Kelly Kelly
Kelly Kelly | |
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Born | [1] Jacksonville, Florida[1][2] | January 15, 1987
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Kelly Kelly |
Billed height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[3] |
Billed weight | 108 lb (49 kg)[3] |
Billed from | Jacksonville, Florida[4] |
Trained by | OVW staff[3] |
Debut | June 13, 2006[3] |
Barbara Jean "Barbie" Blank[5] (born January 15, 1987)[1] is an American model, professional wrestler, and professional wrestling valet better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly. She is working for WWE on its Raw brand,[4] where she is the Divas Champion in her first reign.
Blank has a background in gymnastics and cheerleading. She studied broadcast journalism, hoping to become a television anchor, and worked as a model for Venus Swimwear and Hawaiian Tropic. In 2006, Blank was signed to a contract by WWE and sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, a WWE developmental territory. She debuted on the ECW brand in June 2006 as 'Kelly Kelly', with the character of an exhibitionist and performing a striptease. She continued her stripteases, in a segment known as Kelly's Exposé, weekly on ECW, and also became the valet of her on-screen boyfriend Mike Knox. The following year, she formed Extreme Exposé with Layla and Brooke Adams, and the trio performed a regular dance segment on ECW. They later became involved in a storyline with The Miz, which led to the dissolution of the group.
Kelly then began participating in more wrestling matches, and was moved to the Raw brand in July 2008. Throughout the next year, she unsuccessfully challenged for the WWE Divas Championship on several occasions, before moving to SmackDown! in early 2010. There she challenged Lay-Cool for the WWE Women's Championship, but was unsuccessful. In 2011, Kelly was traded back to Raw where she captured her first Divas Championship.Kelly recently joined Facebook to communicate with her fans.
Professional wrestling career
World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE (2006–present)
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2006)
In 2006, while working as a model, Blank was seen by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) official John Laurinaitis, who was interested in signing her to a contract.[1] As a result, WWE contacted her modeling agency and invited her to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), for a try-out. Despite having no previous wrestling experience she was offered a contract, which she signed in May 2006.[3][1][6] Even after being called up to the main roster she continued to fly back and forth to OVW's base city Louisville, Kentucky once a week to work shows; first as a ring announcer and referee, then as a wrestler.[7] One of her first matches took place at the September 6 OVW TV tapings where she participated in a Women's battle royal won by ODB.[1][7]
ECW (2006–2008)
Blank debuted for the ECW brand as Kelly Kelly. She made her debut on the first episode of the weekly television program on June 13, 2006, becoming the youngest Diva on the WWE roster.[2][5][8] Her character, an exhibitionist, was introduced performing a striptease for the crowd.[6][8] The next week, while performing another striptease, Kelly was interrupted by her on-screen boyfriend, Mike Knox, who came to the stage and covered her with a towel before dragging her backstage.[6][9] Her stripping became a weekly segment known as Kelly's Exposé and usually followed the same routine; Kelly would dance and strip until she was interrupted by Knox who was upset by her exhibitionism and showing off her body to others.[10][11] Knox began forcing Kelly to accompany him to ringside so he could keep an eye on her, making her his de facto valet.[10] As a result, she found herself involved in the feud developing between Mike Knox and partner Test with Tommy Dreamer and his partner The Sandman, including being inadvertently hit with a cane by Sandman when Knox used her as a shield.[12] She made her ECW in-ring debut on the August 22, 2006 episode of ECW on Sci-Fi in a losing effort as part of a six-person mixed tag team match which saw herself, Knox, and Test lose to Dreamer, Sandman and Torrie Wilson, in what was the last match of the feud.[13]
Following this feud, Kelly and Knox were moved into a storyline with CM Punk in September, in which Kelly was shown to have developed a liking for Punk and Knox was shown to be increasingly protective and jealous.[14] During the next month, Kelly continuously flirted with Punk and was shown watching his matches from the crowd, until Knox stopped her.[15][16] Subsequently, Kelly's character dressed as Punk for ECW's Halloween Costume Contest, enraging Knox and leading to a match between the two, during which Kelly cheered for Punk.[17][18] At December to Dismember, Kelly and Knox took on the team of Ariel and Kevin Thorn in a mixed tag team match, during which Knox refused to tag in before abandoning Kelly, leaving her to be beaten badly by Ariel.[19] On the following episode of ECW, Kelly defeated Ariel with a roll-up on her first ECW singles match, after which Knox made his way to the ring with flowers only to throw them in Kelly's face and perform his signature swinging reverse STO on her, ending their relationship and giving her a scripted injury—removing her from the program for six weeks.[1][20]
She returned to television on January 16, 2007 and cut a promo announcing she was newly single and bringing back Kelly's Exposé.[21] The following week, she joined forces with Layla and Brooke to form Extreme Exposé.[22] The trio performed a weekly dance segment on ECW for the next several months, as a successor to Kelly's Exposé segment.[3] In June 2007, The Miz was moved to the brand, prompting a storyline in which all three members of Extreme Exposé were attracted to him.[3][23][24] When Kelly shifted her attentions towards Balls Mahoney, Layla, Brooke, and The Miz openly mocked her, and The Miz later prevented her from going on a date with Mahoney, stating that he owned her contract and would fire her if she did so.[25][26][27] On November 1, Brooke was released from her WWE contract, and Extreme Exposé dissolved as a group, leaving Kelly and Layla to enter an ongoing rivalry with more active wrestling roles.[6][28] On the October 29 episode of Raw, Kelly won a battle royal to earn a match against the WWE Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix. After the match however, Kelly was attacked by Phoenix and lost the subsequent match between the two the following week on Raw.[29][30] Kelly continued to feud with Layla, and they were on opposite sides of a 10-Diva tag team match at Survivor Series, which Kelly's team won.[1][31] In December, Layla formed an alliance with Victoria, which expanded to include Lena Yada in January 2008, and Kelly continued to feud with the trio.[3][32][33] At WrestleMania XXIV, Kelly was a 'lumberjill' for the Divas' tag team lumberjill match.[3] The following month, Kelly was part of the losing team in a five-on-five Divas match at the Backlash pay-per-view.[34]
Raw (2008–2010)
Following the completion of the 2008 WWE Draft, Kelly was moved to the Raw brand on July 7. Kelly had her debut match as part of the brand that night by teaming with Mickie James to defeat Layla and Jillian Hall.[35] She quickly became involved in a feud with Beth Phoenix, facing her on multiple occasions in both singles and tag team matches with a variety of opponents, including Mickie James and Candice Michelle.[3][36][37] During this time, Phoenix was aligned with Hall, and in late September Kelly transitioned into a feud with Hall.[38][39][40] At the Survivor Series pay-per-view in November, Kelly was part of the victorious Raw Diva team which defeated the SmackDown Divas in a five-on-five elimination match. During the match, she eliminated Victoria, before being eliminated by Maryse.[41] The following month at Armageddon, Kelly teamed with Maria, Michelle McCool and James in a winning effort against Hall, Maryse, Victoria and Natalya.[42]
On April 5, 2009, Kelly competed in a Divas Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXV, but the match was won by Santina Marella.[43] On the May 18 episode of Raw, Kelly won a battle royal by eliminating Beth Phoenix and Mickie James, to become the number one contender to the WWE Divas Championship.[44] The following week, she challenged Maryse for the championship and won by disqualification, allowing Maryse to retain.[45] Kelly lost a subsequent rematch by pinfall two weeks later on June 8.[46] Three weeks later, she competed in a fatal four-way match to determine the number one contender, but the match was won by James.[47] Throughout the remainder of mid-2009, Kelly unsuccessfully competed in several number one contender matches.[48][49] At the Bragging Rights pay-per-view in October, Kelly, Gail Kim and Melina comprised Team Raw, but lost to Team SmackDown, consisting of Phoenix, Natalya and McCool.[50] The following month at the Survivor Series pay-per-view, Kelly participated in a five-on-five elimination match, which her team won. She eliminated Layla before being eliminated by Phoenix.[51]
In January 2010, Kelly participated in the tournament to determine a new Divas Champion, after Melina was forced to vacate the championship due to injury, but was eliminated by Alicia Fox in the first round.[52] Throughout early 2010, Kelly was involved in several backstage segments with the guest hosts of Raw.[3] At WrestleMania XXVI, Kelly teamed with Phoenix, Kim, James and Eve Torres in a losing effort to McCool, Layla, Maryse, Fox and Vickie Guerrero.[53] The following night on Raw, the teams faced off in a rematch with the opposite result.[54] The following week, Kelly took part in a 10-Diva Dress To Impress battle royal, to determine the number one contender for Maryse's Divas Championship, but the match was won by Torres.[55]
Smackdown and feud with LayCool (2010–2011)
During the 2010 WWE Draft on April 26, Kelly was drafted to the SmackDown brand.[56] She made her debut on the April 30 episode of SmackDown by teaming with Beth Phoenix to defeat Lay-Cool (Michelle McCool and Layla).[57] She went on to feud with Lay-Cool, gaining an ally in Tiffany. Over the next several weeks, Kelly and Tiffany faced Lay-Cool in tag team matches, with Lay-Cool winning on both occasions.[58][59] On the June 4 episode of SmackDown, Kelly made her singles debut for the brand, defeating Rosa Mendes, despite being distracted by Layla and McCool.[60] After defeating both Layla and McCool in singles matches, she received a Women's Championship match at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in July, but was unsuccessful.[61][62][63] On August 31, Kelly announced that she would be a mentor on season three of NXT, with Naomi as her rookie.[64] Throughout the second half of 2010, Kelly continued to feud with Lay-Cool, and gained an ally in Natalya in October.[65][66][67] In November, Kelly's NXT rookie, Naomi was named runner-up to the winner, Kaitlyn during the season finale.[68]
In December, Kelly started a storyline with Drew McIntyre who had developed a romantic interest in her.[3] She rebuffed his advances on several occasions, stating he was too aggressive and vindictive.[69][70][71] On January 30, 2011, at the Royal Rumble, Kelly prevented the Acting General Manager Vickie Guerrero from interfering in the World Heavyweight Championship match between Edge and Dolph Ziggler.[72] On the following episode of SmackDown, Kelly and Edge defeated Lay-Cool and Ziggler in a two-on-three handicap match to retain Edge's World Heavyweight Championship. Following the match, Guerrero fired Kelly in storyline.[73] At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view later that month, Kelly was re-hired by SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long, and made her return by attacking Guerrero. She was stopped by Lay-Cool, who were in turn stopped by Trish Stratus.[74] On the following episode of SmackDown, Kelly gained revenge on Guerrero when Kelly and Edge defeated Guerrero and McIntyre in a mixed tag team match, causing Guerrero to be fired in storyline per the pre-match stipulation.[75]
Raw, Divas Champion and alliance with Eve (2011-Present)
On April 26, Kelly was drafted back to the Raw brand as part of the 2011 supplemental draft.[76] On May 22 at the Over the Limit pay-per-view, Kelly unsuccessfully challenged Brie Bella for the WWE Divas Championship.[77] The following night on Raw, she teamed with Gail Kim, Eve Torres and Beth Phoenix, against The Bella Twins, Maryse and Melina. The match, however ended in a no-contest following an interruption by Kharma.[78] On the 30 May edition of Raw, Kelly teamed with Eve to defeat The Bella Twins.[79] The following week on Raw, Kelly again scored a victory over The Bella Twins in tag team action, this time teaming with Beth Phoenix.[80] On the June 13 edition of Raw, an All-Star special, Kelly was again victorious, in a 7 on 7 diva tag team match, teaming with Beth Phoenix, Gail Kim, Eve Torres, Natalya, A.J. and Kaitlyn to defeat The Bella Twins, Melina, Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes, Maryse and Tamina.[81]
On the June 20 edition of Raw, a special Power to the People edition, Kelly won her first WWE Divas Championship after she was selected by the WWE Universe to face Brie Bella.[82] On the June 27 edition of Raw, a special "Raw Roulette" edition, Kelly defeated Nikki Bella in a non-title, submission match. After the match, both Bellas attacked Kelly, however Eve made the save for Kelly. WWE.com has been announced that Kelly will have her first title defense on July 17, at Money in the Bank pay per-view.[83] On the 4th of July special Independence Day edition of Raw, Kelly teamed up with Eve to defeat The Bella Twins in a tag team match.[82] On the July 11 edition of Raw, Kelly Kelly defeated Melina in a single match.[84] On the Money in the Bank, Kelly Kelly successfully retained her title over Brie Bella (with Nikki Bella) accompanied by Eve.[85] On the July 25 edition of Raw, Kelly Kelly and Eve defeated Maryse and Melina in a divas tag-team match.[86] On the August 1 edition of Raw, Beth Phoenix won a battle-royal to earn shot at Kelly's Divas Championship on SummerSlam pay per-view. After the match Kelly congratulated Phoenix, who attacked her turning heel in the process.[87] On the August 8 edition of Raw, Phoenix defeated Eve in a singles match, stating a promo after the match. After that, Kelly attacked her and made save for Eve. On SummerSlam, Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve successfully retained her title against Beth Phoenix with Natalya on the ringside.[88]
Other media
In April 2007, Kelly, along with Ashley Massaro, Layla, Brooke Adams, Torrie Wilson, and Maryse, appeared in a music video for the Timbaland song "Throw It on Me" (featuring The Hives).[89] On April 11, 2008, Blank along with Mickie James, Melina Perez, and Layla El appeared in an episode of Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp as trainers.[90] Six days later, she appeared as the "Soccerette" on the British football show Soccer AM.[91] She appeared a second time on Soccer AM in 2009.[92]
In August 2007, all three members of Extreme Exposé also took part in a photo-shoot for FHM Online.[93] In 2011, Blank was ranked number 82 in Maxim's Hot 100.[94]
Personal life
Blank was born in Jacksonville, Florida to a Jewish father and Christian mother.[1][95] Blank was a fan of professional wrestling as a child, and cites Stone Cold Steve Austin as her favorite wrestler.[96] While growing up, Blank participated in gymnastics for ten years, before she was forced to quit due to an injury.[1] She later took up cheerleading.[1] Blank studied broadcast journalism, hoping to become a television anchor.[1][6] She was also a Hawaiian Tropic and Venus Swimwear bikini model before she entered professional wrestling.[1][6] While training at OVW, Blank lived in Kentucky.[96] Following this, Blank lived in Tampa, Florida prior to moving to Miami. She then returned to living in Tampa in 2010.[2] She describes Trish Stratus as her inspiration in wrestling.[96]
Blank was in a two-and-a-half year relationship with wrestler Andrew Martin, that had ended prior to his death in March 2009.[97][98] She also previously dated Dave Batista briefly.[99][100] In summer 2011, Blank began dating Dallas Stars' defenceman Sheldon Souray. [101]
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- K2[91] / Kelly Kick[102] (Leg drop bulldog, sometimes preceded by stepping off the back of an opponent on all fours)[103]
- Signature moves
- Entrance themes
- "Holla" by Desiree Jackson (2006–2007)[107]
- "Holla (2nd Remix)" by Desiree Jackson (October 6, 2008–present)[108]
Championships and accomplishments
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked her #26 of the best 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2010.[109]
- World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
- WWE Divas Championship (1 time, current)[110]
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