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On 8/8, WSU traveled to
These two veterans have had a storied history in wrestling before the existence of WSU. These two savvy grapplers trained together in the
For a large part of 2007, Mercedes Martinez was out of wrestling due to an injury. Nikki Roxx quickly joined the WSU promotion and would go to the finals of a tournament to crown the first ever WSU Champion, which Alicia ultimately won.
Roxx would go on to become the first #1 contender to the championship, only to lose to Alicia in Alicia’s first title defense. Seeing that her ways weren’t turning into gold, Roxx had a change of heart and adopted a rule-breaking style.
As part of her new found transformation, Roxx crashed the 2008 King & Queen of the Ring Tournament, which was put on with our big brother promotion, the NWS. Roxx interfered in the tournament, with NWS star Rhett Titus. Together they were inserted into the finals of the tournament, in an impromptu fashion. Ironically, to win the tournament, Roxx defeated Mercedes Martinez’s team, as she was partnered with Bison Bravado.
However, that wasn’t enough for Roxx. Roxx said by virtue of her win, she deserved a shot at the WSU Championship. Tammy "Sunny" Sytch, then-champion, said she wanted to slap the cockiness out of Roxx and accepted a match. However, then-number 1 contender, Alexa Thatcher, stated she deserved a title match. This led to a WSU Championship Match between Thatcher/Sunny/Roxx, which Roxx won.
With the WSU Championship in her possession, Roxx turned back the championship dreams of Alexa Thatcher & Cindy
History was made. Angel Orsini went on to have the best championship reign in history and built the WSU Championship as the most important and coveted championship in womens wrestling today. The championship was defended more times in
While Orsini went on her "Reign of Pain", Roxx left WSU and became a TV star in TNA. While TNA may have never realized their full potential with Roxx nor gave Roxx the best matches, it was no secret that Roxx was one of the best women wrestlers in the country.
Earlier this year, Roxx and TNA split ways. Roxx immediately re-joined WSU, where she had achieved success, as WSU became her east coast home promotion. Roxx made her championship aspirations known and entered the 2nd Annual Uncensored Rumble, where the winner would get a title shot.
Roxx went on to win the Rumble. However, due to WSU rules, previous champions are granted a rematch contract. Roxx was now owned two championship matches, based on the fact she never got a championship rematch when she lost the title to Orsini.
Roxx wasted no time in asking for a rematch, and on 8/8 at ACE Wrestling’s "Anarchy" event, Roxx challenged for the championship she lost over a year ago.
WSU World Womens Champion, Mercedes Martinez, has been on a sky-high run ever since she won the championship on 3/7/09 in a Bull Rope match from Angel Orsini.
However all history was made when
As champions previous,
However, all roads led to 8/8. Roxx coming off her huge Uncensored Rumble win battled the "Iron Woman" Mercedes Martinez.
The two had a classic back and forth encounter. These two, who have trained with each other, have grown so much as wrestlers and professionals, that they were able to counter each others offense.
At the 15 minute mark, the bell sounded, as the time limit was up. When the WSU World Womens Championship usually is defended at WSU shows, there is no time limit, but when the championship is defended on outside shows, WSU has to work within the time the promotion we are working with has allotted for us. Since there was no winner after 15 minutes the match was ruled a draw.
However, fans insisted on 5 more minutes, with a huge "5 More Minutes" chant. ACE management, recognizing the importance of the match, granted 5 more minutes to the WSU World Womens Championship match before the ACE Heavyweight Championship would be defended, as that was the next scheduled match on the event.
The two wrestled to another time limit draw, but just as time was expiring, Roxx had
Since 20 minutes had passed and the ACE show had to progress as well, the match was officially ruled as a Time Limit Draw.
"The Iron Woman" is a nickname that supporters have given the World Champion, as
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