April Hunter

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April Hunter
Birthdate:	September 24, 1973
Birth location:	Philadelphia, PA,United States
Birth name:	April Hunter
Height:	5 ft 9 in, 1.75 m
Weight:	Weight: 150 lb, 68 kg
Hair color:	Red

April Hunter (born September 24, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and model.

1 Career
- 1.1 Acting career
- 1.2 Magazines
2 In wrestling
3 Personal life
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Career

April Hunter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but moved to Enterprise, Alabama with her father when her parents divorced. At the age of sixteen she returned to Philadelphia. She attended college, majoring in English, Biology and Chemistry, but dropped out after several years. At the age of nineteen she began working as an erotic dancer, but found that she disliked the industry, so she became a fitness model instead.

In 2000 Hunter was hired by Terry Taylor on behalf of World Championship Wrestling (after they saw her layout in Playboy) as a member of the "Black and White" nWo. Along with four other models (Tylene Buck, Pamela Paulshock, Midajah O'Hearn and Kim Kanner) she accompanied members of the nWo to ringside for their matches. When the nWo split up, the models remained with Scott Steiner, and were identified as his "freaks". Hunter left WCW later that year following a pay dispute.

After leaving WCW, Hunter decided to become a wrestler, and in 2001 she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to train under the venerable Killer Kowalski. She began working on the independent circuit, and eventually met Slyk Wagner Brown, who she would both manage and form an intergender tag team with known alternately as Team SWB and Big Red or Team Underground. Hunter also formed a tag team with fellow Kowalski graduate Nikki Roxx in World Xtreme Wrestling known as The Killer Babes. Hunter went on to form tag teams and win titles with Talia ("T & A") and J.D. Michaels.

Hunter has competed for multiple American promotions, fighting and defeating both men and women including Ring of Honor and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and has toured Europe, Japan. Puerto Rico, Canada, UK/Ireland and Mexico several times. Hunter has also made guest appearances with Carmen Electra's NWWL, working matches in the nude.

[edit] Acting career

Body Of Work MSNBC (2003)
Home Sweet Battlefield / Ah, House Collapses (2004) as "Mistress Eva"
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid / Ah, House Collapses (2004) as "Mistress Eva" (Released in the US under this title in June 2006)
Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy (2005) as "Diamond Piedra"
Howard Stern radio and E! Television
W-Five (Canadian documentary)
MTV (various rock/rap videos)
The Chronicle

[edit] Magazines

Playboy
Penthouse
MAXIM
Max (France)
MuscleMag
Ironman
Flex
[[American Curves
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Various other fitness and men's magazines in the USA, Asia, Europe, UK.
Met-RX spokesmodel

[edit] In wrestling

[edit] Quotes

"Just because you look like a centerfold doesn't mean you have to wrestle like one."
"They're fake, but I'm real."
"How can something that looks so good, hurt so bad?"
"I'm famous. You just don't know it yet."
"I used to be a model. What did you ever do?"
"You can sleep with a blonde, You can sleep with a brunette...but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!"

[edit] Wrestlers managed by Hunter

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

Head Hunter (Flying somersault neckbreaker slam, sometimes uses a running variation)
SoldierSault (Moonsault press)
German suplex
Hunter Lock (Double leg takedown into Boston crab submission)
Center Fold (Flying headscissors submission)
Bitch Lock (Hanging figure four necklock)
Hunter's Hangman (Armbar submission over the ropes)

[edit] Personal life

On August 30, 2006, April married her Canadian wrestling boyfriend, J.D. Michaels, in a small, private ceremony at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
She speaks some Spanish, German and French.
April fathers side is from Edinburgh, Scotland. Her mother's side is from Naples, Italy. They met in Philadelphia and April was conceived in Hawaii on her fathers military break from Vietnam.
April was born with pneumonia and has battled COPD, asthma and chronic bronchitis all her life. Fitness is a lifestyle for her to maintain her health. She is also hearing-impaired.