After tonight’s RAW, some of the WWE Superstars & Divas will be flying out to Iraq for the Tribute to the Troops program. Now, Melina hasn’t done an Iraq event since 2006, and because this has been Melina’s biggest year, we feel that it’s only fitting that she gets to go on the annual trip. The only 3 Divas confirmed for the showing are Brie, Nikki & Eve, who said they were going via Twitter.

WWE Hall of Fame, Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart had some very kinda words to say about Melina in a recent interview with Ministry of Slam! He even says a comment which I’m sure will spark some sort of uproar:

“I think Melina is… creative and imaginative, an innovator and she comes up with some great matches I love watching her wrestle… in a lot of ways I think she’s the best wrestler in the world.”

What do you think of Bret’s opinions? Comment in this post about it! You can also download the full interview by clicking here

• Wrestlemania 23 Press Conference Candids
• November 23rd 2009 RAW Candids
• WWE Holiday 2009 Magazine Scan
• Survivor Series 2009 Candids

Seen as it’s now become a regular here on MU, I made a logo for the latest (and future) editions of Smacktalk, where valid opinions are questioned. Now I got 2 main topics on hand this week: Survivor Series and the return of Maryse.

Captain on Paper, Not in Action
We all saw on Survivor Series that Melina led the way for a pretty great win over her long-term rival, Michelle McCool. It was controversial with Melina fans that our girl wasn’t the team captain of Team Mickie, as it was assumed that it would a Team Champ vs Team Champ shindig at Survivor Series. But Mickie was outshone by Melina who got the win! We’re seeing that we could have Mickie vs Melina in the future. Yes it was just a small thing, but think of it this way- Mickie needs a new character, Melina is at the top of her game as she got the wins in BOTH matches this week where she teamed with Mickie, so who knows?! Psycho Mickie may return for WM26…

Who Can Hair-Flip Best?!
We can only bring this question up because of the return of the Posing in the Ring Queen, Maryse! If you didn’t see or hear what happened, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! In probably the worst kept Diva return secret in WWE history (worse than Melina last year!), Maryse came out as…a turkey. Of all the things to come out as, WWE picks the Gobbledy Gooker. Nice job there, that’s making it SUCH A BIG SECRET! Hell, Maryse even spoiled it herself on Twitter (the curses of Twitter continues). As I said, it was too obviously Maryse- a run-in attack would have been so much better than Maryse doing the chicken dance to entertain the PG Kiddies of the WWE Universe! The only saviour was that Melina looked STUNNING in her Thanksgiving outfit (MELANIE LITTLE DEAR RETURNS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!), but what the hell was up with Kelly’s pink trainers?! Not really native indian, more native Nikey!

Back on topic, we all know Melina can hair flip best because her hair is lush! We gotta campaign for her to model with L’Oreal or something! But unlike Maryse, Melina will actually wrestle her way through a match, not pose every 2 seconds!

View ‘Turkey Day 2009′ Photoshoot

I think that Melina fans would have guessed that we would get a photoshoot from the November 23rd edition of RAW, where she dressed up as a sexy Indian. Well now we have 2 shots from the Turkey Day 2009 photoshoot! Melina does look amazing in these photos…and I hope we get Maryse as the turkey! Click the link above for the shoot.