My friend Heather Webber is a professional wrestler. The 6-foot blond amazon is a beauty, possessing a great understanding of the business, how to work a crowd and most importantly, how to sell her matches. The 25-year-old from here in north Florida is working the independent circuit with an eye on her future at WWE.
Webber isn’t alone in wanting a shot at the big time, but like so many of contemporaries, timing and the right break are essential to getting a foot in the door.
There are some women in this business who never see a WWE ring, but have carved out their own niche in this business and have a following who know about them and cheer them on in small packed houses, whether it be hotel ballrooms or school gymnasiums.
And like Webber, these women got their start from humble beginnings. Now, they are universally known, some having retired from the business and some are moving at a fast pace, potentially with gold on their mind and new roads to travel.
Here is a look at five divas who are beautiful, successful but have never appeared in a WWE ring.
Traci Brooks
When you become the first TNA Knockout to work with Playboy, you get a spot on this list. She did not appear in the magazine, yet Brooks spent almost all of your career in TNA, working with the likes of Bobby Roode, Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels and was in programs with Kurt and Karen Angle.
Brooks is married to Kazarian in real life and made her debut as performer who entertained the crowds between segments in a Catholic school girl outfit. She moved on to become one of the most influential women in the promotion.
Lacey Von Erich
The daughter of the late Kerry Von Erich has some awesome bloodlines and was a talent in the ring in TNA as a member of the Beautiful People. She is a one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion.
Von Erich did work for WWE as part of Florida Championship Wrestling, however she did not make the company roster in Stamford. Von Erich did appear at WrestleMania 25 when her uncleKevin Von Erich inducted the family into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Her last real run in wrestling was in TNA, which ended abruptly. She is now out of the wrestling business and runs her own advertising company in California.
Velvet Sky
Velvet Sky has spent most of her career in TNA as a member of the Beautiful People with Angelina Love and Lacey Von Erich (Madison Rayne in intervals as well) and as a TNA Knockouts Champion. She is currently dating Bubba Ray Dudley (Mark LoMonaco), which makes me hope she will make a debut in WWE at some point.
Sky has played the heel and babyface role while in the promotion, working angles with ODB, Madison Rayne and Brooke Adams (Brooke Tessmacher).
Cherry Bomb
This Canadian beauty has quite a following. She has worked with working for Great Canadian Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
She currently holds the WSU championship. She is also working in TNA under the name “Allie”. She is known for her work on the microphone and her finisher, the Anger of Beauty. While in TNA she claimed the Knockouts Title in August Championship in a five–way match against the champion Sienna, Madison Rayne, Marti Bell and Jade, but has since dropped the belt.
Karen Jarrett
Although she is not an active wrestler, Jarrett is certainly worthy of being on this list. The current wife of Global Force Wrestling owner Jeff Jarrett and the former wife of Kurt Angle, she has been a major part of TNA where she served as Senior Vice President of the TNA Knockouts Division.
Jarrett has been part of some of the best programs in TNA involving Angle and her now husband Jeff, who took their private issues between the three of them and made them public. She was also in an angle with AJ Styles at one point where the two were “married” in the ring, forcing a feud between the Olympic gold medalist and the Phenomenal One.
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