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The Wrestling Clothesline is proud to present the Fifth 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 and tolls.
Hell, everyone does a Top (insert number here) for the guys in wrestling. So, here at WrestlingClothesline.com, we 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, 2005, and 2006. Now, in 2007, the time has come once again.
Narrowing down the list of independent women wrestlers 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.
Before emailing me and or flaming me because your favorite woman wasn't ranked where you felt they should be, please read the guidelines below so you fully understand how we determined the rankings.
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 for the majority of 2007 with the WWE/OVW/etc. are not included.
- Wrestlers who are booked and seem to work more frequently (and in more promotions on a regular basis) than others will get higher rankings than those who do not work as often or simply work the same fed.
- 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 2007 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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Nikki Roxx Nikki has wrestled for LPGA, LLF, Wrestling Star Wars, Assault
Championship Wrestling, United Wrestling Federation-PA, Kiryoku
Pro, Latin American Wrestling, SHIMMER, Kowalski All Stars, NECW,
UWA, IndyGurlz, Chaotic Wrestling, and Yankee Pro Wrestling. On July 15, 2007, Nikki debuted in TNA, at the Victory Road pay-per-view as "The Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux. On the September 27, 2007 edition of TNA iMPACT!, Roxxi defeated Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, Jackie Moore & Tracy Brooks in a Bound For Glory preview match to claim the 10th and final spot in the TNA Women's Championship Gauntlet. Roxxi would make it to the final two, along with Gail Kim, in the Gauntlet match with Kim ultimately winning and becoming the first TNA Women's World Champion. Nikki continues to make an impact wherever she wrestles and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors. |
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Cindy Rogers Cindy is a Bret Hart and and Elvis Presley mark (but we don't hold that against her). The "Definition of Technician" has held the WXW Women's Championship and was the winner of the 2007 WXW Elite 8 Tournament. |
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Sara Del Ray Trained by Donovan Morgan, Pro Wrestling IRON Dojo, Antonio Inoki,
and Bryan Danielson, Sara made her debut 2001. She is a mainstay for SHIMMER Women Athletes as well as Mexico's Lucha Libre Femenil, and has appeared for numerous independent promotions in the United States, including Ring of Honor, All Pro Wrestling, PWU and CHIKARA. In 2007, Sara was crowned the first ever SHIMMER champion after winning the two day tournament, where she defeated Cindy Rogers, Alicia, Sarah Stock and Lacey. |
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Cheerleader Melissa Trained by Christopher Daniels, Robert Thompson, Bryan Danielson,
and Mariko Yoshida, Melissa made her debut in 1999. Melissa is one of the few second-generation female wrestlers. Her father, Doug Anderson, wrestled professionally before her in the early 1980s. Titles held: Pure Wrestling Association Elite Women's Championship, Winner of Chickfight 5 and Chickfight 7, Transatlantic Women's Champion, and the All Pro Wrestling Future Legend Title |
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Daizee Haze Daizee Haze 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, SHIMMER, IWC and many others. Daizee's Titles include the All Pro Wrestling Future Legends Title and the NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Title. |
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Ariel In addition, Ariel has wrestled for LLF, FILL, AAA, CMLL, and NGX. Ariel has held the GLORY Championship, SCCW Women's championship, SSCW Women's Championship, Ace Wrestling Women's Championship, BCW Women's Championship, JWA Women's championship, DDW Women’s Championship, PWF Northeast Women’s Championship, UWA Women’s Championship, and UWA Tag Team Championship. |
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Amazing/Awesome Kong Amazing Kong was trained in Japan in the veteran women's wrestling promotion, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW). She made her debut on October 20th, 2002. Thanks to her work in Shimmer, Kong qualified to be ranked this year in our Top 50. Amazing Kong competed in 9 of the 15 SHIMMER Women Athletes events defeating such wrestlers as Nikki Roxx, MsChif, Cheerleader Melissa and Daizee Haze. On October 13, 2007, Kong got her first SHIMMER Championship title shot against Sara Del Ray, losing when she did not answer the referee's 10 count. Kong's list of championships and accomplishments is simply amazing (no pun intended): WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, WWWA World Tag Team Championship, Japan Grand Prix, AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Women's Championship, AAAW Tag Team Championship, Hustle Super Tag Team Championship, LLPW Tag Team Championship, NWA World Women's Championship and the NEO Tag Team Championship. |
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Portia Perez Portia has wrestled for Universal Wrestling Alliance (Ontario/Quebec),
Professional Wrestling Entetainment (Quebec), Canadian Pro Wrestling
(Quebec), MECCA Pro Wrestling (Quebec), AWA Championship Wrestling
Association (Quebec), Association de Lutte Féminine (Quebec),
Rage Wrestling Entertainment (Ontario/Quebec), Main Event Wrestling
(Ontario), Canadian Independent Wrestling Association (Ontario),
New Vision Pro Wrestling (Ontario), Pro Wrestling Xtreme (Ontario),
Professional Championship Wrestling (Ontario), Great Canadian Wrestling
(Ontario), Triple "X" Wrestling (Ontario), Pure Wrestling
Association (Ontario), Shimmer Women Athletes, Chikara, Cleveland
All Pro Wrestling. Heartland Wrestling Association, Mega Championship
Wrestling, Mad Pro Wrestling, IWA East Coast, Northern Impact Wrestling,
All Star Wrestling (England), Irish Whip Wrestling (Ireland), Lucha
Libre Feminil, and Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion (AAA) While Perez missed her June and July 2007 dates, after suffering a broken hand in a match against MsChif at SHIMMER Women Athletes' June 2 show, her bouts during the other 10 months more than made up for any missed ring time. Portia has held the MEW Women's Championship and the GCW W.I.L.D. Championship. |
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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 is one of, if not the, most recognizable woman wrestler 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, WEW, 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, JAPW Tag Team, WXW Womens Title, JCW Womens, 2003 Womens Super 8 Tournament Winner, USA Pro Women's Title, FNW Women's Title, WEW Tag Team titles, and Queen of Chaos. Unfortunately, April Hunter wrestled her last match, in the United States, on June 2, 2007 (primarily due to nagging injuries). While we certainly hope April is able to return to the ring in the future, her down time this year has caused her to fall from the #1 ranking that she has held onto for the past 3 years. |
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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, SHIMMER, WEW, PWF, IndyGurlz and NECW are just a few of the promotions this amazing talent has worked for in the past. Mercedes' titles include: NECW North American Woman's Title, NECW's All-Women's Tournament Winner, and the 2006 Elite 8 Champion. Mercedes Martinez underwent shoulder surgery early in 2007, forcing her to miss ring action for the majority of the year. Mercedes has continuously been ranked high in our Top 50 but, due to her injury, she had to fall from the top 10 rankings this year. |
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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, PWU Women's Championship, North American Women's title and WEW Tag Team Championship. |
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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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Jazz Trained by Rod Price, Jazz's first wrestling match was against Jacqueline. Just six-months into her training with Rod Price, Jazz got a job
with Extreme Championship Wrestling. From January 16, 2005 she started working on the independent circuit and appeared at the unofficial ECW reunion show, Hardcore Homecoming. In late 2005, Jazz and Rodney Mack opened Dirtysouth Championship Wrestling, an independent promotion based in Louisiana. Jazz won the new DCW Louisiana State Title on June 3, 2006. Jazz also went on to perform in Women's Extreme Wrestling, where she won the company's World Heavyweight Championship in May 2005 in a Fatal Four M'enage Quatro Match against Angel Orsini, Mercedes Martinez, and Simply Luscious when the previous champion, Tai "Killer Weed", was forced to relinquish the title due to an injury. While still WEW champion, on June 24, 2005, Jazz defeated April Hunter to win NWA Cyberspace's Women's championship. In May 2007, Jazz and Rodney Mack were booked by the Queens of Chaos promotion in France. They wrestled in front of 72.000 people which is the 2007 record for a wrestling show. |
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Dark Angel Sarah Stock Trained by Phil Lafon and Eddie Watts, Sarah Stock continues to make a name for herself on the independent wrestling scene. 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. Titles Held: Can-Am Wrestling Federation Woman's title, Lucha Libre Feminil Juvenil title. Sarah Stock returned to the United States this year when she appeared as the international wild card entry in the SHIMMER title tournament. Sarah defeated Cheerleader Melissa in the first round and MsChif in the second round. Sarah was eventually defeated by Sara Del Rey in the semifinals in a match that I would easily consider the match of the year. If Sarah worked in the United States on a more frequent basis, she could easily be ranked #1 as I believe she is one of (if not the) best all around women wrestler on the scene today. |
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Traci Brooks Tracy (now with an "i") is a mainstay in TNA. While she primarily is the consultant for Robert Roode, TNA has finally implemented a Women's division, in which Traci is an actual participant!! Add to that Traci's appearance on tons of indy shows throughout the country over the last year which helped push her back into the top 20. She also has competed for NWA Cyberspace, NWA Universal, IWA Mid South, ROH, APW, UCW, SWF, MSPW, ASCW, and numerous other indy promotions across the country and around the world.. Titles Held: AWF title, WWA Women's title, All Star Championship
Wrestling Justice Cup Women's Tournament Winner, WXW First Elite
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Gail Kim Gail was trained by Ron Hutchinson, Rob Etchevarria, and Fit Finlay. She debuted in December 2000 under a mask as "The Queen of the Cats" La Felina in the Southern Ontario-based Apocalypse Wrestling Federation and was eventually unmasked by Tracy Brooks in a "mask versus hair" match. Kim worked on the Canadian independent circuit for two years, wrestling for promotions such as Border City Wrestling. On September 27, 2002, Kim reached the semi-finals of the WXW Women's Elite 8 Tournament in Danbury, Connecticut, defeating Nikki Roxx and April Hunter before losing to Tracy Brooks. In 2007, Gail Kim became the first TNA Women's champion when she won a 10 Woman gauntlet elimination match last defeating Roxxi Laveaux. She defended the title one month later against Roxxi Laveaux, ODB and Angel Williams in a four-way match on TNA's Genesis PPV and retained the title when she pinned ODB. |
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Lu Fisto On January 8, 2007, LuFisto announced on her web site a possible retirement due to a back problem and that she would be forfeiting the Iron Man Championship. Fortunately, LuFisto made returned to the wrestling ring on April 13, 2007 for Association de Lutte Féminine (ALF) in Montreal, as the special referee in a match for the ALF Championship between champion Stefany Sinclair and Kacey Diamond. On October 27th, LuFisto defeated Mickie Knuckles in the finals, a no-ropes barb-wire electrified light tubes and light bulbs, fans bring the weapons match to become the 2007 Queen of the Death Matches. She also continued to appear in numerous feds throughout the US, including CZW. |
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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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Crybaby Crybaby was trained by Misterioso, Chilango, and Durango Kidd and made her pro wrestling debut in 2005 for Lucha VaVoom, in Los Angeles Crybaby became involved in wrestling after having played Roller
Derby for the Los Angeles all girls league (www.derbydolls.com).
After one of her games she was approached by "Lucha Va Voom"
and asked if she was interested in training with them.
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Serena Deeb Serena started wrestling in March of 2005 training in OVW, for
the rest of 2005 she continued training with them until she made
her official OVW debut in a house show on November 4, 2005. In the spring of 2007, Serena competed in the "2007 Miss OVW" Contest won by ODB, later in the summer Serena then competed in the "2007 Divalympics" along with the other OVW Divas. After being in OVW for months and being a member of the roster, Serena started appearing on the independent scene. First, in the early year of 2007 she made her debut with the all female promotion SHIMMER then in August of 2007 Serena started appearing with ROH. |
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Alexa (Thatcher/Jade) Trained be Corvis Fear, The Soul Brothers, Jay Lethal and Skinhead Ivan. Alexa has wrestled for SHIMMER, GWF, WWW, WXW, AWA, JWA and numerous others. Alexa has made vast improvements over the past year and wrestling fans (as well as those of us her) have taken notice. Alexa made her TNA debut this year where she has already had a memorable bout against TNA Women's Champion Gail Kim as well as Awesome Kong. |
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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. This year she also wrestled in IWA-Deep South, CWA/PGWA, WXW Germany, and Pro Wrestling Xplosion. Mickie has held the IWA Mid-South/NWA Midwest Women's title. |
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Daffney Daffney has done more than her fair share of training with the likes of the WCW Power Plant, "Sarge" Dwayne Bruce, Devon "Crowbar" Storm, Madusa, Molly Holly, Bambi, Dusty Rhodes, Sonny Siaki, Malia Hosaka, Leiani Kai, "Sugar" Shane Helms and Johnny Slaughter. Daffney made her debut in November 1999 Thanks to her hard work, dedication, and a slew of matches across the country over the past year, Daffney returns to our top 25, better than ever! |
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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, IndyGurlz, and WOHW. Kayla is a 2 time WOHW Women's Champion. Kayla has taken a leave of absence from professional wrestling. We certainly hope she returns in the near future. |
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Some individual women's statistics (Height, weight, hair, etc.) courtesy
http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com
or individual wrestler's websites.
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 Alere Little Feather (28)
27 Christie Ricci (23)
28 Amber O'Neal (35)
29 Allison Danger (29)
30 Alicia (16)
31 Simply Luscious (20)
32 Angel "Riptide" Orsini (24)
33 Rain (30)
34 Amy Lee (13)
35 Malia Hosaka (18)
36 Miss DeVille (33)
37 Violet Flame (27)
38 Lorelei Lee (35)
39 Kylie Pierce (47)
40 21st Century Fox (42)
41 Jana (45)
42 Tiana Ringer (32)
43 Missy Sampson (15)
44 Josie (NR)
45 Eden Black (NR)
46 Annie Social (NR)
47 Kacee Carlisle (49)
48 Hailey Hatred (43)
49 Roxxi (NR)
50 Jetta (NR)
Feel free to use our forum to comment on this year's list!
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