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The Wrestling Clothesline is proud to present the Third Annual Wrestling Clothesline's Top 50 Independent Women Wrestlers.
In 2003, The Wrestling Clothesline, being an avid supporter of women indy wrestling, decided to take the idea of ranking wrestlers in a slightly different direction. Since Vince McMahon won't take women wrestling seriously and TNA won't even give it a second thought, someone has to give credit to those women who are working week in and week out, in those high school gyms and broken down Elk's Lodges, for barely enough money to pay for gas an tolls.
Hell, everyone does a Top (insert number here) for the guys in wrestling. So, here at WrestlingClothesline.com feel the need to give all those women out there on the indy scene the recognition they deserve.
The 2003 Wrestling Clothesline Top 50 Independent Women Wrestlers was such a unique concept that Bill Apter's Total Wrestling Magazine featured the list (both on the cover and with a multiple page spread!!)
Due to the overwhelming success of the 2003 Top 50, we decided to continue it in 2004. Now, in 2005, we are doing it once again!
Throughout October, visitors to the Wrestling Clothesline were encouraged to send in and post their nominations for women they felt deserved to be on this year's list of the Top 50 Independent Women Wrestlers.
From all the women who have been nominated, the Wrestling Clothesline Panel narrowed the list down to those we feel are the Top 50 Independent Women Wrestlers. The panel consisted of fans as well as workers and promoters in the wrestling business. All panel members submitted their Top 50 rankings which were then averaged together to finalize the list.
Narrowing down the list to 50 is not an easy task. We're only human. There are many women we have not seen in action live, and without you letting us know about them, it would be impossible to take them into consideration.
When making our final decisions we used the following guidelines:
- The list is a reflection of who we feel are the 50 best women wrestlers on the indy scene at the present time.
- The list is reflective, but not limited too, a wrestlers previous 12 month body of work.
- The women in the list should be active WRESTLERS and should wrestle on a regular basis. Women who primarily manage or valet will not be included. Women who were under a contract of any kind with the WWE/OVW are not included.
- Wrestlers we have seen work will get a higher rank than those who we have not seen.
- Injuries will be factored into the decision making process. Poor booking will not.
The final rankings are just our opinions and are being done to help generate discussion and bring attention to women's wrestling.
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The Wrestling Clothesline is proud to present...
The 2005 Wrestling Clothesline Top 50 Independent Women Wrestlers.
These final rankings are just our opinions and are being done to help generate discussion and bring attention to women's wrestling.
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April Hunter April Hunter first became involved in wrestling as a WCW valet back in 1999. Soon after, April began training at Killer Kowalski's School. April, who has a body most would kill for, has proven why she is one of the most popular women on the indy scene today. April has worked for: ARSION / AtoZ, Big Time/All Star Wrestling, IWW, ROH, NWA:TNA, NEO, WCW, JAPW, USA Pro, ECWA, WXW, JCW, Killer Kowalski's All Stars, UPW, ACW, NECW, MCW, NWA - NJ, Chaotic, NWA - New England, MWF, UWF, LAW, Kiryoku/Chikara Pro, Alpha Pro, CSWF, PWA, IWA, 3PW, LLF, and Zero One MAX (to name a few). Some of the titles April has held include: CSWF Women's Champion, 3PW Tag Team Champion (w/Slyk Wagner Brown), JAPW Tag Team, WXW Women's Title, JCW Women's, 2003 Women's Super 8 Tournament Winner, USA Pro Women's Title. |
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Cindy Rogers Cindy has worked for WXW, ROH, ECWA, NWA/CSWF, NWA/NJ, CCW, PWU, NECW, AWA, IWA, SSCW, WWW, AWF, JWA and others. |
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Ariel Ariel has held the G.L.O.R.Y. Championship; JWA Women's Title; NWA-NJ Women's Title; NWA-NJ Female Tag Title; NWA-NJ Men's Tag Title; BWA Women's Title; SSCW Women's Championship; IWA-MidSouth Women's Championship. |
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Mercedes Martinez Mercedes trained under former ECW TV champion Jason Knight at Knight's House of Pain dojo in Waterbury. Her first pro match came only 5 weeks after she began training, on November 12th, 2000 in Waterbury. CCW, ACW, WXW, NWA, PWU, PWF and NECW are just a few of the promotions this amazing talent has worked for in the past. Keep an eye out for her in the near future as she continues to work for new promotions as well! Mercedes' titles include: NECW North American Woman's Title and
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Nikki Roxx Nikki has wrestled for LPGA, LLF, Wrestling Star Wars, Assault
Championship Wrestling, United Wrestling Federation-PA, Kiryoku
Pro, Latin American Wrestling, Kowalski All Stars, NECW, UWA, and
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Lacey Trained by Eddie Sharkey , Lacey made her wrestling debut in August
2000 in Minnesota, in a handicap match. (The match also featured
Shawn (Khosrow) Daivari.) Lacey's Title History includes: IWA-MS Women's Champion, MIW - Women's champion, FLWA- Women's champion |
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Daizee Haze Daizee Have was trained by Delirious and made her debut in March 2002. Daizee is rapidly developing into one of the most versatile competitors in the Midwest. Mixing a submission style with a great deal of aerial offense, Haze was added to the roster of Ring of Honor in early 2004. Aside from traveling the U.S. indie scene, Daizee also competed for LLF in Mexico during 2005. Daizee has competed in LLF, ROH, IWA-Mid South, NWA TNA Xplosion, NWA Wildside, MPW, APW, Pro Wrestling Iron Midwest, IWC and many others. Daizee's Titles include the All Pro Wrestling Future Legends Title
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Jazz Trained by Rod Price and "The Junkyard Dog" Sylvester Ritter. Jazz made her professional debut in 1998. Not only has she been a manager for wrestlers such as Justin Credible, Tommy Dreamer, and Rodney Mack but she has held the WWE Women's Championship on 2 occasions. Since being released from the WWE, Jazz has returned to the independent wrestling scene with a vengeance invading numerous promotions including NWA CyberSpace and PCW. Indy titles held: WEW Champion, NWA Cyberspace Women's Title
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Simply Luscious Simply Luscious graduated from Shawn Michaels Wrestling Academy where she was trained by Shawn Michaels and head trainer Rudy Boy Gonzales. She also attended Dory Funk Jr.'s Funking Conservatory. Luscious has worked for ROH, ETW, GLOOW, CZW, PWF, IHPW, WPW, USA Pro, NWA TNA, FNW, WEW, LLF, CMLLand numerous others. Titles Held: ETW Television title, USA Pro Woman's title. |
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Sumie Sakai Titles Held: AWF title, Queen Of The Ring, TWF Tag Team titles w/Cooga, TWF Tag Team titles w/Megumi Yabushita, TWF Tag Team titles w/Hiroyo Mutoh, AJW Tag Team titles w/Yuko Kosugi, JD Junior Title, and the North American Women's title. |
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Alere Little Feather Alere has held the SSCW Women's title and was the Elite 8 2004 Tournament Winner. Alere has worked for WXW, PWU, CHIKARA, UXW, UWC, NWA Upstate, and NECW to name a few. |
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Miss DeVille Miss DeVille was trained by Danger, Thornn & Shockwave and has held the WOHW Genesis Tag Team Championship and WOHW Women's Championship since starting in 2001. Miss DeVille has worked for: WOHW, Fusion, Genesis, SLAM, EWF, TSW, RPW, ACW, NEPW, NWA: Green Mountain, MFW, UCW, G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling. |
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Tracy Brooks Tracy is a mainstay in NWA TNA. Unfortunately, TNA didn't seem to want to use women as WRESTLERS in the past year, so Tracy (now with an "I") was primarily a manager. (which hurt her ranking a little). She also has competed for NWA Cyberspace, NWA Universal, IWA Mid South, ROH, APW, UCW, SWF, MSPW, and ASCW. Titles Held: AWF title, WWA Women's title, All Star Championship Wrestling Justice Cup Women's Tournament Winner, WXW First Elite 8 Winner |
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Malia Hosaka Malia was trained by Killer Kowalski at Misty Blue Simms Camp and made her debut on August 7, 1987. After 18 years Malia is still going strong wrestling regularly throughout the United States as well as around the world. During her career Malia has held the NWA Woman's World title, WWOW/LMLW (Florida) Junior title, All Japan Woman's title, WLW Women's title, IWA (Louisiana) Women's title, and UCW (Virginia) Women's title. Malia was inducted into the Wrestling Clothesline Independent Wrestling Hall of Fame this year. |
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Kayla Trained by Chip Stetson, T.N.T., & Jeff Starr, Kayla made her pro wrestling debut in 2002. Kayla has worked for: CCW, DPW, EWA, G.L.O.R.Y., GWF, JWA, MFW, NECW, NEPW, NWA: Green Mountain, RCW, SPW/FSPW, and WOHW. Kayla is a 2 time WOHW Women's Champion |
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Alicia Alicia has held the AWA Women's Championship, SSCW Women's Championship, IHPW Women's Championship, WXW Women's Tag Team Championship (w/Cindy Rogers) and was the 2005 WXW Elite 8 Winner. She has worked for: AWA, JAPW, WXW, DPW, NECW, SSCW, JCW, IHPW, CCW, IWF, CRUSH!, GLORY, NWS, ECPW, PWE, UCW, UWA, ACWA, GWF, IWA (PA), and SCMPW |
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Luscious Lily Luscious Lily has been a staple on the women's indy scene since 1995. She was trained by Angel Amoroso and Heidi Lee Morgan and hasn't looked back since. Titles Held: N.E.W. Woman’s Championship, OSPW Woman’s Championship, AWA-NJ Woman’s Championship, UWA Woman’s Championship, WWWA Woman’s Championship, RAW Hardcore Championship. Lily has worked for AWA-NJ, DPW, IWA Championship Wrestling, JAPW, JWA, LAW, MWA, NWL, NWS, NECW, New Jack City Wrestling, NEW, NWA-NJ, OSPW, PWF, PWU, RAW, RCW, UXW, World-1 Wrestling, WWWA and WXW. |
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Lexie Fyfe Titles Held: PGWA Women's Title, The Western States Women's Belt, The Ultimate Championship Women's belt. |
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Little Jeanne Little Jeanne has been a staple in women's wrestling since 1997. Trained by the Unpredictable Johnny Rodz, Jeanne has wrestled for WCW (as Sweet Destiny), has appeared on PPV, and has worked for promotions such as UPW, WLW, and WXW. |
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Lady Victoria Trained at Al Snows Bodyslammers in Lima, Ohio. Victoria has been a bodybuilder for 28 years. Victoria has wrestled all across the US as well as in Japan with Mich Pro and Neo Japanese Ladies. Titles Held: NWA Michigan Champion, "Big Time Wrestling" Ladies Champion, IWI Ohio Champion, RAW Ohio TV Champion. Now, along with Angel Orsini, she is forming a new promotion called Professional Ladies Wrestling |
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Angel "Riptide"
Orsini Height: 5' 5" Weight: 155 Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (USA) Last Year's Ranking: #27 Formerly Prodigete in ECW, Riptide has continued (while ECW has not). After suffering a serious injury in a car accident (which left her sidelined for 14 months), Riptide made her return in June 2002 and has been going strong since. Riptide now wrestles for numerous indy promotions throughout the US. Titles Held: PGWA Champion; Florida Championship Wrestling Champion; Sunshine Wrestling Federation Champion; Ultimate Wrestling Federation Champion; Hot-TV Wrestling Champion Now, along with Lady Victoria, she is forming a new promotion called Professional Ladies Wrestling. |
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Amy Lee Amy Lee has been in the wrestling business for over 15 years and has been the NWL Ladies Champ; Dangerous Women Of Wrestling Champ; Women Of Extreme Champ; and NWS Ladies Champ.
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Sarah Stock This Canadian sensation has wrestled for OVW, ROH, WXW, LLF, MSW, MPW, NWA Pacific Northwest, Can-am Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Canada, PCW, Top Rope Championship Wrestling, RAW, and HWC. Her ability in the ring is awesome and we have yet to see her have a bad match. Due to her extensive work outside of the US, we could not rank her higher this year. Titles Held: Can-Am Wrestling Federation Woman's title, Lucha Libre Feminil Juvenil title. |
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Violet Flame Violet trained with Walter "Killer" Kowalski and is a two time IWF ladies champion. Violet has wrestled for IWF, OSPW, NECW, UWA among others. |
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Mickie Knuckles Trained by Ian Rotten and Chris Hero, Mickie debuted on August 2, 2003. While Mickie's home fed is IWA Mid South, she has also wrestled in IWA East Coast, NWA No Limits, NWA Revolution, and Chikara. Mickie has held the IWA Mid-South/NWA Midwest Women's title |
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Some individual women's statistics (Height, weight, hair, etc.) courtesy
GloryWrestling.com
The rest of the info from my sick twisted memory of things not needed
to be memorized or past write ups.
Thank you to everybody for your help in making this a success!!
Now onto #26 -50
(Last Year's Ranking in parenthesis. NR=Not Ranked)
26 Lu Fisto (NR)
27 ODB (31)
28 21st Century Fox (37)
29 Fantasia (NR)
30 Alison Danger (16)
31 Beth Phoenix (4)
32 Rain (34)
33 MsCHIF (NR)
34 Persephone (NR)
35 Amber O'Neal (45)
36 Cheerleader Melissa (28)
37 Camron Star (40)
38 Synndy (NR)
39 Hailey Skye aka Natalia (44)
40 Christine Ricci (42)
41 Vanessa Harding (NR)
42 Krissy Vaine (NR)
43 Tiffani Monroe (50)
44 Hellena Heavenly (41)
45 Sara Del Rey (NR)
46 Della Morte (NR)
47 Alexa Thatcher (NR)
48 Talia (NR)
49 Michelle Morgan (NR)
50 Amber (NR)
Feel free to use our forum to comment on this year's list!
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First off let me thank everyone that has emailed or posted with their comments on the Top 50 Rankings. The majority of emails that I have received (from fans and wrestlers alike) have been positive. There have been some people who disagree with some of the rankings and that is to be expected. Everyone has an opinion and chances are not everyone is going to find their favorite female at a spot that they seem worthy.
With that in mind let me reiterate the guidelines that are posted with the rankings. Hopefully, this will help cover some of the questions that have been brought up.
- The list is a reflection of who we feel are the 50 best women wrestlers on the indy scene at the present time.
- The list is reflective, but not limited too, a wrestlers previous 12 month body of work.
- The women in the list should be active WRESTLERS and should wrestle on a regular basis. Women who primarily manage or valet will not be included. Women who were under a contract of any kind with the WWE/OVW are not included.
- Wrestlers we have seen work will get a higher rank than those who we have not seen.
- Injuries will be factored into the decision making process. Poor booking will not.
So, if your favorite girl primarily managed or was a valet over the past 12 months, chances are she has a low ranking (if ranked at all). If your favorite was under contract with the WWE (AKA Alexis Laree) she is not ranked. If your favorite was primarily working outside of wrestling or was recuperating from some sort of plastic surgery, chances are she was not ranked.
Remember that the entire purpose behind this list is to help generate discussion and bring attention to women's wrestling.
Again, thanks to all who have emailed. Constructive criticism and intellectual conversation is always welcome. (Unintelligible emails are welcome as well as we all need some laughs).
Remember you can also feel free to use our forum to comment on this year's list!
