Episode 2 of Season 9 of The Apprentice aired this past Sunday night at 9pm on NBC (March 21, 2010), with former WWE Diva Maria being the project manger for the Women’s Team.

On episode two of The Celebrity Apprentice 3 (The Apprentice 9)—In a very risky move early in the competition—Maria Kanellis stepped up to the plate and took the helm as project manager for the women’s team; “Tenacity.” In the challenge, each team had to run a Kodak Storefront. Maria’s vision included a wrestling ring with title belts, and a red carpet. In the end, the Kodak presidents believed that the women promoted the product better, and they won the challenge. That gave Maria $20,000 for her charity, the “Make a Wish Foundation.”

—Scrippsnews.com has a new article up on Maria, promoting her job as a backstage correspondent on the “King of the Cage: Legacy” mixed-martial-arts show on HD-Net. Addressed in the article was her unexpected release from the WWE and Celebrity Apprentice. One very interesting note was her describing her wrestling ability:

“I lost all the time,” Kanellis said. “I wasn’t blessed with amazing wrestling ability. I worked my tail off to get better. But some people look good fighting and some look like spiders in the ring. I was a spider with only seven legs and one dangling. I watch some of my matches and say, ‘Oh dear.’ I think people felt sorry for me and thought, ‘I know that girl,’ or, ‘I am that girl.’ “

—Former TNA Knockout Awesome Kong will be wrestling for Ring of Honor on May 8th, 2010 at the Manhattan Center. She will take on Sara Del Rey. On March 25, the website posted “We hinted at it a couple of days ago, and now it is done…Ring of Honor management has finalized the contracts and it is official,” which spawned news sites reporting that Kong has “signed” with Ring of Honor.

Kong posted the following on Twitter:

“I feel very happy to be joining the ROH roster!”