Amy Action History
Amy Action: Author, Article Writer, Women's Wrestling Historian, Retired Professional Wrestler, Retired Wrestling Manager, Retired Wrestling Trainer to both men and women.
Debut
On the Queens birthday 1995 Amy debuted in two matches on the one day at Casula Shopping Mall. In the first match of her career Amy and Andy Harpas took on The Bomb and Mr Wrestling. In the second match Amy teamed with Lou Marcello to wrestle against The Bomb and Lou The Butcher. These matches were one of the rare occasions when Amy worked as a babyface.
By her third match Amy had become a heel and her strong vocal talent was starting to be utilised in this position. Her third match was a mixed tag that saw her team with Mark Mercedes to take on Andy Harpas and Lisa Lane.
Singles Matches
Amy's first singles match was September 1995 against The Bomb. The end of the match saw a double DQ when Amy and The Bomb both turned on referee ex-wrestler Bobby Burns. Amy Action continued to wrestle The Bomb in a series of matches until The Bombs retirement at the end of 1995.
Amy Action on Page 3
1996 Amy made page 3 of The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney's largest paper) in a story with the "Indian Queen" Kumari. The story was on the top two Women wrestlers in Australia and discussed things from the their love and respect for the sport to the stereo typing of wrestling being considered "a man's sport" in Australia.
The Today Show
"The Today Show" on channel 9 picked up the page 3 story and investigated this concept further doing a report on the two top women wrestlers in Australia.The two women went on to be interviewed for The Today Show (Channel 9) and spent the next year and a half battling each other in various Sydney based promotions. Their matches against each other were of a technical mat wrestling style that saw lots of reversals and holds. Amy also worked during this time as a manager for a number of male wrestlers on the Sydney scene.
In 1997 Vanity entered the Sydney scene just as Kumari retired from the ring, Amy and Vanity worked regularly against each other during 1997 and 1998. Vanity was more of a gymnast and power wrestler than Kumari, Amy developed a harder heel edge to her style to counter balance Vanity's attack. Signature moves of Amy's during this time period included the spin heel kick, flying elbow smash and a Japanese style missile drop kick. It was during this time period that Amy also started to wrestle in Sydney for the AWA in their Men's Light Heavyweight division, as a masked wrestler called Kombat Karl which Amy continued wrestling under until mid 1999.
Miss Wrestler Australia
In 1998 Amy was featured in a story for the New Weekly Magazine about alternative Miss Australia's as "Miss Wrestler Australia". As AWA Queen of the ring the article focused on showing Amy along with other four other true blue Aussie girls who excelled in their unconventional chosen field and became the top alternate "Queens" of Australia.
Melbourne
In 1999 and 2000 Amy started traveling regularly to Melbourne, wrestling there as well as Sydney. Amy's first match in Melbourne was in front of 1100 people at the Metro Night club against Raya Riot. Amy was presented as a babyface who was cheated out of the win by referee Sherri Sinatra, who refused to count to three when Amy had Raya beaten. This was one of the few times when Amy worked the audience as a babyface.
When Amy returned to Melbourne Amy joined Melbourne based wrestling group The Cult. In her Melbourne debut Amy firstly helped Ricky Diamond win his match against top Melbourne babyface Psycho Kid Thunder by throwing powder in his face after he'd already fought a barrage of attacks from various Cult members. The Cult were then able to hand Psycho a beating, the result saw Amy having to be escorted from the ring by security, due to the heat that it caused. In her first match in many against Sherri Sinatra later that night, Psycho rushed to the ring to seek his revenge on Amy with a "stunner", after Ricky Diamond put out Sherri with a "diamond cutter". Highlights of the show were used in a documentary called "Starstruck."
Amy and Diamond went on to feud with Chucky and Sherri in a classic mixed tag match. Amy also began feuding with old nemesis Tash (aka Angel Rose) who worked in Melbourne. Amy attacked Tash during an award ceremony where Amy was awarded "Wrestler of the Year" by the gowned Tash. Amy high choked Tash off the ground then threw her across the ring to the shock of the audience, who didn't know the two's background. Tash came back a few months later to challenge Amy. Sherri came to Tash's rescue after the match when Tash submitted to an Indian death lock which Amy refused to release.
WNWA?
In 2000 Amy was made the WNWA roster that was to see her wrestler in America on a bi-monthly basis. Amy was slotted to make her American debut with Raya Riot in the Superladies pay per view 2000 as the Lady Kangaroo's taking on the Japanese pair of Akino and Hamada. Unfortunately the pay per view was cancelled one month before the scheduled start date.
In 1999 Amy was one of the first six selected wrestlers to appear on the WNWA website. As the Australian Women's Champion Amy was scheduled to wrestle on Tor Berg's "SUPER LADIES" WNWA Pay perview in 2000 in America. Unfortunately Tor Berg the promoter of LPWA in the 1990's struggled with scheduling on the cable network the show was canceled. Amy had been booked as Australian Women's Champion and one half of "The Lady Kangaroos" to wrestle in a tag team tournament. Their opponents for the match were Japanese wrestler Akino and Mexican sensation Hamada of ARSION at that time.
Body For Life Competition
In the Year 2000 Amy Action and Dean Draven of TWP entered the EAS Body 4 life Challenge 2000. This is an international body shaping competition and in 2000, it was open to Australians to enter for the first time.
Amy and Dean were chosen to represent "the challenge "at the fitness expo in Sydney 2000 at the EAS booth where they talked to visitors at the expo about the challenge and EAS products. Amy and Dean ended up receiving top 6% winners certificates in the international competition that attracted 1000's of entries.
TWP Trainer/Wrestler
Amy went on to become the head trainer for TWP in Sydney during the year 2000 which saw her taking over the training of both the men and women's division of the promotion. In 2000 Amy wrestled Raya, Venom and Mikhail for the TWP Australian Women's title. In the year 2001 Amy was involved in the first women's tag match in over two decades when Amy teamed with Venom to take on Storm and Mikhail.
At the start of 2002 Amy became involved in a feud for the Australian Women's title belt against Storm and new challenger Kisara. Outside the ring in 2002 Amy has been promoting Women's wrestling through media spots with Channel 31, as well as being a guest speaker at the showing of the "GAEA Girls" documentary film in Sydney.
In 2002 Amy was guest speaker at the GAEA girls film documentary screening as a part of the International Documentary film festival. Amy led an information discussion on women's wrestling in Japan and general women's wrestling issues to the large crowd in attendance for the event.
In 2002-2003 Amy was co host and co producer of a wrestling radio show that ran live on air once a week. The show was on 2ser in Sydney and included segments regarding women's wrestling.
In 2003 Storm relocated to Queensland and Amy went to QLD to match up against Storm in WCW Total Impact with Steve Corino.
Amy's final match was a 8 women's battle royal on a Legends of Australian Wrestling Show in Melbourne in 2006 with special guests Mario Milano and Ken Dunlop in attendance. Amy was the last woman standing in the ring to win the battle royal.
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If you would like to contact Amy Action send all correspondence to amyaction@hotmail.com. Due to the volume of mail Amy cannot always personally respond to all emails.
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