Friday, July 25, 2008

Shawn Daivari / Sheik Abdul Bashir



Shawn Daivari was born born April 30, 1984, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is an Iranian-American professional wrestler, currently working for TNA Wrestling as Sheik Abdul Bashir.
Even though he was born in Minnesota, he is still a full blooded Iranian with his parents immigrating to the United States in the 1970s.
Daivari debuted in TNA Wrestling on the June 12 edition iMPACT! as the captain to Team International in this year's World X Cup Tournament.
He recently signed a contract with TNA and on the July 24, 2008 edition of iMPACT!, it was announced that Daivari has joined the TNA roster under the name of Sheik Abdul Bashir.

Even though Shawn didn't seem to go over too well in the WWE, I think the man has good mike skills and in ring ability.
Geez...I'm starting to sound like JR.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Crystal Louthan




Crystal Louthan is a American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. She is currently working for TNA.

Crystal has worked as a model and has appeared in several advertisements and commercials, and was once a boxing ring girl on HBO. She was crowned "Miss Jeannie 2005" in an "I Dream of Jeannie" look-a-like contest.

She has also worked as a broadcaster for the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.

During the Fall 2007, Louthan joined TNA as a backstage interviewer, replacing previous interviewer Leticia Cline. Cline returned on the October 24, 2007 edition of TNA Impact! and was angered that she had been replaced and jealously confronted Louthan, but the storyline was quickly dropped, as storylines often are.

Louthan also appeared on the monthly "Road To" SpikeTV specials and the Countdown Preshow prior to each pay-per-view.

Crystal took a month off working TNA's TV tapings for much of April 2008. She later returned on May 8th, interviewing Kevin Nash & Samoa Joe.

Louthan is currently dating TNA wrestler "Cowboy" James Storm.

www.crystallouthan.com/



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Thursday, July 10, 2008

TNA Knockout: Taylor / Shantelle Taylor

Shantelle Larissa Malawski was born January 26, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. She is a Canadian pro wrestler currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Taylor. She is better known by the ring name, Shantelle Taylor. She was formerly working for the WWE under a development contract.

She made her professional wrestling debut in June 2003. In 2004, she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary, Slam Bam, which aired on the Discovery Channel.

In 2005 she won her first women's wrestling championship while competing in New Vision Pro Wrestling. She spent the summer of that year in Monterrey, Mexico working on her lucha libre style. In December she participated in a three-show tour of South Africa wrestling on a card that featured former WWE stars Kevin Nash, Andrew Martin and Scott Steiner. Also in December she was invited to a tryout in Buffalo, New York for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Malawski has worked for several independent wrestling promotions including SHIMMER Women Athletes, Ring Divas' Battle Angels, Twin Wrestling Entertainment, and Blood, Sweat and Ears. On April 16, 2006, Malawski defeated Traci Brooks to become the inaugural Battle Angels Women's Champion.

Malawski also spent time working the Pure Women's Action shows for the Pure Wrestling Association in Southern Ontario.

In May 2006, Malawski signed a deal with the WWE and reported to their developmental territory Deep South Wrestling. She made her Deep South in-ring debut at the June 27, 2006 tv tapings where she lost against Krissy Vaine when Vaine grabbed her tights. On September 9, 2006, Malawski defeated Vaine at Deep South Wrestling Grand Park Slam event in Six Flags Over Georgia. During her time in Deep South, she feuded with other divas such as Krissy Vaine, Tracy Taylor & Angel Williams. In January 2007, Malawski appeared on Smackdown!/ECW house shows as San-Eye, a masked Japanese wrestler, where she wrestled Jamie Noble. In June 2007 Malawski wrestled in dark matches prior to the Smackdown TV Tapings while wearing a mask.

On August 13, 2007 Malawski was released from her developmental contract.

In the February 2008 edition of WWE Magazine, she appeared in the section Sexy Superfan of the Month, and goes under the name of Shantelle M.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2008-Present)

In early 2008 Malawski signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

At the April 16, 2008, tapings of TNA Impact! Malawski wrestled for the company in a dark match where she was defeated by Raisha Saeed.

She then appeared on television as a "plant" on the May 29, 2008 episode of Impact!. She responded to the $25,000 challenge from Awesome Kong to any females age 18 or older in the audience, but was not selected to wrestle her. She reappeared in the audience on the June 5 episode of Impact! to challenge Kong, but once again was not selected to wrestle her. On June 19, She challenged Kong in the $25,000 Challenge. She was announced under the name Taylor, and became the closest by far out of any of the contestants to defeating Awesome Kong.

On the July 3 episode of iMPACT!, Taylor defeated Raisha Saeed and earned the right to face Kong again the following week in the $25,000 challenge, this time also being for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Karen Angle


Karen Angle (nèe Smedley) (born October 12, 1972) is a professional wrestling valet and personality currently working for TNA Wrestling. She is the real life wife of professional wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle.

Karen Angle was introduced in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the summer of 2007 when Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle were feuding for an all-at-once Triple Crown Championship (Kurt held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and Joe held the TNA X Division and TNA World Tag Team Championship). Karen was supposedly wanting to divorce Kurt, claiming that he was emotionally abusive toward both her and their children. At the Hard Justice pay per view, however, Karen betrayed Joe during his match with her husband, resulting in Kurt winning the Triple Crown.

In the following weeks, her character began to develop into a manipulative vamp, such as when Karen claimed that Sting slapped her at No Surrender when, in fact, he had not. This led to Kurt and Sting losing the Tag Team titles to Team Pacman after Kurt executed the Olympic slam on Sting. Another feud then erupted between Kurt Angle and Sting in which Sting had Karen arrested for violating a restraining order and Kurt stalking Sting's son. At Genesis, Karen persuaded A.J. Styles and Tomko into helping Kurt retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the tag team match for the title.

In late 2007, Karen began to have issues with Booker T's wife Sharmell, claiming there was only room for one "queen" in TNA (a direct reference to Booker T's and Sharmell's last WWE gimmick, where they were self-believed royalty). This led to a catfight at the December 12 iMPACT! tapings.Karen suffered a broken foot after jumping from the apron after an in-ring segement. She did not miss any time as a result of TNA's taping schedule.

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