- Judy Martin (wrestler)
Judith Hardee is a former female professional wrestler known as Judy Martin. Martin is a former WWF Women's Tag Team Champion. She held the title with partner
Leilani Kai asThe Glamour Girls . The Glamour Girls also held the LPWA Tag Team titles.Career
World Wrestling Federation
In the early 80s, Judy Martin competed in the WWF's women's tag-team division. She was often partnered with
Leilani Kai and occasionallyDonna Christanello . Martin also challenged championWendi Richter for the WWF Women's title as part ofThe Fabulous Moolah 's stable of wrestlers that included Spider Lady,Mad Maxine , and Leilani Kai. A tag team title match between Kai & Martin and champions Velvet McIntyre andDesiree Petersen was reported to have happened in Egypt in 1985, but in actuality, the match never took place. Kai & Martin were awarded the titles after McIntyre & Petersen split up.After touring on the independent circuit and Japan for a few years, Martin and Kai returned to the WWF, repackaged as the platinum haired
The Glamour Girls . The duo appeared at the first Survivor Series in 1987 as part of then championSherri Martel 's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team. Martel's team consisting of Martel, The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin), Dawn Marie, andDonna Christanello lost to The Fabulous Moolah's team consisting of Moolah, Velvet McIntyre, Rockin' Robin, and the Japanese imports, theJumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno andItsuki Yamazaki ).The Glamour Girls (managed by
Jimmy Hart ) feuded for much of 1988 with The Jumping Bomb Angels for theWWF Women's Tag Team Championship . The two teams staged an epictwo out of three falls match at the first Royal Rumble event in 1988, with the Bomb Angels capturing the gold. Kai & Martin recaptured the titles months later in Japan before the belts were once again abandoned.In 1989, Martin wrestled Rockin' Robin for the WWF Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble. She continued to challenge Robin throughout the spring and summer of 1989, until the WWF phased out the women's division.
American Wrestling Association
After leaving the WWF in 1989, Martin joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) to compete for the
AWA World Women's Championship . She first feuded with reigning championWendi Richter , but was unsuccessful. After Richter left the company, she wrestledCandi Devine in a match to determine the new champion on December 6, 1989, which Devine won.Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
The Glamour Girls then surfaced in the newly formed
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA), managed by Adnan El Kassey and then by the "Queen of Wrestling" Christopher Love. They wrestled as both a tag team and in singles competition as top contenders to LPWA Champion Susan Sexton's title. After months of feuding with Tag Team ChampionsMisty Blue Simmes &Heidi Lee Morgan (Team America), The Girls finally captured the LPWA Tag Team Titles. They feuded with teams like the Bad, Black, & Beautiful; The New Team America (Misty Blue Simmes & Alison Royal), & Bambi andMalia Hosaka (who the duo faced at the first and only LPWA pay per view,LPWA Super Ladies Showdown ) before the LPWA folded in 1992.World Championship Wrestling
While working in the LPWA, Martin also made appearances in
World Championship Wrestling (WCW). On theOctober 19 1991 edition of "WCW Saturday Night ", Martin wrestled Bambi, but the match was interrupted when Madusa interfered. Then on the October 26 edition of "WCW WorldWide ", Martin lost a match to Madusa. WCW was phasing out the women wrestlers and focusing more attention on the valets, so Martin disappeared shortly thereafter.Professional Girl Wrestling Association
Although largely retired by the late 1990s, Martin still worked occasional cards in the Mid-Atlantic region, and she became embroiled in a feud with fellow veteran, Susan Green, who was then the
Professional Girl Wrestling Association (PGWA) champion. In the spring of 1999, Martin cannily got Green to agree to an unusual stipulation for a Mixed Tag match they were both signed for: should Green lose, Martin would win the PGWA belt. Susan took this to mean that Judy would have to pin her or make her submit during the tag match, but she instead discovered too late that it meant that when Martin's male partner, Thunderfoot, pinned Green's ally, George South, to win the tag match, the women's belt automatically went to Judy. One month later, Green met Martin in a proper singles match with the title on the line, and Susan pinned Judy to regain the belt. Judy Martin's title reign remains the shortest in PGWA history.Martin retired after a back injury, and currently lives in South Carolina and is a supervisor in the HIM department at Palmetto Health.Fact|date=March 2008
In wrestling
*Finishing and signature moves
**Powerbomb
**"Judy Drop" (Fireman's carry powerslam)*Managers
**Jimmy Hart
**Adnan El Kassey
**"Queen Christopher Love" (Bert Prentice)
**The Fabulous Moolah Championships and accomplishments
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All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
**AJW NWA International Tag Team Championship (1 time)
**All Pacific Championship (1 time)*
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
**LPWA Tag Team Championship *
Professional Girl Wrestling Association
**PGWA Championship *
National Wrestling Alliance
**NWA United States Women's Championship (1 time)*World Wrestling Federation
**WWF Women's Tag Team Championship (2 times) - w/Leilani Kai *Other titles
**LMLW Tag Team Championship (1 time)External links
*imdb name|1286090|Judy Martin
* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/judy-martin.html Judy Martin at OnlineWorldofWrestling.com]
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