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Jillian Hall
Born (1980-09-06) September 6, 1980 (age 43)[1][2]
Ashland, Kentucky
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Macaela Mercedes[3]
Jillian Hall
Jillian
Billed height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Billed weight130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st)
Billed fromLouisville, Kentucky
Los Angeles, California
Trained byRoger Ruffen
OVW staff
Dave "Fit" Finlay[4]
Steve Keirn[5]
Lance Storm[5]
Debut1998

Jillian Faye Fletcher,[1][6] (born September 6, 1980),[1][2] is an American professional wrestler who currently performs for World Wrestling Entertainment on its Raw brand under the ring name Jillian Hall, or simply Jillian.[7]

Career

Early years

Fletcher was trained by Dave Finlay at his professional wrestling school.[4] Debuting in 1998, Fletcher wrestled under the ring name The Bombshell Macaela Mercedes on the independent circuit[8]. Because of this early ring name, both "Macaela Mercedes" and "Jillian Mercedes" have been incorrectly listed as her real names.

Ohio Valley Wrestling

In the spring of 2003, Fletcher began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under the name Jillian Hall. She eventually signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2004. She started out in OVW as a face, until she turned heel after getting breast implants, and straightening and bleaching her hair blonde.[4] The heel turn was motivated in an angle where her implants "leaked into her brain", causing her to become psychotic. [2][4] As a heel, she managed the OVW Southern Tag Team Champion Blonde Bombers (Tank and Chad Toland) alongside her bodyguard Melissa Coates and went on a spree of (kayfabe) blinding people with rubbing alcohol. [9]

World Wrestling Entertainment

SmackDown!

Jillan making her entrance before a scheduled wrestling match, during a SmackDown! house show

Jillian Hall made her World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) debut on the July 28, 2005 episode of SmackDown! with a gimmick of a "fixer" for the heel stable MNM. She also had a "growth" on the left side of her face, which she referred to as a "blemish", that announcers constantly speculated on the nature of.[10] The gimmick carried over to OVW, where the Blonde Bombers forced her to choose between them and MNM.[9][11] She eventually chose MNM, but did not stay with that group for very long. Her first feud on SmackDown! was against Stacy Keibler, with the two confronting each other many times until Hall cheated to defeat Keibler in her final match on Velocity.[12]

Hall was later approached by JBL, a former WWE Champion who asked for help repairing his image after a loss to underdog Rey Mysterio [13]. As JBL's "Image Consultant", she had an important role in JBL's feud with The Boogeyman, which included her having a hand full of worms shoved up her skirt and her mole being bitten off by the monster.[14] In March, Hall briefly feuded with the babyface gimmick of Kristal, losing to the rookie in a "Divas Uncovered" match on March 10. She also successfully guided JBL to winning the United States Championship from Chris Benoit at WrestleMania 22. [15]

That April, he fired her after Hall accidentally slammed a cage door on JBL's head during a steel cage match and put together a "second-rate" United States championship celebration. [16] [17] After being fired, she turned face and began a feud with former client then heel, Melina of MNM.[18] She defeated her in a six man tag team match along with Paul London and Brian Kendrick and in singles competition at Judgment Day 2006 in a controversial fashion. [19]

For the rest of the summer, she teamed with Ashley Massaro in a feud against then-heels, Michelle McCool and Kristal Marshall.[20][21][22] She would participate in a Bra and Panties match at The Great American Bash which was won by Ashley; afterwards, she was not utilized on television much.

She returned in February 2007 as a heel and began a new feud with Massaro centered around Hall's jealousy of Massaro's recent Playboy appearance, matches between the two mainly resulted in losses for Jillian. During the feud, Hall attempted to prove that she was talented in areas beyond wrestling and being eye candy by kayfabe singing (poorly) at every opportunity.[23] She later attempted to impress music producer Timbaland by performing a song she claimed to have composed entitled "Hot Bread," looking for a spot in a video he was preparing and a possible future collaboration on a music project, but he turned her down.[24] There is also controversy that her bad singing gimmick was created to be a parody of Brooke Hogan, as some wrestling magazines have proclaimed as well.

Ashley, with whom she had been feuding, was one of the Divas who was chosen to work with Timbaland instead. Jealous of Ashley's recent successes, she (kayfabe) attacked and seriously injured Ashley, with the reasoning that if she couldn't appear in Timbaland's music project, neither would Massaro. Following this incident, she would have a short feud with current face, Michelle McCool, who came to Ashley's aid.

RAW

Jillian works on the crowd during a Raw house show.

Jillian was drafted from SmackDown! to Raw on June 17, 2007 as part of the 2007 Supplemental Draft. The following night, Jillian won her Raw debut where she teamed with Melina to defeat Mickie James and Candice Michelle in a tag team match. From then on, Jillian mainly competed on HEAT against James. She resumed her singing gimmick not long after, frequently appearing in backstage and in-ring segments, including a stint as one of the contestants for the WWE Idol segment on August 13, 2007. She also entered into an on-and-off feud with ring announcer Lilian Garcia stemming from her jealousy of Lilian's flourishing singing career.

On the November 19, 2007 edition of RAW, Hall executed a 450° splash, a move allegedly banned in WWE and that was not seen on WWE television for quite some time. Hall failed to land on her opponent when she rolled away in time, and hit her tag team partner Melina instead.

During RAW's 15th Anniversary show held on December 10, 2007, Hall wanted to sing a song from her album, but a returning Trish Stratus cut her off. As Stratus was talking about being part of the show, Hall told her that she (Trish) had the biggest ego in WWE History. This brought out Lita, a long time rival of Stratus. Hall attempted to encourage Lita to attack Stratus, however both returning divas attacked Hall.

Since then, Jillian has been keeping her singing gimmick while competing in single and tag matches teaming up with Katie Lea Burchill, and Beth Phoenix against Mickie James, Kelly Kelly and Candice Michelle, most of which have resulted in losses. Hall returned as a face on-screen by helping Kelly Kelly after attack from Smackdown!'s Victoria. It is official that she is in the Survivor Series Smackdown vs Raw Diva's Elimination tagteam match.

In wrestling

  • Nicknames
    • The Bombshell
    • The Pop Princess
    • The Songstress
  • Theme music
    • In Ohio Valley Wrestling, she used Toxic by Britney Spears.
    • When she was with MNM she shared their theme song entitled "Papparazzi".
    • When she parted from MNM she began using a production track entitled Move It Up, which had been previously used by Michelle McCool and then given to Kristal Marshall after Hall.
    • She then used a production track entitled Top Spin.[28]
    • Hall currently uses the theme Sliced Bread, which she performed herself and is available on WWE The Music, Vol. 8[29]

Outside of Wrestling

Jillan Hall, the singer.

Album

Jillian Hall released her first album A Jingle with Jillian on the December 11th, 2007 on iTunes nationwide. The album features five traditional Christmas songs covered by Jillian (in character). The album itself reached number 20 in the UK Holidays Top 100 shortly after its release. [30]

Chart Position

Chart (2007) Peak
position
UK Album Chart 76 [31]
Billboard 200 120 [32]

Personal Life

Jillian is currently in a relationship with Ring of Honor superstar Tank Toland. Jillian has one sister. Blonde is not her natural hair colour.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Blue Water Championship Wrestling
    • BWCW Women's Championship (1 time; First–ever champion)[4]
  • Canadian International Wrestling
    • CIW Indy Women's Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Frontier Elite Wrestling
    • Frontier Elite Wrestling Women's Championship (1 time)
  • GLORY Wrestling
    • GLORY Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Hoosier Pro Wrestling
    • HPW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)[4]
    • HPW Ladies' Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Mid-States Championship Wrestling
    • MCW Mid-American Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Professional Girl Wrestling Association
    • PGWA Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI ranked her # 34 of the best 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2008.[33]
  • Southern States Wrestling
    • SSW Women's Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Superstar Wrestling Federation
    • SWF Tag Team Championship (2 time)[4] – with Randy "the King" Allen (1), and Pyro (1)
    • SWF Women's Championship (1 time)
  • Women's Wrestling Alliance
    • WWA Women's Championship (1 time)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kentucky Births, 1911 - 1999". Family Tree Networks. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  2. ^ a b c "Jillian Hall profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  3. ^ "Macaela Mercedes' profile". G.L.O.R.Y. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Bio". CANOE. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
  5. ^ a b Mansy, Abigail (July 2008). "The Ballad of Jillian". WWE Magazine. p. 15.
  6. ^ "Jillian's Real Name". The Sun. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  7. ^ "Superstars > Raw > Jillian > Bio". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  8. ^ ""The Bombshell" Macaela Mercedes (former official site)". Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  9. ^ a b "OVW results - 2005". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  10. ^ "SmackDown! results - July 28, 2005". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  11. ^ "SmackDown Countdown 2006: Jillian Hall". IGN. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  12. ^ Jillian defeats Stacy Keibler on Velocity (WMV). WWE. October 29 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-26. {{cite AV media}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "SmackDown! results - September 17, 2005". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  14. ^ "SmackDown! results - January 13, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  15. ^ "JBL def. Chris Benoit (new United States Champion)". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  16. ^ "SmackDown! results - April 14, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  17. ^ "SmackDown! results - April 21, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  18. ^ "SmackDown! results - April 28, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  19. ^ "Melina's night goes from bad to worse". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  20. ^ "SmackDown! results - July 14, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  21. ^ "It's always Ashley, Ashley, Ashley". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  22. ^ "SmackDown! results - July 28, 2006". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  23. ^ "SmackDown! results - February 2, 2007". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  24. ^ PWI Staff (2007). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated, July 2007". "Arena reports". Kappa Publishing. p. 131. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  25. ^ Jillian Hall interview from WWE Magazine
  26. ^ Macaela Mercedes of G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling: The Hardest Working Women In Independent Wrestling
  27. ^ Macaela Mercedes of G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling: The Hardest Working Women In Independent Wrestling
  28. ^ WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 instruction manual
  29. ^ "WWE Music Volume 8 CD". WWE. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  30. ^ "Lords of Pain, Jingle with Jillian chart success". lordsofpain.net. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
  31. ^ "BBC - UK Album Chart". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  32. ^ "US top 200 albums". billboard.com. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  33. ^ "The PWI Female 50 Rankings: Who Is The Top Women's Wrestler In The World?". PWPix.net. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2008-09-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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