01/25/02 Internet News
Former ECW Diva Francine will be appearing at the Elks Lodge ICW show Friday the 25th of January, 2002. [Wrestlingdotcom]

02/01/02 Internet News
-This week's edition of Chairshots Radio featured interviews with both:

» Former ECW valet, Francine
» Ex-WCW wrestler, Disco Inferno

-- The show was aired on 88.1 WBLQ FM in Westerly, Rhode Island. It took place on Thursday.
-- The following is a quick recap of what Francine had to say.
» She will be working at an ACW event that evening for Jason Knight, who is apparently the first person she met in the business.
» She mentions how an upcoming project known as super fed, is actually nothing. The owner, Jonathan Langer, supposedly flew her around everywhere and had her sign a contract. He then vanished two weeks before the first show.

Francine never received a single pay check from Langer, and claims that she could sue him if necessary.
Langer told her of how their first show was to be backed by several large companies, such as Taco Bell and Dell Computers.
Langer supposedly had no knowledge of the business, and even told of how Vince and Shane McMahon were always calling him.
Due to Jonathan Langer not wanting her to partake in any Indy shows after she signed the contract, she lost around 6 thousand dollars in bookings.

» If you would like to book Francine for any forthcoming Indy show, please contact either indybookings.com or foreverfrancine.com.
» Francine tells of how Paul Heyman called her in April about her working under the WWF. She didn't want to make this move because it would mean she would have to wrestle full time, which is something she wouldn't like to do.
» Brent and Rod discuss how the role of the manager is slowly fading away. Francine states that if the WWF wanted her to manage, she would be there within a heartbeat.
» She has not yet been contacted by the XWF or WWA.

-- The interview went very well, it's hard to believe that she's not working anywhere regularly at the moment. [Ryan Cain]

05/31/02 Internet News
J Sports and Entertainment is proud to announce the signing of wrestling's "Queen of Extreme," for the upcoming NWA TOTAL NONSTOP ACTION pay-per-view series beginning June 19th. Francine comes to NWA TNA: Total Nonstop Action as one of the most successful valets in wrestling, having managed numerous performers to major championships. [WrestlingDotCom]

06/14/02 Internet News
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NWA-TNA: Total Nonstop Action, the new weekly series of pay-per-view wrestling, has announced its all-star line-up of wrestlers and on-air personalities performing on the debut broadcast on June 19. The NWA World Heavyweight Champion will be determined by a 20-man "Gauntlet for the Gold" competition. The broadcast will also feature a 10-girl "Lingerie Battle Royal" with the fabulous TNA Girls.

The TNA Girls, NWA's stable of beauties, will compete in a 10-girl "Lingerie Battle Royal" for the "Miss TNA" title. The match will feature "The Queen of Extreme" Francine and a bevy of hard-bodied hotties.

The premiere event broadcasts live on June 19 at 8:00 p.m. EDT, and will broadcast every Wednesday thereafter. The weekly NWA-TNA events are available at a suggested price of $9.95 on pay-per-view by calling your local cable or satellite operator [WrestlingDotCom]

06/21/02 Internet News
I'm not sure who the reporter was at WrestlingDotCom that reported that the 10-girl "Lingerie Battle Royal" for the "Miss TNA" title was going to happen on the NWA TNA PPV debut the 19th, but it either got changed or their information was incorrect.

In case you didn't know the NWA TNA show will air weekly at a cost of $9.95 per show. It wasn't a bad show but I didn't see it warranting $9.95 per week. It will be interesting to see how many people will be willing to pay $40.00 per month to watch.

I paid my $9.95 and sat down looking forward to the match and was immediately disappointed when they announced they would be introducing who would be competing for the title next week. They let all the ladies come to the ring, and of course we got the proverbial cat fight. Bet you can't guess who?? Yep -- Francine the "Queen Of Extreme" and Elektra, after Francine told everyone that it was a cinch that the "Queen Of Extreme" would win the match and Elektra took exception to that by saying it didn't look like Francine was the Queen of anything.

The following was posted on their web site at www.nwatna.com

"Don West and Ed Ferrara went to the ring and brought out the beautiful ladies that would be in next week's Lingerie Battle Royal. Francine, Miss Joanie, Shannon, Alexis Marie, Erin, Elektra, Taylor and Teresa all came down to the ring. Francine then took the mic and told the other ladies that they didn't belong in the ring with her. Elektra took exception to that and the two women brawled in the ring until Francine ripped Elektra's top off and left!"

Yeah right -- she had a bra on underneath -- not quite like they make it sound. They also forgot to mention Daffney who is entered in the competition.

Alicia Webb (R. Shamrock, Symphony) also made an appearance during a match.  [owow.com]

06/26/02 NWA TNA 1st Ever Lingerie Battle Royal
The Lingerie Battle Royal winner would be crowned the first Miss TNA. The rules were simple, when you were stripped of your pajamas, you were out of the match. Francine, who was the early favorite, was eliminated by a group of women including Daffney and Elektra and she wasn't at all happy about it.

After leaving the ring she collapsed on the arena floor and began sobbing. Ed Ferrara went over to console her and while helping her off the floor he also grabbed her breast. It was obvious that Francine was livid over this, but she cooly changed her demeanor and started to take Ed's pants off. As soon as she had his belt she began beating him with it all the way around the ring.

After disposing of him she managed to grab a pajama top from the floor and put it back on while the match came down to Taylor Vaughn and Elektra. Taylor stripped Elektra's pajama's off and was declared the winner. Francine attacked her from behind and then grabbed the belt and began beating Taylor with it until the ref was able to get her out of the ring and head backstage.  [owow.com]  For Pics - Click Here.

WebMaster's Note:  This was one of the worst "special event matchs" I have ever seen.  First the women came out in pajamas.  Most of these type of matchs the women come out in sexy clothing and then get stripped to their lingerie.  Second it had been billed as a "10 woman" match and there was only 9.  Then to top it off the in-ring announcer got the first two women mixed up - if you know anything about wrestling you know who Francine is - and stopped announcing them totally.  Of course Mike Tenay the super commentator that he is - not! - didn't pick up the slack and let us know who was entering the ring, so unless you knew the women you had no idea who the heck they were.  At least from their it was pretty entertaining.