Female Wrestling: Tenille

Melbourne, Australia native Tenille Dashwood is another Aussie poised to make a dent in the female wrestling scene.
She is known as Tenille Tayla in Australia and simply Tenille in North American promotions.
This young lady was bitten by the wrestling bug at the age of 10, and decided pro wrestling way the way she wanted to go.
After she graduated high school, she took some business management courses at a university, but wrestling was what was on her mind.

So she traveled to Calgary, Alberta, and attended Lance Storm's Wrestling Academy.
She trained there for three months before moving back to Australia and getting into the wrestling scene there.
After wrestling there for a bit, she and fellow Aussie Jessie McKay caught the atttention of SHIMMER promoter Dave Prazak (via Sara Del Rey who worked with Tenille in Australia) and she was soon in the US making her debut in SHIMMER.

Besides SHIMMER, Tenille has worked for PWA Queensland, PWA Australia, SWA Newcastle, Nightmare Wrestling, Pro Wrestling eKlipse and Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW).

You can keep up with Tenille on her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/tenille777

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Female Wrestling: Rachel Summerlyn

Rachel Summerlyn is an indy female wrestler that wrestles for promotions like Shimmer, Pro Wrestling Evolution, IWA-Mid South and Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW).
Her hometwon is Austin Texas and she made her pro wrestling debut in November of 2006.
And this young lady has mixed it up with some of the best.
Her very first match was against the imposing Vanessa Kraven!
And Rachel won!
She has also faced Mickie Knuckles, MsChif and Daffney, just to name a few.

You can visit Rachel's MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/rach_ill and there is also a "Best of Rachel Summerlyn" DVD there you can buy.
The DVD has her wrestling stars like Portia Perez and Sara Del Ray among others.

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Kellie Skater

This young lady from Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia is Indy wrestler Kellie Skater.
She was trained by George "Hitman" Julio and Mike Burr / Mike Manson (Alpha) and she made her pro wrestling debut in March of 2007 in a battle royal.
As Kellie she is a clean scientific wrestler, but when she switches to the "Rate Tank"....watch out!
Besides wrestling in Australia, Kellie has wrestled for SHIMMER here.
SHIMMER seems to have a fair amount of Australian wrestlers.

Her finishing moves are the "Skate and Destroy" (Code Red, Leg trap sunset flip powerbomb) and the "Skate or Die" (an inverted STF).

You can follow Kellie at her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/moppyakacallee

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Shimmer Women Athletes

The awesome Rain

I talk a lot about Shimmer here, but I have never really taken the time to highlight just what it is.
Shimmer is called Shimmer Women Athletes or SHIMMER Women Athletes or just plain SHIMMER.
It is a Chicago based female independent pro wrestling promotion created by Dave Prazak and run by him and Allison Danger.
Shimmer held it's first event on November 6, 2005.
SHIMMER is closely affiliated with ROH (Ring of Honor) and is the home of probably the best female wrestling you will see.

And the list of SHIMMER wrestlers from the past and present is long and stellar.
Just a few of the female wrestlers that have worked for the company are Rain, Ariel, Jetta, Cat Power, Nevaeh, Daffney, Lorelei Lee, Cheerleader Melissa and Jennifer Blake.

Of course many SHIMMER stars ( like Amazing Kong (Awesome Kong), Cheerleader Melissa (Raisha Saeed) , Daffney, Nikki Roxx (Roxxi) and for a short time, Rain, as Payton Banks ) have gone onto work for TNA.

And Beth Phoenix and Nattie Neidhart (Natalya) also worked for Shimmer at one time.
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I really cant say enough about this organization, so the best thing to do is check out their website here:
http://www.visuex.com/shimmer/index.php

Or you can go to their MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/shimmerwrestling

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Sassy Stephie

Yet another young lady that wrestles for Shimmer, Sassy Stephie.
Stephie stands 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 122 pounds.
She was trained by "Big Gunns" Jeff Cannon and made her pro wrestling debut in March of 2007.
Besides Shimmer, Sassy Stephie has wrestled for Ohio Championship Wrestling (OCW), Ring of Honor (ROH), NWA Underground, Professional Girl Wrestling Association (PGWA) and
Insanity Pro Wrestling.
She was also the first PWR Womens Wrestling Champion.

You can see more of Stephie at her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/sassystephie

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Cat Power, Haley Rogers

This lovely young lady is another Shimmer wrestler, Catherine Power (Cat Power).
Cat was born on November 15, 1985, in North Sydney, Canada.
Besides Cat Power, she also wrestles under the name Haley Rogers.
Besides Shimmer, Cat has wrestled for Blood Sweat and Ears, Border City Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Xtreme and Women's Extreme Wrestling.
Cat was bitten by the wrestling bug so hard, she left University College of Cape Breton to go to the Can-Am Wrestling School in Windsor, Ontario.

Here is a video of Cat's Shimmer debut against the awesome Allison Danger



You can keep up with Cat by going to her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/haley_rogers

Or by going to Shimmer's homepage here:
http://visuex.com/shimmer/

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Nevaeh

Female pro wrestler Nevaeh.
In case you didn't notice, Nevaeh is heaven spelled backwards.
Anyway, Nevaeh is 5'4 and weighs in at 130 lbs.
She made her pro wrestling debut in February 2005.
Nevaeh is one half of a tag team with her real life friend Ashley Lane (TNA Knockout Madison Rayne).
She and Ashley were the first ever Shimmer Tag Team Champions (they defeated "The Experience" in the finals of a Six Team Gauntlet match) .
Ashley and Nevaeh recently lost the titles to Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews, the Canadian Ninjas.

Besides Shimmer, she has worked for Ohio Championship Wrestling.

You can find out more about Nevaeh at the Shimmer website here:
http://www.visuex.com/shimmer/

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Miss Natural

Miss Natural is another young lady that works for Shimmer Women Athletes.
She is from Golden Valley, Minnesota and stands 5'4" and weighs 145.
Her wrestling training is to be envied, she was trained by Ken Patera and Harley Race!
Miss Natural made her pro wrestling debut in 2000.

Besides Shimmer, she has worked for WLW (World League Wrestling), Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) and World of Hurt Wrestling.

You can find out more about her at Shimmers site, or her Yahoo group here:
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_natural/

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Jessie McKay

Another lovely young lady from the Land Down Under.....Jessie McKay.
Jessie trained at the Eagles Wrestling Academy and made her pro wrestling debut in June 2007.
She often teams with another OZ beauty, Madison Eagles.
Madison is 6'1 and Jessie is 5'10.
Jessie has worked for the PWA Pro Wrestling Alliance, PWAQ Pro Wrestling Alliance Queensland, RCW Riot City Wrestling, CZW, Ring of Honor (ROH), SHIMMER and Chikara Pro wrestling promotions.
You can learn more about Jessie at her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/jessie_mckay

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Nicole Matthews

This beautiful young lady is Indy pro wrestler Nicole Matthews.
And yes, like Trish Stratus and Gail Kim and others to numerous to mention, she is yet another Canadian wrestling beauty.
Nicole was born on January 15, 1987 in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
She was trained by Gorgeous Michelle Starr, Scotty Mac, Vance Nevada, Aaron Idol and Artemis Spencer, and made her pro wrestling debut in February of 2006.
Nicole is one half of the Canadian Ninjas with Portia Perez.
And she's a "heel".
Dont you just love heels?
Nicole has held the ECCW SuperGirls Championship (twice) and wrestles for Shimmer and NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling.

You can find out more about Nicole at her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/nikkimatthews

And you can check her out at Shimmer here:
http://visuex.com/shimmer/

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Madison Eagles

Back in 2007 I did a write up on a 6'1, 160lb young lady that wrestled in Australia named Madison.
I thought she had vanished, but someone was kind enough to comment and let me know that she was still going strong in her homeland.
So imagine my surprise when I ran across her again, this time wrestling for Shimmer as Madison Eagles.

Come to find out, Madison has not only worked for Shimmer here in the US, but Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA),World Class Extreme Wrestling (WCEW), EGO Pro Wrestling, New England Championship Wrestling(NECW), ACE, Ring of Honor (ROH), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Chikara.

She also runs an all female pro wrestling company in Australia called PWWA, and she co-owns PWA and the PWA training school.

Madison has a MySpace page up here:
http://www.myspace.com/madison_eagles

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