Naomi Says WWE Didn’t Want to “Feel the Glow”

Can you feel it? Naomi is one of the most athletic female wrestlers (or wrestlers in general actually) in WWE either today or ever. Earlier this month at “Elimination Chamber 2017”, she won her first WWE Women’s Championship by defeating Alexa Bliss. A lot of her recent success has been due to a gimmick called “the Glow”. However, WWE didn’t really seem too interested in it at first.

Naomi recently appeared on Lillian Garcia’s “Making Their Way to the Ring” podcast to talk about a variety of topics, including the Glow gimmick. It turns out that she had been trying to get it on TV for two years and WWE didn’t seem all that happy with it at first. Here are the comments, with transcription courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com:

On where the Glow idea came from:

“The inspiration comes from a movie from the 80s, called The Last Dragon. It’s about this martial artist who is on this journey to find the glow. It’s all about him really at the end of the day finding his confidence. He had it all along. He just had to look within himself.”

As for whether WWE liked the idea in the first place:

“No. Absolutely not. Two years. It took me two years to get them to finally hear me out on this concept, this idea, and the entrance and everything.”

You can see the full interview below. Note that this was recorded before Naomi had to vacate the Women’s Title due to injury.

source: wrestlingrumors.net

Ring Announcer Lillian Garcia to Be Inserted into a Feud with Natalya?

photo courtesy: ign.com

For more than a decade, the superstars of the WWE have made their way down to ringside before their matches with longtime ring announcer Lillian Garcia introducing them to crowds all across the country.

Due to an incident on the current overseas tour by the WWE, could we see the current Smackdown announcer set into the ring and get involved in a feud with one of the Divas on Friday nights?

From WrestlingInc.com:

WWE conducted an angle at Friday's SmackDown house show at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Ireland where ring announcer Lilian Garcia nearly came to blows with Natalya during a heated confrontation. Fed up with the third generation wrestler's shabby treatment of her, Garcia aggressively shoved Natalya's jacket back at the SmackDown Diva following her loss to AJ.

During her career as ring announcer for the WWE, Garcia has been known to get involved in the action over the years in addition to being inserted into some minor storylines with different superstars.

In her most notable appearance in a storyline in her first run with the company, Garcia had an on-screen romance with the physically imposing Viscersa where she proposed to the former Hardcore and WWE Tag Team Champion.

Outside of the Viscera storyline, she’s been known to do fantastic renditions of the “Star Spangled Banner” at countless WWE events including this year’s WrestleMania in Miami earlier this month.

As for a rivalry with Natalya, I would hope the WWE just leave Garcia to her announcing duties on Smackdown even though the Divas division needs all the help it can get at this point in time.

With the current state of the Divas division in the WWE, do you think it would be a good idea for the company to insert a non-wrestler like Lillian Garcia into a feud with the former Diva’s Champion Natalya?

source: bleacherreport.com

The Rock kicked off the biggest birthday party in TV history. WWE Raw May 2, 2011

If anyone knows how to win the crowd its The Rock. After all, you dont gain the nickname The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment by being an electrifying bulb. Prior to kicking off his birthday party celebration, though, The Rock, as well as the rest of the fans, took time to receipt the upshots of the past 24 hours. As Lilian Garcia sang a heart melting rendition rendering of the National Anthem, everyone in the American Airlines Arena that night pondered on the historical news that United States military had killed Osama bin Laden nearly 10 yrs after the al Queda leader had organised the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

(watch the whole show)

With the news buoying up the celebrations kicked off, The Great One headed his hometown in a interpretation of the Pledge Fealty}. He then boosted them to have fun and lionize his natal day in high style. Unfortunately, theres always one p

arty pooper in the bunch.

Michael Cole, on behalf of the anonymous Raw GM, cut off The Rock as he addressed his frenzie fans. After ripping on Cole, The Brahma Bull invited him i

nto the ring

so that he might “apologize.” The cheese-eating announcer was then greeted with a Rock Bottom and The People’s Elbow.

When Rock exited to the roars of an appreciative crowd, he

was joined by dancers from the Miami Heat basketball team and by rapper Pitbull! Time to par-tay!

The Rock celebrated his birthday with the WWE Universe and surprise guest Mr. McMahon:

Its a disgrace that birthdays only come around one time a year. Remembrancer of The Rocks celebratory bash should last at least that long. With the evening going full strength, The Rock gave thanks to the fans in his hometown, Miami and the intact WWE Universe for helping him express joy. He was then got together by surprise invitee Mr. McMahon, who volunteered some uncharacteristically kind words before a video tribute to The Rock.

Then Grammy-award winning recording artist Mya was presented and directed the crowd in a rendition of Happy Birthday theme.