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AMY ACTION

Amy Action: Professional wrestler, wrestling manager, wrestling trainer to both men and women, women's wrestling historian and writer.

Overview: Australian wrestler Amy Action holds the distinction of having worked for more promotions and having held more wrestling titles than any other female wrestler in the history of the Australian professional wrestling scene. Amy Action has wrestled in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria within Australia as well as in Florida in the United States of America. Amy has also wrestled in a cruiserweight men's division under a masked gimmick called "Kombat Karl."

Amy Action holds the rare distinction of being one of the few female trainers of predominantly male professional wrestlers in the world. Amy has been the head trainer for a number of wrestling promotions within Australia and has been responsible for training a number of the top male workers on the local scene. Training wise Amy concentrated on making sure all wrestlers she trained could wrestle a variety of styles yet work within their own strengths. As a result Amy has developed some of the best mat technicians, brawlers, strong style, submission mat specialists, high flyers and comical entertainers as opposed to just developing one style of wrestler. The true advantage being they could wrestle their style and still be able to work with a totally different style wrestler.

Amy Action has made available for viewing through her website information on Women's wrestling around the world from the pioneers through to the 2000 millennium as she felt that the internet lacked the same attention to women's professional wrestling history to that of men's.

AMY ACTION PROFILE

Height: 165cm Weight range: 55 - 65kg DEBUT:14-6-1995 2 matches on the same show. 1) Amy/ Andy Harpas vs. The Bomb & Mr.Wrestling 2) Amy/ Lou Marcello vs. The Bomb & Lou The Butcher WRESTLING STYLE: Strong mat wrestling techniques with unusual submissions, martial arts background, hard hitting and can be very vocal and interactive with the crowd -Old school psychology.

FINISHER: SUBMISSION: Bridging overhead double chicken wing: cattle mutilation variation called "Arch Enemy." (photo: Amy finishes off Mercury with the Arch Enemy)

Submissions: Activator: Amy original move. Elevated Inverted Full Nelson Chin Lock.
Crocodile Roll: Amy original Ju jitsu based move. Flip roll over opponent into a crucifix double arm submission with chin lock. Croc Rock: rocking cradle Standard Moves: Spinning sidewalk slam, Top rope missile drop kick, Spin heel kick, Double arm drag bomb off the top rope, Actiplex (scoop slam suplex)

Some of the Promotions Amy wrestled for:

AWF Sydney 2003 -2006, PCW Melbourne 2002-06, PWA (Melb) 2006, AWF (U.S.A Florida 2005) FPWA (U.S.A Florida 2005) WCWA Queensland 2003, UWA 2002-03, AWE Sydney 2002, TWP (Sydney 1998-2002) AWP (Melbourne 1999), AWA (Sydney 1997-1999), JKW (Melbourne 1999), R&RW (Melbourne 1999), ACW (Sydney 1995-1999), WWW (Sydney 1995-1996)

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Wrestling Titles

WWW Women's Champion Belt 1995-1996 (still holds the title undefeated at promotions closure)
AWA Australian Women's Champion Belt 1997-1999 (still holds the title undefeated at promotions closure)
AWA Queen of the Ring Title (still held the title at the promotions closure)
ACW Australasian Women's Championship 1995-1999 Belt (still holds the title belt undefeated when left to increased work at TWP, the ACW promotion introduced a Tiara in subsequent years )
TWP Women's Australian Title Belt (4 times) 6-10-98 to 24-6-00 1-7-00 to 7-9-01 6-10-01 to 1-12-01 3-3-02 to 2002 (still holds the title belt, held at companies closure)
JKW 1999 Recognized as Australian Women's Champion
AWE Lord of the Ring 2002
AWE Women's Championship Belt 2002 (still holds the title belt undefeated, promotions closure)

Photo 1: Amy Action with the historic Australian women's wrestling title belt she still holds that has been in circulation since the 1980's. Photo 2: Amy with the Australian JKW title belt.

Fitness related qualifications / courses

* Professional fitness leaders certificate
* 2000 Professional Aerobics Instructor Certificate
* Senior First Aid Certificate
* TWP Accredited trainer certificate
* Women's weight training course
* 2000 Multisport training seminar

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* 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 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 Amy featured on Sydney's leading community television station with Media Man Greg Tingle in a story about her career.

* 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. Photos: Amy Action & Dean Draven before their 2000 fitness expo appearance

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* 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 promtoer 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.

Wrestlers Lady Kangaroos

* 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.

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* 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" on channel 9 picked up the story and investigated this concept further doing a report on the two top women wrestlers in Australia.)

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* 1996 Amy featured with Kumari in a channel 9 "The Today Show" story about their wrestling careers. The cameras followed Amy both in the ring, backstage and to her day job in a day in the life scenario and interview.

* 1994- 1995 Amy played guitar and sang backing vocals in a local band called "The Touch" for one year. The band consisted of an all girl backing band with a male lead vocalist. They played live shows several nights a week around the Sydney metropolitan area.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Before taking up professional wrestling Amy Action had studied Martial arts since childhood. As a child Amy had studied Karate as well as playing field hockey.
In her teens Amy went to the "Universal Self Defence Academy" which specialized in Tae Kwon Do (but also included judo and other Martial Arts skill
At USDA Amy was the first person to receive two consecutive triple gradings, followed by a double grading (going up 3 belts instead of one, going up 3 belts in 2 gradings & then advanced two belts instead of one at the following grading. Hobbies / Interests: Writing, Trains (especially Steam engines), Frogs, Cats, Dogs, Travelling, Disney, Rabbits

amy actiOn history

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 of the day 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 utilized 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. In November 1995 Amy appeared on her a kickboxing show where she managed Billy Condolian and Mark Mercedes on the only Pro Wrestling match of the card.

In 1996 Amy appeared on page three of the Sydney Morning Herald with new women's wrestler Kumari the Indian Queen. 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.

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".

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.

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.