Madusa

For the ancient Greek mythological figure, see Medusa.

Madusa
Miceli in 2013
Birth nameDebrah Anne Miceli
Born (1963-02-09) February 9, 1963 (age 61)[1][2]
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.[1][2]
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1990; div. 1990)​
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(m. 1998; div. 2008)​
Alan Jonason
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(m. 2011)​
Websitemadusa.com
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Alundra Blayze[1]
Madusa[1]
Madusa Miceli[1][3]
Billed height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Billed weight150 lb (68 kg)[1]
Trained byBrad Rheingans[4]
Eddie Sharkey[1][5]
Debut1984[5]
Retired2000

Debrah Ann Miceli[6][7] (born February 9, 1963),[8] better known as Madusa, is an American monster truck driver and retired professional wrestler. She is currently signed to National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) as a producer.[9] In professional wrestling Miceli is also known by the ring name Alundra Blayze, which she used while in the WWF/WWE. Outside of the WWF, she wrestled under her professional name of Madusa, which was shortened from "Made in the USA".[3] Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she once held the AWA World Women's Championship. In 1988, she was the first woman to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of the Year. The following year, she signed a contract with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, making her the first foreign wrestler to do so.

She later joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where she was a member of The Dangerous Alliance, a group of wrestlers managed by Paul E. Dangerously. In 1993, she joined the rival World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the name Alundra Blayze. In the WWF, she feuded with Bull Nakano and Bertha Faye, while holding the WWF Women's Championship three times. Two years after joining the WWF, Miceli returned to WCW, showing up on an episode of Monday Nitro to throw the WWF Women's Championship belt into a trash can; she was blacklisted by the WWF for the next 20 years as a result.[10] In her second WCW run, Miceli feuded with Bull Nakano and Oklahoma, and became the first woman to hold the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. After training wrestlers such as Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) at the WCW Power Plant, she left the company in 2001. On March 28, 2015, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015, under the Alundra Blayze moniker.[11] In 2015, she additionally served as the commissioner of Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom.

Miceli is a former monster truck driver, and second longest tenured female driver in the sport to Scarlet Bandit.[12] She drove a truck named Madusa, and won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie. The following year, she won the Racing Championship in the Monster Jam World Finals.

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  2. ^ a b "MAT MATTERS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADUSA! LET'S SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT". February 9, 2023. Archived from the original on March 13, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
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  7. ^ "Debrah & Alan". alananddebrah.ourwedding.com. July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  8. ^ Miceli, Debrah (2023). The Woman Who Would Be King: The Madusa Story (1st ed.). ECW Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-77041-671-0.
  9. ^ Nash, Anthony (December 27, 2022). "Madusa: You Can't Teach It, You Can't Learn It; Charisma Is Charisma And It Is A Gift". Wrestlezone. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
  10. ^ Kraft, Paul (March 13, 2014). "Madusa trashes her chances of ever returning to WWE". WrestleCrap. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  11. ^ Melok, Bobby. "Alundra Blayze to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame's Class of 2015". WWE.com. WWE. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  12. ^ Various. "2Xtreme Monster Truck Series, Dawn Creten". @Xtreme Racing Series. Archived from the original on August 22, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2023.