WWE Profiles Former Women’s Champion Involved in WCW Controversy

Posted by Marc Middleton on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

- World Wrestling Entertainment has apparently made amends with another controversial former talent as Debrah Miceli (a/k/a Alundra Blayze, Madusa) is featured in the latest edition of Where Are They Now?.

Fifteen years after infamously dropping the WWE Women’s Championship into a garbage can on a December 1995 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, Miceli candidly discusses the infamous scene with WWE.com.

“The longest running question to this day is why in the hell did you throw the title in the trash can?” Miceli said. “Well, I was under contract and [former WCW President] Eric Bischoff told me to do it. It was either that or I was out the door.’”

After going through with the stunt, Miceli found herself the target of serious backlash. She strongly believes it only fell on her because of her gender.

“If I was a guy I would’ve been on the cover of every magazine,” Miceli said. “Because I was a woman, I was called a disgrace to the business. That’s the truth.”

Elsewhere in the story, the multi-time champion discusses her humble beginnings in the wrestling industry with the American Wrestling Association, her three-year excursion to Japan, making the move to WWE in 1993, and more. The second part of the story will be continued tomorrow.

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14 Responses to WWE Profiles Former Women’s Champion Involved in WCW Controversy:

effmenow
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Slow news day huh marc?
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hey yo!!
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Man I loved Madusa!! Still watch her on AWA on the ESPNclassics channel. She was hot!!
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Jurry
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 1:31 PM
“If I was a guy I would’ve been on the cover of every magazine,” Miceli said. “Because I was a woman, I was called a disgrace to the business. That’s the truth.”
She has a point.
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Jon-Jon
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 1:35 PM
That is true. But if I was the editor or owner of a wrestling magazine, she woulda been on the front page. Women don’t have personalities or lash out against a company these days.
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In Grind We Crust
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 3:54 PM
wow. what a PC crybaby.
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Ryan
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Alundra Blayze was a better wrestler than Trish Stratus. Bar none.
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Valo487
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Awfully bold statement considering all she had to do was just mail them the title before she left or turn it in her last night in WWF. She seems awfully quick to paint herself as the wounded party considering no one made her jump ship or take the title with her.
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Jason L
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 5:11 PM
@ Valo
That was probably her copy of the belt. Champions get replicas of their title belts and only use the “official” belt on TV.
Big diff there as the “official” belts are actually gold or plat (not just gold or plat plated) and are worth quite a bit of money. Even the highest end replicas price wise pale in comparison to the cost of an “official” belt.
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CC
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 7:01 PM
I dont see how she can say it would happen differently with a male wrestler, as she is the only person to ever do it.
Its pure speculation on her part, trying to defend what she did by painting herself as the victim in the whole deal.
Fact is, she said she would been fired if she didnt do it, but the fact that she gave in shows she is weak.
If she was fired for that, she could probably have gone back to WWF at some point, maybe even straight away, so the risk was far bigger for her to go through with the angle rather than refuse to do it.
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NT86
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 7:28 PM
With Vince possibly making amends with Micelli, maybe there is scope for Savage and Chyna to re-build bridges.
I admit that in her prime she was a talented woman wrestler and could outwrestle 99% of the current Divas, but to play the gender card is a bit much IMO. If a male wrestler had walked onto Nitro and did the same thing on that fateful night in 1995, they too would have burnt a bridge. She should tried to have returned to WWE instead of going to WCW? It wrecked her career even more than the title belt incident did. Look at all the crappy angles she was part of in WCW’s dying days including a feud with Ed Ferrara for the Cruiserweight Title.
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Soulshroude
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 9:02 PM
If Chyna ever comes back to reality, instead of being an drunk and abusive waste of a woman, then perhaps. But I don’t see it anytime soon.
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super funk
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Even though no man had done what she did, it’s not difficult to see that she has a point. Just look at the Outsiders and what a huge angle that was, how big a deal it was for them to be there because of the WWF(E) implications. Now, imagine if they brought a championship from WWF(E) and did what she did. You can’t honestly tell me that they would have gotten the same backlash as she did. It would have made the angle even hotter.
As for whether or not she should have gone through with it, well you have to consider a few things. She left WWF(E) for a reason and she went to WCW for a reason. She wanted it to work in WCW and did what she had to do. I don’t think anyone but her can say what she should or should not have done.
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Code Red
Date: Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Her WCW run might have turned out worthwhile if there wasn’t such a half-hearted attempt at building a women’s division. In the last years of her run there she was a trainer at the Powerplant and was involved in some horrible storylines. But I read that she hated the Alundra Blayze character so I doubt she would’ve wanted to go back to WWE. She’s probably much happier driving monster trucks now.
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scooter
Date: Aug 06, 2010 at 2:31 PM
she has a point remember rhino in 06 when he said ecw should stay dead and buried and
destroyed the title and most people agreed
wait a second something seems off about that promo can’t quite put my finger on it.
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