Birthplace: USA
Years Active: 2012-Present
Net Worth: $2 million*
Pamela Rose Martinez, known in the wrestling world as Bayley, started her career in the independent circuit before signing with the WWE in 2012. She was under the NXT brand and became a one-time NXT Women’s Champion.
Bayley tag-teamed with Sasha Banks during the Battleground competition to take down Charlotte and Dana Brooke. Presently, she is part of the SmackDown brand and became the first WWE Women’s Grand Slam winner in the history of WWE.
Chyna
Birthplace: USA
Years Active: 1995-2011
Net Worth: $4 million*
Chyna (birth name, Joan Marie Laurer) trained at Wladek Kowalski’s pro wrestling school in Massachusetts. She was hired by the WWF and afterward became a founding D-Generation X stable member (and the first female enforcer). Chyna was the only woman to ever win the WWF Intercontinental Champion twice and was the first female wrestler to participate in Royal Rumble and King of the Ring.
A dedicated performer, Chyna was the number-one contender to win the top title in the WWE, boasting victories over many prominent male wrestlers (which was devastation to some of them). Overall, Chyna had a glistening wrestling career and was even nicknamed the “Ninth Wonder of the World” before she retired in 2011.
Su Yung
Birthplace: USA
Years Active: 2007-Present
Net Worth: $1 Million
Su Yung (born Vannarah Riggs) was working as a professional wrestler for a number of promotions such as Lady Sports, GCW, and Jerry Lawler’s Memphis Wrestling. She was signed to a developmental contract with the WWE in 2010 and debuted that same year toting a villainous persona. After facing continual losses, she was released from her WWE contract in 2011.
Since then, Yung has been seen on Shimmer Women’s Athletes promotions as well as Impact Wrestling which she is still a part of today.
Bull Nakano
Birthplace: Japan
Years Active: 1983-1997
Net Worth: $12 million*
Bull Nakano is a Japanese wrestler who has also wrestled in Mexico and America. A multi-faceted athlete, Nakano was also a professional golfer and qualified for the LPGA. Her wrestling career began in 1983 when she was a teenager and Bull decided to take on a villainous persona throughout her career. She won several singles and tag team championships with AJW before she moved to Mexico to take part in the CMLL.
In the 1990s, Nakano capstoned her career in America, wrestling for the WWF. Her most famous moment in the WWF was her feud with Alundra Blayze before her injuries forced her to retire in 1997.
Luna Vachon
Birthplace: USA
Years Active: 1985-2007
Net Worth: $41 million*
Luna Vachon (birth name, Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon) had a wrestling career that lasted a long time! Luna was actually a part of a family wrestling dynasty and her family tried to dissuade her from becoming a wrestler. Her family said the life of a wrestler would be too hard on her as a woman, but she jumped headfirst anyway!
In her preparation, Luna consulted her Aunt Vivian for training. Vivian trained her and then The Fabulous Moolah trained her after. Altogether, Luna wrestled for the WWF, ECW, AWA, and WCW and in 2019, she was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. What a career!