division/gauntlet match include April Hunter, Sarah Stock and So Cal Val. Val would probably only be used as a backup in case someone can’t make it. Sarah Stock is a pretty girl that works under the name “Dark Angel” for CMLL in Mexico. WrestlingInc.com is reporting that TNA would like to bring her in for the women’s division, but there could be a hold-up due to the transportation costs if she chooses stay in Mexico City.

It should be noted that no one has been signed to a contract as of yet, just contacted and possibly booked. The gauntlet match will be a “tryout match” of sorts for the five uncontracted ladies. Depending on how things go during the match, the girls who put on the best performances will likely be offered contracts.

Discussions are ongoing about how to incorporate drug testing with developmental talent. WWE pretty much only tests contracted talent at WWE events, particularly SuperShows when everyone on the main roster is available. Developmental talent do get tested, but presumably not that frequently. The only developmental wrestler known to fail a Wellness test was Ryan Reeves, who was released earlier in the year.

As reported earlier, a number of WWE sources were reportedly surprised that no female WWE performers turned up on the Signature Pharmacy client list. The reason for this is because it is believed that the federal prosecutors only looked up male wrestlers from the active WWE roster for the most part. It is also believed that they didn’t look up people on the current TNA roster, although if a major name turned up, they would have recognized the person.

Anyway, prosecutors likely didn’t check the names on any girls, not realizing that at least a few of them reportedly use Growth Hormone to keep their bodies looking the way they do, particularly in the case of women entering their late 20s and the ones maintaining their near flawless figures well into their 30s. It is believed that a few of the divas use steroids to tighten and harden their figure without building unneeded mass mass, in addition to keeping their weight down. The drug Clenbuterol is said to be a favorite among a few of the WWE Divas. As of fall, 2006, Clenbuterol is not an ingredient of any therapeutic drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but is still used as an unproven slimming aid, and is now banned for IOC-tested athletes.

Torrie Wilson & Victoria have obviously denied these claims because they still work for the company, but hey, so did Mr. Kennedy and look where he is now.

Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter