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This lovely young lady is Indy female wrestler Rayna Von Tash.
Besides being a drop dead gorgeous redhead, she is the first graduate of the SHIMMER Wrestling Academy.
Besides Shimmer, she has wrestled for CHIKARA
Rayna has teamed with Rachel Summerlyn and Tenille, and gone up against her former teacher, Daizee Haze.
If you want to keep up with Rayna, check out her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/raynafyre
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
This beautiful young lady is Canadian female wrestler Aurora.
Aurora has not only torn up the rings in Canada and the United States, but Mexico as well.
In Mexico she wrestles for CMLL.
Down there she has wrestled masked as "Goddess" until she lost her mask to Mexican Luchadora Princess Sugey.
I have done several entries on her on my Lucha Libre Women blog.
Aurora was trained by Rob Fuego, Silver Star, Garringo, Profe Cachorro Zapata and Diluvio Negro 1.
She made her pro wrestling debut on February 18, 2005.
Aurora has held the PWA (Pure Wrestling Association) Elite Women's title and the PWX (Pro Wrestling Xtreme) Women's title.
If you want to find out more about her, you can check out her MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/auroramyspace
Or her "Goddess" page here:
http://www.myspace.com/la_diosa_wrestling
Although not really a wrestler, Miss Elizabeth had a big impact on female wrestling.
Just check around with some of the female wrestlers of today, and you'll see that she was a role model for a lot of them.
Elizabeth Ann Hulette was born on November 19, 1960 in Frankfort, Kentucky.
While she was working for International Championship Wrestling, an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Lexington, Kentucky, she met Randall Poffo, better known now as "Macho Man" Randy Savage.(ICW was run by the father of Macho Man, Angelo Poffo)
The two married on December 30, 1984, and Randy went to work for the WWF soon after.
On the August 24, 1985, edition of WWF Prime Time Wrestling, Miss Elizabeth officially debuted as the manager of the Macho Man.
She became integral to the story lines with Randy, but she always maintained a sense of style and class.
Even when she once ripped off her skirt to revel a red bikini bottom that distracted André the Giant and Ted DiBiase, allowing Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man to win a match at the very first SummerSlam.
Except for a few small catfights with the late Sherri Martel, Elizabeth didn't do much in the ring except advance the story lines in the WWF.
In the WCW however, Elizabeth wrestled in her first official match against Daffney on May 8, 2000.
After that, she competed in a few matches against Rhonda Singh and Madusa.
On August 17, 2000, WCW released Elizabeth from her contract.
Miss Elizabeth passed away on May 1, 2003.
Besides Randy Savage, she managed Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, Sting, Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair and Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake.
The WWE has a nice Alumni page about Elizabeth here:
http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/misselizabeth/
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
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/
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
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/
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
Melanie Cruise is a Indy female wrestler that has worked for Purely Obsessed Wrestling World (POWW) and Shimmer Women Athletes.
Not only is Melanie a wrestler, but she is also an aspiring model.
She stands 6 feet tall and weighs 170 lbs.
Melanie was trained by Jimmy Blaze, Ruff Crossing and Scott Spade.
She made her pro wrestling debut on April 26, 2008 in Oswego, IL, teaming up with Kanoa to go against Traci Brooks and Chris Cairo.
You can watch Melanie Cruise wrestling The Great Cheyenne on a video posted by POWW on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-ijifLR-s
And you can visit Melanie's MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/cruise53
And if that's not enough, you can take a look at her Model Mayhem page here:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/721539
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http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/shimmerwrestling/
Another female wrestler I haven't updated in awhile....
MsChif.
I like MsChif, I always have and I always will.
"Your Soul's Tormentor" has wrestled for several promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Shimmer Women Athletes, Gateway Championship Wrestling (GCW), All Pro Wrestling (APW), Coastal Wrestling Alliance (CWA), Ring of Honor (ROH), IWA Mid South and even NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA:TNA).
As far as belts go, she has held the Coastal Wrestling Association Tag Team Championship with Cindy Rogers, the GCW Light Heavyweight Championship, the NWA World Women's Championship twice, the NWA Midwest Women's Championship twice, the NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship, the Shimmer Championship and she was the winner of
ChickFight IV.
Now that Daffney is in TNA, nothing would make me happier than to see her drop the "Governor" gimmick, go back to crazy Daffney and bring MsChif in to be her partner.
TNA wouldnt know what hit them.
You can visit MsChif's website here:
http://www.mschif.net/
And you can see more of her at Shimmer's website here:
http://visuex.com/shimmer/
Su Yung was born in Seattle, Washington.
But when the wrestling bug bit her, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee.
When she got there, she hooked up with Hub City Wrestling Training ran by Bill Dundee and Kevin White.
The rest may be history, because I see a lot of potential in this young lady.
You can see what I mean in this clip posted on YouTube by Lady Sports.
It's a part of a match between Su Yung and Josianne that is very "old school" from the wrestling outfits to the mat wrestling they do.
It really takes you back watching this.
BTW, if you havent been to Lady Sports site, you really should.
Not only do they cover female indy wrestlers in the US, but other countries as well.
You can visit them here
And you can visit Su Yung's MySpace page here
At 5 feet tall you wouldn't think a wrestler could be very good would you?
Well you would be WRONG!
This is UK Independent female wrestler Lexx.
And Lexx is proof that good things do come in small packages.
Lexx will take on anyone, male or female, in the ring.
If you want to see more of Lexx, check out her Veoh channel
http://www.veoh.com/collection/LexxTV
On a sad note, I can't find any current info on Lexx.
And her website seems to be gone.
I'm wondering if this lovely young lady has left wrestling.
Anyone have any more info?
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