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  • Beauty Inversion: Downplayed but the Martina character is meant to look like a hung over Hard-Drinking Party Girl - so she appears with Messy Hair, fake tan and unflattering pyjamas.
  • …But I Play One on TV: While she has no problem with the Martina gimmick in general, she's stated that she's sick of some people using it to call her a slut constantly on Twitter.
  • Creator Backlash: Pokes fun at her Kazza G days, saying she much prefers the gimmick she has now.
  • Creator Breakdown: At one point when her popularity and profile expanded over the world, detractors began to harass her online and the abuse took its toll on her. While she eventually rebounded, she's referred to those as her darkest times.
  • Creator Couple: She managed Johnny Notaro around the time they were dating, and he was the MSW Heavyweight Champion.
  • Dye Hard: She started dyeing her hair blonde in 2015. She added purple in for a while as well.
  • Funny Character, Boring Actor: She's very polite and soft-spoken out of character.
  • Real Song Theme Tune:
    • "Sandstorm" by Darude as Martina.
    • "Can't Be Tamed" by Miley Cyrus as her heel gimmick.
    • "I Hope You Suffer" by AFI as the Session Goth, which is also the theme of Jimmy Havoc.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Before OTT started, another Irish over 18's promotion called Full Throttle Wrestling ran a couple of shows. Kazza was featured, portraying a Hooker with a Heart of Gold to the promoter (who was portrayed as a pimp). The promotion shut down quickly due to negative fan reactions - especially for one match that had Kazza suffering Black Comedy Rape. If anything, Martina and OTT could be considered a Spiritual Successor to Kazza's role at FTW — one that, despite its name, would be Lighter and Softer by necessity since going too far was what killed its predecessor.
    • She and Katey Harvey were supposed to feud as early as 2012, with build-up focusing on their respective victories in intergender matches; Kazza had wrestled several but Katey had not, so they were planning to feature Katey beating several Face cruiserweights with help from Rough Stuff. The program was cancelled when Katey suffered a knee injury.
    • The first ever Irish 6-women tag was meant to happen at the first Paul Behan Memorial Show in 2013 (when it was an FFPW event). The other participants would have been Katey Harvey, Danger Dawn, Lisa Bee, Alex Breslin and Lucyfer. Kazza dropped out to do a seminar that weekend, and it ended up becoming a regular tag match with Lucyfer as the referee.
    • In 2019 it was reported that she had been offered a WWE contract (for NXT UK). She opted to turn it down, not wanting to give up the freedom to travel and wrestle in other countries. She chose to sign with Ring of Honor, feeling it was a better fit for her character. She also revealed that Becky Lynch had reached out to her a couple of years previously and asked if she wanted to pull some strings to get looked at by WWE.
    • Unfortunately her ROH run ended up as this too, because after a few months the Co Vi D pandemic hit and left her stuck in Ireland for almost all the remainder of her contract before ROH released everyone and sold up to AEW.

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