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This article is about the professional wrestler and monster truck driver. It is not to be confused with the ancient Greek mythologocal character spelled Medusa.

Debra Ann Miceli (born February 6, 1963 in Milan) better known as Madusa (MADe in USA) or Alundra Blayze, is a former professional wrestler for WCW and WWF. She has also recently driven the Madusa monster truck for Clear Channel Communications on Monster Jam, and will drive a truck of the same name for Team Bigfoot beginning in 2007.

Wrestling Career

AWA

Miceli started wrestling in 1987 in the AWA as Madusa Miceli, a heel women's wrestler and manager to Kevin Kelly, Nick Kiniski, and AWA World Champion Curt Hennig.

She won the AWA Women's Title in a tournament final over Candi Devine on December 27, 1987. She feuded with Devine and then Wendi Richter for the belt and lost it to Richter on November 26, 1988. She then left for IWA in Japan, where she won the Women's Title twice and learned the Japanese wrestling style. She was the first woman to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of The Year Award.

WCW

She then went to WCW in late 1991. She briefly fueded with Bambi, Judy Martin and Lady Blossom. She then went on to help Paul E. Dangerously form his Dangerous Alliance of Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton, "Stunning" Steve Austin and Larry Zbyszko. She often interfered in their matches and most often accompanied Rude to the ring. At Beach Blast on June 20, 1992, she lost a bikini contest to Missy Hyatt. In October, Dangerously kicked her out of the Dangerous Alliance and she got revenge when she defeated him (by countout after he ran from her) in a match on November 18, 1992 at the Clash of the Champions. It was during this time that she was briefly married to wrestler Eddie Gilbert.

WWF

In 1993, the WWF re-instated its Women's Championship, a title that had been vacant since 1990, and Micelli signed on to be the star of the new women's division. She debuted as Alundra Blayze, and wrestled in a six-woman tournament to crown a new women's champion. She defeated Allison Royal in the first round, received a bye into the finals, where she pinned Heidi Lee Morgan to win the title. She would go on to defend the belt against Morgan, Leilani Kai, Debbie Combs and Luna Vachon. She also travelled to Japan where she defended the title against Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and Bull Nakano. She was defeated by Nakano in a non-title match during the Japan tour. Nakano emerged as part of the WWF roster in the summer of 1994 and the two feuded. Their first encounter on an edition of Monday Night RAW resulted in a double-count out. Blayze defeated Nakano at the Summerslam pay-per-view in August 1994, but would lose the belt to Nakano on November 20, 1994 in Tokyo, during All-Japan Women's wrestling extravaganza called "Big Egg Wrestling Universe." It would be five months before Blayze could regain the title from Nakano on an edition of Monday Night RAW on April 3, 1995. Immediately following the win, she was attacked by Bertha Faye, who "broke" her nose. Alundra Blayze was out of action for five months. The story was that she was recovering from her broken nose. In reality, Miceli left to get breast implants and a nose job. Blayze returned to the ring in August 1995, losing the women's title to Bertha Faye at the 1995 Summerslam on August 27, 1995. She bounced back to win the title a third time, defeating Faye on October 23, 1995 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. The WWF then imported Aja Kong from Japan and set up a Blayze/Kong feud. Their first showdown was at the 1995 Survivor Series, where Blayze, along with Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa and Chaparita Asari battled Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe and Lioness Asuka. In the end, Kong pinned Blayze to be the sole survivor. The following week on RAW, Kong and Watanabe defeated Blayze and Inoue when Kong pinned Inoue. Kong then defeated Chaparita Asari a week later. But that would be the last women's match in the WWF for sometime and the Blayze/Kong feud never materialised, though it had been advertised by WWF Magazine as one of the matches at the 1996 Royal Rumble. Alundra Blayze disappeared from the WWF.

Return to WCW

It turned out that Miceli had not been happy with the Blayze character and began negotiating with her old employer, WCW. The WWF found out and fired her for talking to the competition while still under contract. Miceli quickly signed with WCW and showed up on WCW Monday Nitro on December 18, 1995. As a blow to her now former employer, she denounced the Blayze gimmick, threw the WWF Women's Title Belt in a trash can and reclaimed her Madusa moniker in one of the most memorable moments in the history of both companies. Rather than hold a tournament to crown a new champion, the WWF once again abandoned the women's title. In WCW, Madusa had a brief feud with Sherri Martel because Sherri supposedly stole Col. Rob Parker from her and even interrupted their wedding vows in Las Vegas. Martel pinned Madusa in the first ever women's match on WCW Monday Nitro. Their feud ended after that.

With Madusa back in WCW, the company brought in Bull Nakano to feud with her. They battled in a 'Loser gets their bike bashed' match at WCW Hog Wild in the summer of 1996. Madusa won the match and got to bash Nakano's motorcycle. Nakano went back to Japan and retired from wrestling shortly afterwards, leaving Madusa with no one to wrestle. The company decided to establish a women's championship and struck a deal with the GAEA Japan organization to bring in women wrestlers. At tournament was held in the fall of 1996. Madusa defeated Reina Jabuki in the first round, and Zero in the semi-final, but she lost to Akira Hokuto in the finals of the tournament on December 29, 1996 at StarrCade. Madusa never could win the title. She claimed to have won it in Japan, but records indicated otherwise. On June 15, 1997, at the Great American Bash, Miceli lost a retirement match to Hokuto.

Third WCW stint

Madusa returned to WCW in 1999 as part of Randy Savage's Team Savage with Gorgeous George and Miss Madness. She was eventually kicked out by Savage due to a dispute in July 1999.

After a three month sabbatical, Madusa made her return to television on the October 18, 1999 edition of WCW Monday Nitro when she participated in a "New York Evening Gown Match" with Mona, although she was less than enthusiastic about the idea. Mona came out in a blue evening gown whereas Madusa came out in a "Tommy Sports" dress. While Madusa was distracted as she ranted to the ringside announcers, Mona came from behind and stripped her of her gown, down to her shorts and sports bra. Madusa then grabbed the microphone to complain even more, and told "everyone behind her" to kiss her posterior.

Madusa soon aligned with Evan Karagias after he came to her aid after she lost to Meng in a match on Nitro in October 1999. They started a fling of sorts in November of that year, and she helped lead him to the WCW Cruiserweight Championship at WCW Mayhem 1999. Meanwhile, Madusa was interested in Evan's Cruiserweight Championship belt herself. Madusa earned a title shot at WCW StarrCade on Monday Nitro when she defeated Mona and Evan Karagias in a three-way match. Then at StarrCade, Madusa defeated Evan to become the first female to win the WCW Cruiserweight Title.

Madusa had dumped Evan a week before the bout when she caught him flirting with Spice backstage. Spice became Evan's new girl and she was in his corner at StarrCade; however, Spice distracted Evan during his match with Madusa at StarrCade to help Madusa reign victorious. Spice them aligned with Madusa and became her manager, although the relationship only lasted about a month as Spice returned her role as a Nitro Girl.

Madusa defended the Cruiserweight belt sporadically, but lost it to Oklahoma at WCW Souled Out in January 2000. WCW didn't have much in the way for her creatively and she only made a few appearances during the rest of the year. She then became an instructor at the WCW Power Plant to help train the females for wrestling matches. She did that until the foreclosure of WCW in 2001. She left WCW and retired from pro wrestling for good in 2001.

Madusa wrestled exactly one match after she left WCW in 2001 as she wrestled Beth Phoenix at an independent show in Arizona in May of that year.

Cosmetic Surgery

Madusa has had some cosmetic surgery done over the years. She has gotten breast implants on at least two occasions. She has also had rhinoplasty surgery on at least one occasion. According to Rhonda Singh, Madusa took some time off from the WWF during the spring of 1995 to have her first breast augmentation. She also had her rhinoplasty surgery done during this time as well.

Upon returning to World Championship Wrestling in 1999, Madusa's breasts were substantially larger in contrast to any other point in her wrestling career. As it turns out, Madusa had gotten an even larger set of breast implants prior to her return to WCW. In an interview WCW Magazine conducted with her in the summer of 1999, Madusa revealed that her reasoning behind the implants was that they gave her a bit more confidence in herself. "I got those for me," Madusa said. "I wanted to embellish my own beauty, to give myself a little more confidence. When I got them, I was 5-10, 150 pounds and really, I had nothing. I looked silly. So I got them and I think they look good." When a fan questioned Madusa the exact size of her breasts on her official website, she revealed that she was a D cup. *

Madusa's means of physically displaying her curvaceous physique was a heavy dichotomy considering that Madusa had often frowned upon the usage of T&A in professional wrestling throughout her career - both in wrestling storylines and in real life. Yet Madusa had arguably the largest cup size in WCW at the time and she would often flaunt her plentiful bustline in gaudy, ill-fitting outfits. For instance, Madusa purposely stuck her chest out in order to seduce Evan Karagias on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro in November 1999. In another instance, Madusa actually went braless underneath a white dress on an episode of WCW Thunder in December 1999. Also, Madusa would often wrestle in a bikini top. And sometimes Madusa would even wear a bikini top as if it was mere casual wear.

After the demise of WCW in 2001, several people that saw her in person at various USHRA Monster truck events noted that her breasts were significantly smaller in contrast to her final WCW stint. When questioned about it on her official website, Madusa revealed that she had indeed gotten a breast reduction. Seeing how she was retired from professional wrestling, Madusa felt as though that the implants were no longer necessary for her new line of work as a Monster truck driver where it wasn't necessary for her to display her body in a sexual manner. She had them removed in either 2001 or 2002.

Madusa has stated numerous times on her official website that she regretted getting breast implants in the first place. Albeit still ample, her breasts are currently in their natural state. Her reasoning behind the breast reduction was that they were much too large, pendulous, and annoying to her physical well-being. Due in part to the extremely pendulous nature of her breasts - as evident by their motions during her ring entrances in her final WCW stint - her breasts had a tendency to easily jerk around whenever she would walk, much less run, and thus she stated that she couldn't run long distances as it would bring much physical pain to her.

Personal Life

  • Miceli posed nude for Playboy in 1987 but never signed the release for the pictures to be published. The reason the release was never signed was due to the fact that she was scheduled to begin work in Japan. Since Japanese promotions had very strict rules governing conduct for female wrestlers at the time, Miceli opted not to have the pictures published.

  • Madusa was married to Eddie Gilbert in the early 1990s. After their divorce she married former NFL player Ken Blackman in the late 1990s and into the turn of the millennium. Things just didn't work out between them and they decided to go their separate ways.

  • Madusa drove a monster truck of the same name for Live Nation in their Monster Jam series, but was recently released over contract issues. On May 12, 2006 she announced that she had signed up to drive a Madusa truck for Team Bigfoot, beginning later in 2006. She currently runs a pet grooming service.

Trivia

Wrestling Facts

Finishing and Signature Moves

*Bridging German Suplex

Managers

Championships/Accomplishments

Title lineage

References

External links

AWA alumni | Female professional wrestlers | Italian professional wrestlers | 1963 births | Professional wrestling managers and valets | Adult models | Living people | Monster trucks | Monster truck drivers

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