38 Facts About Sherri Martel

Sherri Martel joined the American Wrestling Association in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times.

Also in the WWF, Sherri Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels.

Sherri Martel appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling in the 1990s.

Sherri Martel appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance.

Sherri Martel was first introduced to professional wrestling as a child, when her mother took her and her sister to shows in Mississippi.

In 1974, Sherri Martel approached Grizzly Smith for advice on becoming a wrestler, but he questioned her conviction and told her to come back to him in 1980 when she was an adult.

Sherri Martel eventually married her second husband and gave birth to a son named Jared, but she soon divorced her husband.

Sherri Martel started wrestling as Sherri Martine, but decided she needed more training.

Sherri Martel continued to train at The Fabulous Moolah's school, where Moolah changed her name to Sherri Martel and sent her to wrestle in Japan in 1981.

Moolah claims that Sherri Martel frequented night clubs and liked to party, which resulted in Moolah kicking her out of the school.

Sherri Martel then worked as both a wrestler and manager for Pat Rose and Tom Prichard.

Sherri Martel eventually debuted in the AWA and, on September 28,1985, at SuperClash in Chicago, she defeated Candi Devine for the AWA World Women's Championship.

Sherri Martel traded the belt with Devine, and on June 28,1986, at "Battle by the Bay," Martel defeated Devine to win the AWA World Women's Championship for a third and final time.

Sherri Martel only held the title briefly before vacating it.

At the Survivor Series in 1987, Sherri Martel's team consisting of Sherri Martel, Women's World Tag Team Champions The Glamour Girls, Dawn Marie, and Donna Christanello lost to The Fabulous Moolah's team consisting of Moolah, Velvet McIntyre, Rockin' Robin, and the Jumping Bomb Angels.

Concurrent with her reign as WWF Women's Champion, Sherri Martel made several appearances in costume as "Peggy Sue," the girlfriend of The Honky Tonk Man, who was in the midst of a run as Intercontinental Champion.

Sherri Martel then attacked Hulk Hogan from behind as he came to Miss Elizabeth's rescue, leaving him open to a chair attack from Savage, Throughout the remainder of 1989, Sherri Martel and Savage feuded with Hogan and Miss Elizabeth.

Practically in tears, Sherri Martel raced back to the locker room.

Later on the WM7 card after she and Savage parted ways following the career match, Sherri Martel came to the ring to help "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase in his assault on an injured Rowdy Roddy Piper, following which she managed DiBiase until 1992.

Subsequently, Sherri Martel began managing Shawn Michaels after Pat Patterson convinced Michaels to participate in the storyline.

In February 1992, during Paul Bearer's interview segment The Funeral Parlor, Sherri Martel declared she was now "in love" with Shawn Michaels, who had just turned on his longtime tag team partner Marty Jannetty.

Sherri Martel spent the remainder of the year aligned with Tatanka, who aided her in her feud with Luna Vachon and Bam Bam Bigelow.

Sherri Martel was released from the World Wrestling Federation during the summer.

Towards the end of her time in the WWF, Sherri Martel participated in a WWF invasion angle in the USWA, reuniting with Savage.

Sherri Martel began working in Eastern Championship Wrestling in 1993, managing Shane Douglas.

Sherri Martel turned on Douglas in a tag match with Brian Pillman, costing Douglas the match on behalf of Ric Flair.

At Bash at the Beach, Sherri Martel tried to help Flair to defeat Hogan in a match by giving him brass knuckles, but failed.

At the feud's climactic battle, a steel cage match at Halloween Havoc, Sherri Martel climbed the cage to aid Flair and in the process had her dress pulled off by Jimmy Hart, Hogan's manager, leaving her dangling from the cage in black lingerie.

Sherri Martel managed the team to seven WCW World Tag Team Championship reigns.

In late 1994, Sherri Martel made a return appearance in ECW managing Shane Douglas and Brian Pillman against Ron Simmons and 2 Cold Scorpio.

Back in WCW, Sherri Martel had a brief on-screen romance with Col.

Robert Parker until October 1996 when Harlem Heat fired him and Sherri Martel had a match with him at World War 3 in November.

Sherri Martel continued to manage Harlem Heat until she got fired from the group on the July 7,1997, edition of Nitro.

Early in 1999, Sherri Martel competed in a mixed-tag team match for the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation's Heavyweight Championship, a title held predominately by men.

Sherri Martel wrestled her very last match at WrestleReunion on January 29,2005, teaming with Peggy Lee Leather, Amber O'Neal and Krissy Vaine losing to Wendi Richter, Malia Hosaka, Bambi and Jenny Taylor.

Sherri Martel was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Ted DiBiase in April 2006.

Sherri Martel was married and divorced at least twice during her life.

On June 15,2007, Sherri Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham.