Sherri Martel

Sherri Martel started training in Memphis before heading for the wrestling school operated by The Fabulous Moolah, where she really learned the score. For several years, she worked under Moolah's booking system, until a major break came for her when she was picked up by Gagne's AWA.

Martel held the Woman's World championship three times and was most known for her wild feud with Candi Divine out of Nashville. She did not, hwoever, make a big splash in Arizona at the time as Gagne's lavish plan to invade Arizona and "show the small timers (Indy crew) how to do it" bombed miserably.

In the WWF, where she likewise held the female crown and doubled as a manager, she achieved worldwide attention. This also brought her into Phoenix on multiple occasions. As a manager for Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels and others at varied intervals, she was likewise seen around the globe, with a number of Tucson and Phoenix stops.

Martel was also seen in the manager capacity in Arizona during her WCW stint as a manager for Harlem  Heat.

Martel could not only wrestle, but had magnfiicent talent on the microphone, which was a talent many women wrestlers from her era lacked. She snarled and laughed as she issued wicked put-downs and warnings about what she or the people she managed wound do to their enemies. She reeked of arrogance. Even when, for whatever reason, the WWF had her decked out in bizarre makeup that made her look like something from the cast of CATS, the fans hated her rather than snickering at her uncanny look.

Martel died in 2007..