CONTESTANTs
o Amy Weber ELIMINATED (September 6, 2004)
o Camille Anderson ELIMINATED (August 2, 2004)
o Carmella Decesare ELIMINATED (September 20, 2004)
o Chandra Costello ELIMINATED (August 9, 2004)
o Christy Hemme
o Joy Giovanni ELIMINATED (September 13, 2004)
o Julia Costello ELIMINATED (July 26, 2004)
o Maria Kanellis ELIMINATED (August 30, 2004)
o Michelle McCool ELIMINATED (August 16, 2004)
o Tracie Wright ELIMINATED (August 23, 2004)

MAGAZINE UPDATE
The WWE release a RAW Diva Search 2004 Magazine on October 19. The issue featured various pictures of the ten finalists alongside information, articles and comments from the winner and losers. They also released a Diva Search DVD in November, which featured clips from the various casting calls, contests and the finale as well as bonus features.



TV UPDATES
September 20, 2004
The Diva Search contestants were backstage, preparing for the big moment when one would be chosen to win a $250,000 WWE contract.

In the center of the red-carpeted ring the Coach announced that it was time to eliminate the last Diva in the $250,000 Diva Search contest. Jonathon Coachman introduced Carmella and Christy, and told them that whoever wins both made an enemy of the Coach last week in the Seattle Slugfest. Trish, being the Women's Champion came to ringside in a short skirt and high heels. Trish congratulated both women on making it this far, as it was so hard after all. Trish asked about the money, and pondered what they would do with the cash. Trish said Christy should invest in decaf and Carmella in a personality. The Coach opened the envelope, and revealed that Christy was the winner of the $250,000 Diva Search! Christy said how proud she was, and that the energy was all natural. Carmella was visibly disappointed, and congratulated Christy rather earnestly.



September 13, 2004
Jonathon Coachman introduced the three Diva Contestant Finalists for the Diva Search Seattle Slugfest. He first had to declare who would be voted off this week. Joy got the boot. That left Carmella and Christy to duke it out. The ladies went to the corner to put on their ridiculously over-sized gloves and get it on. Before the action could commence, the Chairman of the Board interrupted things. Out came Vince McMahon with the most ludicrous swagger I have ever seen. Vince was out to declare that next week was the new of Raw, and that he had an announcement to make concerning Eric Bishoff, every WWE Superstar and every fan in attendance. This week, he had an announcement for Coachman. The Coach, as usual, had the rules all screwed up. The Diva's weren't gong to beat the hell out of one another; they were going to beat the hell of out him. If he so much as made one move to defend himself, then he would be fired. The official explained the rules, which read as an encouragement of where to hit him and how hard. Christy went first, exaggerating her attacks to the face and groin of the Coach before jumping on his back and riding the man down. As the bell rung she bent over and gave the Coach a bite square in his ass. Carmella went second, knocking Coach down early and often with straight punches. The fans voted with ovation, and Christy was declared the winner of the Slugfest! The phone number was still busy after the show. It almost seemed like Coach was selling more for Carmella though.



September 6, 2004
Stacy Keibler brought the final four Diva contenders out to the ring. She displayed a briefcase containing $250,000. Before announcing this week's loser, she informed the ladies that they would have to arm wrestle. I still say they should have to do a massive blade job, but what do I know? So, Christy arm wrestled Amy. Christy won easily, though Stacy accidentally announced Amy as the winner at first. Carmella and Joy then arm wrestled. You can tell Joy really hates Carmella as she wouldn't even look her in the eye. That might have been a mistake, since Carmella won. Christy and Carmella then arm wrestled, and Christy, who does seem to be athletic, won easily once again. As the winner, Christy earned the right to throw a bucket of Texas chili on the other three. This was pretty lame as she just dumped it on their boobs as they sort of giggled. Stacy then announced this week's loser as Amy. She didn't say a word. She simply walked out. I was kind of surprised she got the axe this week, as she seemed to be realy into this. I think she was unpleasantly surprised, too.



August 30, 2004
Stacy Keibler struts to the ring. She has the 5 remaining Divas Search contestants join her. Maria gets booted and flashes a Stone Cold Salute as she exits. Tonight's contest: 'Diss the Diva'. Girls get 30 seconds to rag on each other. BAD stuff here, lots of bleeped s-bombs. Crowd seems to have turned on Carmella. Stacy invites us to vote for a winner, you can do so at WWE.com if you're so inclined.



August 23, 2004
Jonathan Coachman came out to the ring, leading the six surviving Diva contenders. Coach wasted no time this week opening the envelope to reveal the unfortunate loser. It turned out to be poor Tracie, who was forced to depart. Coach told the remaining five that their assignment this week would be to spend two minutes telling him how great he is. He claimed, without any evidence to support him, that the girls had no doubt been wanting to do that ever since they first arrived. He ended up extending the time period to five minutes, since two minutes wouldn't be long enough for them to say all the wonderful things about him they allegedly wanted to say. The girls were saved from having to lie when the words "if you smell" blared over the loudspeaker. Out came Rock to a huge pop. Rock, who seemed to have perhaps had a beer or two before coming out, gave Coach five seconds to hit the road or he'd get the ass whipping of a lifetime. Coach beat a hasty retreat. Rock did his "finally, the Rock has come back to Anahei" phrase, and then put over the Diva contenders' beauty. After praising their looks, he said they were lusting after him and were getting wet, though he quickly amended that to say they were getting wet with perspiration. They all giggled like schoolgirls. He said being a RAW Diva is the best job in the world, and cited Lilian Garcia as someone who improved her standing in life by becoming a RAW Diva. Rock said that before that, Lilian worked in a sperm bank but was fired for drinking on the job. Honest, I'm not making any of this up. Rock then asked which girl was Carmella, and she identified herself. I guess Rock must have missed RAW the past few weeks. Rock said he had heard the other girls hate Carmella and want her voted off. She sort of acknowledged it. Rock told her that when he first started out, the other guys in the locker room wanted him to leave, but that he persevered and became the most electrifying man on earth. He asked Carmella if she thinks she can persevere as well, and when she started toanswer he cut her off with his "it doesn't matter what you think!" She took it in stride and giggled. And the others giggled as well. Rock brought up the contest a few weeks ago where they all had to sell an ice cream cone. He said the fans didn't want to see them eating ice cream. Instead, he said he and the fans want to eat them. Yes, he said that, though it appeared to be a six pack induced blooper and he quickly corrected himself, saying the fans want to see the girls eating pie. And with that, Tajiri came out to the ring carrying a large tray full of pies. Rock informed the ladies that their challenge this week would be a pie eating contest. He asked the crowd if they like to eat pie, and there was a big pop. He then asked if they like strudel and some females cheered, though Rock accused one male fan of cheering and said he must be one of Coach's relatives. Out of the blue, Rock noted that they have good weed in Anaheim. Okay, maybe it wasn't a six pack after all. Rock asked Tajiri what kind of pie he ikes and he said poontang. Actually, he said "poontong", and Rock made fun of his accent. Rock told each Diva contender she would have 20 seconds to eat pie. It wasn't a contest to see how much they could eat, but rather how seductively they could eat it. Amy & Maria seemed to get the idea, and they each seductively licked cream off the pies and sucked it off their fingers. Joy ate some cherries from one pie while verbally running down Carmella, saying that she wants to make Carmella eat crow and wants to wrestle her. Carmella ate some pie and rubbed cream and filling all over herself. Christy got a little weird, as if that would be something anyone would notice in this already ultra-weird segment. She announced that her ass was hungry and had been munching at her panties all night. She then sat on a pie and wiggled her ass around in it.

Coach, after complaining about being allegedly sneak attacked earlier by Rock, had the final five Diva contender babes (Christy, Maria, Carmella, Amy, and Joy) strut their stuff in the bikini posedown segment.



August 16, 2004
Coach was backstage with the Diva contender babes. Before revealing who got voted off this week, he aired videos of each of the gals where they were asked who they would vote off if they had the chance. All of them said they would vote off Carmella, except for Carmella, who said she would vote Joy off. Carmella's reason was that Joy is married and has babies and thus supposedly couldn't commit to being a full time Diva. Michelle said she'd bounce Carmella because she's just in this to win, not to really pursue a WWE career. Christy said Carmella doesn't really want to be a Diva. Maria said Carmella doesn't put much effort into this and said her friends compare Carmella to a dishrag because she does so little. Tracie said Carmella isn't excited about WWE and doesn't want to be a Diva. Amy said Carmella doesn't really want to be there, laughs at the wrestlers and the contests the contenders have had, and doesn't work at being a Diva. Joy said Carmella isn't a team player and was a no show for Diva dodgeball. CTFIGHT! None of this is surprising given what a lot of people have observed since this thing began. After all these videos aired, Coach revealed that Michelle had been voted off by the fans, continuing the blonde bloodbath.

Coach brought remaining contenders Christy, Joy, Maria, Amy, Tracie, and Carmella out for the bikini posedown, with the voting numbers flashed on the screen.



August 15, 2004 - SummerSlam PPV
VIt was time for Diva Dodge ball. The Diva Contestants were called "Team Deam" in an Olympics reference. In fact, they turned out to be much better than our current basketball team, crushing the Diva's in a surprisingly enjoyable match of dodge ball. The contestants lost all of one member (Joy) and eliminated the Diva's in minutes! After the match, Trish Stratus was disappointed in her team and attacked Victoria. I have a rather odd urge to play dodge ball.



August 9, 2004
Jonathan Coachman was in the ring with the eight Diva contenders. He was about to open the envelope to announce which Diva got voted off, but he was interrupted by Randy Orton. Orton insisted on reading the name of the unfortunate babe who got the fewest votes, and it was Chandra. Orton made fun of her as a loser and told her to hit the road. He even told her she wouldn't be able to buy her sister that car she had promised. As she left up the ramp, he accused her of hiding her emotions (since she was smiling) and compared her to Benoit. It seems pretty evident that they want some sort of controversy to come out of this Diva thing and are hoping for one of the losing contestants to throw a tantrum or something, hence the ridicule here. Orton pledged that at SummerSlam, Benoit will be a loser and will leave the arena in defeat just like Chandra, having seen his dreams go up in smoke.

Coach told the seven surviving Diva contenders that their challenge this week would be to sell the viewing audience an ice cream cone in 25 seconds. They then aired seven obviously pre-taped segments featuring each babe trying to sell us a generic vanilla ice cream cone. There was a table there with toppings such as chocolate syrup, cherries, whipped cream, etc.. Some of the girls figured out what was expected here and licked the cone. Amy really figured it out, and squirted whipped cream into her mouth. Coach said they had provided us with some (ahem) stiff competition. Yes, this aired before the supposedly more adult second (after 10:00 PM EST) hour.

Coach brought the babes out to the ring for the bikini posedown as the numbers for voting for your favorite Diva were announced. For the record once again, the seven survivors were Michelle, Christy, Maria, Tracie, Carmella, Amy, and Joy. As they were all posing, Trish came out, leading Molly, Jazz, Gail, Nidia, Stacy, and Victoria to the ring. The story here was that the established Divas are pissed over the attention the contenders are getting (not to mention the $250,000 for the winner) so they've put aside their feuds to challenge them. In other words, this is something of a shoot. Trish challenged the contenders to a game of dodgeball at SummerSlam, saying that Eric Bischoff had given his approval to the idea. The contenders accepted. Something tells me this won't sell PPV buys, either. But it could have if done the right way. That would have required Trish to wallop one of the contender babes with a wrench, leading to a massive blade job with blood puddled all over the ring.



August 2, 2004
Jonathan Coachman was backstage with the nine Diva contenders. It was time to reveal which one of them got voted off, and alas it was poor Camille. Coach told the eight survivors that their task this week would be to give a 20 second campaign speech in which they would tell us all why we should vote for them for Diva. They could wear anything they want during the speech.

It was now time for the Diva babes to do their 20 second campaign speeches. They had been told to wear whatever they wanted, but since they were only photographed from the belly up for this segment, their tops were all that mattered. They all wore cleavage-revealing tops except for Tracie, who wore a shirt that she promptly took off to reveal a skimpy bra. Their speeches were just standard stuff, basically saying they love RAW and the fans and will be the best Diva ever if chosen. I mean, you can't exactly say much more in 20 seconds. This came off okay, especially compared to last week's absurd Kamala segment.



July 26, 2004
The show opened with Jonathan Coachman ready to reveal which Diva contender got voted off by receiving the fewest votes last week. All ten girls were lined up, and he teased several of them before telling poor Julia that she was history. Julia was one of the twins. She took it in stride, and just walked off after hugging twin sister Chandra. Coach told the nine survivors that their challenge this week would be to seduce a former WWE superstar.

Coach informed the girls that their task this week would be to seduce a former WWE superstar. It turned out to be Bruno Sammartino. Just kidding! It was Kamala, complete with loin cloth and body paint. Each girl had twenty seconds to stand in front of Kamala and seduce him, whatever that meant in the context of this weirdness. So, one at a time, they stood in front of Kamala and did lame things like shake their ass at him, pat him on the belly, dance in front of him, tell him he looked hot, or whatever. Kamala just slapped his belly and made jungle noises like Tarzan or something. Carmella seemed a little taken aback by Kamala and started giggling, but she was cute in doing so. The whole thing seemed very stupid, and it would be a contender for the stupidest thing ever on RAW were it not for some of the stuff they've done with Mae Young.

Coach brought the Diva babes out to pose in bikinis as the phone numbers for voting were flashed on-screen. For the record again, they are Michelle, Christy, Camille, Maria, Tracie, Carmella, Chandra, Amy, and Joy. This is what will really decide the votes, as the talent portion of this pageant (trashing offices and dancing in front of a giant, almost naked Ugandan) likely won't be much of a determining factor.



July 19, 2004
Chris Jericho hosted the Highlight Reel. After some generally unfunny opening commentary, he brought out the ten Diva Search finalists as his guests. These were the ten chosen by WWE at the finals last week. The fans will vote each week from this point onward and one babe will be eliminated each week until we have a winner. She gets $250,000 and a contract as the newest WWE Diva. Each girl introduced herself. For the record, their names were Michelle, Christy, Julie, Camille, Maria, Tracie, Carmella, Chandra, Amy, and Joy. Two of them are twins. Carmella was the only one of the three gals on last week's show to make it through the finals. Incredibly, each of them got booed. Some got booed a lot. It shows how unpopular this concept is with wrestling fans that ten pretty girls got booed. The general fan consensus seems to be that this whole thing is taking up way too much TV time. Jericho informed the girls that there was an "immunity envelope" hidden in Mr. Bischoff's office, and that whichever of them found t would be granted immunity from being voted off this week. They all fell for this, proving themselves to at least have the gullibility part down pat for being a Diva. Jericho led them to Bischoff's office, but went the long way through the crowd, which gave the girls the opportunity to climb over the ring barrier and show some more skin. Jericho bragged that he was like the Pied Piper, only he wasn't leading rats. I'm not gonna touch that line with a ten foot pole. They got to Bischoff's office, and Jericho told them to feel free to tear the place apart until one of them finds the envelope. So they proceeded to do just that, totally ravaging the place. Bischoff, of course, showed up and demanded to know what the hell was going on. Carmella said that Eugene told them to do this. Great blooper! They began making various excuses, prompting mean Mr. Bischoff to tell them to shut up. He said there are several current Divas who would gladly pay him for a chance to beat any of them up. Since those Divas never got  $250,000 bonus, that's likely true. One chick mentioned that they were looking for the immunity envelope. Bischoff said there was no such envelope. He told them to wipe the smiles off their faces. They mostly just kept giggling. Bischoff reminded them that RAW is his show, and that the Diva Search and $250,000 are also his, so he's the boss. They just kept on giggling. Finally, Tracie spoke up and said Jericho was the one who told them to rip up his office. Bischoff told her to tell the "other bimbos" not to cause any more trouble, because if they do it'll be the dumbest thing they ever do, adding that that's saying a lot. They all left, still giggling.


o WWE Raw Diva Search Casting Special Recap




TV Ratings
o The September 13 episode of RAW scored a 3.6 cable rating.

o The September 6 episode of RAW scored a 3.7 cable rating.

o The August 30 episode scored a 3.5 cable rating.

o The August 23 episode of RAW scored a 3.9 cable rating.

o The August 16 episode of RAW scored a 3.4 cable rating.

o The August 9 episode of RAW scored a record low 3.2 cable rating, the worst in 2 years.

o On the August 2 episode of RAW, the segment featuring the Divas scored a 4.0, one of the highest rated segments of the night.

o On the July 26 episode of RAW, the first hour featured segments based around the Divas, the rating for the hour was 3.5

o On the July 19 episode of RAW, the Highlight Reel segment, featuring the Diva Search Divas, scored a 4.0

o The July 15th TV Special that aired on Spike TV scored a 1.1 cable rating, with a 2 share, according to Nielsen Media Research.