| Vince's Devils | |
|---|---|
| Stable | |
| Members | Candice Michelle Torrie Wilson Victoria Chloe (Mascot) |
| Name(s) | Ladies in Pink Vince's Devils |
| Debut | August 22, 2005 |
| Years active | 2005–2006 |
Vince's Devils (originally known as theLadies in Pink)[1] was analliance of femaleprofessional wrestlers inWorld Wrestling Entertainment on itsRawbrand. It consisted ofDivasCandice Michelle,Torrie Wilson, andVictoria.[2] The women formed their alliance in August 2005 after Wilson and Michelle were traded toRaw fromSmackDown!. Vince's Devils, named after WWE ChairmanVince McMahon, helped each other in their matches andrivalries until tension began growing between Wilson and Candice Michelle over the latter's April 2006Playboy pictorial. The group had officially split by March 2006.
In August 2005, in a trade un-aired on television,SmackDown! Divas Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle were traded toRaw forRaw DivasStacy Keibler andChristy Hemme, who were moved toSmackDown!.[3] During their debut, the duo of Torrie and Candice began a new storyline when they calledDiva Search 2005 winnerAshley Massaro to ringside to congratulate her for winning the competition, but instead they taunted and attacked her, becoming villains in the process.[4] The next week, Torrie and Candice recruited the evil Victoria to join them, and the three began harassing Massaro on a regular basis. They also taunted and embarrassed her during matches.[4]
WhenTrish Stratus made her return from alegitimate back injury on September 12, she became afan favorite by joining forces with Massaro.[5] AtUnforgiven, Victoria and Wilson lost a match against Stratus and Massaro.[6] The following night onRaw on September 19thTorrie Wilson lost again to women's champion Trish Stratus in a singles match. AtWWE Homecoming, they lost for a third time in aBra and Panties Handicap match when they were stripped by their opponents.[7]
For several weeks afterward, Wilson was absent from television due to personal issues she had to attend to off-screen.[8] On November 28, Wilson returned to the group to participate in asix-woman tag team match. Wilson's dog Chloe became an official member of the group on December 26 when she interfered in one of Victoria's matches and became the first dog to have her own WWE.com profile.[9][10] AtTaboo Tuesday in November, Candice Michelle was eliminated from theFulfill Your Fantasy Battle Royal for theWWE Women's Championship by former rival Ashley Massaro.[11]
On the January 2 episode ofRaw, the Ladies in Pink turned their attention to backstage announcerMaria Kanellis, blaming her for Victoria's loss in a match.[12] Victoria announced to Maria that they had a match scheduled that night and proceeded to attack her before the bell.[12] Although Victoria seemed to have the advantage in the match, which included interference from Wilson and Chloe, Victoria was pinned after she attempted an offensive maneuver but missed and ran into theturnbuckle, allowing Maria to pin her.[12] After the match, Candice Michelle, Wilson, and Victoria attacked Maria until Ashley Massaro ran down to the ring to assist Maria.[12] The conflict between the Divas caused the Chairman,Vince McMahon, to make aBra and Panties Gauntlet match atNew Year's Revolution, which Massaro won when she eliminated Victoria by removing her shorts.[9][13] The next night onRaw, the Ladies in Pink announced that they had changed the name of their alliance to Vince's Devils.[14] The storyline rivalry with Massaro continued on the January 23 episode ofRaw, when Victoria and Candice Michelle were defeated by Trish Stratus and Massaro in a tag team match.[15] At theRoyal Rumble on January 29, the three women were shown in backstage segments flirting with McMahon.[16]
By February, Candice Michelle had announced that she was going to be on the cover of the April edition ofPlayboy magazine, and tension began to grow between Candice Michelle and Torrie Wilson.[17] After winning a number one contender'sDiva battle royal onRaw in which she first eliminated Wilson and thenMickie James and Ashley at the same time, Candice Michelle received her first singlesWWE Women's Championship match, but she lost to champion Trish Stratus on February 27.[18][19] After the match, Candice Michelle slapped Wilson, blaming her,in storyline, for the loss.[19] As a result of the tension between the women, Wilson became a fan favorite, while Candice Michelle and Victoria continued to act as villains on-screen.[4]
On March 13, during Victoria's Women's Championship match, Wilson ran down and gave Victoria afacebuster costing her the victory. Later in the broadcast, it had appeared that Candice Michelle and Victoria may have gotten their revenge as Trish Stratus found an unconscious Wilson laid out in the Divas' Locker room with Candice'sPlayboy magazine lying across Wilson.[20] AtWrestleMania 22, Wilson gained revenge by defeating the evil Candice Michelle in aPlayboy Pillow Fight match.[21][22] On the June 12 episode ofRaw, Wilson defeated Candice Michelle in the first everWet and Wild match, a wrestling match involving water balloons and squirt guns, in which the winner of the match would be on the cover of theWWE 2006 Summer Special magazine.[23]
