Sherri Russell
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1958-02-08
Biography: Sherri Martel was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri. Martel began her professional wrestling career in the Mid South after training in Columbia, South Carolina. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined WWE, where she held the WWE Women's Championship. Also in WWE, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007. She also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance. By 2003, she and her husband Robert Schrull lived in Tennessee, where she helped him renovate homes. She was married and divorced at least twice during her life, and Booker T gave her away at one of her weddings. She had one son. Death On June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham. She was 49 years old. On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released the toxicology report stating that she died of an overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone. She was cremated after her death
Movies:
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
WCW Clash of the Champions XXX
Battle of the WWE Superstars
WWE Grudges, Gripes & Grunts
2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
3rd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
WWE WrestleFest '90
WWE Crunch Classic
Women of the WWF
WWE UK Fan Favorites 1993
WWE Hottest Matches
Smack 'Em Whack 'Em
WWE SuperTape: Volume 1
WWE SuperTape: Volume 2
WWE Invasion '92
Invasion of the Bodyslammers
WWE Mega Matches
WWE Rampage '92
WWE World Tour '90
WWE World Tour 1991
WWE World Tour 1992
WWE WrestleMania VII
WWE SummerSlam 1989
WWE WrestleMania VI
WWE SummerSlam 1991
WWE SummerSlam 1990
WWE Survivor Series 1991
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
WWE WrestleFest '93
AWA Super Clash
WWE Survivor Series 2012
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers
Hulkamania 4
The Best of the WWF: volume 18
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.3
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: April '89
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: June '90
WWE U.K. Rampage 1988
WWE Houston Wrestling: The Paul Boesch Retirement Show
WWE Los Angeles Wrestling: December '88
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: April '88
NWA Bloodfest • Night Two
WWF/AJPW/NJPW Wrestling Summit
Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division
WWE: The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers
WWE Hall of Fame 2006
AWA: WrestleRock '86
WWE WrestleMania IV
Heroes of Wrestling
WWE U.K. PPV
WWE Survivor Series Showdown '89
WWE Survivor Series 1989
WWE The Ultimate Challenge Special: The March to WrestleMania VI
AWA Battle by the Bay
AWA Blood on the Sand
AWA The Brawl in St. Paul
AWA SuperClash II
WWE The Main Event
WWE Survivor Series 1987
WWE The Main Event III
WWE Superstars & Stripes Forever: The March to WrestleMania VII
WWE U.K. Rampage 1991
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
WCW Fall Brawl 1995
WWE SummerSlam 1992
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991
WWE This Tuesday In Texas
WWE Royal Rumble 1993
WWE March to WrestleMania VIII
WWE WrestleMania VIII
WCW Hog Wild 1996
WWE WrestleMania IX
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXIII
WCW Fall Brawl 1996
ECW Ultra Clash '93
WWE UK Rampage
ECW November to Remember 1993
WCW Halloween Havoc 1996
WCW World War 3 1996
WWE UK Rampage '92
WCW SuperBrawl VII
WCW Uncensored 1997
WCW Slamboree 1997
WCW Bash at the Beach 1994
WCW Clash of The Champions XXVII
WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII
WCW The Great American Bash 1997
WCW Halloween Havoc 1994
WCW Starrcade 1994
WCW Clash of The Champions XXX
WCW SuperBrawl V
WCW Uncensored 1995
WCW Slamboree 1995
WCW The Great American Bash 1995
WCW Bash at the Beach 1995
WrestleMania IV
Hulkamania 6
Macho Madness
The Brains Behind the Brawn
Best of The British Bulldog