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Patricia Karisma-Schroeder
Born1 January 1960
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Leilani Kai
Patty Stonegrinder
Billed height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Billed weight162 lb (73 kg)
Billed fromHawaii
Trained byThe Fabulous Moolah[1]
Debut1975

Patricia Karisma-Schroeder[2] (better known by her stage name as Leilani Kai) is a professional wrestler.

Professional wrestling career

Trained by the The Fabulous Moolah in 1975, Kai wrestled mostly in tag-teams throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s.

World Wrestling Federation

Kai hit the big time in 1985, when she defeated World Wrestling Federation superstar Wendi Richter for the WWF Women's Championship. Richter regained the title months later at the inaugural WrestleMania event.

Kai was then paired with another Moolah trainee, Judy Martin, and was awarded the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. A tag team title match between Kai and Martin against the champions Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen was reported to have happened in Egypt in 1985, but in actuality, the match never took place. Kai and Martin were awarded the titles after McIntyre and Petersen split up. After touring on the independent circuit and Japan for a few years, Kai and Martin returned to the WWF, repackaged as the platinum haired Glamour Gilrs. The duo appeared at the first Survivor Series in 1987 as part of then champion Sherri Martel's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team. Martel's team—Martel, the Glamour Girls, Dawn Marie, and Donna Christanello—lost to The Fabulous Moolah's team—Moolah, Velvet McIntyre, Rockin' Robin, and the Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki). Kai and Martin (managed by Jimmy Hart) feuded for much of 1988 with Japanese imports the Jumping Bomb Angels for the Women's Tag Team Championship. The two teams staged a two out of three falls match at the first Royal Rumble event in 1988, with the Jumping Bomb Angels capturing the gold. Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in Japan before the belts were once again abandoned.

Ladies Professional Wrestling Association

The Glamour Girls then surfaced in the newly formed Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA), managed by Adnan El Kassey and then by the "Queen of Wrestling" Christopher Love. They wrestled as both a tag team and as top contenders to LPWA Champion Susan Sexton's title. After months of feuding with Tag Team Champions Misty Blue Simmes and Heidi Lee Morgan (Team America), The Girls finally captured the LPWA Tag Team Title. They feuded with teams like the Bad, Black, & Beautiful; The New Team America (Misty Blue Simmes and Alison Royal); and Bambi and Malia Hosaka (who the duo faced at the only LPWA pay per view Superladies Showdown) before the LPWA folded in 1993.

World Wrestling Federation

Kai returned to the WWF in 1994 at WrestleMania X to unsuccessfully challenge champion Alundra Blayze. Blayze continued to defeat Kai in matches that took place during the WWF's 1994 European tour and subsequent U.S house shows.

World Championship Wrestling

Kai wrestled in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the mid-1990s as part of their short-lived women's division. She wrestled as both Leilani Kai and Patty Stonegrinder and usually jobbed to Madusa.

She returned to WCW on November 29, 1999 to wrestle a mud-pit match against Rhonda Sing on WCW Monday Nitro. In a backstage skit, security broke up a food fight that followed a wardrobe squabble between Fyre and Storm. The view focused on another woman (Kai), who was watching this and apparently started choking after laughing at what was going on while eating at the same time. Juventud Guerrera happened to be by and worked a Heimlich maneuver, and then asked for an ambulance really loudly.[citation needed] Later, Guerrera said one of the women was unable to compete (she was choking) but he saved her life. Kai was then replaced by Miss Elizabeth.

Professional Girl Wrestling Association

In the summer of 2002, Kai challenged Lexie Fyfe for the Professional Girl Wrestling Association's (PGWA) championship in Branson, Missouri and won the belt. This was a controversial match, due to the manner in which Kai gained the right to challenge Fyfe. A battle royal was held to determine who the next challenger would be; Leilani rolled out of the ring early in the match, and it appeared that she was eliminated. The rules, however, stated that a wrestler could only be eliminated by being ejected over the ropes. Thus, she was still a valid combatant. Late in the match, Kai returned to the ring and managed to eject the last few women remaining. She then challenged Fyfe to a match then and there. Fyfe was injured following a title match earlier that night against Macaela Mercedes; she suffered a damaged knee and had one eye swollen shut. Fyfe, however, agreed to the match, and Kai quickly defeated her. Kai successfully defended the title multiple times over the next few months. In November 2002, however, she wrestled and lost to British grappler Pippa L'Vinn in a match held in North Carolina.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

On March 12, 2003, she defeated Madison to win the NWA World Women's Championship in a dark match on a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view. The title was vacated when Kai was stripped by NWA President Bill Behrens due to missing several NWA shows. Kai reportedly skipped the shows because she felt the NWA governing board was not treating the Women's Championship with the respect it deserved, such as not televising title matches on the TNA program, and rarely booking women's matches on the more important NWA cards.[citation needed]

Retirement

Although Leilani has not announced her official retirement, she has not wrestled since 2004.

Personal life

She is also the step daughter to wrestling trainer Les Thatcher.[citation needed]

In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves

Championships and Accomplishments

  • Ladies Pro Wrestling Association
  • Professional Girl Wrestling Association
  • PGWA Championship (1 time)
  • Other
  • NDW Women's Championship (1 time)
  • UCW Women's Championship (3 times)
  • Penny Banner Spirit of Excellence Award (2001)

Notes

  1. ^ Ellison, Lillian. First Goddess of the Squared Circle, p.111.
  2. ^ http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/l/leilani-kai.php

References

  • Ellison, Lillian (2003). The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle. ReaganBooks. ISBN 9780060012588.
  • Leilani Kai at Online World of Wrestling
  • Leilani Kai at LadySports.com
  • Leilani Kai at GloryWrestling.com
  • Leilani Kai at LethalWOW.com
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