Jacqueline Moore

At 60 years old, Jacqueline Moore has this physical status:

Jacqueline DeLois Moore (born January 6, 1964) is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager.

She is best known for her time in WWE (back–then Federation/Entertainment) from 1998 to 2004, as well as working for World Championship Wrestling in 1997-98 and later Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a wrestler, manager and road agent. She began her career in World Class Championship Wrestling, but was well known in the United States Wrestling Association, where she was a fourteen-time USWA Women's Champion.

She later moved to World Championship Wrestling, where she briefly managed the team Harlem Heat.

In 1998, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later World Wrestling Entertainment).

She began managing Marc Mero and had her first rivalry with Sable, which culminated in the re-establishment of the WWF Women's Championship, which Moore held twice during her time with the WWF.

In 1999, she formed an all-female alliance with Terri Runnels and Ryan Shamrock called the Pretty Mean Sisters.

In the early 2000s, Moore worked as both a referee and trainer for the WWF, and she also held the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, which was a title predominantly held by men.

She was the third woman to accomplish the feat, but the only woman to do so under the WWE banner (following Madusa and Daffney in WCW).

In 2004, she joined TNA, where she worked mostly as a manager and occasional wrestler. On April 2, 2016, Moore was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Moore grew up in Dallas, Texas. As a young fan of professional wrestling, Moore stated that the Von Erichs were her favorite wrestlers. She has a third degree black belt in taekwondo and also has experience in kickboxing and boxing.

In mid-2001, Moore, along with Tazz, Al Snow, and Tori, became a trainer on the MTV reality TV series Tough Enough. It was her first time training other wrestlers. On the show, she helped train future WWE wrestlers Nidia and Maven. In 2002, Moore competed on a special WWF superstar edition of Fear Factor, coming in second place to Matt Hardy.

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Professional wrestling career

After meeting professional wrestling manager Skandor Akbar, Moore started her wrestling training at a local gym. She was the only female in Akbar's professional wrestling academy in Dallas. "Sweet Georgia Brown" was her in-ring debut for World Class Championship Wrestling in 1988. Sweet Georgia Brown, Moore had wrestled in Japan for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, battling Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda. She also competed in all-women's tournaments, as well as the Women's Pro Wrestling Association and Women's Pro Wrestling Association.

Moore later joined the United States Wrestling Association in Memphis, Texas, where she was known as Miss Texas. During the Texas vs. Tennessee feud, she made her debut as a Heel Valet to Eric Embry and Tom Prichard as a member of team Texas. She was later involved in a feud with Dirty White Girl Kim Anthony and was involved in a Mudpit Match and a Hair vs. Hair contest which Anthony won and in the latter Moore had her hair cut off. She was the first female champion of the United States Women's Championship in 1992, winning the newly introduced title in a tournament. Moore held the title for a total of eight times between March 1992 and 1996, swapping it with Lauren Davenport, Luna Valiant, and Debbie Combs. Moore was the first female to be included in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 in 1993, focusing on the top 500 professional wrestlers in the country. Moore became embroiled in a rivalry with Reggie B.'s valet. Don Bass and Don Bass, Sweet Georgia Brown, Fine and Don Bass. Brown was jealous of Texas after the USWA aired a music video of Moore, and the two were involved in several catfights. Moore and Uptown Karen, the lover of Downtown Bruno, feuded in 1995. Moore formed an alliance with former adversary Sweet Georgia Brown during the feud. In a Hair vs. shety fought, the Miss Texas/Uptown Karen feud culminated in a Hair vs. Texas won a hair contest, but not Texas. She also competed in the Universal Wrestling Federation in Herb Abrams, winning the women's title in 1994. In late 1993, she appeared in a Jeff Jartt promo for the WWF, where Jartt would be criticizing a young man's singing voice.

Through the WWF's affiliation with the USWA Jacqueline, Jeff Jarcqueline was due to debut in the WWF under the name Wynonna as a boss for Jeff Jarcquett. Jackie filmed vignettes, but she left the WWF before debuting due to a traumatic injury. She appeared in the then-WWF Magazine's February 1994 issue.

Moore first appeared in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in October 1995 under the name Sgt. Rock and the Punisher were among Jim Cornette's Militia, which included Tommy Rich, Robert Gibson, Terry Gordy, and The Punisher. However, her time in SMW ran out, as the company closed at the end of November.

Moore began posting photographs of herself to the Atlanta, Georgia-based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and was eventually approached by WCW employee J. J. Dillon, who gave her a contract. Jacqueline debuted in WCW as the boss of Kevin Sullivan, and she assisted Sullivan in slamming his opponents by body slamming him. She assisted Sullivan in his feud with Chris Benoit and feuded with Sullivan's ex-wife, Woman. When she smashed a wooden chair over Sullivan's head, she brought him to the loss of a Loser Must Retire battle to Chris Benoit. On August 9, Jacqueline became Harlem Heat's manager. She and Disco Inferno briefly clashed, but Disco Inferno, who she defeated at Halloween Havoc on October 26.

Moore made his Wrestling Federation (WWF) debut in mid-1998, beginning on June 1 as Marc Mero's new on-screen girlfriend, and later began a feud with Mero, Sable's estranged wife. Sable defeated Moore in a bikini competition on July 26, 1998: Fully Loaded: In Your House after Sable removed her halter top to reveal a painted on bikini top. However, WWF Chairman Vince McMahon disqualified Sable for not wearing a traditional bikini, and Moore was named the champion. On August 30, Sable and Edge defeated Moore and Mero at SummerSlam. She will also wrestle Sable in a controversial evening gown competition in which one of her breasts was revealed on September 14, 1998, episode of Raw.

Moore became the first African-American Women's Champion with the revived WWF Women's Championship on the line in September (the Women's Championship had been suspended in December 1995). Sable defeated Moore to become the next champion at Survivor Series two months later.

Moore and Mero were both released on Sunday Night Heat's episode on November 22, and the jilted Moore formed the Pretty Mean Sisters, a group of women who had been estranged from her husband, Goldust. On the November 23 episode of Raw, Mero and Goldust met together, and low-blowed both men.

They formed an alliance with D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry, who went with them to the ring for a match against Val Venis and The Godfather in December. In Your House: From The Beginning. Terri was branded a misscarriage after being knocked off the ring apron by Brown in January. Brown, who made him wrestle his buddy, Mark Henry, became a servant to Prime Minister Paul Ryan, who compelled him to go to prison. Terri was not pregnant at the time until February 1, when the ringside doctor told Brown that Terri was not pregnant. The prime minister fought Brown over matches and chastising his new boss, Ivory. In March, Jacqueline returned to the women's division, and she, Ivory, Tori, and Sable appeared on Raw's April 12 edition as part of a four-way match for the Women's Championship. After Sable's bodyguard Nicole Bass stormed the ring and choked the three opponents, the match was declared a no-contest.

However, the women had changed their allegiance to Meat, a wrestler. The stable increased in that month to include Ryan Shamrock, who had been inspired by Val Venis' womanization. The three women used Meat for their bodies as a "love slave," requiring them to have sex with them and wear wrestling tights that resembled a pair of tight underwear. Terri and Jacqueline continued to assist Meat in his matches after Shamrock left the WWF. However, tensions between the two women began to increase as Terri, a storyline, exhausted Meat with hours of sex before his matches, then chastised her for her sex before his matches and then chastised that Moore eventually had to lose matches, and Moore's friendship did not come to an end by July.

Jacqueline won the WWF Women's Championship for the second time on February 1, 2000, after beating Harvey Wippleman (who had won the belt from Miss Kitty while in drag and calling himself "Hervina") in a Lumberjill Snowbunny match, which was surrounded by female wrestlers whose job was to discourage The Kat and Hervina from leaving the pool. She defended her position against Luna Vachon, with whom she began a brief feud, but Stephanie McMahon lost the title to Stephanie McMahon in March, after extensive interference from D-Generation X. On Smackdown, she competed in the first-ever women's tournament to determine a top contender for Stephanie's title, but she failed to win.

Moore was unbeaten in August and September during a series of matches against then-Women's Champion Lita, which included a Hardcore match and one against Dean Malenko for the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship, which she lost. Both women stabbed Right to Censor member Ivory, who was on comment that night criticizing the women's division in January 2001. Jacqueline appeared on the first season of WWF's reality show Tough Enough as a mentor alongside Al Snow, Tazz, and Tori later this year.

On November 18, she competed in the Six Pack Challenge for the Vacant WWF Women's Championship, which was won by Trish Stratus in late 2001. Moore fought Stratus for the title at Vengeance several weeks later. Stratus won the match after surprising Moore with a backslide pin.

Moore made her debut at the Royal Rumble in 2002, with her debut match being a Women's Championship match between Jazz and Trish Stratus. Victoria and Sherwin began a feud with Victoria in late 2002, which culminated in a Triple Threat match at Armageddon in which Victoria retained the title. The revival of Jazz in 2003 culminated in a Four-Way competition for Jazz's title at Judgment Day, which Jazz won.

Moore was not around in late 2003 and early 2004. WWE Cruiserweight Champion Chavo Guerrero Jr. announced an open challenge for anyone to challenge him for his title, and Moore defeated him to become the champion on May 6, 2004 episode of SmackDown! At Judgment Day, she lost the championship to Guerrero, where his arm was tied behind his back. Moore was first introduced in June 2004, but the company's design team was unable to come up with any storylines for her character.

Vanessa Harding defeated Vanessa Harding in June 2005 in a match with the Independent Association of Wrestling (IAW). She defeated Harding and Crystal Carmichael to win the IAW Women's Championship on June 25, which was a surprise. She also competed in Mexico in March 2006.

Moore debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a babyface at the Victory Road pay-per-view on November 7, 2004, losing a singles match to Trinity's nefarious Trinity. On December 5 in Turning Point, where she refereed a tag team match between Pat Kenney and Johnny B. Badd against Johnny Swinger and Glenn Gilberti for her second appearance with TNA.

At Final Resolution on January 14, 2007, she returned to TNA as a villainess, partnering with James Storm on January 14, 2007 by threatening his boss, Gail Kim. Moore lost in an Arm Wrestling Match to Gail Kim on February 15 in an Impact Wrestling Match. Storm and Moore team up to defeat Kim and Petey Williams, both Against All Odds and Destination X. Moore, on the other hand, was defeated by Kim at Lockdown in TNA's first women's steel cage match. Moore's two front teeth were knocked out of her mouth after a spot where she had a trash can placed over her head and struck with a broom stick later in a Street Fight with Kim on May 3 episode of Impact! Moore, who would miss the game, joined Beer Money, Inc later that night to film a promo. Moore lost a 3-WAY Knockouts match to Gail Kim on July 5th on Impact Wrestling. Moore lost a deadly five-way match that was won by Roxxi Laveaux on September 27 in Impact Wrestling's September 27 episode. Moore lost to Gail Kim on October 4's Impact Wrestling's episode. Moore competed in the Gauntlet for the first TNA Women's Knockout Champion, which was won by Gail Kim. Angelina Love and Velvet Sky died on December 13 in Impact Wrestling, Moore, and Traci Brooks' loss to Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. Moore competed in a Santa's Workshop Knockouts Street Fight, which was won by Awesome Kong, on the December 20 episode of Impact Wrestling. Impact Wrestling, Moore, Roxxi, and ODB lost to The Beautiful People and Gail Kim on December 27. She continued to play in women's tournaments throughout 2008 and 2009, but she lost out on the TNA Knockouts Championship in 2008. On the February 21 episode of Impact Wrestling, Moore and Roxxi Leveaux defeated Gail Kim and ODB. Moore competed in a Queen of the Cage match at Lockdown (2008), which was won by Roxxi Laveaux. She then worked for Beer Money, Inc. (Storm and Robert Roode), before being moved from television to work as a backstage agent. Moore competed in an Immunity on a Pole match that was won by Gail Kim on May 8 episode of Impact Wrestling. Moore was in a 10-woman TNA Knockouts Makeover Battle Royal at Sacrifice (2008), which was won by Gail KIm. Moore came back to help Beer Money win the Monster's Ball match after Jacqueline interrupted a pin attempt by Homicide on Storm, with Steve McMichael spanking her in retaliation. She returned to in-ring action on June 19, 2009, defeating Rhaka Khan at a house show in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Moore appeared on Impact Wrestling's #1 Contender Knockout Gauntlet tournament, which was dominated by Velvet Sky on July 17th. Moore lost in a Bimbo Brawl on August 7th on Impact Wrestling's episode. Impact Wrestling, Moore, and Beer Money defeated LAX and Hector Guerrero on the September 25 episode of Impact Wrestling, Moore, and Beer Money. Moore defeated Rhaka Khan in her last match of the TNA, on June 19 at a house show. TNA and Moore parted ways on July 12, 2009.

Moore returned to TNA as ODB's new tag team partner on the June 16 episode of Impact Wrestling, with the two promising to clear up the Knockouts division. Both of them were paid separately and not under TNA control. In a tag team match the following week, Jackie and ODB defeated Velvet Sky and Ms. Tessmacher. Sky defeated Jackie and ODB in a two-on-one handicap match on June 28 at the tapings of the Impact Wrestling episode on July 7, effectively ending the match as per stipulation. On July 21, Jacqueline and ODB returned to Impact Wrestling, once more criticizing Velvet Sky ahead of her TNA Women's Knockout Championship match against Mickie James. They will be escorted out of the arena by police officers, after being led by them. Impact Wrestling, Jacqueline, and ODB changed their attitudes on the August 18 issue in order to gain employment with the company. On the August 25 episode of Impact Wrestling, Karen Jarrett, a former chief of the Knockouts division, was signed to contracts, and later teamed with Velvet Sky to defeat Angelina Love, Sarita, and Rosita. However, Jacqueline would not make any more appearances before announcing on November 28 that her TNA deal had ended.

On March 17, 2013, Jacqueline returned to TNA as part of their One Night Only pay-per-view series, Knockouts Knockdown (which aired on September 6, 2013). While beating her to advance to the Gauntlet Battle Royal, where Jacqueline fought former rival ODB, who later denied Jacqueline, Jacqueline satiety. In a Hardcore Justice 2 match, the villainous Jacqueline faced ODB two days later, losing by two days.

Moore will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2016. She was uninducted by The Dudley Boyz at the May 2 ceremony, becoming the first black woman to be inducted. She appeared at WrestleMania 32 on the next night as part of the 2016 Hall of Fame class.

Jacqueline was honored on the 25th anniversary of Raw, alongside fellow wrestlers and former employees; The Bella Twins, Kelly Kelly, Lilian Garcia, Torrie Wilson, Michelle McCool, Maria Kanellis, and fellow Hall of Famer Trish Stratus on January 22, 2018, on January 22, 2018. Jacqueline made a surprise appearance at number 21 during the first women's Royal Rumble match in which Nia Jax was disqualified.

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