Gail Kim vs Mickie James

TNA Knockout Champion Gail Kim with a Stretch Muffler on Mickie James.

TNA Knockouts: The Beautiful People

The Beautiful People is a professional wrestling female tag team consisting of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky.
They have been joined by their associate "the Fashionist" Cute Kip. (The ghost of Billy and Chuck is never far away is it?)
The Beautiful People's gimmick is that they are far more talented and beautiful than anyone else on the TNA Roster.
They actually started out in TNA as faces, coming to the aid of Gail Kim in a couple of matches.
But when Roxxi Laveaux turned down their offer for beauty tips, they attacked her and started their heel turn.
The two of them later started placing brown paper bags over their opponents' heads, and began harrassing backstage interviewer Lauren Brooke.

TNA Knockout: O.D.B. / Jessica Kresa

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) .

Roxxi Laveaux / Nikki Roxx / Nicole Raczynski

Nicole Raczynski (born April 19, 1979) is an American professional female wrestler, better known by her ring name, Nikki Roxx. She is currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi Laveaux.

As a child, Raczynski attended professional wrestling events at the Boston Garden with her parents. Raczynski trained as a wrestler under Wladek "Killer" Kowalski at the urging of April Hunter who was already training there. She debuted in March 2001 under the ring name Nikki Roxx and later formed a tag team with Hunter called The Killer Babes.

Roxx has wrestled in numerous North American independent promotions such as SHIMMER Women Athletes, Squared Circle Wrestling, Women's Extreme Wrestling, Professional Girl Wrestling Association, New England Championship Wrestling, World Women's Wrestling, Chaotic Wrestling and Ring of Honor. She has wrestled in Mexico for promotions such as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Lucha Libre Femenil.

Roxx debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on July 15, 2007 at the Victory Road pay-per-view. Identified as "The Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux, Roxxi was introduced as the valet of the Voodoo Kin Mafia. Following a bout between the Voodoo Kin Mafia and Basham and Damaja, Roxxi brawled with Christy Hemme, the valet of Basham and Damaja.

On the September 27, 2007 edition of iMPACT!, Roxxi defeated Hemme, Gail Kim, Jackie Moore & Ms. Brooks in a Bound For Glory preview match to claim the 10th and final spot in the TNA Women's Championship Gauntlet. Roxxi made it to the final two, although Kim ultimately won to become the first TNA Women's World Champion. On the following pay-per-view, Genesis 2007, Roxxi competed in a 4-Way match between herself, Gail Kim, ODB, and Angelina Love for the TNA Women's Championship. Roxxi had the advantage when she spit Asian mist onto ODB's face, but Gail Kim took down Roxxi long enough to pin ODB and retain her title.

Roxxi competed in a tag team match in Turning Point 2007, teaming up with ODB to take on Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. However, Roxxi and ODB lost the match, with Roxxi taking the pin after the double-team combo of Russian legsweep from Velvet Sky and a big boot from Angelina Love.

On the January 3, 2008 edition of iMPACT!, Roxxi participated in a Gauntlet match that will help determine the 2008 rankings of the TNA Knockouts division. Roxxi made it to the final two, facing off against ODB, but was pinned.

Roxxi was fired from the Voodoo Kin Mafia by Kip James on the January 31, 2008 , edition of iMPACT, because she accidentally threw white powder in the eyes of Kip and cost him the match against Hernandez.

On the March 6 edition of Impact! she was shown in a backstage promo with Angelina Love and Velvet Sky who said they were going to give her a makeover on the following Impact edition, so they could make her into one of the "beautiful people". Roxxi turned face as a result of the makeover by Love and Sky when the duo attacked her and called her a freak, sparking a feud between them.

TNA Knockout: Gail Kim

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.

Tracy Brookshaw, part 2

Brooks returned to TNA on November 5, 2003, helping Shane Douglas defeat The Sandman. On November 26, Douglas and Brooks (known now simply as Traci) helped Michael Shane defeat Sonjay Dutt. Following the match, the trio celebrated, and Douglas announced that they were to be called "The New Franchise".

The New Franchise began feuding with Triple X (Christopher Daniels, Low-Ki and Elix Skipper). The feud lasted until April 21, 2004, when Shane lost to Daniels after he passed up on a pinfall opportunity in order to try and hit his finisher. After Douglas admonished Shane, Shane began pushing and slapping his erstwhile mentor. Traci eventually grabbed Douglas from behind, enabling Shane to superkick Douglas. The following week, Traci helped Shane defeat Douglas in a singles match.

Traci continued to manage Shane, who was by now pursuing the TNA X Division Championship. Shane proved unable to defeat the incumbent champion, A.J. Styles, so he and Traci recruited Frankie Kazarian in order to maximize their numbers advantage. The result was a new stable/tag team that was known by fans as Shazarian. After several weeks of confrontations, Styles defended his title against Shane and Kazarian in a three way Ultimate X match on July 28, 2004. Though he was able to nullify the interference of Traci by giving her a Styles Clash, he was eventually knocked unconscious by the combined efforts of Shane and Kazarian. Shane and Kazarian then climbed for the X Division Championship, and simultaneously retrieved the belt, thus becoming co-champions. They lost the titles to Petey Williams in a Gauntlet Match on August 11.

In late-2004, Traci turned face by leaving Shane and Kazarian and becoming the assistant of the TNA Director of Authority, Dusty Rhodes. However, Trinity also wanted to be Rhodes' assistant, so he told each woman to recruit a new tag team. The teams faced one another at Destination X 2005 on March 13, 2005, with the winning team's manager becoming Rhodes' sole assistant. Traci's team (Don and Ron Harris, the Disciples of Destruction) defeated Trinity's team (Big Tilly and Bruno Sassi - Phi Delta Slam), making her Rhodes' assistant. Traci eventually left Rhodes' side and began managing Chris Sabin, who was feuding with Michael Shane and Trinity. At Lockdown on April 24, she tried to prevent Trinity from interfering in a four way X Division Xscape elimination match between Sonjay Dutt, Chris Sabin, Shocker and Shane. Her attempt failed when Trinity pushed her off the side of the cage and she landed on her bare feet, seemingly injuring herself in the attempt. This led to Trinity executing a Fall from Grace moonsault from the top of the cage and landing on top of Shane, Sabin and Shocker. Traci later got into the cage and engaged in a catfight with Trinity. The feud continued until Hard Justice on May 15, when Sabin and Traci lost to Shane and Trinity. In the course of the match, Traci turned on Sabin and Shane turned on Trinity, with Traci aligning herself with Shane once again and Trinity siding with Sabin.

Traci began managing Shane once again and stayed with him when he changed his name to his real name, Matt Bentley. When Bentley sat out during contract re negotiations in August 2005, she did some interview work for TNA. At Unbreakable on September 11, Traci acted as a backstage interviewer throughout the event. She returned to Bentley's side after his return at Unbreakable. In February 2006, Bentley turned heel and began a dispute with long time tag partner Lance Hoyt. Following the feud, Bentley was sidelined with an injury. Traci did promotional work for the company during the downtime.

On the May 15 taping of iMPACT!, she wrestled Gail Kim in the first woman's match in over a year. The match was taped purely for the forthcoming TNA Knockouts DVD and not for the Spike TV program. Gail Kim gained the pin after interference from America's Most Wanted. At Hardcore War 2006 she defeated Gail Kim with Christy Hemme as referee.




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Tracy Brookshaw, part 1

Tracy Brookshaw (born May 22, 1980) is a Canadian professional wrestler and professional wrestling valet, better known by her stage name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Tracy Brookshaw grew up on a pig and chicken farm in St. Marys, Ontario. In 2000, she won the Toronto Sunshine Millennium Calendar contest which led to her being named Miss June 2000 and interviewed in the Toronto Sun.Brookshaw went on to engage in promotional modeling work with the Molson, Labatt and Budweiser beverage brewers.

In her interview, Brookshaw said that she aspired to be "the next WWF Superstar". This led to her being introduced to Ron Hutchinson, a professional wrestler who operated the Sully's Gym professional wrestling school out of Toronto, Ontario. Brookshaw began training under Hutchinson in March 2000 and debuted in January 2001 as Tracy Brooks.

Brooks appeared with numerous independent promotions, including Border City Wrestling and the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation. During her time in AWF, she worked a program feuding with La Felina (Gail Kim) and was managed for a short time by Canadian hip-hop artist, Dan-e-o. On August 30, 2001, Brookshaw (as Miss Apocalypse) defeated Joey Knight to win the AWF heavyweight title. To this day, she continues to do work for independent promotions, including Blood Sweat and Ears in her home region in Southern Ontario and, most prominently, NWA Cyberspace where she contends for the NWA Cyberspace Women's Championship.

Brooks debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on April 30, 2003 in Catholic schoogirl apparel, attacking Lollipop, a dancer who entertained the live audience during intermissions. The following week, Brooks demanded to be entered in a gauntlet match in which the winner would receive a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, threatening to sue National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) official Bill Behrens for sexual discrimination if he did not comply. When her threats failed, Brooks instead attempted to charm Behrens into allowing her into the match. Behrens then placed Brooks in a triple threat match with fellow female wrestlers Desire and Trinity, with the winner gaining entry into the gauntlet match. After Kid Kash ambushed Trinity and David Young accidentally punched Desire, Brooks won the match. Later that evening, she was attacked by Lollipop as she approached the ring to enter the gauntlet match. After she entered the ring, Brooks was quickly pinned and eliminated by Kid Kash.

On May 21, Brooks was paired with David Young in an "Anarchy Alliance" tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders to the NWA World Tag Team Championship. They defeated Kid Kash and Trinity on May 21 and Ron Killings (whose partner, Don Harris, had refused to team with him) on June 4, but lost to America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) in the finals on June 11.

On the June 18, 2003 TNA pay-per-view, Brooks formed an all-female stable known as "Bitchslap" with Nurse Veronica and Valentina. The stable quietly disbanded shortly thereafter when Veronica turned down a proffered TNA contract and Brooks was removed from television for repackaging.