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Height: 5' 6" Weight: 140 lbs. Born: January 12, 1962 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Real Name: Gertrude Vachon Ring Names: Luna Vachon Angelle Vachon Trudy Vachon Angel Baby |
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Luna's first WWF appearance was in April 1993 at WrestleMania IX, accompanying Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels in his match against Tatanka, who was accompanied by Michaels' former valet Sensational Sherri. After the match, Luna attacked Sherri at ringside and later in the first aid area, starting a vicious feud between the two. At the same time Luna and Sherri were at odds, Bam Bam Bigelow had a confrontation with Sherri. This led to his being attacked by Tatanka and the two of them feuding. Soon after, Bam Bam (kayfabe) announced that he had fallen in love and presented Luna as his "main squeeze". He also endearingly called her his "Tick", which fans combined with her name to the chant "Luna-tic". From then, Bam Bam was seen blowing kisses to Luna at the end of matches, and in her honor even included the Moonsault, redubbed Lunasault, into his repertoire.
During the summer, before her injury, Luna also competed for the Memphis-based United States Wrestling Association (USWA), where she feuded with Miss Texas (later known as Jacqueline), defeating her for the USWA Women's title on August 2, 1993. The title was later vacated. On Halloween 1994, Luna (legitimately) married fellow wrestler David Heath (Gangrel), whom she had managed for some time before. After leaving the WWF, Luna wrestled on the independent circuit. Upon the recommendation of Kevin Sullivan's wife Nancy a (who later became Nancy Benoit), she entered Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). She was brought as Tommy Dreamer's new valet in his long running feud with Raven. In early 1997, Luna had a short run with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), again going after her rival Madusa. Luna interfered in Madusa's matches against WCW Women's Champion Akira Hokuto, preventing a title win by Madusa. Luna and Madusa met each other in a series of matches, including a match at the 1997 Slamboree. Although Luna dominated the matches, Madusa managed to get the pinfall every time.
Goldust also teamed up with Marc Mero, which led to another feud, as Luna and Mero's valet Sable started to fight outside of the ring. The feud culminated in a mixed tag team match at WrestleMania XIV, pitting the two couples against each other and ending in Sable pinning Luna. After this, Luna challenged Sable to an Evening Gown match at Unforgiven 1998 and scored the victory by stripping her opponent down to her underwear. The animosity between Luna and Sable was not entirely kayfabe. As Sable's popularity increased, she adopted a presumptuous attitude towards other competitors. According to Luna, as the two trained in the preparation for their WrestleMania match, Sable refused to learn how to "take bumps" while Luna was threatened by WWF officials that hurting her opponent in the ring would put her job in jeopardy. Sable also annoyed Luna with bragging about being promised the Women's Championship, a goal that had hitherto eluded the veteran Canadian. Luna was also hurt after she had carried Sable in their match, as Sable was universally congratulated while Luna was only consoled by Owen Hart. Still, Luna described the match as "one of the most awesome nights of my life"
In December, Sable, who had won the reinstated WWF Women's Championship, was attacked by the masked "Spider Lady" (reprising a gimmick once performed by The Fabulous Moolah), who turned out to be Luna. She justified attacking her partner with the words: "It's about me, it's about what I deserve." In this feud against Sable, Shane McMahon personally supported Luna's efforts to win the championship after taking personal offense to Sable's attitude towards him and booked a Leather Strap match at the 1999 Royal Rumble. Leading up to that event, in the storyline, Luna was repeatedly attacked by an obsessed Sable fan. At the Royal Rumble, Sable successfully retained the title thanks to the interference of that fan, who now entered WWF competition as Tori. During the weeks prior to the Royal Rumble, Luna also defeated Gillberg, a WWF parody of WCW's shooting star Goldberg. Luna was due to challenge Sable for another title shot several weeks later at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre PPV. The match was canceled due to Luna's suspension for "unruly behavior" backstage. According to Internet rumors the "unruly behavior" was allegedly due to having several personal feuds with Jacqueline, Ivory and Sable.
Six months later, Luna returned at SummerSlam 1999, chasing then Women's Champion Ivory backstage after a successful title defense against Tori. This started a feud between the two with Luna even scoring a pinfall victory during an impromptu, non-title match. However, at the Unforgiven PPV she lost to Ivory in a Hardcore Rules match. During that feud, Luna also answered a challenge from then Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett and defeated him via disqualification, thanks to Ivory's interference. From then on, Luna reassumed her role as manager for her husband, now working for the WWF under the name Gangrel, participating in several mixed tag team matches and helping Gangrel beat his opponents. Plans to have Luna reintroduced fully into the hunt for the Women's Championship were scrapped when, in February 2000, it was announced that Luna had been released from her contract due to allegedly taping the mouth of a producer shut. She described this event as "a joke" and that "everyone had a big laugh over it, including the producer", alleging that her release has more to do with real life animosity with Sable and Marc Mero. After leaving the WWF, Luna continued to manage Gangrel during his independent tours all over the world, as well as wrestling on her own. The two divorced in 2006 but, according to Heath, remain best of friends. On June 9, 2007, Luna became the first Great Lakes Championship Wrestling's Ladies champion defeating Traci Brooks. On December 5, 2007, Luna Vachon announced her retirement; her last match took place on December 7 for Great Lakes Championship Wrestling in Milwaukee. She successfully defended her GLCW Ladies Championship against Traci Brooks and then retired as champion. |
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