Over the course of 20-year wrestling profession there wasn’t a lot Debbie Combs didn’t expertise.
The daughter of wrestling star Cora Combs, Debbie was a veteran of the Nineteen Seventies and 80s wrestling scene the place girls fought for stardom.
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Whereas in right now’s WWE, high feminine stars can command enormous salaries and headline WrestleManias, outstanding names of yesteryear didn’t all the time fare as effectively when it comes to alternative.
Combs, now 66, will surely fall into that class regardless of a vastly various grappling profession that took her throughout the US having made her debut on the age of 16.
A former accomplice to wrestling icon Randy Savage, she first rose to prominence with a run with what’s now WWE within the mid-Eighties.
Then she challenged main names of the day for the Ladies’s Championship, with matches in opposition to Sherri Martel and The Fabulous Moolah – she even beat the latter by count-out.
Her wrestling ventures noticed her cris-cross over the States, title glory of her personal arriving in 1986 when she gained the NWA Ladies’s Championship earlier than spending time within the AWA and later returning to WWE.
Arguably her most high-profile match was one which by no means was. Forward of WrestleMania X in 1994, WWE promoted her in magazines and tv episodes as difficult then world Champion Alundra Blayze on the Madison Sq. Backyard spectacle.
Sadly for the Tennessean, she was pulled from the present in favour of fellow veteran Leilani Kai, who was mentioned to supply better symmetry to WrestleMania having additionally featured on the maiden Mania occasion on the similar venue ten years prior.
Combs continued to wrestle within the late Nineteen Nineties earlier than transitioning right into a behind the scenes function, leaving the trade altogether for a profession in regulation enforcement.
She labored with a Nashville Sheriff’s workplace for a number of years earlier than turning into a bondsman – successfully, she mentioned in an interview final 12 months, a real-life Bounty Hunter.
In that function she faces unthinkable physicality however recurrently surprises unsuspecting criminals with a capability to greater than deal with herself.
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She defined: “I’m a Bounty Hunter, so I am going out and get individuals who didn’t go to courtroom and [go] choose them up and arrest them and take them again to jail.
“That’s the closest to wrestling that you would get! However I take pleasure in it.
“I’ve been shot at, been knocked out, had 12 stiches in my mouth, I caught him the subsequent week and walked him down [the street] buck bare and into jail!”
Having fun with offering that aspect of shock physicality to these not anticipating it, she added: “Most of them don’t know what I used to do.
“They don’t anticipate [it]… however we’ve obtained a group of girls bounty looking, it’s girls who go and get them, and so they’re all shocked its girls coming after you!
“We’re tough, we don’t play.”
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Regardless of having a complete of seven championships to her title and a whole lot of matches racked up resulting in finale in opposition to Martel in 2000, Comb’s wresting profession might fly below the radar in comparison with some who’ve come after.
However she leaves behind a legacy of dedication and laborious work within the squared circle – and equally no-nonsense method to paying your money owed!