Velvet McIntyre Velvet McIntyre ( November 24 , 1962 ) is a retired Canadian and Irish professional wrestler . After beginning her career in 1980 , she wrestled in North American independent promotions , before joining the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . She had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women ' s Championship and WWF Women ' s Tag Team Championship . After the WWF ' s women ' s division went on hiatus in the 1990s , McIntyre wrestled in several Canadian promotions , holding several titles . She was known for wrestling barefoot and her high flying wrestling maneuvers . Professional wrestling career . Independent circuit . After finishing high school , Velvet McIntyre moved to Oregon in 1980 to train with Sandy Barr , under whom she trained with her future opponent and tag team partner , Princess Victoria . McIntyre made her professional wrestling debut in Idaho in 1980 , but she did not begin wrestling full - time until three months later . She then joined Vancouver ' s in 1981 , where she feuded with Princess Victoria . She continued to feud with Victoria for the remainder of the year in both singles and tag team matches in Vancouver and the NWA Pacific Northwest under promoter Don Owen . In 1982 , however , she joined the World Wrestling Federation where she began teaming with Princess Victoria , and in March , the duo lost a series of matches against the team of The Fabulous Moolah and Wendi Richter . McIntyre , however , defeated Richter in two separate matches in Bill Watts ' s Mid - South Wrestling Association . In November and December 1982 , McIntyre worked for Stampede Wrestling , where she teamed with Judy Martin against Richter and Joyce Grable ; the feud between the two teams resumed in April 1983 in Verne Gagne ' s American Wrestling Association . In May 1983 , McIntyre returned to Stampede Wrestling , where she continued her rivalry with Richter and Grable ; this time , however , she teamed once again with Princess Victoria . Victoria and McIntyre won the NWA Women ' s World Tag Team Championship on May 13 in Calgary . World Wrestling Federation . In 1983 , the World Wrestling Federation withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance , and when McIntyre and Victoria rejoined the promotion in 1984 , they were immediately recognized as holding the WWF Women ' s Tag Team Championship . The duo defended the championship against the team of Wendi Richter and Peggy Lee . Desiree Petersen later replaced Victoria in the team , and the new duo lost the title in August 1985 to Judy Martin and Leilani Kai ( known as The Glamour Girls ) in Egypt . McIntyre then began wrestling as a singles wrestler , immediately feuding with The Fabulous Moolah , unsuccessfully challenging her at Wrestlemania II ( the referee counted the pin on McIntyre despite her left leg being draped over the bottom rope which should have stopped the count ) . She won the WWF Women ' s Championship on July 3 , 1986 when she defeated Moolah at the Brisbane Festival Hall on the WWF ' s 1986 Australian tour , but lost the title back to Moolah six days later at the Sydney Entertainment Centre ( the only two times the WWF Women ' s Championship changed hands in the Southern Hemisphere ) . Years later , Moolah called McIntyre the best female wrestler in Canada . In 1987 , McIntyre consistently lost matches to Moolah and Sherri Martel . She also competed at the Survivor Series , teaming with Moolah , Rockin ' Robin , and the Jumping Bomb Angels against Martel , Leilani Kai , Judy Martin , Donna Christanello , and Dawn Marie . By 1990 , however , the women ' s division in the WWF was again on hiatus . Canada . After leaving the WWF , McIntyre continued to wrestle sporadically on the independent circuit . At that time , there were not many opportunities for females in the business . She competed in the Women ' s Pro Wrestling organization in the early 1990s . In November 1993 , she won the Canadian Wrestling Alliance ' s Women ' s Championship from Iron Maiden , but lost it to Iron Maiden again in January 1994 . They continued to feud into 1996 , when the two women joined Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling , where the two traded the Women ' s Championship , which McIntyre held for two months . In September , they competed in a strap match — a match where the wrestlers must compete while connected via a leather strap — in which McIntyre was victorious . In November 1997 , as a part of the International Championship Wrestling , she won the WWWA Women ' s Championship from Bertha Faye . She also held the ICW Women ' s Championship , which she lost in July 1998 . Personal life . It is a common misconception that she is the daughter of professional wrestler Stan Mykietowich . Growing up , she had three brothers with whom she wrestled . McIntyre wore wrestling boots for the first four years of her career , but she later wrestled bare foot when someone took one of her boots as a joke , and she was forced to wrestle without them . Wrestling barefoot later became one of her trademarks , as well as her high flying wrestling maneuvers . She retired from wrestling in 1998 after discovering she was pregnant , and she later gave birth to twins . In her spare time , McIntyre makes and sells crafts .