Velvet McIntyre

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Velvet McIntyre
McIntyre (left) pinning Donna Christenello (right), circa 1988
Born (1962-11-24) November 24, 1962 (age 62)
Children2
Professional wrestling career
Ring nameVelvet McIntyre
Billed height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight150 lb (68 kg)
Billed fromDublin, Ireland
Trained bySandy Barr
Debut1980
Retired1998

Velvet McIntyre (born November 24, 1962) is a Canadian retired

World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). She had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women's Championship and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship
. After the WWF's women's division went on hiatus in the 1990s, McIntyre wrestled in several Canadian promotions, holding several championships.

McIntyre wore wrestling boots for the first four years of her career, but later wrestled barefoot when someone took one of her boots as a joke and she was forced to wrestle without them.[1] Wrestling barefoot subsequently became one of her trademarks, as well as her high flying wrestling maneuvers.[1]

Early life

McIntyre was born in Dublin, Ireland.[citation needed][dubious – discuss] She had three brothers with whom she wrestled.[2] After finishing high school, she moved to Oregon in 1980 to train with Sandy Barr, under whom she trained with her future opponent and tag team partner, Princess Victoria.[2]

Professional wrestling career

Canada (1980–1984)

McIntyre made her professional wrestling debut in Idaho in 1980, and began wrestling full-time three months later.

Don Owen.[3]

In 1982, she joined the World Wrestling Federation, where she began teaming with Princess Victoria, and in March, the duo lost a series of matches against the team of The Fabulous Moolah and Wendi Richter.[3] McIntyre defeated Richter in two separate matches in Bill Watts's Mid-South Wrestling Association.[3] In November and December 1982, McIntyre worked for Stampede Wrestling, where she teamed with Judy Martin against Richter and Joyce Grable; the feud between the two teams resumed in April 1983 in Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association.[3]

In May 1983, McIntyre returned to Stampede Wrestling, where she continued her rivalry with Richter and Grable. This time, she teamed once again with Princess Victoria.

NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship on May 13 in Calgary.[3][4]

World Wrestling Federation (1982; 1984–1988)

In 1983, the World Wrestling Federation withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance, and when McIntyre and Victoria rejoined the promotion in 1984, they were immediately recognized as holding the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.[3] The duo defended the championship against the team of Wendi Richter and Peggy Lee.[3] Desiree Petersen later replaced Victoria in the team when Victoria had to retire due to a neck injury and the new duo lost the title in August 1985 to Judy Martin and Leilani Kai (known as The Glamour Girls) in Egypt.[3][5]

McIntyre then began wrestling as a singles wrestler, immediately feuding with

Rockin' Robin, and the Jumping Bomb Angels against Martel, Leilani Kai, Judy Martin, Donna Christanello, and Dawn Marie, herself eliminating both Christanello and Martel by pinfall before being eliminated by Kai.[7][10]
By 1990, the WWF women's division was again on hiatus.

Return to Canada (1993–1998)

After leaving the WWF, McIntyre continued to wrestle sporadically on the independent circuit.

strap match—a match where the wrestlers must compete while connected via a leather strap—in which McIntyre was victorious.[3]

In November 1997, as a part of the International Championship Wrestling, she won the WWWA Women's Championship from Bertha Faye.[3] She also held the ICW Women's Championship, which she lost in July 1998.[3]

Personal life

It is a common misconception that McIntyre is the daughter of professional wrestler Moose Morowski.[12]

McIntyre retired from wrestling in 1998 after discovering she was pregnant, and she later gave birth to twins.[1][12] In her spare time, she makes and sells crafts.[1]

Championships and accomplishments

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Oliver, Greg (March 26, 2003). "Velvet's WrestleMania memories". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on January 1, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Oliver, Greg (March 26, 2003). "Velvet's WrestleMania memories". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on January 1, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Nevada, Vance (June 30, 2005). "Results for Velvet McIntyre". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  4. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. Information also available at Wrestling-Titles.com
    .
  5. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. Information also available at Solie's Title Histories
    .
  6. ^ Powell, John. "WrestleMania 2: Caged Heat". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  7. ^ a b Shields, Brian. Main Event: WWE in the Raging 80s, p.87
  8. World Wrestling Entertainment. Archived from the original
    on February 8, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
  9. ^ Shields, Brian. Main Event: WWE in the Raging 80s, p.136
  10. World Wrestling Entertainment
    . Retrieved November 3, 2008.
  11. ^ "Women Wrestling Video and DVD". Retrieved October 16, 2010.
  12. ^ a b "Canadian Hall of Fame: Velvet McIntyre". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  13. ^ "Texas Women's Championship". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
  14. ^ "NWA United States Women's Title". wrestling-titles. Retrieved September 3, 2020.

References

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