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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
While growing up, Blank participated in [[gymnastics]] for ten years, before she was forced to quit due to an injury.<ref name="slam"/> She later took up [[cheerleading]].<ref name="slam"/> Blank studied [[broadcast journalism]], hoping to become a television anchor.<ref name="slam"/><ref name="Brisb"/> She was also a [[Hawaiian Tropic]] and [[Venus Swimwear]] [[bikini]] [[Model (person)|model]] before she entered professional wrestling.<ref name="slam"/><ref name="Brisb">{{cite web|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/on-tour-with-kelly-kelly/2008/05/16/1210765173335.html|title=On Tour with Kelly Kelly|accessdate=2008-08-28|first=Scott|last=Casey|publisher=[[Brisbane Times]]|date=2008-05-17}}</ref>
While growing up, Blank participated in [[gymnastics]] for ten years, before she was forced to quit due to an injury.<ref name="slam"/> She later took up [[cheerleading]].<ref name="slam"/> Blank studied [[broadcast journalism]], hoping to become a television anchor.<ref name="slam"/><ref name="Brisb"/> She was also a [[Hawaiian Tropic]] and [[Venus Swimwear]] [[bikini]] [[Model (person)|model]] before she entered professional wrestling.<ref name="slam"/><ref name="Brisb">{{cite web|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/on-tour-with-kelly-kelly/2008/05/16/1210765173335.html|title=On Tour with Kelly Kelly|accessdate=2008-08-28|first=Scott|last=Casey|publisher=[[Brisbane Times]]|date=2008-05-17}}</ref> She dated fellow wrestler Andrew Test Martin who died on March 13th, 2009 she had previosly disclosed their relationship with reluctance while on the radio.<ref>andrew test martin wikipedia</ref> Blank had a short relationship with wrestler Dave Bautista.<ref>dave bautista website</ref>


==In wrestling==
==In wrestling==

Revision as of 00:13, 11 August 2009

Kelly Kelly
Born (1987-01-15) January 15, 1987 (age 37)[1][2]
Jacksonville, Florida[3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Kelly Kelly
Billed height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[4]
Billed weight108 lb (49 kg)[4]
Billed fromJacksonville, Florida[3]
Trained byOVW staff[4]
DebutJune 13, 2006[4]

Barbara Jean "Barbie" Blank[5] (born January 15, 1987)[1][2] is an American model, professional wrestling valet, dancer, and professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly. She is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its Raw brand.[6]

World Wrestling Entertainment

Ohio Valley Wrestling

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contacted her modeling agency and invited her to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for a try out despite her having no previous wrestling experience and eventually offered her a contract, which she signed in May 2006.[4][2][7] 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.[8] 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.[2][8]

ECW

Blank debuted for the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) brand as Kelly Kelly, on the first episode of the weekly television program—June 13, 2006—becoming the youngest Diva on the WWE roster.[5][9] Her character, an exhibitionist, was introduced performing a striptease for the crowd.[7][9] The next week, while performing another live sex show with Sandman, 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.[7][10] 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.[11][12] Eventually Knox began "forcing" Kelly to accompany him to ringside so he could keep an eye on her, making her his de facto valet. 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 dragged into the ring and spanked by Dreamer and inadvertently hit with a cane by Sandman when Knox used her as a shield.[13] 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.[14]

Kelly Kelly during a SmackDown!/ECW house show.

Following this feud, Kelly and Knox were moved into a storyline with CM Punk in which Kelly obviously had a crush on Punk, causing Knox to become increasingly protective and jealous.[15] Things came to a head when Kelly 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.[16][17] At December to Dismember, Kelly and Knox took on the team of Ariel and Kevin Thorn in a mixed tag match, during which Knox refused to allow Kelly to tag him in before abandoning her altogether, leaving her to be beaten badly by Ariel.[18] On the following edition 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.[19]

She returned to television on January 16, 2007 and cut a promo announcing she was newly single and bringing back Kelly's Exposé.[20] The next week,[21] Extreme Exposé, a spin-off to the previous Exposé segment involving not just Kelly but Brooke and Layla performing choreographed dances in the ECW ring, debuted. The trio danced nearly-weekly for the next few months,[4][7] tapering off when Mike "The Miz" Mizanin was moved to ECW in the June draft lottery and all three ladies began actively pursuing him.[22] Later, however, Kelly shifted her attentions towards the much more slovenly looking Balls Mahoney,[23] to the amusement of Miz and her Exposé sisters who spent their time mocking his look. After Brooke was released from the company in November,[24] Extreme Exposé dissolved, and Kelly began taking part in more wrestling matches with Layla.[7]

Raw

The 2008 WWE Draft left Kelly as the only female wrestler on ECW, and upon its completion she was moved to Raw starting with the July 7 episode. [25] Kelly made her Raw debut by teaming with Mickie James to defeat Layla and Jillian Hall. At Survivor Series, Kelly teamed with fellow Raw Divas against the SmackDown! Divas, in which her team won. At Armageddon, Kelly teamed with Maria, Michelle McCool and Mickie James in a winning effort against Jillian Hall, Maryse, Victoria and Natalya. . On April 5, 2009, Kelly competed in a Divas Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXV, but the match was won by Santina Marella.[26] 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.[27] She won her title match against Maryse by disqualification, meaning the championship did not change hands, and lost a subsequent rematch by pinfall two weeks later on June 8.[28][29]

Other media

In April 2007, Blank, along with Ashley, Layla El, Brooke, Torrie Wilson, and Maryse, appeared in a music video for the Timbaland song "Throw It on Me" (featuring The Hives).[30] That August all three members of Extreme Exposé also took part in a photo-shoot for FHM Online.[31]

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. Six days later, she appeared as the "Soccerette" on the British football show Soccer AM.[32]

Personal life

While growing up, Blank participated in gymnastics for ten years, before she was forced to quit due to an injury.[2] She later took up cheerleading.[2] Blank studied broadcast journalism, hoping to become a television anchor.[2][7] She was also a Hawaiian Tropic and Venus Swimwear bikini model before she entered professional wrestling.[2][7] She dated fellow wrestler Andrew Test Martin who died on March 13th, 2009 she had previosly disclosed their relationship with reluctance while on the radio.[33] Blank had a short relationship with wrestler Dave Bautista.[34]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b The December 2006 issue of WWE Magazine, page 89, gives her birth date as December 1; however, on her MySpace blog, she writes: ...I know in the WWE Magazine it says its my birthday on December 1st i think they made a printing mistake becuase my real bitrthday is January 15th...[sic]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Kamchen, Richard. "Kelly Kelly". Slam Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  3. ^ a b c "Diva Dish: Go team!". WWE. Retrieved 2007-09-28.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Online World of Wrestling profile". Retrieved 2007-04-07. Cite error: The named reference "OwWProfile" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b The LilsBoys (2007-12-03). "So good they named her twice". The Sun. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  6. ^ "Kelly Kelly Bio". WWE. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Casey, Scott (2008-05-17). "On Tour with Kelly Kelly". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  8. ^ a b "Online World of Wrestling - 2006 OVW results". Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  9. ^ a b "ECW results — June 13, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  10. ^ "ECW results — June 20, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  11. ^ "ECW results — June 27, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  12. ^ "ECW results — July 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  13. ^ "ECW results — July 18, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  14. ^ "ECW results — August 22, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  15. ^ "ECW results — September 12, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  16. ^ "ECW results — October 31, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  17. ^ "ECW results — November 7, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  18. ^ PWI Staff (2007). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts". "Wrestling’s historical cards". Kappa Publishing. p. 122.
  19. ^ "ECW results — December 05, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  20. ^ PWI staff (2007). "Arena Reports". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Kappa: 130. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  21. ^ "ECW results — January 23, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  22. ^ "ECW results — June 19, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  23. ^ "ECW results — August 7, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  24. ^ "Brooke released". WWE. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
  25. ^ "Raw results — July 7, 2008". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  26. ^ Raymond, Katie A. "Results:Say hello to my twin sister". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  27. ^ Plummer, Dale (2009-05-18). "RAW: Batista, Flair stand tall over Legacy". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  28. ^ Plummer, Dale (2009-05-26). "RAW: Vince uses his podium; "Lakers" win". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  29. ^ Plummer, Dale (2009-06-08). "RAW: Batista hurt, Vicki quits, Triple H returns". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  30. ^ Medalis, Kara A. (April 20, 2007). "The Sexiest Women in L.A." WWE. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved April 21 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  31. ^ "Diva Dish: FHM goes Extreme". WWE. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  32. ^ a b c "Week 37 - Kelly Kelly". Soccer AM Soccerettes Archive. Sky Sports. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  33. ^ andrew test martin wikipedia
  34. ^ dave bautista website
  35. ^ "ECW results — August 7, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  36. ^ "ECW results — September 4, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  37. ^ "ECW results — June 27, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  38. ^ "ECW results — July 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  39. ^ "The PWI Female 50 Rankings: Who Is The Top Women's Wrestler In The World?". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. PWPix.net. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2008-09-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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