Sherri Russell

Known for ActingBorn 1958-02-08Died 2007-06-15Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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 WWE, where she held the WWE Women's Championship. Also in WWE, 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 deathRead more

Movies & web series

Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division

WWE: The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers

3rd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars

2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars

Hulkamania 6

AWA SuperClash II

AWA WrestleRock 1986

WCW The Great American Bash 1997

WCW Fall Brawl 1996

WCW Halloween Havoc 1996

Hulkamania 4

WCW SuperBrawl VII

WWE Hall of Fame 2006

Dark Side of the Ring

WCW Monday Nitro

WWE WrestleMania VI

WWE Survivor Series 1987

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

WWE WrestleMania VIII

WWE U.K. PPV

WWE SummerSlam 1992

WCW Slamboree 1997

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

WWF Superstars

AWA Super Clash

WWE Survivor Series 1989

WWE SummerSlam 1991

WWE This Is Awesome

WWE Survivor Series 2012

WWE WrestleMania VII

WWE Survivor Series 1991

WWE This Tuesday In Texas

WWE WrestleMania IV

TNA iMPACT!

WWE Royal Rumble 1991

WCW Hog Wild 1996

WCW Fall Brawl 1995

WCW Starrcade 1994

WCW Halloween Havoc 1994

AWA All-Star Wrestling

WWE SummerSlam 1990

Raw

WWF Wrestling Challenge

WWE SummerSlam 1989

WWE Royal Rumble 1993

WCW Uncensored 1997

WCW Bash at the Beach 1994

WWE WrestleMania IX