Jessica Kresa (born June 6, 1978) is a female professional wrestler better known as O.D.B, currently working for TNA Wrestling.
Kresa's athletic background is not in wrestling, but in ice hockey, which her father encouraged her to pursue. She was the captain of the first girls team at her high school and played at St. Cloud State University for two years.
She began watching pro wrestling as a child. She enjoyed watching wrestlers such as The Killer Bees. She originally desired to be on the show American Gladiators. She hired a personal trainer in anticipation of her wrestling training.
She got her start in professional wrestling when she tried out for the first season of WWE's reality show, WWE Tough Enough. She made the top 25, but missed the final cut for the show. After returning home to Minnesota, Kresa began training. Soon after, she began wrestling in independent wrestling promotions all over the Midwest, facing men such as Ken Anderson and Shawn Daivari.
Kresa received her first national exposure in early 2003 as O.D.B. when wrestled Trinity in TNA Wrestling. She returned to TNA in early 2004 as Poison and was placed in a brief feud with Trinity. She appeared again in TNA during October 2004 and defeated Tracy Brooks.
In June 2006, Kresa started working in OVW as a heel in matches against Daisy Mae. Using the ring name ODB, Kresa brought the OVW Women's Championship alive when she created the title for herself, even though OVW did not recognize a women's champion at the time. She repeatedly cut promos saying that she was the new OVW Women's Champion, and OVW owner Danny Davis conceded and recognized the OVW Women's Championship. ODB lost her title to Katie Lea ( Katie Lea Burchill) in a Gauntlet Match on November 1, 2006. In the spring of 2007, ODB won the first ever "Miss OVW" crown with help from Victoria Crawford. Her ongoing feud with Lea led to a match between the two on June 1, 2007 where ODB was booked to defeat Lea to regain her title. ODB lost her title for the second time when she dropped it to Milena Roucka in a Six-Way Match on September 20, 2007.
O.D.B. was contacted by TNA Wrestling to appear at their annual pay-per-view Bound For Glory. This was confirmed on the October 10, 2007 edition of TNA Today where she was interviewed by Jeremy Borash. She was the first former Ohio Valley Wrestling female wrestling star to go straight to TNA instead of WWE. She made her in-ring debut at Bound for Glory participating in a 10 Knockout Gauntlet to crown the first-ever TNA Women's Champion. She was eliminated by Roxxi Laveaux(Nicole Raczynski), and the match was eventually won by Gail Kim. Since then, she has been a regular in the TNA Knockouts Division. She was booked as a heel, but was getting positive crowd reactions.
On the January 03, 2008 edition of Impact she won a 8 Knockout Gauntlet to determine the rankings of the women's division in TNA. On the January 17, 2008 edition of Impact, she defeated Angelina Love ( Angel Williams) and then challenged Awesome Kong to a title match at the pay-per-view Against All Odds.It was during this time, that she made her face turn. On the January 24 edition of TNA Impact! Awesome Kong attacked Gail Kim after Gail was named 2007 TNA Knockout of the Year and just as Kong was about to drop Gail with the Awesome Bomb, O.D.B. hit the ring to make the save. At Against All Odds, O.D.B. was defeated by Kong. At Destination X she lost a 3-way match, which included Gail Kim, to Awesome Kong. On April 13th at TNA Lockdown she and rival/friend, Gail Kim, defeated Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed (Melissa Anderson) .
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