Jerry Wiseman Interviews Ohio’s Lady Victoria

From the Tipp City and Dayton Ohio area comes one of the most prolific lady wrestlers the business has ever seen. Successful in every arena she has stepped into, Lady Victoria was also a pioneer in creating custom videos for the niche fan and has used, been abused and done some abusing to some of the toughest ladies to step into the ring including ODB, Traci Brooks and Angelina Love.

Lady Victoria, a spry, active and very tough lady still trains daily, still manages to wrestle from time to time, produce and participate in specialty matches filmed at her state of the art studio in Tipp City, Ohio. Lady Victoria’s website has downloadable videos, photos and more including photo sets of herself, Bobcat (married to Ohio legend Al Snow),Sin-D, Christina Ricci, ODB, Vanessa, Amanda Ruffin and more.

You can contact Lady Victoria are her official website at www.ladyvictoria.com or via MySpace at www.myspace.com/irngal for more information about what she does and who she is.

Victoria is tough as the proverbial nail on the outside but a super person and a delight to talk to, though no one is supposed to know that so ignore the last sentence I wrote. I was privileged enough to be able to talk to Lady Victoria about a number of things on her mind and she was never at a loss for words.

Q. Your dream opponent would be?
A. Well, I have stepped into the ring with the best already. Angelena Love was and will always be the best wrestler I have ever met but I would have to say Mildred Burke.

Q. What is your best road story?
A. One time I drove on Thanksgiving from Ohio to Boston. It was about sixteen hours. No gas stations open and no restaurants. No big semis on the road either. I spent so many long hours on the road I cannot remember one trip from another. One time I drove to Mississippi, Lollipop, Traci Brooka and ODB and about five other girls were on the show. After the show we drove back to Nashville all night and then drove home to Ohio. That was a fifteen hour trip. One Time I had a show and a shoot here. I had about 10 girls and the show was an hour away. I have a friend with a limo and he picked us up, it was raining. The limo was real old and rain was coming in through the windows, no heat, it was great.

Q. Who is someone you always like to watch wrestle?
A. It is hard to watch wrestling in any way but a learning way now. I am unable to watch as a fan. It is like any other profession, carpenters are looking for correct angles and correct construction. I look at matches in a critical way, I am a teacher now and that makes me more critical still. I watch old school matches with no high flying from the top and jumping up again, how stupid is that?

Q. As a promoter who would be in your money match?
A. Well, I am a promoter and I use Angel Williams, ODB, Traci Brooks and Madyson Rayne. Hell TNA just about too the best and left the crap to the WWE.

Q. Do you think tag team wrestling is a lot art?
A. No, I did a lot of shows with the Bushwhackers early in my career and I learned a lot from them. They did just about the same match every time and because they were that good, it was always an amazing match to watch. Listen and learn on the road, that is the biggest tip I could give to my students.

Q. If you got the call from New York, would you change your gimmick and to what?
A. NO, I have no interest in the WWE.

Q. Do you think titles need to mean something again?
A. Oh hell yes, now a champ is determined by boob size and who you screw in the business.

Q. You own a promotion, who are the first five workers you hire?
A. I have hired Traci Brooks, Lollipop, Angel Williams, ODB, Vanessa Harding, Christie Ricci. Now that most of them have go on to TV the matches sell like hotcakes.

Q. What is the craziest match you have done?
A. Ah, there are so many, how about the horrible tragedy with Meliah, or about the husband and wife thing we did? He played a dead beat dad who owed me back child support. We wrestled at a county fair with thousands of people and the whole audience was behind him. That was not the plan, he was the heel but in an audience of dead beats he was a hero. It went wrong in so many ways (laughs).

Q. Do you prefer hardcore, traditional or a mix of the two for your own matches?
A. Hardcore only when the story has built up for it. No need for a hardcore match out of nowhere.

Q. Besides yourself, who is the best to ever step into the ring?
A. Again, Angelena Love, she is technically the best out there.

Q. Who is your favorite opponent?
A. Vanessa Harding. We have had hundreds of matches together and I love her.

Q. If you could change one thing about the business, what would it be?
A. Politics, it is all about who you know and screw, it is not based on talent but that is in any big money business.

Q. Does wrestling need a union?
A. In a word, no.

Q. What drew you into the business?
A. My horrible temper (laughs).

Q. Do you think heels and faces need to be clearly defined again?
A. I make sure this happens in all my matches, I am the perfect heel!

Q. In the annals of wrestling what to do want to be said about Lady Victoria?
A. Veteran, trainer, oldest active lady to ever be in the business and make it a success. After all I get to stay home and wrestle. That is all that needs to be known.

Q. What decade do you think defined wrestling, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 00s?
A. I think the 70s and 80s.

Q. Do you think internet PPV would help indie promotions?
A. No, most indie promotions hire their students and have crap matches.

Q. What is one thing you want fans to know about you?
A. I am not my character. My goal in life is to help as many girls as I can one at a time. That is how I want to be remembered, for helping to keep these girls in the business as long as I can.
Thank you Worm for all these questions and taking time to interview me, God Bless all of you.