Nicky Monroe

    I’ve always been a huge fan of the British ladies pro wrestling scene, its style appealing to me and its specific outfit-combinations very dear to my heart. As far as I’m concerned, Nicky Monroe is the all-time queen of the British ladies circuit, although I wouldn’t call her the first lady of the sport in Britain, since that title has to go to Mitzi Mueller.
Nicky Monroe was the embodiment of several of the qualities I really appreciate in a lady wrestler: she was mean, she was strong and well capable of holding her own in the ring against women much bigger than her, she was legit in the sense that she did indeed look well-capable of doing heaps of damage, and she always dressed to thrill in the ring.
Her wrestling style was something I could relate to as well, and her moves were quite artful, even when she was on the receiving end of a beat-down. As such, it is safe to proclaim her one of the most influential lady wrestlers of Britain, Bournemouth’s most famous professional wrestler ever, and an inspiration for those interested in pursuing the sport in the present and the future.

Nicky was born into a wrestling family. Her father, John, was a promoter for All Star Wrestling in Bournemouth, and in the beginning of her career, she often tagged with her mother, also a wrestler.

With such a background, it doesn’t really come as a surprise that she began wrestling at the ripe old age of 17. In the beginning, she used to sport blond hair, which – according to some – is why they began calling her “Monroe” to begin with.
Having started wrestling in around 1980, Nicky became Mitzi Mueller’s regular tag team partner, and as such, the road to the top of the ladies ranks opened up to her in an instant.
When Mitzi Mueller retired in 1987, Nicky was one of the top heels of the ladies circuit, and the top contender for the ladies title. It didn’t take her long to get that belt wrapped around her waist: in 1988, she took down the title. She later lost the belt to Klondyke Kate in a televised match aired by BBC2, and she began a long and arduous feud with her. She often tagged with Kate too though, forming a more than formidable team, dominating all their opponents and giving a new meaning to the expression “the immovable object and the unstoppable force”.
In 1992, she finally won the title again, defeating Kate in Bournemouth. She wrestled into the late 90s, when she eventually retired.
Nicky’s attitude towards the sport of professional wrestling and towards her opponents was second to none. She was the heel everyone loved to hate, though she could turn into a baby-face in an instant too. She knew and loved her sport. In 1989, she was part of a documentary episode for Forty Minutes, called Raging Belles, which focused on her and Klondyke Kate’s title-feud.

This collage from a televised tag team match is testimony to Nicky Monroe’s ability to dominate her opponents as well as to her fabulous in-ring fashion-sense.


Nicky Monroe has yet another opponent in trouble