Jackie Moore: Equal Opportunity Ass-Kicker
Miss Jackie Moore, known by many names over the years, debuted in wrestling in 1988. She had metSkandor Akbar at a local gym in her hometown of Dallas, TX. Jackie was also Akbar’s only female student. AsSweet Georgia Brown, she made her debut in the promotionWorld Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW). Also under the Sweet Georgia Brown moniker, she would travel to Japan in 1990. There she wrestled forFrontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). After that tour, Jackie moved onto theUnited States Wrestling Association (USWA) based in Tennessee. She would also become known asMiss Texas.
Her time in USWA would become one of the most memorable times in her career. As Miss Texas, she had notable feuds with theDirty White Girl, Lauren Davenport, Miss (Nancy) Simpson (aka Toni Adams),Fantasia, Samantha, Luna Vachon, andTasha Simone. Jackie competed in many different match types such as a boxing match, mud hole match, tuxedo match, street fight, loser leaves town or gets their head shaved and many others. Miss Texas was also never one to back down from fighting anyone, she had several storied rivalries with men here as well. They includedBert Prentice, Downtown Bruno, andBrandon Baxter. She would also hold the USWA Women’s Championship a record 14 times.
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From there, she would have a brief stint in WCW. It was there she would first use the name,Jacqueline. At first, she was the manager ofKevin Sullivan and assisted in his feud withChris Benoit andWoman. This alliance ended after a miscalculation on Jacqueline’s part, smashing a chair over Sullivan’s head. Next, she would manageHarlem Heat for a brief time after they firedSister Sherri. AtHalloween Havoc 1997 she would face and defeatDisco Inferno in a special Man vs. Woman match. On the November 3, 1997, edition of Monday Nitro, she would receive a shot at Disco’s World Television Championship. She would, however, be unsuccessful in this match.
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Jacqueline would join the WWE in 1998. She first aidedMarc Mero in his feud withSable. Jackie would also win the WWE Women’s Championship from Sable, holding it until November of 1998. After this, she would form a stable calledPretty Mean Sisters (PMS) withTerri Runnels andMeat (Shawn Stasiak). They would also addRyan Shamrock for a short time. Jacqueline would also feud with her old foe Luna Vachon in 1999. 2000 would bring Jacqueline her second and last WWE Women’s Championship reign. It was also in this era Jacqueline would start to engage in intergender competition again. She challengedDean Malenko for his WWE Light Heavyweight Championship on the June 28, 2000, episode ofSunday Night Heat. On the July 4 episode ofSmackDown, she andIvory would defeat Malenko in a two-on-one handicap match.
After this, she would mainly compete in mixed tag team matches, as well as regular singles with no real specific feuds. In 2002 she would also begin working as a referee and a trainer. This would make Jackie the first regular female referee in the WWE sinceRita Marie in the 1980s. She would be instrumental in the training of Taylor Matheny, Bobbi Billard, Nidia, Linda Miles, andJackie Gayda. In 2004 her last major storyline in WWE took place. She answeredChavo Guerrero’s open challenge for his Cruiserweight Championship. In being able to defeat him, she became the second woman to hold the Cruiserweight Championship and the first in its WWE incarnation. She would lose the belt back to Chavo atJudgment Day 2004. She was released from WWE that year and moved onto TNA Wrestling.
In 2006 she also competed in Mexico forLucha Libre Femenil. Her first major storyline in TNA would happen in 2007. Being billed Jackie Moore, she joinedJames Storm as a villainess against his former managerGail Kim. She would also go on to manageBeer Money (James Storm and Robert Roode) in 2008. Her last appearance for TNA for a while would happen at a house show on June 19, 2009. As Jacqueline, she appeared at aLucha Libre USA taping in March of 2011. She would return to TNA from June to August of that same year. At all these events, she would team withODB in some form. Jackie would again return to TNA in 2013 for a couple ofOne Night Only Knockouts tapings.
Jackie would cement her legacy in WWE by being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. The festivities took place in and around her hometown of Dallas, TX. She became the first African-American female to be inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame. Jackie also returned to WWE in 2018 to compete in the very first Women’sRoyal Rumble. In addition to those honors, she was the first woman to be ranked on the PWI 500 list back in 1993. She was ranked at position 249. In addition to wrestling, Jackie is trained in Taekwondo where she is a third-degree black belt. It’s clear that after 30 years of kicking ass, Jackie blazed a trail all her own. Now others may continue to follow in her footsteps.
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About Brandi Wagner
My name is Brandi, I'm 31 years young and have been a wrestling fan since the tender age of 2. My love of writing grew from school and I soon found ways to merge my two loves. Aside from writing and the pro graps, I love to do crafts and read. I was born and raised in Alaska, which is also where I currently make my home. Hit me up, I love to chat!
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