Terri Poch was a pretty darn good wrestler before she hit the WWF as Tori.
Before that she was known as Terri Power.
Terri held the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA) Championship and was never defeated for it, holding it until the promotion shut down.
She was also a frequent tag team partner of Reggie Bennett and those two made quite a powerful team.
I think they would have given a lot of the men a hard time.
After the LPWA folded, Terri went to Japan and worked for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.
Then after that, she showed up in the WWF.
Of course they never used her to her full potential and she wound up a a footnote in WWF/WWE history when she should have been a WWE Women's Champion.
Terri Power vs Rustee Thomas
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Remember back in ladies pro wrestling when Heels were actually Heels?
Now they are not really a lot different from the Faces.
Both of them are rough now, but nothing like the good old days.
Today you can barely tell them apart by their wrestling techniques.
Back in the good old days of women's pro wrestling, female Heels would bite, kick, scratch, stomp, gouge, pull hair, tights, use foreign objects, whatever it took to punish the Faces.
Now days they slap and maybe pull hair.
People talk about Lita and Maryse being great heels.
When was the last time that Nikki Bella took a sharpened pencil to someone's forehead?
Case in point, ladies like Leilani Kai.
Here we have Leilani raking her nails down the back of the beautiful Magnificent Mimi and causing her a lot of pain.
And here she is hiding a choke from the ref as she tries to take out Reggie Bennett.
Hey, Leilani was trained by The Fabulous Moolah, she knows dirty.
Here's a shot of Leilani Kai putting the stretch to Desiree Petersen....I think...
Outside of the Indy promotions, I don't think you will find ladies that can be this sadistic in the ring anymore.
I guess in pro wrestling black and white has just blurred into gray.
And here is veteran female wrestler Rustee Thomas choking a very young Malia Hosaka in the corner.
The Fabulous Moolah bringing the pain to Wendi Richter
Biting is also a tactic you don't see much anymore.
Here is Jean Lane and Bernice LaRue showing how that is done.
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Yes here is some more of retired female wrestler Reggie Bennett.
Hey....I just like her...okay?
Maybe it's because she was born five days before me.
Really...she was...
Or maybe it's the way she could just keep changing her body type.
Here she is "thick".....
And here she is as the cover model of the January 1984 issue of Fit Magazine...
And here she is doing full on posing...
Now that is pretty impressive.
That cover was shot two years before she debuted for the Independent Wrestling Federation in California.
Reggie retired in 2001 and her last match was against the legendary Manami Toyota in Japan.
One of the fan favorites here is female pro wrestler Reggie Bennett.
But you know before Reggie got into wrestling, she was into bodybuilding.
She bulked up quite a bit for her wrestling career as you need to.
You need some cushion taking those constant bumps.
Of course back then they actually wrestled.
But as you can see from these pictures, when Reggie wanted to, she could be VERY sleek and muscular.
Reggie was born in 1961 (five days before me actually), made her pro wrestling debut in 1986 and retired from active wrestling in 2001.
But when Reggie went out, she went out with a bang.
Her retirement match was against one of the greatest wrestlers (male or female) of all time, Manami Toyota.
When Reggie was wrestling she held the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling All Pacific Championship, the IWA World Women's Championship and the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF) Women's Championship three times.
Wrestler: Reggie Bennett
Birthday: January 24, 1961
Hometown: San Diego, California
Billed from Venice Beach, California, Retired in Japan
Marital Status: Married to Kenji Ishihara
Height & Weight: 5' 8, 175lbs
Pro Wrestling Debut: 1988
Finishing Move: The Reggie Rack
Favorite Moves: The Global Bomb
Reggie Bennett is an American former female professional wrestler most known for her work in Joshi Puroresu organizations such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. She was a power wrestler who usually wrestled as a heel and overpowered smaller opponents with moves such as the Reggie Rack and the Global Bomb.
She began her wrestling career in the independent Californian circuit in 1986. After making her pro debut, she was signed to the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA) . Reggie participated in the LPWA Japan Title tournament during the February 23, 1992 pay-per-view LPWA Super Ladies Showdown losing by disqualification in the semi-final round.
Reggie signed with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling in 1994 and competed there for several years. She faced Chigusa Nagayo at the Big Egg Wrestling Universe show at the Tokyo Dome on November 20, 1994. She won the IWA World Women's Championship on May 15, 1995, defeating Manami Toyota. At the time, Toyota also held the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, the most prestigious title in Japanese women's wrestling, although that title was not on the line in that match. She lost the IWA belt later in 1995 to Takako Inoue. Bennett then went on to capture the All Pacific Championship by defeating Mariko Yoshida and then Kaoru Ito in a tournament on June 22, 1996, although she would again lose her title to Takako Inoue.
On April 12, 1997, Bennett was one of the featured speakers at a banquet honoring Terry Funk. The following night at ECW Barely Legal, she debuted as a member of Raven's Nest interfering with the ECW Heavyweight Championship match between Funk and Raven.
On November 14, 1997, Bennett joined ARSION, forming a monster heel stable of American wrestlers with newcomer Jessica Soto, who was billed as Reggie's younger sister Jessica Bennett. The duo was one of the featured teams in the Twinstar of Arsion tournament and video collection.
Bennett married the Japanese musician Kenji Ishihara in August 2000. Later that year she decided to retire from wrestling, fighting Manami Toyota in her farewell match on March 4, 2001. Following her retirement, her career was memorialized in the video release Reggie Bennett in Japan.
Bennett also had small roles in a number of films, first appearing in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983). She also had a cameo role in the Sylvester Stallone film Over the Top (1987).
Here's a video on YouTube posted by tgwrestler of Reggie taking on Candy Devine in the old LPWA women's wrestling promotion
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