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Tracy Brookshaw
BornSt. Marys, Ontario
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Miss Apocalypse
Tracy Brookshaw
Tracy
Traci
Tracy Brooks
Traci Brooks
Ms. Brooks
Billed height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Billed weight127 lb (58 kg)
Billed fromToronto, Ontario
Wall Street in Manhattan, New York
St. Marys, Ontario, Canada
Trained byRon Hutchinson
Rob "El Fuego" Etcheverria
DebutJanuary 2001

Tracy Brookshaw (born May 22, 1980)[1] is a Canadian professional wrestler and professional wrestling valet, better known by her stage name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

Early life

Tracy Brookshaw grew up on a pig and chicken farm in St. Marys, Ontario.[2] In 2000, she won the Toronto Sunshine Millennium Calendar contest which led to her being named Miss June 2000 and interviewed in the Toronto Sun.[3] Brookshaw went on to engage in promotional modeling work with the Molson, Labatt and Budweiser beverage brewers.

In her interview, Brookshaw said that she aspired to be "the next WWF Superstar".[3] This led to her being introduced to Ron Hutchinson, a professional wrestler who operated the Sully's Gym professional wrestling school out of Toronto, Ontario. Brookshaw began training under Hutchinson in March 2000 and debuted in January 2001 as Tracy Brooks.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit

Brooks appeared with numerous independent promotions, including Border City Wrestling and the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation. During her time in AWF, she worked a program feuding with La Felina and was managed for a short time by Canadian hip-hop artist, Dan-e-o. On August 30 2001, Brookshaw (as Miss Apocalypse) defeated Joey Knight to win the AWF heavyweight title. To this day, she continues to do work for independent promotions, including Blood, Sweat & Ears in her home region in Southern Ontario and, most prominently, NWA Cyberspace where she contends for the NWA Cyberspace Women's Championship.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Early appearances

Brooks at the Impact! Zone

Brooks debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on April 30 2003 in Catholic schoogirl apparel, attacking Lollipop, a dancer who entertained the live audience during intermissions. The following week, Brooks demanded to be entered in a gauntlet match in which the winner would receive a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, threatening to sue National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) official Bill Behrens for sexual discrimination if he did not comply. When her threats failed, Brooks instead attempted to charm Behrens into allowing her into the match. Behrens then placed Brooks in a triple threat match with fellow female wrestlers Desire and Trinity, with the winner gaining entry into the gauntlet match. After Kid Kash ambushed Trinity and David Young accidentally punched Desire, Brooks won the match. Later that evening, she was attacked by Lollipop as she approached the ring to enter the gauntlet match. After she entered the ring, Brooks was quickly pinned and eliminated by Kid Kash.

On May 21, Brooks was paired with David Young in an "Anarchy Alliance" tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders to the NWA World Tag Team Championship. They defeated Kid Kash and Trinity on May 21 and Ron Killings (whose partner, Don Harris, had refused to team with him) on June 4, but lost to America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) in the finals on June 11.

On the June 18, 2003 TNA pay-per-view, Brooks formed an all-female stable known as "Bitchslap" with Nurse Veronica and Valentina. The stable quietly disbanded shortly thereafter when Veronica turned down a proffered TNA contract and Brooks was removed from television for repackaging.

Michael Shane

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Traci circa 2005

Brooks returned to TNA on November 5 2003, helping Shane Douglas defeat The Sandman. On November 26, Douglas and Brooks (known now simply as Traci) helped Michael Shane defeat Sonjay Dutt. Following the match, the trio celebrated, and Douglas announced that they were to be called "The New Franchise".

The New Franchise began feuding with Triple X (Christopher Daniels, Low-Ki and Elix Skipper). The feud lasted until April 21 2004, when Shane lost to Daniels after he passed up on a pinfall opportunity in order to try and hit his finisher. After Douglas admonished Shane, Shane began pushing and slapping his erstwhile mentor. Traci eventually grabbed Douglas from behind, enabling Shane to superkick Douglas. The following week, Traci helped Shane defeat Douglas in a singles match.

Traci continued to manage Shane, who was by now pursuing the TNA X Division Championship. Shane proved unable to defeat the incumbent champion, A.J. Styles, so he and Traci recruited Frankie Kazarian in order to maximize their numbers advantage. The result was a new stable/tag team that was known by fans as Shazarian. After several weeks of confrontations, Styles defended his title against Shane and Kazarian in a three way Ultimate X match on July 28, 2004. Though he was able to nullify the interference of Traci by giving her a Styles Clash, he was eventually knocked unconscious by the combined efforts of Shane and Kazarian. Shane and Kazarian then climbed for the X Division Championship, and simultaneously retrieved the belt, thus becoming co-champions. They lost the titles to Petey Williams in a Gauntlet Match on August 11.

In late-2004, Traci turned face by leaving Shane and Kazarian and becoming the assistant of the TNA Director of Authority, Dusty Rhodes. However, Trinity also wanted to be Rhodes' assistant, so he told each woman to recruit a new tag team. The teams faced one another at Destination X 2005 on March 13 2005, with the winning team's manager becoming Rhodes' sole assistant. Traci's team (Don and Ron Harris, the Disciples of Destruction) defeated Trinity's team (Big Tilly and Bruno Sassi - Phi Delta Slam), making her Rhodes' assistant. Traci eventually left Rhodes' side and began managing Chris Sabin, who was feuding with Michael Shane and Trinity. At Lockdown on April 24, she tried to prevent Trinity from interfering in a four way X Division Xscape elimination match between Sonjay Dutt, Chris Sabin, Shocker and Shane. Her attempt failed when Trinity pushed her off the side of the cage and she landed on her bare feet, seemingly injuring herself in the attempt. This led to Trinity executing a Fall from Grace moonsault from the top of the cage and landing on top of Shane, Sabin and Shocker. Traci later got into the cage and engaged in a catfight with Trinity. The feud continued until Hard Justice on May 15, when Sabin and Traci lost to Shane and Trinity. In the course of the match, Traci turned on Sabin and Shane turned on Trinity, with Traci aligning herself with Shane once again and Trinity siding with Sabin.

Traci began managing Shane once again and stayed with him when he changed his name to his real name, Matt Bentley. When Bentley sat out during contract renegotiations in August 2005, she did some interview work for TNA. At Unbreakable on September 11, Traci acted as a backstage interviewer throughout the event. She returned to Bentley's side after his return at Unbreakable. In February 2006, Bentley turnrf heel and began a dispute with long time tag partner Lance Hoyt. Following the feud, Bentley was sidelined with an injury. Traci did promotional work for the company during the downtime.

On the May 15 taping of iMPACT!, she wrestled Gail Kim in the first woman's match in over a year. The match was taped purely for the forthcoming TNA Knockouts DVD and not for the Spike TV program. Gail Kim gained the pin after interference from America's Most Wanted. At Hardcore War 2006 she defeated Gail Kim with Christy Hemme as referee.

Managing Robert Roode

The "Chief Executive Offender", Ms. Brooks, at Lockdown.

Traci was announced as Robert Roode's manager at Bound for Glory 2006 and changed her name to Ms. Brooks. She managed him during the Fight for the Right Tournament at the October 28 iMPACT!. She lost to Eric Young in a bikini contest at Turning Point. After this, she was told to sign Young to a contract- no matter what it took to do it. In the storyline, Ms. Brooks began to pressure him into having sex with her. Finally, at Against All Odds Ms. Brooks successfully seduced Young into signing a contract with "Robert Roode Inc.". After sometime without a storyline, she entered a rivalry with Gail Kim and was defeated at an iMPACT! taping. At Slammiversary, she was taken out by Gail once again.

On the August 23 2007 episode of iMPACT!, Roode wrestled Gail Kim, with Kim pinning Roode after a low blow leg drop. Following the match, Roode, unhappy at his loss, continued to attack Kim until Kaz came out to counter Roode.[4] On the October 4 edition of iMPACT!, it was revealed that Brooks and Roode were not romantically linked, and that the only reason she continued to take Roode's abuse was to help her sick mother. Subsequently, on iMPACT! and at Genesis a female fan held up signs asking Roode to replace Ms. Brooks with her. Roode then joined the Angle Alliance with Ms. Brooks begrudgingly by his side.

At the Genesis pay-per-view on November 11 2007, Traci fainted due to heat exhaustion, but appeared to be doing fine following help from medics. However, news reports have arisen that claim that her fainting was staged, as Brooks was asked to do so by Vince Russo.

Solo wrestling

At the January 10 iMPACT! tapings, Roode fired Ms. Brooks and replaced her with the female fan, identified by Roode as "Ms. Payton Banks." Shortly there after, Brookshaw reverted back to a face and to her Traci Brooks ring name and began feuding with Banks where she defeated Banks at the annual pay-per- view, Against All Odds. On the April 3 edition of iMPACT!, Traci defeated Payton Banks after a facebuster from the top turnbuckle. At Lockdown, She participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match which was won by Roxxi Laveaux. At Sacrifice, Traci participated in the first ever TNA Knockout Makeover Battle Royal, which was won by Gail Kim.

In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • Managers
  • Wrestlers managed by Brooks
  • Nicknames
  • The C.E.O. ("Chief Executive Offender") of Robert Roode Inc.
  • Entrance theme

Championships and accomplishments

  • All Star Championship Wrestling
  • 2005 ASCW Justice Cup Winner
  • Apocalypse Wrestling Federation
  • AWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Coastal Championship Wrestling
  • CCW Women's Championship (1 time)
  • Downsouth Championship Wrestling
  • DCW Women's Championship (1 time)
  • Ohio Championship Wrestling
  • OCW Women's Championship (1 time)
  • RingDivas Women's Wrestling
  • RingDivas World Championship
  • Southern Championship Wrestling
  • SCW Women's Championship (1 time)
  • 2004 TNA Knockout of the Year
  • WWA
  • WWA Women's Championship (1 time)
  • 2002 WXW Women's Super 7 Winner

Movies

  • Zombie Beach Party (2003) as "stunt double" and "Tracy the sexy killer zombie"
  • Appeared on Kenny vs. Spenny episode of Who Is The Strongest? with fellow wrestler Angel Williams and wrestling trainer Rob Etcheverria

Notes

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Traci Brooks bio". I grew up in St. Mary's, On. on a pig and chicken farm, yes I grew up shoveling pig S**T. I try to go home to the farm as much as possible
  3. ^ a b "Traci Brooks bio". I won the Toronto Sunshine Calendar Contest and was named Miss June 2000. To promote the calendar I was a Sunshine Girl and in my bio I wrote to be the next WWF Superstar. (TNA was non existent then)
  4. ^ Mike Kerrigan. "Official "iMPACT!" Results For Thursday, August 23, 2007". Retrieved 2007-08-24.

References

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