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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1976-11-23)November 23, 1976 (age 48) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Kimona Wanalaya Kimona Wanaleia Kris Leia Meow |
| Billed height | 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) |
| Billed weight | 101 lb (46 kg) |
| Debut | 1996 |
| Retired | 2001 |
Kristina Laum (born November 23, 1976) is a Korean retiredprofessional wrestler,professional wrestlingvalet, andmanager inExtreme Championship Wrestling andWorld Championship Wrestling. She used the namesKimona Wanalaya in ECW[1] andLeia Meow in WCW.[2]
Laum was asked by her friendRaven to go into professional wrestling while she was working as a go-go dancer at a club. She made her debut inExtreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on January 27, 1996, as Raven's new valet under the name Kimona Wanalaya (a play-on-words for "Come on, I wanna lay ya") and she managed Raven to win theECW World Heavyweight Championship on the same night. According to the storyline, Raven used her to replaceBeulah McGillicutty, his former girlfriend and valet, who had announced that she was pregnant withTommy Dreamer's child on January 7 at ECW'sHouse Party event.[3]
Wanalaya left Raven atMassacre on Queens Boulevard on April 13 after he slapped her for remonstrating with him, causing her to vow revenge. On April 20, 1996, atHostile City Showdown,Shane Douglas, with Kimona by his side, called out Dreamer to inform him that Beulah had been cheating on him. While Dreamer was wondering who the person could be, to which Douglas replied “it's not a he”, Kimona snatched themicrophone from Douglas's hand and shouted "It's me!" Moments later, Beulah made her way to the ring and she and Kimona shared a racy kiss and fell to the mat together before Dreamer decided to date both women. The segment is widely believed to be the firstsapphic angle in a major wrestling promotion.
Laum later left ECW and worked forJersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) for a while as Kimona. While in JAPW, she wrestledMissy Hyatt in a series of mixed tag team matches and a steel cage match.[citation needed]
She was signed byWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999, and she eventually debuted alongsideVarsity Club (Kevin Sullivan,Mike Rotunda andRick Steiner) as the cheerleader, Leia Meow.
This angle soon ended and she became the manager for theJung Dragons (Jamie-San,Yun Yang, andKaz Hayashi), thus turning heel. She would interfere in matches with aflying bodypress off of the top rope onto their opponents. She also had adominatrixgimmick and carried a riding crop. She used it to attack Pamela Paulshock after Paulshock had won the "Miss WCW" contest that Meow participated in on September 25, 2000. She was then attacked byMidajah and had a brief rivalry with her leading to a fight on the following Thunder duringMike Awesome'sLava Lamp Lounge segment. She also had a short feud withTygress and threatened to cut her hair off. By the time WCW was sold toVince McMahon in March 2001, she had been fired from WCW along with the majority of the other female talent due to roster cuts.
She went to theX Wrestling Federation (XWF) where she was known as Kris, a member of the X-Girls, a dance team that includedGorgeous George andChiquita Anderson of theNitro Girls. When XWF ended, Kristina Laum retired from wrestling.
On April 1, 2022, she made an appearance at ICW No Holds Barred 24 in Newark, New Jersey.
,Internet Wrestling Database