Kelly Kelly

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Barbara Collins Blank United StatesUnited States
Kelly Kelly at Tribute to the Troops 2010.

Kelly Kelly at Tribute to the Troops 2010 .
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Ring name Kelly Kelly
height 165 cm
Fighting weight 49 kg
birth January 15, 1987
Jacksonville , Florida
Announced from Jacksonville, Florida
Trained by OVW training staff
debut June 13, 2006

Barbara Collins Blank (born January 15, 1987 in Jacksonville , Florida ), better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly , is an American wrestler , dancer and model . She was under contract with the WWE and appeared regularly on their wrestling shows. Her greatest success is winning the Divas Championship once .

Private life

In high school , Souray was a gymnast for years until she had to give up this sport due to an injury and switched to cheerleaders . She took after studying at the College in specialized journalism on, with the original intention, television presenter to be.

She was engaged to her longtime boyfriend, former ice hockey player Sheldon Souray , since the summer of 2014 , before the couple married in Mexico on February 27, 2016. The separation took place in October 2017.

Wrestling career

World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-2012, 2018)

Divas Champion Kelly Kelly in 2011.

Former wrestler John Laurinaitis ("Johnny Ace"), brother of Joseph Laurinaitis ("The Road Warrior Animal"), discovered Souray in 2006 while searching for talent through a swimwear catalog from Venus Swimwear and brought her to WWE . In this way, she signed a development contract in May of that year and was sent to the Ohio Valley Wrestling construction league , in which she was initially ring announcer. At the age of only 19, she subsequently became the youngest diva in the WWE. Souray then received a contract with the ECW brand , where she started on June 13, 2006 for the first time as the youngest member in the role of one of the three Extreme Exposé , which she continued after an injury break in January 2007 with the support of Brooke and Layla . From 2008 to April 2010 Souray was under contract with the brand RAW (part of the WWE roster ), her first appearance took place on July 7, 2008 as part of a Divas Tag Team match .

On April 26, 2010, she was switched to SmackDown in the WWE Draft . There she feuded mainly against Layla and Michelle McCool .

In the WWE Draft on April 26, 2011 Blank was switched to RAW, where she won the WWE Divas Championship from Brie Bella on June 21, 2011 . At the Hell in a Cell event on October 2, 2011, she lost the title to Beth Phoenix .

On September 28, 2012, Kelly Kelly was released from her contract at her request.

Others

Before her wrestling career, Souray worked as a bikini model for Hawaiian Tropic and Venus Swimwear, among other things . In addition, she was a monthly model in various picture calendars , for example the Winghouse Calendar 2005 (month February ), the Georgia Peachbuns Calendar 2006 (month December ) and the Bourbon Street Calendar 2006 (month July and front page ).

At the Video Music Awards 2005 she was used as a model under the name Barbie Blank for music promotion. In April 2007, Souray and her colleagues Ashley Massaro ("Ashley"), Layla El ("Layla"), Brooke Adams, Torrie Wilson ("Samantha") and Maryse Ouellet ("Maryse") took part in the filming of the music video for the Single Throw It on Me (featuring The Hives ) by producer Timbaland . In August 2007, all three members of the Extreme Exposé appeared in a photo series with an interview in FHM magazine . She was also seen in 2008 as a football model ("Soccerette") in the British sports program Soccer AM .

In December 2011 she was on the cover of the US edition of Maxim . She has been working as a model since she was released from WWE in 2012.

Wrestling successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ profile information at OnlineWorldWrestling.com , accessed November 4, 2009
  2. ↑ Interview with Kelly Kelly in the Brisbane Times , accessed November 6, 2009.
  3. ↑ The Sun - Premiere Appearance: Kelly Kelly , accessed November 6, 2009.
  4. ↑ OnlineWorldofWrestling - RAW Report July 7, 2008 ( Memento of 19 July 2008 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 6 November of 2009.
  5. ^ Report on the dismissal at WWE on cagematch.de. Retrieved September 28, 2012
  6. ↑ SlamSports profile - activity as bikini model: Kelly Kelly , accessed on November 6, 2009.
  7. ↑ TVIV.org - photo model picture calendar: Kelly Kelly , accessed on November 6, 2009.
  8. ↑ FamousWhy - Barbie Blank , accessed November 6, 2009.
  9. ↑ WWE.com - Appearance as a video model: Kelly Kelly ( Memento June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 6, 2009.
  10. ↑ Excerpt from FHM - Interview Kelly Kelly ( memento from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 6, 2009.
  11. ↑ SoccerAM.com - Profile: Kelly Kelly , accessed November 6, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Kelly Kelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blank, Barbara Jean (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler and model
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville (Florida)