1. Velvet McIntyre was born on November 24,1962 and is a Canadian retired professional wrestler.
16 Facts About Velvet McIntyre
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Velvet McIntyre had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women's Championship and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.
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Velvet 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.
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Velvet McIntyre made her professional wrestling debut in Idaho in 1980, and began wrestling full-time three months later.
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Velvet McIntyre then joined Vancouver's All Star Wrestling in 1981, where she feuded with Princess Victoria.
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Velvet McIntyre continued to feud with Victoria for the remainder of the year in both singles and tag team matches in Vancouver and the NWA Pacific Northwest under promoter Don Owen.
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Velvet McIntyre defeated Richter in two separate matches in Bill Watts's Mid-South Wrestling Association.
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In November and December 1982, Velvet 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.
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In May 1983, Velvet McIntyre returned to Stampede Wrestling, where she continued her rivalry with Richter and Grable.
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Velvet McIntyre then began wrestling as a singles wrestler, immediately feuding with The Fabulous Moolah, unsuccessfully challenging her at Wrestlemania 2.
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Velvet McIntyre won the WWF Women's Championship on July 3,1986 when she defeated Moolah at the Brisbane Festival Hall on the WWF's 1986 Australian tour, but Moolah regained the title six days later at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
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In 1987, Velvet McIntyre consistently lost matches to Moolah and Sherri Martel.
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Velvet McIntyre competed at the Survivor Series, teaming with Moolah, 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.
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Velvet McIntyre competed in the Women's Pro Wrestling organization in the early 1990s.
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Velvet McIntyre held the ICW Women's Championship, which she lost in July 1998.
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Velvet McIntyre retired from wrestling in 1998 after discovering she was pregnant, and she later gave birth to twins.