Every week, following WWE.com and TNAWrestling.com’s photoshoot updates, we’ll take a look at the newest Diva and Knockout shoots and give you the opportunity to voice your opinions on them in a feature we lovingly call Unwrapped. Let’s unwrap this week’s eye candy, featuring Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres, Michelle McCool, Rosita and Tara:
Beth Phoenix
She’s inexplicably paired with a ladder, but somehow Beth makes it look like it belongs there. Is it her tough, muscle-bearing outfit or the fact that she’s posing with it as a natural set piece rather than looking like she’s selling it like a “The Price is Right” girl? I think it’s a bit of both. While the poses here are rather limited and basic, I feel that a few of them show her true, natural “Glamazon” presence, with her posed statuesquely against the ladder. I’ve never been a fan of the “toss in a prop” method of planning a photoshoot, but Beth makes it work. I think it helps that she isn’t using it for a cheap “sexy” touch, as is the purpose of most Diva and Knockout photoshoot props.
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Eve Torres
Eve’s sporting a super cute dress that’s so colorful you almost expect to see rainbows shooting out of it. It’s a nice kind of colorful, though; not the assault-on-the-eyes type. The pattern is unique, and makes it look like Eve’s swishing the dress when she’s not, which makes for a interesting effect and spices up what could have been yet another studio shoot with that bloody white background. The dress looks great on Eve, and her poses keep up the fun and springy theme that the frock started. She sells it well, looking genuinely happy and care-free instead of plastering on a perma-grin. The fair weather might be the cause of her happiness, but I’m choosing to believe that it’s the dress that’s fueling her cheeriness–it certainly makes me smile.
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Michelle McCool
Lay-Cool aren’t exactly ice queens–their love for running their mouths works against having such personalities–but Michelle is putting on quite the “holier than thou” ‘tude in this shoot. She’s lounging around in the locker room and not–Hallelujah!–in front of a blank background, which makes it all the more interesting to look at. Her outfit is dark, studded and accessorized to an extreme, but amazingly it all sort of works together. You’d think with so many extra pieces thrown in the look would overwhelm Michelle, but she absolutely works it. She looks both tough and sexy without heading into the cliche “biker girl” area that is so easy to stumble into when you’re wearing so much black leather. Maybe the fact that she’s lounging on a couch instead of standing makes the outfit look less overwhelming; over-the-knee boots definitely aren’t as intimidating when your legs are partially obscured. Michelle looks fantastic and actually looks like she’s ballsy enough to brawl with just about anyone–something you typically wouldn’t say about her and Layla. Behold, the power of well-styled leather!
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Rosita
It’s Rosita’s first photoshoot! In rather typical TNA fashion, Rosita is posing in front of a stark white background and has nothing but her style and poses to win over the viewers. The tank top and white pants aren’t outstanding, but they flatter her quite well. The angle of some of the shots add interest too, with the perspective kind of tilted. Rosita’s poses are standard, but its her face that pulls you in–a simple smirk or smile is somehow captivating because of her beauty. I think that talent will come in handy in the future when she takes part in more of these shoots where the supporting act (the setting) is pretty much non-existant. It’s not a terribly exciting photoshoot, but it’s a promising start for the new Knockout.
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Tara
I’d hardly call two photos a photoshoot, but I can’t resist taking a look at some new Tara photos–they’ve always got some sort of spunk to them. Here, Tara’s wearing a unique combination of things: a white top, black pants and a unique, corset-looking black belt around her midsection. I’m not quite sure what to make of it, except to say that it would probably look better over one piece instead of a shirt-and-pants combo, since it’s mimicking that corset look so many gowns featured centuries ago. Tara is going full sexpot with her poses here, even to the point of pulling a peek-a-boo move with her bra. It could so easily look cheesy, but Tara treads that line, owing a lot to her natural presence; she is so comfortable in photoshoots that she could never come across as “cheesecake”. All that considered, though, this isn’t one of her better shoots. Maybe if TNA gave us a few more photos (at least more than two!!), I’d have a better chance of warming up to it.
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