Melissa Coates

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Melissa Coates
Statistics
Ring name(s) Melissa Coates
Coates Rack (on Extreme Dodgeball)
Bag Lady
Height 5 ft 5 in
Weight 150 lb
Born June 18, 1972 (1972-06-18) (age 35)
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Resides McDonough, Georgia
Billed from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Trained by Killer Kowalski,
Ultimate University
Debut 2002

Melissa Coates (born June 18, 1972) is a professional wrestler, fitness model, and former bodybuilder. She has also appeared in the first two seasons of the GSN show Extreme Dodgeball.

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[edit] Career

A former Jr. Canadian tennis champion, training with weights to help with her tennis performance led to her interest in bodybuilding; Coates can bench press 250 pounds.

She first became interested in wrestling during the Hulk Hogan / Randy Savage / Miss Elizabeth saga in the early 1990s. Coates eventually appeared at WWE Backlash 2005, during the "Masterlock Challenge" segment. After this initial appearance, Coates was signed to a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). However, Coates left the company to work for wXw and refocus her training. Soon after training in wXw, Coates began regularly working for Ohio Valley Wrestling, often facing off with several of OVW/WWE's divas such as Beth Phoenix, Jillian Hall, Mickie James, and Melina Perez. At one point, she was the bodyguard for Jillian Hall. After a stint in OVW, Coates was then assigned to Deep South Wrestling as the Bag Lady. Soon after, Melissa began to undergo an attire change, dressing more diva like and began feuding with Krissy Vaine and Angel Williams, winning all of her matches. However, Melissa's stay in DSW was also short lived and she began touring the independent circuit. In her first appearance on the indy circuit, Melissa won the NWA / GCW Women's Championship from former WCW star Daffney Unger while wrestling for Great Championship Wrestling. Along the way she defeated former WWE developmental talents Tracy Taylor and Trenesha. Coates has made several appearances for Georgia wrestling promotions in a wrestling and non-wrestling role and also ended up on the winning end of several bouts. She currently wrestles for NWA Anarchy as a heel, challenging and defeating male wrestlers in Battles of the Sexes, so far defeating "Skater Boi" Chris King, Wesley "Rabbit" Grissom, Billy Buck and Derek Ryzen, Kid Ego, and others. Coates teamed up with former WWE Deep South talent Tony Santarelli at FRIGHT NIGHT 2007 to defeat Todd Sexton and Wes Grissom. Coates demanded to participate in the ANARCHY Battle Royal December 2007 to determine the top contender for the ANARCHY Television title, but was eliminated when she was caught unaware during an odd interlude with a "Secret Admirer" that had Coates distracted. Was feuding with Bambi at SECW, and has made appearances for AWA:FLA, IWN, and Global Championship Wrestling in Alabama

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves

[edit] Contest history (bodybuilding)

Melissa Coates

Personal Info
Birth June 18, 1972 (1972-06-18) (age 35), Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada
Professional Career
Pro-debut 1994 Canadian Nationals, 1994
Best win 1996 Jan Tana Classic Champion, 1994-1996
Active Retired 1999

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Bodybuilding

  • Covers of Muscle&Fitness, Flex magazine and Musclemag International multiple times, Ironman, Muscular Development, as well as training articles, swimsuit and lingerie features
  • Voted in "Top Five Prettiest Faces" in the fitness industy MuscleMag June 2007
  • Askmen.com Model of the Week

[edit] Professional wrestling

  • Great Championship Wrestling
  • NWA/GCW Women's Championship (1 time)[1]
  • Voted Best Female Wrestler in Georgia 2007

[edit] References

  1. ^ NWA/GCW Women's Title. TitleHistories.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-02. “Melissa Coates 5/30/07 ... Defeated Daffney in a tournament final to win the vacant title.”

[edit] External links

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