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Sherri Russell

Sherri Martel was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri. Martel began her professional wrestling career in the Mid South after training in Columbia, South Carolina. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she held the WWF Women's Championship. Also in the WWF, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007. She also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance. By 2003, she and her husband Robert Schrull lived in Tennessee, where she helped him renovate homes. She was married and divorced at least twice during her life, and Booker T gave her away at one of her weddings. She had one son. Death On June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham. She was 49 years old. On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released the toxicology report stating that she died of an overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone. She was cremated after her death


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Born:
Feb 8, 1958 In Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
42
First Appeared:
In the series Saturday Night's Main Event 1985-05-11
Latest Project:
Movie WWE Survivor Series 2012 2012-11-10
Known For
Poster of WWE SmackDown
Poster of WWE Survivor Series 1989
Poster of WWE SummerSlam 1989
Poster of Saturday Night's Main Event
Filmography
Movie WWE Survivor Series 2012 HBK's Partner (archive footage) 2012-11-10
Movie The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers Sensational Sherri 2006-02-07
Series WWE SmackDown Unknown 1999-04-29
Movie WCW SuperBrawl VII Sister Sherri 1997-02-23
Movie WCW Uncensored 1997 Sister Sherri 1997-03-16
Movie WCW The Great American Bash 1997 Sister Sherri 1997-06-15
Movie WCW Slamboree 1997 Sister Sherri 1997-05-18
Movie WCW Fall Brawl 1996 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1996-09-15
Movie WCW Hog Wild 1996 Sister Sherri 1996-08-10
Movie WCW Halloween Havoc 1996 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1996-10-27
Movie WCW World War 3 1996 Sister Sherri 1996-11-24
Movie WCW Uncensored 1995 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1995-03-19
Movie WCW SuperBrawl V Sister Sherri (Manager) 1995-02-19
Movie WCW Slamboree 1995 Sister Sherri 1995-05-21
Movie WCW The Great American Bash 1995 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1995-06-18
Movie WCW Fall Brawl 1995 Sister Sherri 1995-09-17
Movie WCW Bash at the Beach 1995 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1995-07-16
Movie WCW Bash at the Beach 1994 Sensational Sherri (Manager) 1994-07-17
Movie WCW Starrcade 1994 Sister Sherri (Manager) 1994-12-27
Movie WCW Halloween Havoc 1994 Sensuous Sherri (Manager) 1994-10-23
Series WWE Raw Sensational Sherri 1993-01-11
Movie WWE WrestleMania IX Sensational Sherri (Ringside) 1993-04-04
Movie WWE Royal Rumble 1993 Sensational Sherri (Appearance) 1993-01-24
Movie WWE WrestleMania VIII Sensational Sherri (Valet) 1992-04-05
Movie WWE SummerSlam 1992 Sensational Sherri 1992-08-29
Movie WWE WrestleMania VII Sensational Queen Sherri (Valet) 1991-03-24
Movie WWE Royal Rumble 1991 Sensational Sherri 1991-01-19
Movie WWE U.K. Rampage 1991 Sensational Sherri (Valet) 1991-04-21
Movie WWE SummerSlam 1991 Sensational Sherri (Valet) 1991-08-26
Movie WWE This Tuesday In Texas Sensational Sherri (Valet) 1991-12-03
Movie WWE Survivor Series 1991 Sensational Sherri (Valet) 1991-11-27
Movie WWF SuperTape Sensational Queen Sherri (Manager) 1990-03-21
Movie WWE WrestleMania VI Sensational Queen Sherri 1990-04-01
Movie WWF Hottest Matches Sensational Queen Sherri 1990-10-25
Movie WWE SummerSlam 1990 Sensational Queen Sherri 1990-08-27
Movie Hulkamania 4 Sensational Sherri Martel 1989-11-01
Movie WWE SummerSlam 1989 Sensational Sherri 1989-08-28
Movie WWE Survivor Series 1989 Sensational Queen Sherri (Manager) 1989-11-23
Movie WWE WrestleMania IV Peggy Sue (Valet) 1988-03-27
Movie WWE Survivor Series 1987 Sherri Martel 1987-11-26
Series Saturday Night's Main Event Unknown 1985-05-11
Movie AWA Super Clash Sherri Martel 1985-09-25
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