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Sensational Sherri succeeded as both a wrestler and a manager at the top level, a combination few in wrestling history have matched.

As a wrestler, she won the AWA World Championship three times, beginning at SuperClash in Chicago in 1985. On July 24, 1987, she debuted in the WWF while still AWA champion and beat her own trainer, The Fabulous Moolah, for the WWF Championship. She held it for fifteen months, captained a team in the first women’s Survivor Series match, and lost the title in Paris in 1988.

When the WWF phased out its women’s division, she moved into managing full time. As Sensational Queen Sherri she guided Macho King Randy Savage through two years near the top of the card, including the WrestleMania VII retirement match. She managed Ted DiBiase, then spent a year with Shawn Michaels during his transition to singles competition, singing the original recording of Sexy Boy herself.

In WCW, as Sensuous Sherri, she was at the center of the Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan feud in 1994. She appeared to side with Sting at Clash of the Champions XXVII, in his face paint, before revealing it as a double cross and helping Flair unify the championships. She was in Flair’s corner at Bash at the Beach when Hogan won the WCW title in his debut match, working the ringside area so relentlessly that Dave Meltzer wrote in the Observer, “Somebody ought to give that woman a medal for how hard she works at ringside.” At Halloween Havoc, she climbed the cage during the career versus career match, losing her dress to Jimmy Hart on the way up. She then became Sister Sherri and led Harlem Heat to WCW Tag Team Championships. Earlier in her career, she had managed Buddy Rose and Doug Somers to AWA tag gold against the Midnight Rockers, meaning she worked against a young Michaels years before she worked with him.

She took bumps, threw punches and interfered regularly, and she is widely credited with showing that a woman at ringside could drive major storylines as a villain.

Ted DiBiase inducted her into the WWE Hall of Fame in April 2006. 

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