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Kelly Kelly
Born (1987-01-15) January 15, 1987 (age 37)[1]
Jacksonville, Florida[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Kelly Kelly
Billed height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[3]
Billed weight108 lb (49 kg; 7.7 st)[3]
Trained byOVW staff[3]
DebutJune 13 2006[3]

Barbara Jean "Barbie" Blank (born January 15 1987)[1] is an American model and professional wrestling valet, dancer, and wrestler, better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly. She is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on their Raw brand.[4]

World Wrestling Entertainment

Ohio Valley Wrestling

Blank was a bikini model for Hawaiian Tropic and Venus Swimwear when World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Vice President of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis offered her a developmental contract with WWE.[5][3] Despite having no previous wrestling experience she accepted the contract and was assigned to the WWE's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for training. Even after being called up to WWE's main roster she continued to fly back and forth to OVW's base city, Louisville, Kentucky, once a week to work shows; first as a ring announcer and referee then as a wrestler.[6] One of her first matches took place at the September 6 OVW TV tapings where she participated in a Women's battle royal won by ODB.[6]

ECW

Kelly Kelly at a 2006 ECW house show.

Blank debuted for the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) brand as Kelly Kelly on the first episode of the weekly television program—June 13 2006—becoming the youngest diva on the WWE roster.[7] Her character, an exhibitionist, was introduced performing a striptease for the crowd.[7] The next week, while performing another striptease, Kelly was interrupted by her storyline boyfriend, Mike Knox, who came to the stage and covered her with a towel before dragging her backstage.[8] Her stripping became a weekly segment known as Kelly's Exposé and usually followed the same routine; Kelly would dance and strip until she was interrupted by Knox who was "upset" by her exhibitionism and showing of her body to others.[9][10] Eventually Knox began "forcing" Kelly to accompany him to ringside so he could keep an eye on her, making her his de facto valet. As a result, she found herself involved in the feud developing between Mike Knox and partner Test with Tommy Dreamer and his partner The Sandman, including being dragged into the ring and spanked by Dreamer and inadvertently hit with a cane by Sandman when Knox used her as a shield.[11] She made her ECW in-ring debut on the August 22 2006 episode of ECW on Sci-Fi in a losing effort as part of a six-person Mixed tag team match which saw herself, Knox, and Test lose to Dreamer, Sandman and Torrie Wilson, in what became the blow off match for the feud.[12]

Following this feud, Kelly and Knox were moved into an angle with CM Punk in which Kelly seemed to have a crush on Punk, causing Knox to become increasingly protective and jealous.[13] Things came to a head when Kelly dressed as Punk for ECW's "Halloween Costume Contest," enraging Knox, and leading to a match between the two, during which Kelly cheered for Punk.[14][15] After those problems Kelly and Knox started on the roads towards a break-up. At the December to Dismember pay-per-view they took on the team of Ariel and Kevin Thorn in a mixed tag match, during which Knox refused to allow Kelly to tag him in before abandoning her altogether, leaving her to be beaten badly by Ariel.[16] On the following edition of ECW, Kelly defeated Ariel with a roll-up in her first ECW singles match, after which Knox made his way to the ring with flowers only to throw them in Kelly's face and hit her with his signature swinging reverse STO, ending their relationship and giving her a scripted injury--removing her from the program for six weeks.[17]

She returned to television on January 16 2007 and cut a promo announcing she was newly single and bringing back Kelly's Exposé.[18] The next week[19] Extreme Exposé debuted, a spin-off to the previous Exposé segment involving not just Kelly but Brooke and Layla performing choreographed dances in the ECW ring. The trio danced nearly-weekly for the next few months,[3] tapering off when Mike "The Miz" Mizanin was moved to ECW in the June draft lottery and all three ladies began actively pursuing him.[20] Later, however, Kelly shifted her attentions towards the much more slovenly looking Balls Mahoney,[21] to the amusement of Miz and her Exposé sisters who spent their time mocking his look. After Brooke was released from the company in November,[22] Extreme Exposé dissolved and Kelly began taking part in more wrestling matches, immediately starting a feud with Layla.

Raw

The 2008 WWE Draft left Kelly as the only female wrestler on ECW, and upon its completion she was moved to Raw starting with the July 7 2008 episode with no official explanation being given other than her lack of knowledge that the wrestlers contracts kept them on different brands.

In wrestling

Kelly (right) and Layla El (left) of Extreme Exposé.
  • Entrance themes
    • "Chelsea" - STEFY (OVW)
    • "Don't Stop" - WWE production theme (2006)
    • "Holla" by Desiree Jackson (2006-early 2008; Used a few times in mid-2008)
    • "Holla (Remix)" by Desiree Jackson (2008-present)

Other media

In April 2007, Blank, along with Ashley, Layla El, Brooke, Torrie Wilson, and Maryse, appeared in a music video for the Timbaland song "Throw It on Me" (featuring The Hives).[24] That August all three members of Extreme Exposé took part in a photo-shoot for FHM Online.[25]

On April 13 2008, she along with Mickie James, Melina Perez, and Layla El appeared in an episode of Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp as trainers.

On April 19 2008, she appeared as the Soccerette on the popular British football show Soccer AM.[23]

In a WWE Diva Shorts interview, Blank Said that her Ring entrance was inspired by former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler by putting her long legs through the second tier of the ropes...but adding her on style to it also.

References

  1. ^ a b The December 2006 issue of WWE Magazine, page 89, gives her birth date as December 1; however, on her MySpace blog, she writes: "...I know in the WWE Magazine it says its my birthday on Decmber 1st i think they made a printing mistake becuase my real bitrthday is January 15th...". [sic]
  2. ^ a b "Diva Dish: Go team!". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-09-28.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Online World of Wrestling profile". Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  4. ^ "TV Shows > ECW > Superstars > Kelly Kelly > Bio". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  5. ^ "Bikini Models of Hawaiian Tropic > Barbie Blank". Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  6. ^ a b "Online World of Wrestling - 2006 OVW results". Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  7. ^ a b "ECW results - June 13, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  8. ^ "ECW results - June 20, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  9. ^ "ECW results - June 27, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  10. ^ "ECW results - July 4, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  11. ^ "ECW results - July 18, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  12. ^ "ECW results - August 22, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  13. ^ "ECW results - September 12, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  14. ^ "ECW results - October 31, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  15. ^ "ECW results - November 7, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  16. ^ PWI Staff (2007). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts". "Wrestling’s historical cards". Kappa Publishing. p. 122.
  17. ^ "ECW results - December 05, 2006". Online World of Wrestling -. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  18. ^ PWI staff (2007). "Arena Reports". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Kappa: 130. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  19. ^ "ECW results - January 23, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  20. ^ "ECW results - June 19, 2007". Online World of Wresting. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  21. ^ "ECW results - August 7, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  22. ^ "Brooke released". WWE. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
  23. ^ a b c "Week 37 - Kelly Kelly". Soccerettes. Sky Sports. Retrieved 2008-04-20. Kelly Kelly on Soccer AM] Sky Sports, April 19 2008
  24. ^ Medalis, Kara A. (April 20 2007). "The Sexiest Women in L.A." WWE. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  25. ^ "Diva Dish: FHM goes Extreme". WWE. Retrieved 2007-09-07.

External links

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