Magnificent Ladies Wrestling

Half precious princess, half punk rocker

Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 135 pounds
Hometown: Newport, Arkansas

Nikki Lane has a bad attitude. All the time. About everything. She may be a highly successful professional wrestler with a fast-growing reputation, but nothing is ever good enough for her.

"I am so bored by these other girls who call themselves wrestlers. I am so bored by these stupid fans. I am so bored of these dumb promoters," she fumes. "Someone like me should not have to put up with this. Don't you people know who I am?"

The willowy native of Arkansas has plowed through the competition in several wrestling federations throughout the Mid-South, often winning championship belts along the way. She has a powerful arsenal of tricks in her repertoire and is an impressive practitioner of technical wrestling. But when events dictate, Lane can get down and dirty with the best of them, especially if she is in one of her famous bad moods. She uses the kind of brutal maneuvers and dirty tricks –chokes, eye gouges, hair pulls and cheap shots- that would make a punk rocking street fighter green with envy.

Some of her most notable feuds have been against Beautiful Bethany and the well-traveled, world-renowned TNA knockout Tracy Brooks.

"Those two always bring out the best in me," Lane declares. "They push me to the limit every time we meet. They are two of the best in the business. Not as good as me, of course, but they are pretty damned good."

That's rare praise from a woman who rarely offers a compliment to anyone other than herself and who has dubbed her finishing move the "Princess Plex," which is a modified fisherman suplex.

"Of course it's a Princess Plex," Lane says flippantly. "A fisherman suplex is what other people do. And, believe me, I am not other people. I'm the one and only Nikki Lane. I am envied, admired and worshipped by the fans and most of these so-called girl wresters because, quite frankly, I deserve it."

Lane has already begun making a mark in the Magnificent Ladies Wrestling ranks, facing some of the best trained and most popular women in the roster. She has usually emerged victorious, though she did take quite a beating from former world women's champion Jazz.

"That was not my fault," Lane argues. "I was not feeling well. The idiot promoters did not properly disinfect the dressing room and I caught some kind of bug, which weakened me for the match with Jazz. On any other day, I promise you, my hand would be raised in victory."

Lane may well face Jazz again as she works her way toward a shot at the Magnificent Ladies Wrestling title. In her own mind, Lane already is wearing the championship belt.

"It's only a matter of time," she says, her eyes blazing with ambition. "The belt belongs to me. Anyone else wearing it is just a peasant pretending to be a princess."

Credit: Jeff Borden