Teri Byrne

Infobox Wrestler
name=Teri Byrne


names= Fyre
height= 5 ft 3 in
weight= 109 lbs
birth_date = Birth date and age|1967|4|11
death_date =
birth_place = Pensacola, Florida
resides= Pensacola, Florida
billed=
trainer=
debut=
retired=|

Teri Byrne (born April 11, 1972 in Pensacola, Florida) was a member of WCW's Nitro Girls and is a former fitness competitor.

Career

Teri Byrne graduated from Arizona State University with Honors in Communication.

She first started out competing as a fitness model. Then, she met Kimberly Page and she joined WCW's original Nitro Girls as Nitro Girl Fyre in 1997 and stayed with them until 1999. She then opened a website as a model but shut it down after a couple of years. She appeared in a non-nude Nitro Girls pictorial in the September 1998 issue of "Penthouse", along with Melissa Bellin, Chae An, and Kimberly Page. After the demise of the Nitro Girls in 2000, she was a member of the pop music group "Diversity 5" with some other former Nitro Girls.

Teri grew up in Atlanta and practically lived in the stables in which her dad raised Arabian horses. Attending college in Arizona, she devoted much of her time to speaking out against cruelty to animals and the inhumane treatment of Greyhounds and Saddlebred horses. Eventually the aerobics bug kicked in, and Teri went from a student to an instructor. She entered herself in numerous fitness competitions, including the Ujena calendar swimwear contest and Miss Fiesta Bowl for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

Teri met Kimberly Page, who worked out in the same gym. Kimberly approached her with the idea of joining her new Nitro Girl troupe. Teri wowed everyone at the audition and got the position. Her family and friends were obviously shocked that she was going to dance for a wrestling company after spending 5 years at a cushy mortgage company job. "I was always the straitlaced good kid out of all my siblings. Everyone thought I went off the deep end."

Two weeks later, she and six other complete strangers debuted on NITRO. For two and a half years 'Fyre' appeared on Monday nights with the Nitro Girls until January 2000. At that time, with a change in the WCW management, as well as troupe leadership (Kimberly left the Nitro Girls), Teri decided it was time to move on.

"The concept of the troupe changed, and the direction they wanted to take the girls in really changed. It was too difficult for me to go along with those changes. Being one of the originals, I really put my heart and soul into the group, and I didn't feel good about what was being done. One week we're excited to be back and dancing, the next I'm getting mashed potatoes thrown at me and I'm wrestling."

Disappearing for almost a year, Teri resurfaced with several other ex-Nitro Girls (Spice, Paisley, Tygress, and Chae) to begin a singing career with their new group called Diversity 5.

In 2001 she was actively involved with the development of a comic book entitled "Stiletto" about a bounty hunter portrayed by Teri. The book, published by Gypsy Press Comics, was originally to be titled "Nytro", but Turner Broadcasting would not allow them to use anything associated with their WCW franchise. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20010618224601/www.gypsypresscomics.com/news.html] - "News from gypsypresscomics.com via [http://web.archive.org archive.org] " ] Issue #1 of "Stiletto" formally debuted at the Wizard World 2001 Convention in Chicago on August 17, 2001. However, it is not known if the book ever went into regular publication as no copies of it can be found for sale anywhere. She is now married and is a personal trainer.

Trivia

*She came up with the name "Fyre" due to her last name of Byrne and her red hair.

References

External links

* [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/f/fyre.html Online World Of Wrestling Profile]