King Silva
King of Kings
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Age : 33
Location : Sacramento, California
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Current and Former:
The Rock, JoMo, Ziggler, Edge, Orton, Y2J, Hardyz, + Rhodes!
Favorite WWE Diva : -------
ALL TIME
# 1} Lita
# 2} Trish Stratus
# 3} Mickie James
# 4} Gail Kim
# 5} Michelle McCool
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Registration date : 2009-09-30
 |  Subject: Alundra Blayze Added To WWE.com Alumni Section Fri 02 Aug 2013, 6:23 pm | |
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http://www.diva-dirt.com/2013/08/01/madusa-added-to-wwe-com-alumni-section/
The latest addition to WWE.com’s Alumni section is a controversial one: Alundra Blayze, also known as Madusa.
Madusa, who competed for the WWE in the early nineties, is controversial for defecting to WCW while she was the WWE’s Women’s Champion and proceeding to drop the belt in a garbage can live on WCW Nitro. Her alumni bio describes the incident in detail:
"On the night of Dec. 18, 1995, Alundra Blayze walked onto the set of WCW’s Nitro with her WWE Women’s Championship in hand and proceeded to dump the title in a garbage can on live television.
At a time when WCW had the advantage over WWE in the storied Monday Night War, the incident was a cannonball through the front gates of Mr. McMahon’s crumbling empire. Not only had another one of his competitors aligned themselves with the competition, but a WWE title had been publically disgraced.
Still, while the segment has become one of the defining moments of a classic era in sports-entertainment, it has served to overshadow the stellar in-ring career of Alundra Blayze. A tall, attractive stunner with a fast smile and no shortage of attitude, Blayze had clawed her way out of frostbitten armories in the Midwest to become a mainstream celebrity in Japan and the competitor who almost singlehandedly revitalized the Women’s Championship in WWE. And she did it with the same moxie that led her to trash a title on TV.
Breaking into sports-entertainment in the mid-80s, Blayze started out in Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association with the ring name Madusa Miceli. She may have been inexperienced, but her long legs and revealing outfits introduced a bit of rock star appeal that was uncommon in Minnesota rings at the time.
Tangling with future WWE Hall of Famers like Wendi Richter and Sherri Martel, Blayze developed quickly and earned passage to All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. The greatest showcase for female talent that ever existed, AJW boasted icons like Bull Nakano and Aja Kong, who helped Blayze develop into not only a well-rounded grappler, but a minor celebrity in Japan.
Upon returning to the U.S., Blayze entered WCW where she served as a villainous member of Paul Heyman’s Dangerous Alliance and a close ally to “Ravishing” Rick Rude. She broke out as a competitor on American soil in 1993 when she joined WWE as the face of a revamped Women’s Championship. Defeating Heidi Lee Morgan to win the vacant title, Blayze introduced the physical Japanese style to the States through a series of grisly bouts against Nakano and Kong.
When interest in the Women’s Championship waned, Blayze jumped back to WCW where she would finish out her ring career. Following her controversial dumping of the title, she battled dangerous opponents like Akira Hokuto and Luna Vachon, linked up with “Macho Man” Randy Savage and even defeated Evan Karagias to win the WCW Cruiserweight Title.
Blayze retired from the ring in 2001 after nearly two decades as one of the most revered women in all of wrestling. As for the WWE Women’s Title? She’s still holding onto it."
Madusa has since retired from the ring and competes as a monster truck driver.
She continues to keep tabs on women’s wrestling, recently praising TNA’s Knockouts division and tweeting a snapshot of her in a familiar pose with the Women’s Title.
View her entire profile here: http://www.wwe.com/superstars/alundra-blayze | |
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