Debrah Ann Miceli[6][7] (born February 9, 1963),[8] better known as Madusa, is an American monster truck driver and retired professional wrestler.
[3] Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she once held the AWA World Women's Championship.
After training wrestlers such as Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) at the WCW Power Plant, she left the company in 2001.
[12] She drove a truck named Madusa, and won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie.
[8] Before entering professional wrestling, she participated in both gymnastics and track, and at age 14, she worked at an Arby's fast-food restaurant.
[19] With Badd Company she faced the team of the Top Guns (Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes) and Wendi Richter at the only AWA pay-per-view SuperClash III.
She then began training in Japan, learning the Japanese wrestling style, as well as Muay Thai, kickboxing, and boxing.
[4] She wrestled in a six-woman tournament to crown a new Women's Champion, and in the finals, she pinned Heidi Lee Morgan on December 13 to win the title.
Blayze defeated Nakano at SummerSlam, but lost the belt to her on November 20, 1994, in Japan at the Big Egg Wrestling Universe event.
[28] According to Rhonda Sing (Faye), the storyline was written so Miceli could take time off to get breast implants and a nose job.
[32] The company then decided to establish the WCW Women's Championship, but Madusa lost to Akira Hokuto in the finals of the tournament to crown the first champion on December 29 at Starrcade.
[37] After Karagias won the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship at Mayhem,[38] he was found flirting with Spice of the Nitro Girls.
[39] At Starrcade, however, Spice gave Karagias a low blow during the match, and Madusa pinned him to become the first female ever to win the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship.
[1][40] In the meantime, Miceli became an instructor at the WCW Power Plant, where she helped train women such as Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) to wrestle.
[45] Before WCW's collapse, she engaged in a brief feud with Torrie Wilson and Shane Douglas, who defeated her and partner Billy Kidman at Fall Brawl in a Mixed Tag Team Scaffold match.
[1] She left the company when she heard that Vince McMahon, the owner of the World Wrestling Federation, was going to buy WCW.
[3][13] On March 2, 2015, it was announced that Miceli would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015, under her Alundra Blayze moniker.
[50] On January 27, 2016, Miceli appeared on WWE Network's program Table for 3, along with fellow wrestlers Ivory and Molly Holly.
[51] In September 2017, the WWE Network released a documentary entitled "TrailBlayzer" detailing Miceli's careers in both wrestling and monster truck driving.
Miceli as Alundra Blayze was announced as an entrant into the battle royal for a women's championship opportunity at WWE Evolution, marking a return to the ring after an 18-year hiatus, however she was eliminated by Nia Jax[52] On July 22, 2019, Alundra Blayze appeared as a heel and attacked 24/7 Champion Candice Michelle, after which she captured the title from Candice by forcing her to submit, with Melina acting as the official, becoming the third woman to win the title, while also becoming the first individual to win the title via submission.
Returning to TNT for the first time in 20 years, Miceli was presenter of the All Elite Wrestling (AEW)'s Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw, which began on August 3, 2020.
[57] She would later accompany The Wild Cards (Royce Isaacs and Thomas Latimer) who challenged the Villain Enterprises (Brody King and PCO) at the Crockett Cup finals for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship, but were unsuccessful.
[59] Miceli won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie.
[4] She owns a grooming, pet spa, and doggy bakery called Koolkats and Hotdogs in Lecanto, Florida.