Line #21 Wrestling/TerriPoch


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3	Terri Poch (born August 20, 1964) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl\|ing}}er, manager and trainer from UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, Oregon known for her work in the early 1990s as Terri Power and for Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1998-2001 as Tori. She started her career as Taylor Made Medina, the valet for [[Wrestling/{{Raven}} Scotty the Body (Scott "Raven" Levy)]] in NWA Pacific Northwest Wrestling in 1988. She made her in-ring debut in 1990 as Terri Power in the [=LPWA=], as well as competing in various women's independent promotions. She competed there until the promotion closed in 1992, and then switched to Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling before taking a hiatus in 1993. She returned to wrestling in 1998 when she became Tori. Her original character was as a "fan" of Wrestling/{{Sable}}, which ended when Sable rejected her. Tori then went into a feud with Wrestling/{{Ivory}} over the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Title]], which included them competing in the first-ever hardcore match for the title on the September 6, 1999 ''Raw.'' She then became Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s unstable girlfriend, which ended when she [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on him and joined [=DX=]. That lasted until ''King of the Ring'' in June 2000, when Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys powerbombed her through a table. Her last onscreen role was as Raven's masked ninja woman, which was interesting since her [[BookEnds first-ever role]] in the business was as Levy's valet. She was one of the trainers for the first season of ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough.'' She retired after her departure from WWF. She is a 1x [[http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/stllpwa.html LPWA Champion]].
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5	!! "Tropes of Power":
6	* AbortedArc: In 2001 she began appearing as the masked ninja woman, interfering on Raven's behalf in a lot of his matches. On an episode of Sunday Night Heat, she accompanied Raven for his match as a valet. Wrestling/MollyHolly ripped her mask off, exposing her identity, but Tori was abruptly removed from television afterwards.
7	* ActionGirl: At first she was just a valet for Scotty The Body. But she claims she got "the bug" when she got to have a ringside catfight - and started training to wrestle. Although she held no titles in WWE, she did compete in the first women's hardcore match there.
8	* AmazonianBeauty: She had been a bodybuilder and fitness model before becoming a wrestler. In her shoot interview she revealed that she first entered wrestling because of this - someone liked her physique and suggested she become a valet. X-Pac was apparently hoping to have a muscular woman as his valet for a while - with Tori being the leading candidate.
9	* ArchEnemy: Sable, Ivory, Debbie Malenko.
10	* AssKicksYou: Got a stink face off Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} at ''[=WrestleMania=] 2000'', the first time it had happened to a Diva.
11	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: When Ivory smashed a mirror over her head, the shards of glass ended up going right into her mouth. Of course that part didn't make it to TV.
12	* BodyPaint: Did a photoshoot in this, leading to Ivory attacking her on the August 8, 1999 ''Sunday Night Heat'' and scrawling the word "SLUT" on Tori's abdomen and "SKANK" on her back with a big marker while yelling.
13	* BrokenPedestal: After Sable let her get beaten up by Luna, Tori decided instead to challenge her for the Women's Championship.
14	* CatFight: She says she got "the bug" when she got to have ringside catfights with another valet called Ginger - and that encouraged her to train to wrestle.
15	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Tori refused to accept a demotion and go back to Ohio Valley Wrestling, so she was fired for real, and so abruptly that she didn't even appear on the season finale of Tough Enough 1. Her existence hasn't been acknowledged by [=WWF/E=] since.
16	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Face Tori typically wore red, white or yellow in varying types of animal print. Heel Tori wore almost exclusively [[Wrestling/DGenerationX green and black]].
17	* CoolMask: Averted when she was the masked ninja. Her mask was simple and black, more like a balaclava.
18	* {{Face}}: As Terri Power and her first year in the WWF. She only ever wrestled one match as a heel, which ended up becoming her final one.
19	* FaceHeelTurn: Betrayed Kane and allied herself with X-Pac in early 2000.
20	* {{Fangirl}}: She debuted as an obsessed Sable fan.
21	* FinishingMove:
22	** (as Terri Power): {{Sup\|lexFinisher}}erplex.
23	** (as Tori): Tori-Plex (fallaway powerbomb).
24	** As Tori she occasionally won matches with a DDT too.
25	* FurBikini: Fur bra top more like it but one of her favorite outfits in WWE was to wrestle in an animal print bra that was designed to resemble actual fur.
26	* GameBreakingInjury: Injured her shoulder while she was in LPWA. The injury really came back to bite her in the ass and she re-injured it the day before her match at ''King of the Ring'' - while she was in the middle of a red-hot storyline. As such she barely participates in the match and was put through a table to write her off TV. Her career never fully recovered from that absence.
27	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: The 1999 videocassette ''Come Get Some: The Women of the WWF'' ended with a photoshoot montage. In one scene, Tori was wearing a kind of half-sweater. She pulled it up but put her hand over her breast.
28	* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: She was the last ever LPWA Champion, winning the title in the final match of their lone PPV, ''Super Ladies Showdown'', which was their last-ever event.
29	* LeotardOfPower: As Terri Power (no pun intended).
30	* MsFanservice: LOTS of examples, not enough room to list them all.
31	* MudWrestling: In chocolate pudding, against The Kat. It went to a no contest when X-Pac tried to join in.
32	* MurderousThighs: Her offensive strategy in that mud wrestling match was to put Kat in a bodyscissor and then slam her against the mat repeatedly using the bodyscissor for leverage.
33	* {{Ninja}}: Her last non-''WWE Tough Enough'' role on WWE TV was as [=Raven=]'s masked ninja woman. People actually recognized her despite the mask and chanted her name, thus getting her more over than she'd ever been.
34	* NonIndicativeName: Her finisher the Tori-Plex was not a suplex at all - but a fallaway powerbomb.
35	* OneSteveLimit: Not to be confused with either Wrestling/TorrieWilson or Wrestling/TerriRunnels. What's more is that she was taken off TV shortly before Torrie Wilson was hired and they never appeared on screen together.
36	* PowerStable: Wrestling/DGenerationX and the [=McMahon=]-Helmsley Regime.
37	* PrettyInMink: See FurBikini for the details. Notably she stopped wearing these outfits after her heel turn, avoiding [[FurAndLoathing another trope]].
38	* PutOnABus: Disappeared for a time after the Dudleys put her through a table. See [=Ninja=] above.
39	* RapeAsDrama: Which ended up being a ruse, leading to her heel turn on [=Kane=] and joining [=DX=]. Kane [[WouldHitAGirl Tombstoned]] her for it.
40	* {{Red Baron}}ess: When she was in DX, Road Dogg called her "The Green Goddess". As Terri Power she was "The Tower of Power".
41	* RetiredBadass: Retired from wrestling altogether when she left WWE - to open up her own Yoga studio.
42	* SexySoakedShirt: In the form of Wet T-Shirt Scene. Most notably in the 2000 ''WWF Divas: Postcard from the Caribbean'' video.
43	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: On the August 26, 1999 episode of ''[=SmackDown!=]'', she was scheduled to face Ivory in an Evening Gown Match. Wrestling/MichaelCole, still a neutral character, attempted to interview Tori backstage before the match as she walked away from the camera. Tori pulled down her evening gown, saying that there was no way Ivory was going to humiliate her, and, with [[ToplessnessFromTheBack her back to the camera]], walked around backstage wearing only a {{Thong\|OfShielding}} and shoes until she was stopped by a group of referees and [[RetiredBadass Road Agent]] Tony Garea, who gave her [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn his shirt to wear]]. Tori won, of course, in 57 seconds. The fact that she was attempting to walk to the ring practically naked on national network television should qualify for RefugeInAudacity.
44	* ShoutOut: On the 2001 ''Divas in Hedonism'' [=DVD=], talked about growing up admiring bombshells such as Creator/RaquelWelch and Tempest Storm, and a picture of Welch in the FurBikini from ''{{Film/One Million Years BC}}'' is shown. Presumably her animal print attire is a nod to this.
45	* SignificantWardrobeShift: Upon joining DX, she swapped her animal print outfits for green and black ones.
46	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: ''Terri Power'', not ''Terri Powers.''
47	* SquashMatch: As per tradition on {{B Show}}s. She beat Lexie Fyfe with a powerslam in '''1:32''' on the August 8th, 1999 ''Sunday Night Heat.''
48	* TagTeam: (as Terri Power in [=LMLW=]): The Power Team, with Heidi Lee Morgan
49	* TooSexyForThisTimeSlot: [[Creator/{{ESPN}} TSN in Canada]] refused to air the Ivory-Tori hardcore Women's Title Match on the September 6, 1999 ''[=Raw=]'' because of Tori's outfit, a white, wet man's button-down shirt, a white bra and a white thong.
50	* TookALevelInBadass: She debuted in WWF as quite a timid character, easily bossed around by Sable. A few months later, she's ambushing Ivory in a hardcore match.
51	* TwoByFore: How she helped Raven out as the Ninja was cracking his opponents with a piece of lumber and set him up for the pin.
52	* {{Un Person}}: WWE seems to have chosen to ignore her existence. She is not even on the Alumni page on WWE's website and doesn't seem to rate a Where Are They Now? story. She herself dropped off the radar almost completely and didn't make a wrestling related appearance for over 10 years. She has said she's not much of a mainstream person.
53	* UrExample: Of the LoonyFan[=/=]PsychoLesbian[=/=]StalkerWithACrush character Wrestling/MickieJames would play in her storyline with Wrestling/TrishStratus to much greater success in 2006.
54	* TheVamp: For Kane.
55	* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Various Divas photoshoots.
56	* WorkedShoot: A minor example. In her shoot interview she said she says she made sure to sell her shoulder when she was put through the table (she had injured it the night before). Her hope was to work the people in the back.
57	* WouldHitAGirl: Kane gave her a tombstone after she betrayed him. She became the first female to have the move done to her. The Dudleys put her through a table.

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