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Sensational Sherri's Timeline1979Sherri Martel was trained by Donna Christenello & Fabulous Moolah 1980Sherri Martel debut in Pro Wrestling working for Mid South with Jim Cornette as her manager1985September 28, Debuted in AWA Super Clash beating Candie Devine for the AWA Women's title October 17, Sherri Martel regained the AWA Women's Title the 2nd time from Devine 1986April 20, Sherri Martel won a 8 woman battle royalMay 10, Sherri Martel managed Buddy Rose & Doug Somers to the AWA Tag team gold June 28, Sherri Martel won her 3rd AWA Women's title 1987May 2, Sherri Martel faced Madusa for the first time at AWA Super Clash 2
November 26, The first Annual Survivor Series Five-on-Five Survivor Series Elimination Match, The Fabulous Moolah, Rockin Robin, Velvet McIntyre, and the Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno) defeated Sensational Sherri, The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) (w/Jimmy Hart), Donna Christanello, and Dawn Marie... The Jumping Bomb Angels were the sole survivors in this match.
1988Wrestlemania 4, This marked the official first Wrestlemania for Sensational Sherri ( dressed up as Peggy Sue ) escorted Honky Tonk Man & Jimmy hart in a match with Brutus the barber Beefcake which he lost due to Jimmy Hart striking the Ref. October 7, After a year holding the WWE Women's title, Sensational Sherri Lost the title to Rockin Robin who ended up leaving the WWE in 1989 with the title
1989January, the first Royal Rumble on Pay Per View, Sensational Sherri Challenge the winner of the ladies title match between Judy Martin & Rockin Robin which was won by RobinApril 2nd, Although Sensational Sherri wasn't book on Wrestlemania, she however did show up to say a few words about Rockin Robin & Miss Elizabeth and after the out come of the wrestlemania 5 main event between Macho Man & Hulk Hogan... Miss Elizabeth was interviewed and interrupted by Sherri and caused a lot of chaos between Macho Man & Hulk Hogan
Fall of 1989 is when she became Sensational Queen Sherri when Randy was crowned Macho King after defeating Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Spring/Summer 1989-Miss Elizabeth becomes co-host of WWF Wrestling Spotlight, a syndicated WWF Wrestling Show that shows some matches and highlights from WWF Superstars and WWF Wrestling Challenge. Her original co-host was Vince McMahon and then later Sean Mooney. Sensational Sherri later replaced Elizabeth as co-host with Sean Mooney in the fall.
That same night toward the end of the match between Macho King and Hacksaw Jim Duggan Elizabeth came out and stopped Sherri from interfering in the match payback from Sherri slapping her earlier in the night. The King's Court (Randy Savage, Canadian Earthquake, Dino Bravo and Greg Valentine) (with Jimmy Hart and Sensational Queen Sherri) defeated The 4x4's: (Jim Duggan, Bret Hart, Ronnie Garvin and Hercules).
1990January 21, Royal Rumble 1990, Sensational Queen Sherri was a guest on the brother Love show in an argument with Sapphire that caused a fight to break out between the men Macho King Randy Savage & Dusty RhodesLater in the evening, Queen Sherri accompanied Macho Man in the royal rumble match at #5 and eliminated by Dusty Rhoads April 1st Wrestlemania 6 was the first EVER for the WWF, an Intergender Tag Team Match between Macho King Randy Savage and sensational Queen Sherri against Dusty Rhodes & The Late Sapphire with there crown Jewl as there Manager the returning Miss Elizabeth and due to Miss Elizabeth interference the American dream team won
1991Wrestling Observer Newsletter Manager of the year award
In the title match between Warrior and Slaughter.. Macho Man and Sherri did all they could to prevent Warrior from winning the match and did just that and as a result Warrior lost his title to Slaughter
August 26, Summer Slam... Ted Dibiase w/Sensational Sherri lost the Million Dollar Championship to Virgil even after Sherri's Interference and was banned from ringside November 27, Survivor Series..... Ric Flair, The Mountie, Ted DiBiase and The Warlord (with Mr. Perfect, Jimmy Hart, Sensational Sherri and Harvey Wippleman) defeated Roddy Piper, Bret Hart, Virgil and Davey Boy Smith. December 3, Tuesday in Texas Pay Per View.....Ted DiBiase and The Repo Man (with Sensational Sherri) defeated El Matador and Virgil
1992January 19, Royal Rumble.....Sherri escorted Ted Dibiase to his Royal Rumble match at #2 who was eliminated by The Bulldog davy boy smith after a minute
April 5, Wrestlemania 8....Shawn Michaels w/Sensational Sherri beat Tito Santana July 22, in Pro Wrestling History...The very fist Ladder match ever, Bret The Hit Man hart beats Shawn Michaels w/Sensational Sherri August 22, Summer Slam, The model Rick Martel started to show Sensational Sherri his affection towards her only to end up in a match with Shawn Michales in a stipulation that no punching in the face was allowed ... this ended in a no contest as both men lost control and punched each other in the face October, Shawn Michaels along with Sensational Sherri was in the middle of the ring when a shocking return of The HBK Tag team partner from the past Marty Jannetty. Marty was set out to return the favor for HBK striking him through a Mirror only to strike Sensational Sherri when Shawn Michaels pulled her in harms way and ran out, Sherri was out for months returning at The Royal Rumble 1993
1993Royal Rumble, Sensational Sherri Returned to the WWE in a neutral corner in the IC Title Match between Shawn Michaels & Marty Jennetty... Mid way through the Match Sensational Sherri turned face and slapped her boytoy for what he has done to her.
Summer, Summer Slam was right around the corner and a Mix Tag team match between Tatanka & Sensational Sherri vs Bam Bam Bigalow & Luna Vachon was due for the PPV, however with Luna Vachon Arm Injury and the release of Sensational Sherri from the WWF, The Match was nixed. WWF Publish a statement in the WWF Magazine stating Sensational Sherri Left the WWF to go back to school, but in reality was fired for failing a drug test
November 19, ECW Super Card the first annual November to Remember saw Sherri end in a no contest with Malia Hosaka who replaced the NO SHOW Madusa Later in the evening, Ron Simmions & 2 Cold Scorpio beat Shane Douglas & Brian Pillman w/Sensational Sherri December 26, ECW Hoilday Hell…Shane Douglas (w/ Sensational Sherri) pinned Tommy Dreamer 1994Sensational Sherri was Honored at the Cauliflower Alley ClubFebruary, Sherri was suppose to debut in WCW as the manager of Kevin Sullivan & Dave Sullivan in a feud against The Nasty Boys & Missy Hyatt but Missy left WCW by that time and Sherri’s debut was put on hold Aprl 23, Sherri debuts in WCW making a statement that she is looking for THE MAN that can bring the gold May, Sherri still working in ECW ended up working for WCW Slamboree looking for a portage to manage Sherri return to ECW only to turn her back on Shane Douglas as a message from Ric Flair
Bash at the Beach 1994 Sherri manages WCW World Champion Ric Flair in a match against Hulk Hogan w/Jimmy Hart in which Hogan wins his first WCW title. Half way through the Match, Sensational Sherri Kept interfering causing Celebrity Mr. T to come out and take her to the back.
December 27, Starrcade......The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) w/ Sister Sherri by disqualification
1995February 19, Superbrawl 5......Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/Sister Sherri defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) by disqualification to retain the WCW World Tag Team ChampionshipUncensored, saw in an anything goes match between Nasty Boys vs. Harlem Heat w/Sista Sherri, However it's more like Nasty Boys vs. Harlem Heat and Sista Sherri. Sherri Made more this match as if it was her that was defending the titles, tons of hard hitting action as well as a good fight bash. Harlem Heat along w/ Sista Sherri came out as the winners in one of the most memorable matches in WCW History May 24, Slamboree......The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/Sister Sherri to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship
Great American Bash 95, Col. Robert Parker and his men Dirty Dick Slater & Bunk House Buck discuss the tag team division that got Sista Sherri & Harlem Heat's attention, they came out to confront the tag team and it ended with a big kiss planted on Sherri from Col. Parker and she reacted with a punch in the face.
Clash Of The Champions, a 6 person tag team match was booked, with Harlem Heat & Sherri vs Col. Parker & his tag team making this Sherri's first official wrestling match working in WCW Ever since the Match, Sherri hasn't been the same since due to her head injury and actually stalking Col.. Parker costing his team matches week after week July 16, WCW Bash at the Beach.........Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/Sister Sherri defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) and The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Regal and Earl Robert Eaton) in a Triangle match to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship after Sherri interfered
Fall Brawl, Tag team match between Sherri's team vs. Col Robert's team that ended when both Managers came into the match and had a mutual kiss that shocked the arena Towards the end of 1995, Col. Parker asked Sherri in hand for marriage which she accepted
1996Clash of the Champions in January 1996, Mean Gene Okerland walked down the aisle to give Sista Sherri away to Col. Parker only to be sneak attacked by the returning Madusa and caused havoc and destroyed the wedding settings
The Next night on Monday Nitro, Mean Gene interviewed Sherri only to be attacked by Madusa once again and turned into a Match making this the first women's fight segment on Monday Nitro, with Sherri coming up as the winner of a quick match... After the Match Madusa attacked Sherri and brutally beat her so bad that she was missing in action for months
August 10, WCW Hog Wild.......Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/Sister Sherri & Col. Rob Parker defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship after Parker interfered September 10, Juanita Wright better known as Sapphire for her Role as the American Dream Dusty Rhodes manager in the WWF in 1990 and was popular for her feud with the Sensational Queen Sherri. dies of a heart attack at 61. September 15, Fall Brawl.....Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri & Coronal Rob Parker) defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship after Sherri interferes October 27, WCW Halloween Havoc...........The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri and Col. Robert Parker) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship November 24, World War 3, Harlem Heat beat The French Canadians with the stipulation that is, if Harlem Heat wins, Sherri gets 5 minutes along with Col. Robert Parker in the match After beating Col. Robert Parker, The fans went crazy, Parker ran out of harms way to the back 1997February, WCW Superbrawl 7......The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/Sister Sherri and The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) in a Triple Threat tag matchMarch 16, WCW Uncensored.....Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)w/ Sister Sherri defeated The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) in a Texas Tornado match April 6, WCW Spring Stampede..........Lex Luger defeated The Giant, Booker T and Stevie Ray in a Four Corners match w/ Sister Sherri in a neutral corner May 5, WCW Nitro.....Harlem Heat w/Sister Sherri was set to face The Gaint & Diamond Dallas Page w/ Kimberly but DDP & Kimberly was attacked by Hollywood Hogan & Macho Man w/ Miss Elizabeth and the rest of the NWO Pack attacked Harlem Heat & The Giant and later Ric Flair, Rowdy Roddy Piper, & Kevin Green... Making this Technically the first time Sherri & Elizabeth worked together in WCW Since there days in the WWF in 1992 June 15, WCW Great American Bash.........Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) by disqualification when Vincent interfered
In Reality, Sherri was fired from WCW for showing up impaired to work from the drugs she was on
1998Sensational Sherri was booked in the Corner of George the Animal Steele against Greg Valentine at the heroes of wrestling PPV, Greg valentine won the match with the help of the turn coat Sherri 1999The Return of the AWA Superstars (Independently) brings in Sensational Sherri and awards her with the AWA Women's Title2000January 2000, Sensational Sherri makes the cover of New Wave Wrestling Magazine in a Interview with the Magazine sharing the cover with the top wrestling stars of it's time January, Sister Sherri Returns to WCW to face WCW Cruiserweight Champion Madusa, but lost the match, She was in reality in the works of a storyline to reunite with Harlem Heat with a new gimmick Harlem Heat 2000 but the idea was nixed, March, Sister Sherri face Mona in which she lost on WCW World Wide 2002 #86 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated top 100 Hottest women in wrestling in 20022004Sherri Martel sat down for a shoot interview which she discuss her career in the AWA, WWE, WCW, ECW, her thoughts on Macho Man, Fabulous Moolah, Miss Elizabeth, The Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, her personal battle with drug use and much more During her Interview, Sherri had reported that she turned down a contract offer to work in TNA in 2004 to start a feud with Trinity but turned down the offer due to a business her and her husband owned, however other reports claim it's because she did not want to deal with the stress of traveling down the dark road in the wrestling world 2005--Sensational Sherri Turned down an Interview offer with Insane Plan due to the soon to be released autobiography she has been working on but did agree to grant Insane Plan's interview offer once the Book was released
2006It was announce on Raw that Sensational Sherri would be the 2nd Women in History to enter the WWE Hall of fame and would be inducted by her old client Million Dollar Man
#48 in the WWE's top 51 Offenders
2007January 19, Bam Bam Bigalow famous for his WWE Wrestlemania 11 Main Event feud with Football great Lawrence Taylor and wrestled for the WWE IN 1987-1988 and 1993-1995 & than in ECW as part of the Famous Triple Threat and than in WCW where he became the WCW Hard-core champion and Tag Team champion with Diamond Dallas Page... He also started a feud with sensational sherri in 1993... his death was shown he had toxic levels of cocaine & benzodiazepine, he was only 45On June 15, 2007, WWE.com announced that Sherri Martel had died that morning at her mother's residence in Birmingham, Alabama, Dave Meltzer stated on his Wrestling Observer Live radio show that Martel's passing was a result of a possible drug abuse, and that the case is still under investigation by law enforcement. On June 19, 2007, police confirmed that Martel did not die of natural causes, but foul play is not suspected. Based on what was known, Martel had gone to bed at her mother's home (where she was living recently) because she wasn't feeling well. Her husband found her unresponsive later that afternoon. Due to the death of Sherri, WWE was in a High popular storyline promoting the death of Vince McMahon which was a fake in wrestling and angered million of fans with the disrespect to Sensational Sherri's memory that the WWE has showed, for example on the WWE Web site had a small corner section of Sensational Sherri death/tribute but the whole web site was headline about the death of Vince McMahon... another example was that they did not show a memorable picture tribute at the start of WWE Raw as they always do when a former WWE Alumni passes away, The person responsible to do that felt it would take away the stage death of Vince McMahon... apparently some of the WWE Stars raised hell and towards the end of WWE Raw they showed a memorable picture tribute of Sensational Sherri. Due to the attention of Sensational Sherri's death, it was brought up at a WWE Meeting to drop the Vince McMahon Death storyline, however that didn't happen. A week to the day Sensational Sherri Passed away on June 21st, Nancy Benoit who Sherri made public knowledge of there friendship working in ECW & WCW at one time was killed along with her 7 year old son Daniel Benoit by husband and father and WWE Superstar Chris Benoit who also at one point worked with Sherri in WCW... Due to the high demand of Media attention that discuss the Benoit family death in almost every news, sports, or talk show it also brought a lot of attention to Sensational Sherri's death from a week before that was most talked about and even talked about the deaths being linked somehow, however that is not true. Sherri was buried on June 28, 2007. Sherri's sister Vickie claimed Sherri died while drinking coffee with her mother on the front porch of her mother's home. Vickie suspected Sherri was taking some sort of medication/drug for her heart. A cause of death for Martel was not initially known due to the autopsy and toxicology reports needing 5-6 months to complete, but on September 11 homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released their report stating that she died of an accidental overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone. The UK's Sun has a story on the death of Sherri Martel entitled "Hillbilly Heroin killed Sherri." The article notes that the autopsy report on her showed six different drugs in her system at the time of her death. A lethal concentration of the powerful painkiller Oxycodone, also sometimes referred to as "Hillbilly Heroin," was discovered in her system. July 23, The Globe covers Pro wrestling deadly secrets including the cause of death of Sensational Sherri November 3, The Fabulous Moolah who trained Sensational Sherri and was credit at Sherri Induction to the WWE Hall of Fame in wrestling passed away at 85 December, WWE Released The best of Shawn Michaels DVD which features an interview with his former Manager Sensational Sherri about the career of Shawn Michaels, however The interview with Sherri was filmed in 2006 before she passed away. 2008March, Sensational Sherri was honored on the WWE.COM Web site as part of there Women's wrestling history month2009April 28, former AWA Tag Team Champion and managed by the Late Sensational Sherri... Playboy Buddy Rose was found dead what looks to be a heart attack at the age of 56Sensational Sherri was inducted into the first ever Women Superstar Uncencored Hall of Fame by Indy Vetern Amy Lee and Sherri's best friend Kathy accepted the award, also in the same class was Malia Hosaka & Missy Hyatt 2010WWE.Com top 25 Scariest Superstars ranked Sensational Sherri at #24March, WWE Magazine Wrestlemania Issue, Ranked #2 Wrestlemania 7 (Macho Man w/Sensational Sherri vs Ultimate Warrior, also after Miss Elizabeth reunites with Macho Man) in the Top 7 Matches that stopped the show. In the same Issue... Sensational Sherri was ranked #4 for Wrestlemania 6 in the WWF's first ever Mix Tag team Match in the top 8 Sexiest, Smartest, Most Powerful Women in Mania History March, WWE.com Ranked Sensational Sherri as #4 in the top 25 most impactful women of wrestling Auguest 27, Luna Vachon who feuded with Sensational Sherri in 1993 passed away of an accidental over-dose the same way Sherri did three years prior Designed by
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