Wwe Diva
Alundra Blayze Wrestling Career
AWA
Miceli started wrestling in 1987 in the AWA as Madusa Miceli,
a heel women's wrestler and manager to Kevin Kelly, Nick
Kiniski, and AWA World Champion Curt Hennig.
She won the AWA Women's Title in a tournament final over
Candi Devine on December 27, 1987. She feuded with Devine
and then Wendi Richter for the belt and lost it to Richter
on November 26, 1988. She then left for IWA in Japan, where
she won the Women's Title twice and learned the Japanese
wrestling style. She was the first woman to be awarded Pro
Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of The Year Award.
WCW
She then went to WCW in late 1991. She briefly fueded with
Bambi, Judy Martin and Lady Blossom. She then went on to
help Paul E. Dangerously form his Dangerous Alliance of Rick
Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton, "Stunning" Steve Austin and
Larry Zbyszko. She often interfered in their matches and
most often accompanied Rude to the ring. At Beach Blast on
June 20, 1992, she lost a bikini contest to Missy Hyatt. In
October, Dangerously kicked her out of the Dangerous
Alliance and she got revenge when she defeated him (by
countout after he ran from her) in a match on November 18,
1992 at the Clash of the Champions. It was during this time
that she was briefly married to wrestler Eddie Gilbert.
WWF
In 1993, the WWF re-instated its Women's Championship, a
title that had been vacant since 1990, and Micelli signed on
to be the star of the new women's division. She debuted as
Alundra Blayze, and wrestled in a six-woman tournament to
crown a new women's champion. She defeated Allison Royal in
the first round, received a bye into the finals, where she
pinned Heidi Lee Morgan to win the title. She became the
first born Italian to win the title. She would go on to
defend the belt against Morgan, Leilani Kai, Debbie Combs
and Luna Vachon. She also travelled to Japan where she
defended the title against Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and
Bull Nakano. She was defeated by Nakano in a non-title match
during the Japan tour. Nakano emerged as part of the WWF
roster in the summer of 1994 and the two feuded. Their first
encounter on an edition of Monday Night RAW resulted in a
double-count out. Blayze defeated Nakano at the Summerslam
pay-per-view in August 1994, but would lose the belt to
Nakano on November 20, 1994 in Tokyo, during All-Japan
Women's wrestling extravaganza called "Big Egg Wrestling
Universe." It would be five months before Blayze could
regain the title from Nakano on an edition of Monday Night
RAW on April 3, 1995. Immediately following the win, she was
attacked by Bertha Faye, who "broke" her nose. Alundra
Blayze was out of action for five months. The story was that
she was recovering from her broken nose. In reality, Miceli
left to get breast implants and a nose job. Blayze returned
to the ring in August 1995, losing the women's title to
Bertha Faye at the 1995 Summerslam on August 27, 1995. She
bounced back to win the title a third time, defeating Faye
on October 23, 1995 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. The WWF
then imported Aja Kong from Japan and set up a Blayze/Kong
feud. Their first showdown was at the 1995 Survivor Series,
where Blayze, along with Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa and
Chaparita Asari battled Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Tomoko
Watanabe and Lioness Asuka. In the end, Kong pinned Blayze
to be the sole survivor. The following week on RAW, Kong and
Watanabe defeated Blayze and Inoue when Kong pinned Inoue.
Kong then defeated Chaparita Asari a week later. But that
would be the last women's match in the WWF for sometime and
the Blayze/Kong feud never materialised, though it had been
advertised by WWF Magazine as one of the matches at the 1996
Royal Rumble. Alundra Blayze disappeared from the WWF.
Wwe Diva
Alundra Blayze Personal Life
*
Miceli posed nude for Playboy in 1987 but never signed the
release for the pictures to be published. The reason the
release was never signed was due to the fact that she was
scheduled to begin work in Japan. Since Japanese promotions
had very strict rules governing conduct for female wrestlers
at the time, Miceli opted not to have the pictures
published.
* Madusa was married to Eddie Gilbert in the early 1990s.
After their divorce she married former NFL player Ken
Blackman in the late 1990s and into the turn of the
millennium. Things just didn't work out between them and
they decided to go their separate ways.
* She has homes in both Virginia and Florida.
* Madusa drove a monster truck of the same name for Live
Nation in their Monster Jam series, but was recently
released over contract issues. On May 12, 2006 she announced
that she had signed up to drive a Madusa truck for Team
Bigfoot, beginning later in 2006. She currently runs a pet
grooming service. |
