Judy Martin
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Judy Martin (L) and Leilani Kai (R) as the Glamour Girls |
Judith Hardee is a former female
professional wrestler known as
Judy Martin. Martin is a former
WWF Women's Tag Team Champion. She held the title with partner
Leilani Kai as
The Glamour Girls. The Glamour Girls also held the LPWA Tag Team titles.
WWF
In the early 80's, Judy Martin competed in the WWF's women's tag-team division. She was often partnered with Leilani Kai (and occasionally Donna Christanello). Martin would also challenge champion
Wendi Richter for the WWF Women's title as part of The Fabulous Moolah's stable of wrestlers (not so much a stable, more of a revolving door of challengers the WWF would bring in to face Richter) that included Spider Lady, Mad Maxine and Leilani Kai.
A tag team title match between Kai & Martin and champions
Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen was reported to have happened in Egypt in 1985, but in actuality, the match never took place. Kai & Martin were awarded the titles after McIntyre & Petersen split up.
After touring on the independent circuit and Japan for a few years, Martin and Kai returned to the WWF, repackaged as the platinum haired
The Glamour Girls. The duo appeared at the first
Survivor Series in 1987 as part of then champion
Sherri Martel's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team. Martel's team consisting of Martel,
The Glamour Girls (
Leilani Kai and Judy Martin),
Dawn Marie and
Donna Christanello lost to The Fabulous Moolah's team consisting of Moolah,
Velvet McIntyre,
Rockin' Robin, and the Japanese imports,
Jumping Bomb Angels (
Noriyoi Tateno and
Itsuki Yamazaki).
The Glamour Girls (managed by
Jimmy Hart) would feud for much of 1988 with The Jumping Bomb Angels for the Women's Tag Team Championship. The two teams staged an epic 2 out of 3 falls match at the first
Royal Rumble event in 1988, with the Bomb Angels capturing the gold. Kai & Martin would recapture the titles months later in Japan before the belts were once again abandoned.
In 1989, Martin wrestled
Rockin' Robin for the
WWF Women's Championship at the
Royal Rumble. She continued to challenge Robin throughout the Spring and Summer of 1989, until the WWF phased out the women's division.
AWA
After leaving the WWF in 1989, Martin joined AWA to compete for the
AWA Women's Championship. She first fueded with reigning champion
Wendi Richter, but was unsuccessful. After Richter left the company, she wrestled
Candi Devine in a match to determine the new champion on December 6, 1989, and Devine won.
LPWA
The Glamour Girls then surfaced in the newly formed Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA), managed by Adnan El Kassey and then by the "Queen of Wrestling" Christopher Love. They would wrestle as both a tag team and in singles competition as top contenders to LPWA Champion Susan Sexton's title. After months of feuding with Tag Team Champions
Misty Blue Simmes &
Heidi Lee Morgan (Team America), The Girls finally captured the LPWA Tag Team Titles. They feuded with teams like the Bad, Black & Beautiful; The New Team America (Misty Blue Simmes & Alison Royal) & Bambi and
Malia Hosaka (who the duo would face at the first and only LPWA pay per view - Superladies Showdown) before the LPWA folded in 1993.
WCW
While working in the LPWA, Martin also made appearances in WCW. On the October 19, 1991 edition of
WCW Saturday Night, Martin wrestled Bambi, but the match was interrupted when
Madusa interfered. Then on the October 26, 1991 edition of
WCW Worldwide, Martin lost a match to Madusa. WCW was phasing out the women wrestlers and focusing more attention on the valets, so Martin disappeared shortly thereafter.
Championships and accomplishments
*2-time
WWF Women's Tag Team Title (w/
Leilani Kai)
*1-time AJW NWA International Tag Team title
*1-time AJW All-Pacific title
*1-time LPWA Tag Team title
*1-time LMLW Tag Team title
Managers
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Jimmy Hart*
Adnan El Kassey* "Queen Christopher Love" (Bert Prentice)
Martin retired after an injury, and currently lives in the south working as a prison guard.
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Judy Martin at Obsessed With Wrestling.com*
Judy Martin at IMDB.com
