Gail Kim

**Gail Kim** (born February 20, 1977) is a Canadian-American actress, model and retired professional wrestler, currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where she serves as a producer. In IMPACT Wrestling, she is also a record setting seven-time Knockouts Champion. She is also known for her two stints in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she won the WWE Women's Championship in her first match.

Kim began her career wrestling on the Canadian-American independent circuit, before joining WWE in 2002. She became the first WWE Diva in history to win a championship in her debut match. After being released by WWE in 2004, Kim joined TNA in September 2005. There, she joined the tag team **America's Most Wanted** as their valet. After the dissolution of the group, Kim performed as a singles wrestler, eventually becoming the inaugural TNA Knockouts Champion in October 2007. She later left TNA in August 2008, to return to WWE three months later, where she remained until 2011. The following October she returned to TNA. In 2012, *Pro Wrestling Illustrated* named Kim the number one female wrestler in the world and in 2016 she was announced as the first female inductee into the IMPACT Hall of Fame.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Air Raid Crash* (Over the shoulder back-to-belly piledriver)
	+ *Christo*/ *Flying Dragon* (Tilt-a-whirl headscissors armbar)
	+ *Eat Defeat* (Inverted stomp facebreaker)
	+ *Happy Ending* (Straight jacket neckbreaker slam)
	+ Hurricanrana pin

* **Signature moves**
	+ Abdominal stretch
	+ Arm drag, from the top rope
	+ Arm-trap neckbreaker, used as a counter to an oncoming opponent
	+ Backbreaker stretch
	+ *Beneath the Queen* (Modified sitting armbar stretch, preceded by a somersault arm wringer evasion)
	+ Boston crab
	+ Bow and arrow stretch
	+ *Blockbuster* (Diving somersault neckbreaker)
	+ *Cattle Mutilation* (Bridging double chickenwing)
	+ Corner crossbody, followed by a mat slam
	+ Corner foot choke
	+ Crucifix pin
	+ Dragon sleeper, sometimes with a bodyscissors combination
	+ *Diamondback Leglock* (Modified inverted surfboard calf lock)
	+ Diving crossbody
	+ Diving forearm smash
	+ Diving hurricanrana
	+ Diving plancha
	+ Double knee facebreaker
	+ Dropkick, while standing
	+ Drop toe hold, into the ropes
	+ Electric chair facebuster, from the corner
	+ Enzuigiri
	+ European uppercut
	+ Flapjack
	+ *Frankensteiner* (Standing hurricanrana)
	+ Figure-four leglock
	+ Fireman's carry drop
	+ Fireman's carry gutbuster
	+ Flying forearm, to the opponent's back
	+ Front missile dropkick
	+ Gory special, transitioned into a short-arm clothesline
	+ Guillotine choke, sometimes with a bodyscissors combination
	+ Guillotine leg drop
	+ Gutbuster
	+ Hair-pull shoulder drag
	+ Hammerlock belly-to-back suplex
	+ Handstand headscissors takedown
	+ Hangman's backbreaker
	+ Hangman's neckbreaker
	+ *Hollywood Detour* (Inverted surfboard, transitioned into a pin)
	+ Inverted DDT
	+ Jackknife pin
	+ Jawbreaker
	+ Jumping arm drag
	+ Jumping knee drop, while running
	+ Knee strike, followed by a snapmare and a low roundhouse kick
	+ Knee drop bulldog
	+ Leaping clothesline, sometimes in the corner
	+ Leg drop, while diving
	+ Low dropkick
	+ Mat slam
	+ Modified Fujiwara armbar
	+ Modified Indian deathlock
	+ Monkey flip
	+ Moonsault plancha, sometimes diving
	+ *Mysterio-Rana* (Electric chair, transitioned into a hurricanrana)
	+ Multiple knee strikes, to the opponent's back
	+ Neckscissors
	+ Northern Lights suplex, while bridging
	+ Over-the-shoulder single leg Boston crab
	+ Pendulum backbreaker
	+ Propeller armbar
	+ Propeller headscissors
	+ Punt kick, to the opponent's midsection
	+ *Queen of Spades* (Inverted elevated sharpshooter)
	+ Ringpost figure-four leglock – adopted from Bret Hart
	+ Ringpost tiger feint kick
	+ Rolling headbutt, to the midsection
	+ Romero dragon sleeper
	+ Rope-aided ankle lock
	+ Rope-aided hurricanrana, from out of the corner or through ropes
	+ Roundhouse kick, to the opponent's midsection
	+ *Royal God* (Cradle arm-trap brainbuster)
	+ Running crossbody
	+ Running forearm smash
	+ Running front dropkick
	+ Snap DDT
	+ Splash, while diving
	+ Standing ringpost figure-four leglock
	+ Straight jacket reverse hangman
	+ Senton, sometimes running or diving
	+ *Screaming Siren Armbar* (Keylock)
	+ *Skeleton Leglock* (Cloverleaf legbreaker)
	+ Sleeper hold
	+ Spear, sometimes followed by multiple punches
	+ Sidewalk slam
	+ Simultaneous side headlock and headscissors takedown combination
	+ Single arm DDT
	+ Single leg DDT, preceded by a back heel trip
	+ Sitout facebuster
	+ Sitout powerbomb
	+ Shinbreaker
	+ Sliding forearm smash, to a seated opponent
	+ Slingshot plancha
	+ Slingshot sunset flip powerbomb, preceded by a slingshot seated senton
	+ *Spinal Tap* (Snapmare, followed by a punt kick to the back)
	+ Springboard arm drag, sometimes with a headscissors takedown combination
	+ *Still Life* (Arm-trap Argentine leglock/neckscissors combination)
	+ Swinging neckbreaker
	+ Scoop slam
	+ Scoop powerslam
	+ Short-arm clothesline
	+ Shoulderbreaker
	+ Shoulder legbreaker
	+ Sunset flip powerbomb, from the top rope
	+ Super frankensteiner
	+ Surfboard stretch, while standing
	+ *Stun Gun* (Flapjack, into a hot shot)
	+ *Tarantula* (Rope-hung Boston crab)
	+ *Tequila Sunrise* (Single leg Boston crab, with armlock)
	+ *Terminus Lock* (Scorpion cross lock)
	+ Texas cloverleaf
	+ Tilt-a-whirl DDT
	+ Tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown
	+ *Twisted Anchor* (Modified inverted figure-four leglock)
	+ Twisting springboard crossbody
	+ Tornado DDT, sometimes diving
	+ *Toronto Slam* (Double leg slam)
	+ Wheelbarrow bulldog
	+ Wrecking ball dropkick

* **Managers**
	+ Karen Jarrett
	+ Lei'D Tapa
	+ Madison Rayne
* **Wrestlers managed**
	+ America's Most Wanted
	+ Daniel Bryan
	+ Eve Torres
	+ Jeff Jarrett
	+ Lei'D Tapa

* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Empress of the Knockouts"
	+ "The Master of Submission Moves"
	+ "The Queen of the Cats"

* **Entrance themes**
	+ **World Wrestling Entertainment**
		- "International Woman" by Jim Johnston Feat. Dara Shindler
		- "Strong & Sexy" by Jim Johnston
	+ **Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / IMPACT Wrestling**
		- "Biohazard" by Dale Oliver
		- "Pain Redefined" by Dale Oliver
		- "Guilty" by Dale Oliver (used as a member of America's Most Wanted)
		- "Unstoppable" by Dale Oliver
		- "Puppets on a String" (Instrumental) by Dale Oliver & Serg Salinas
		- **"Puppets on a String"** by Dale Oliver & Serg Salinas Feat. Sean Patrick McGraw

## Championships and accomplishments

* **Apocalypse Wrestling Federation**
	+ Diva of the Year (2001)
* **Association Biterroise de Catch**
	+ ABC Women's Championship (1 time)
* **Funkin' Conservatory**
	+ FC Women's Championship (1 time)
* **Imperial Wrestling Revolution**
	+ IWR Diamond Championship (1 time)
* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Ranked her **#1** of the top 50 female wrestlers in the *PWI Female 50* in 2012
* **Total Nonstop Action Wrestling**
	+ TNA Knockouts Championship (7 times)
	+ TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Madison Rayne
	+ Gauntlet for the Gold (2007, 2016 – Knockouts)
	+ Queen of the Knockouts (2013)
	+ TNA World Cup of Wrestling (2015) – with Crazzy Steve, Davey Richards, Gunner, Jeff Hardy and Rockstar Spud
	+ IMPACT Hall of Fame
		- Class of 2016
	+ IMPACT Year End Awards
		- Knockout of the Year (2007)
* **World Wrestling Entertainment**
	+ WWE Women's Championship (1 time)

## *Luchas de Apuestas* record

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