![]() ![]() TOP PHOTO: Jacqueline as WWE Women’s champion.Chrissy Teigen at the 2016 American Music AwardsĮven though Chrissy Teigen piled on the jewelry for the ceremony, she decided to leave her legs exposed in this black long-sleeve dress that arguably featured the highest slits on record. But hopefully I opened the door for them, and they can do it for the next generation.” I think they have more opportunity now than we did back then. So, I mean we had a great time when I was wrestling. “You see, and I think people come to watch the women now because they put on a good show and they’re fun and exciting. And I hope women today – they are main eventers now,” Moore said. Young girls and young ladies can be inspired by what I did for the business, some sense that I’m an inspiration for them. “I hope I opened a lot of doors for women of color. Through it all, Moore said she hopes she “opened a lot of doors for women of color.” And he’s a great guy too… He made me look strong.” He was the champion, and so I wrestled him. “The only thing I can remember, I know they told me that night… I would be wrestling for the cruiserweight title, and I’m doing a double take,” she said. One man she worked with was Chavo Guerrero Jr., who she took the then-WWF Cruiserweight Championship from in 2004. “That made me happy, that made me proud, to be the first, that says a lot,” Moore said. Moore also can claim the honor of becoming the first woman to break into the PWI 500, coming in at 483 in 1993. Jacqueline is inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016. “We took that ball and ran with it and I am honored that I had the chance to work with her, a true hall of famer.” “I still consider my feud with her to be the catalyst pre-Knockouts (women’s) division, because it was the ‘test’ to see whether TNA would continue to trust women to perform in the ring,” Kim said. Kim said she loved seeing Moore’s personality growing and getting to know her behind the scenes during their TNA tenures. “She was tough enough to hang with the men before women’s wrestling became as popular as it is now.” “She was of course an intimidating force, always, from the beginning as she was wrestling men before all this intergender wrestling became a thing,” Kim said. Still, was in the first women’s steel cage match with Gail Kim, who said the WWE Hall of Famer is the toughest woman she’s ever stepped in the ring with. They didn’t showcase my talent, they didn’t let me do a lot,” said Moore, who spent the majority of her TNA tenure in a managerial role. “I like TNA, but I wish they could have done more with me. Moore’s career also took her to then-TNA, where the majority of her work was as a manager. Photo by Bob Kapur ‘A TRUE HALL OF FAMER’ James Storm and Jackie at a TNA Slammiversary fan fest in June 2007. I was so excited, the crowd was really, really, really into it.” “My opponent at the time was Blue Angel, and they put me over,” Moore said. Within a year, she was in her first televised match. Moore trained with Texas wrestling legend Skandor Akbar after seeing an ad in TV Guide. Just in the ring, putting on a great show,” she said. “I don’t know a specific match matches that the women did. Plus, there were women on the World Class cards. The energy that the Von Erichs had – the people, they loved it. “The storylines, the wrestling, everything. Moore’s love of wrestling spawned from watching the Von Erichs in World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas. Representation is very important.” FINDING WRESTLING “Little girls, like I say, I can inspire little girls. I went out there to do my very best… When I won the title, it meant a lot,” Moore said of her 1998 title bout against Sable. “I didn’t go out to be the first African-American women’s champion. I never thought I would make it to the top.”īut that’s exactly what she did, not even realizing some of the milestones as they happened. I loved the action, the competition, that’s what I love. I didn’t think I would make it to WWF at the time… I just loved it. “I just wanted to wrestle because I loved the sport of wrestling,” Moore said. Or to be the first woman to win the Cruiserweight Championship – Or to be one of the first women to compete in a steel cage in TNA.īut she did all of that and then some, leading to a 2016 WWE Hall of Fame induction and, now, the Women’s Wrestling Award from the Cauliflower Alley Club. Jacqueline Moore never planned to be the first Black woman to win a women’s championship in WWF. ![]()
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