Sherri Schrull (born Sherri Russell) was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri. Throughout her career, Martel competed in the AWA and ECW as Sherri Martel, the WWF as Sensational Sherri, Sensational Queen Sherri, Peggy Sue, and Scary Sherri, and in the WCW as Sensuous Sherri and Sister Sherri.

In 1974, Martel approached Grizzly Smith for advice on becoming a wrestler. Smith questioned her conviction and told her to come back to him in five years when she was an adult. She eventually married and gave birth to a son named Jared, but she soon divorced her husband and began working as a stripper. During this time, she again became interested in becoming a professional wrestler and sought training from Butch Moore in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as from Debbie Johnson, a former professional wrestler. In the latter part of 1979, she went to The Fabulous Moolah's school on Johnson's recommendation. In January and February 1980, she wrestled on a tour in Japan. Upon returning to the United States, she began wrestling in Memphis working as both a wrestler and manager to Pat Rose and Tom Prichard. During this time, she was managed by Jim Cornette. During a mixed battle royal, Martel suffered an injury that removed her from wrestling for a few years.

After recovering, Larry Zbyszko helped her join the American Wrestling Association (AWA). He felt she had a little bit of potential and thought she just needed to learn how to do wrestling interviews. She eventually debuted in the AWA, and on September 28, 1985, at SuperClash, she defeated Candi Devine for the AWA World Women's Championship. Later that year, the title was taken from Martel and awarded to Devine, but Martel regained the title on October 17, 1985. On April 20, 1986, Martel won a battle royal at WrestleRock '86 that included Devine, Debbie Combs, Rose Devine, Joyce Grable, Kat LeRoux, Despina Montegas, Misty Blue Simmes, and Luna Vachon. On May 10, 1986, she helped Buddy Rose and Doug Somers win the AWA World Tag Team Championship. Having previously vacated the AWA Women's Championship, Martel defeated Devine on June 28, 1986 to begin her third reign as champion. On May 2, 1987 Martel defeated Madusa Miceli at SuperClash 2. Former AWA wrestler Jesse Ventura then referred her to the WWF. Martel credited Vince McMahon for being the one who molded her in the WWF.

On July 24, 1987, Martel debuted in the WWF and defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship. At this time she was still the AWA's Women's champion, but she lost the AWA title three days later. Renaming herself Sensational Sherri, she reigned as WWF Women's Champion for fifteen months. On October 8, 1988 she was defeated for the title by Rockin' Robin.

In the early months of 1988, she also portrayed Peggy Sue, the valet of The Honky Tonk Man, while still appearing as Sherri in the same period (Peggy wore sunglasses and a blonde wig, so she was not recognizable). Peggy Sue was often jealous of Miss Elizabeth and even attacked her during one match. When the WWF phased out its women's division in 1990, Martel remained with the company and turned her attention to managing male wrestlers.

At WrestleMania V in 1989, Martel appeared backstage and mocked Miss Elizabeth who was managing Hulk Hogan. After the main event, Martel confronted her, which led to a brawl between Hogan and Randy Savage. Throughout the remainder of the year, Martel and Savage feuded with Hogan and Elizabeth. At SummerSlam, Hogan and Brutus Beefcake defeated Savage and Zeus. After the match, Elizabeth knocked out Martel with her purse, and she, Hogan, and Beefcake cut Martel's hair, which in reality was a long ponytail hair extension. Shortly after, she became known as Sensational Queen Sherri, as Savage defeated "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan to become King of the WWF.

At WrestleMania VII in 1991, Savage lost a career match against The Ultimate Warrior. Martel attacked Savage but was thrown from the ring by Elizabeth, who was watching from the audience. When she and Savage parted ways following the career match, Martel became the right hand woman of the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.

She managed Ted DiBiase until early 1992 and then parted ways with him after she announced that she was in love with Shawn Michaels; she also sang Michaels theme song called "Sexy Boy". She managed Michaels during his feuds with Bret Hart and Rick Martel, who had a flirtatious relationship with Sherri. One night in late 1992, Marty Jannetty, Michaels' former tag team partner, entered the ring before one of Michaels' matches. He grabbed Shawn's mirror (a mirror that Sherri carried in before matches for Shawn to admire himself in before the fight), and when he swung the mirror at Michaels, Michaels pulled Sherri in front of him, and she was smashed with the mirror.

Sherri disappeared but returned to the WWF at the Royal Rumble in 1993. She was in a neutral corner for the match between Michaels and Jannetty. Near the end of the match, Martel confronted Michaels outside the ring and slapped him. At the end of the match, she entered the ring to smash him with her shoe, but he ducked, and she hit Jannetty instead. Michaels finished the match and won, while Martel fled the ring in tears. Backstage, Michaels confronted her, and Jannetty came to her rescue. The following week, Martel thanked Jannetty, and she later appeared in his corner for a match against a jobber. After Jannetty left the WWF, Martel was soon left without anyone to manage and found herself accompanying Crush and Randy Savage to the ring for their matches against Michaels at house shows.

At WrestleMania IX, Martel accompanied Tatanka for his match against Michaels, who brought Luna Vachon with him. After the match, Luna attacked Martel, and they began feuding. On the April 12, 1993 edition of Raw, Martel attacked Luna in the first women's segment on Raw. This erupted into a catfight that spilled into the audience, and both women ripped each other's clothes off.Throughout April and May 1993, Martel also appeared in United States Wrestling Association (USWA) where she wrestled Miss Texas (Jacqueline) and helped Randy Savage in his feud against Jerry Lawler (who ripped off Martel's dress after she interfered in a steel cage match). Soon after Martel was fired for not passing a drug test.

Martel re-emerged in Smoky Mountain Wrestling later that year and feuded with Tammy Sytch. She also appeared in the independent National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). She began working in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in autumn of 1993 and soon managed Shane Douglas to the ECW World Championship. ECW began promoting a feud between Martel and Madusa and scheduled a match between them at November to Remember on November 13, 1993. Madusa had just signed a WWF contract, so Martel faced Malia Hosaka instead.

In February 1994, Martel was going to join WCW to feud with Missy Hyatt, but Hyatt left the company. She later made appearances in WCW aiding Kevin Sullivan and Dave Sullivan in spring 1994. On February 5, 1994 Martel accompanied Shane Douglas for a triple threat match against Sabu and Terry Funk. Paul E. Dangerously attacked Martel before the match, but she recovered and was active throughout the match (which ended in a time limit draw). She returned to ECW to accompany Shane Douglas in matches against Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond and then officially joined WCW in May 1994. Martel stated in later interviews that she loved her time with the promotion and working with Shane Douglas. She felt ECW was more lenient with what they would let the women do, which she liked.

Martel entered the WCW under the name Sensuous Sherri. She appeared at Slamboree scouting potential new clients. She announced that she would manage who she felt was WCW's top star. At Clash of the Champions XXVII in June 1994, just as the match between Ric Flair and Sting got underway, Martel approached the ring wearing face paint identical to Sting's. Indeed, she was cheering for him to defeat Flair. Late in the match, Sting attempted to dive over the ropes onto Flair, but The Nature Boy yanked Martel into his path. Sting spent the rest of the match totally distracted and concerned for her, giving Flair the chance he needed to grab Sting's tights for an illegal pinfall and become the WCW Champion. Martel then entered the ring to embrace Flair. The new couple attacked Sting until Hulk Hogan ran them off. She helped Flair in feuds against both Sting and Hulk Hogan.

After Flair lost a retirement match to Hogan, there were rumors that Martel was going to be paired with Steve Austin, but Austin was soon injured and on his way out of WCW at the time. Martel began managing Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) using the name Sister Sherri. At Clash of the Champions XXXI in August 1995, Harlem Heat and Martel defeated Bunkhouse Buck, Dick Slater, and Col. Robert Parker when Martel pinned Parker. Martel hit her head on the mat and suddenly fell in love with Parker. At Clash of the Champions XXXII in January 1996 Martel and Paker were going to get married, but Madusa interrupted the wedding. She and Martel engaged in a catfight, and then wrestled in the first women's singles match on WCW Monday Nitro on January 29, 1996 in which Martel pinned Madusa.

Martel was then fired in February 1996 for not being in proper condition to work at a television taping resulting from developing an addiction to prescription pain killers but cleaned up and returned to WCW by summer of that year, reuniting with Harlem Heat, and she even became involved in a catfight with Debra on an episode of Nitro. At the 1996 World War III pay-per-view, Martel defeated Col. Robert Parker by count-out. Martel left WCW in the summer of 1997. Martel said in later interviews that working with Ric Flair was an honor (she considered him a friend and said she learned a lot from him), and she called Harlem Heat her "two big brothers" and she maintained a friendship with Stevie Ray and Booker T after leaving the company for the final time. The reason she left WCW in 1997 is because she was fired ("I pissed Eric Bischoff off and he pissed me off and that was just it.")

Early in 1999, Martel competed in a mixed-tag team match for the AWF World Heavyweight Title (a men's title). Martel teamed with Squeegee Kid against Missy Hyatt and Ms. B Haven. Hyatt scored an upset and pinned Martel to win the title. Also in 1999, she was awarded the AWA Superstars Women's Championship.

In 2000, Martel made a brief return to WCW to wrestle Madusa and Mona but turned down a long-term commitment. This was during the promotion's short-lived attempt at recreating a women's division. She was originally contacted to manage the newest incarnation of Harlem Heat, but due to a management transition the plans changed. Since she was already backstage, the promoters had her wrestle Madusa on the January 19, 2000 edition of WCW Thunder. She returned and wrestled Mona on the March 11, 2000 edition of WCW WorldWide.

In March 2005 Sherri made a brief appearance on SmackDown! Kurt Angle came out to Shawn Michaels' music, dressed like HBK. Angle danced out, then pointed to the entranceway and out came Sensational Sherri Martel, Michaels' former manager. Angle and Martel got into the ring, with Angle doing all of HBK's old poses with Sherri. Angle got on the mic, saying that he was going to prove that he was a better entertainer than Shawn Michaels tonight. Angle introduced Sherri to the crowd, saying she helped Michaels' early in his career. Angle said he didn't need help to win a gold medal. Angle said that it is Sherri's voice that screams out "Oh Shawn!" at the start of HBK's music. Angle had Sherri scream it out, then sang HBK's song, with new lyrics about "Sexy Kurt" who will make your "ankle hurt". Shawn Michaels appeared on the video screen, and commented that Sherri doesn't look as good as she used to. Michaels then said that, since Raw fans had to watch a Kurt Angle retrospective this week, the Smackdown fans were going to get to watch a video package on HBK's career. A video package then aired of Michaels' career highlights, ending with some hype for Angle vs. Michaels at Wrestlemania. As the video package ended, it appeared Martel was getting emotional about seeing all the old clips of Shawn. Angle went up to her, and they exchanged words. Angle then pointed to his cheek, and Martel kissed it, but Angle then threw Sherri to the mat and put her in an ankle lock. Martel screamed and tapped on the mat, and officials came in to get Angle off of her. Angle smirked in the aisle as he left and the officials tended to Sherri.

She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Ted DiBiase on April 1, 2006.

A little over a year later on the morning of June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham. On June 19, police confirmed that Martel did not die of natural causes, but foul play was not suspected. Based on what was known, Martel had gone to bed at her mother's home (where she was living recently) because she was not feeling well. Her husband found her unresponsive later that afternoon. A cause of death for Martel was not initially known due to the autopsy and toxicology reports needing five to six months to complete, but on September 11 homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released their report stating that she died of an accidental overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone.

Sherri was always one of OWOW's favorites. Her crazy antics and surprise tactics were always entertaining and interesting.