Gail Kim (born February 20, 1976) is a Korean Canadian professional wrestler, valet, model and actress. She is currently working for TNA Wrestling where she was the first ever TNA Women's Champion. She is also a one-time WWE Women's Champion, having won the title on her debut match for World Wrestling Entertainment. She is the first female wrestler to win the women's title in both WWE & TNA.
On September 6, 2005, TNA Wrestling announced that they had signed Gail Kim to a contract. On the October 8 edition of TNA Impact!, Kim made her debut, aligning herself with Jeff Jarrett and America's Most Wanted by attacking Team 3D. Shortly thereafter, she helped AMW regain the NWA World Tag Team Championship from The Naturals. On November 26, Kim was attacked by the debuting Jackie Gayda. She spent the remainder of the year and early 2006 filming her part in the film "Royal Kill" before returning to TNA and rekindling her feud with Gayda. Between February and April, Kim was the guardian of Jackie Gayda, who had been blackmailed into joining the Planet Jarrett stable. The two women frequently fought one another during matches featuring members of Planet Jarrett as Gayda attempted to cost them the match. Gayda was "fired" by Kim at Sacrifice on May 14, after announcing that she was pregnant.
On May 15, Kim wrestled Traci in a dark match to be featured on the TNA Knockouts DVD. The match was the first women's match in TNA in over a year and Kim's first match on American soil since her WWE release. Since then, Kim was attacked at Slammiversary by Sirelda. The weeks after this, the two traded blows until Victory Road, where Sirelda's team defeated Kim's team. At Hard Justice, they faced off against each other in a one-on-one match, which Kim won.
On the October 19, 2006 Impact!, Kim was kayfabe injured in the ring by Hernandez when he gave her a Bordertoss following a loss in an eight man tag match where Latin American Exchange (Hernandez and Homicide) teamed with America's Most Wanted. At Genesis, America's Most Wanted lost to LAX after James Storm was hit with a blowtorch can. After the match, Homicide tried to use Da Gringo Killa on her, but she was saved by Petey Willams, who beat LAX with a lead pipe. AMW got another shot against LAX in a flag match at Turning Point where James Storm accidentally hit Chris Harris with shards of a beer bottle allowing LAX to win again. AMW then got one more shot in a Title vs Team match where if AMW lost they would have to disband. AMW lost when Storm hit Harris with the beer bottle on purpose. Kim went by Harris' side as Storm left.
At Final Resolution, Kim accompanied James Storm who defeated Petey Williams with his feet on the ropes. However, she helped Williams from further assault by taking Storm's infamous beer bottle out of his hand and giving him a low blow. Kim was then jumped from behind by a returning Jacqueline Moore, who became Storm's new manager. In response, Kim became Williams' new manager. Kim and Williams faced Storm and Moore in a mixed tag match at Against All Odds; Moore was able to pin Kim after Storm collided into her. After the match, "Wildcat" Chris Harris returned to chase away Storm. A rematch with Kim against Storm was made in a Double Bullrope match which Storm won. At Lockdown, Kim faced off with Moore in a TNA Cat Fight Steel cage match, the first women's cage match in TNA. Kim won the match after a flying crossbody from the cage. Gail & Moore had a rematch in a street fight, where Kim once again defeated Moore after a running front dropkick on Moore who was holding a chair, which resulted in Moore losing some teeth.
Kim made her return at Slammiversary when she kissed Eric Young to get him to concentrate for his match as he was being seduced by Ms. Brooks. She also aided him by taking out Brooks allowing Young to defeat Robert Roode. Kim later defeated Brooks in a match on Impact! by order of Jim Cornette. Kim would then go on to team with Eric Young to defeat Ms. Brooks and Robert Roode at Victory Road. She would then reappear to help Eric embarrass Ms. Brooks at Hard Justice by tarring and feathering her. At Bound for Glory, she became the first ever TNA Women's Champion, when she won a 10 Woman gauntlet elimination match last defeating Roxxi Laveaux. She defended the title one month later against Roxxi Laveaux, O.D.B., and Angel Williams in a four-way match at Genesis and retained the title when she pinned ODB with the Happy Ending. In the next couple of weeks, she competed in the TNA Knockouts Santa's Workshop Street Fight. She immediately ran to the ring going after her rival Awesome Kong. After fighting insued between Gail and Kong, they even took the fight to the backstage area where Awesome Kong reappeared from backstage with Gail appearing to be missing. Awesome Kong went on to win the Street Fight after delivering an Awesome Bomb to Christy Hemme. After the match, Gail reappeared attacking Awesome Kong with a steel chair, ultimately knocking her down. Security would have to break the two up. Gail defeated Awesome Kong at Final Resolution 2008 in a No Disqualification match to retain her TNA Women's World Championship. However, Gail would lose the TNA Women's Championship to Kong on the main event of the January 10 episode of TNA Impact! after Kong dropped her with two pick-up powerbombs followed up with an Awesome Bomb to pick up the win. On the January 24 edition of TNA Impact! Gail was named as 2007 TNA Knockout of the Year, where she called out Awesome Kong telling her that Kong will never put her out. Kong came out and went in the ring and started beating down Gail. Just as Kong was about to drop her with the Awesome Bomb, O.D.B. hit the ring to make the save.On February 21st on Impact, Kim and tag team partner O.D.B. had some miscommunication and started brawling with each other.At Destination X she lost a 3-Way match, which included ODB, to Awesome Kong.
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