Shimmer Women Athletes

"SHIMMER" redirects here. For other uses, see Shimmer.
Shimmer Women Athletes
Acronym Shimmer
Founded 2005
Style Professional wrestling
Headquarters Berwyn, Illinois
Founder(s) Dave Prazak
Allison Danger
Sister Ring of Honor
Shine
Website shimmerwrestling.blogspot.com

Shimmer Women Athletes (often referred to simply as Shimmer) is an American, Chicago-based female independent professional wrestling promotion which held its first event on November 6, 2005.[1][2] Established by Dave Prazak and run by both him and Allison Danger, the promotion was created to give female wrestling talent from North America and beyond a serious, non-objectifying platform on which to display their skills.[3] The company takes a unique approach to staging its live events: Shimmer runs one large show every three months (on average) at the Eagles Club in Berwyn, Illinois. Two DVDs worth of material are taped at each of these super-shows, and are sold as single volumes -- initially through Ring of Honor's online store, before being nationally-distributed through retail outlets. Due to Prazak's prior work with Ring of Honor, the two companies are closely affiliated, with ROH promoting Shimmer by periodically featuring its performers on ROH pre- and main-show cards. In September 2008, Shimmer announced it would start its own wrestling school for female athletes.

Ring of Honor recognizes the Shimmer Championship and Shimmer Tag Team Championship, both of which have even been defended at ROH events.[4] Its former sister promotion Full Impact Pro also recognized the titles and had defenses of them at its events. Shimmer is also the sister promotion of Shine Wrestling (which debuted on July 20, 2012, and holds events exclusively on internet pay-per-view).[5]

Championships

Record–setting two time Shimmer Champion, Cheerleader Melissa, wearing the championship belt.
Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days held Previous Champion
Shimmer Championship Madison Eagles 2 October 10, 2015 210+ Nicole Matthews
Shimmer Tag Team Championship The Kimber Bombs
(Cherry Bomb and Kimber Lee)		 1 April 11, 2015 392+ Global Green Gangsters
(Kellie Skater and Tomoka Nakagawa)
Heart of Shimmer Championship Nicole Savoy First April 2, 2016 35+ Inaugural champion

Roster

Shimmer's roster comprises a wide selection of top female wrestlers from all around the world. While most of them appear regularly at show tapings, the roster is not fixed and as such, is not listed on the main Shimmer website. The selection of wrestlers used in dark matches for the crowd that aren't taped for DVDs is called Sparkle. Usually, these are lesser-known wrestlers getting their first exposure to the Shimmer crowd.

The following roster is correct as of the tapings of Volumes 76-79 in October 2015.

Wrestlers

Sparkle

  • Angelus Layne
  • Diana Hall
  • Mary Elizabeth Monroe
  • Mary Lee Rose
  • Paloma Starr
  • Pink Flash Kira
  • Stacy Shadows

Managers

Inactive

Alumni

Announcers, commentators and interviewers

Referees

Volumes

Main article: Shimmer Volumes

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bryan Alvarez: "Figure Four Weekly Newsletter #542". Cover date November 7, 2005.
  2. ↑ "Volumes 1 & 2 Taping - November 6, 2005". Retrieved 2007-02-13.
  3. ↑ Kreiser, Jaime Melissa (2006-10-19). "Shimmer bright light of women's wrestling". Canoe SLAM! Sports. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  4. ↑ "A Title of Their Own". ROHwrestling.com. 2007-07-16. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  5. ↑ Martin, Adam (2012-07-19). "Indy News #2: Shimmer news, Prime, Resistance Pro TV". WrestleView. Retrieved 2012-07-21.

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