The Lady Warriors

The Lady Warriors (also formerly known as The American Sweethearts, and The All-American Girls) is a women's professional wrestling tag team stable and the tag team stable consisting of , Santana Garrett, Chelsea Green, Gabi Castrovinci, and Taeler Hendrix also formerly Brandi Rhodes, Candice LeRae, Tessa Blanchard, and Rachael Ellering. The tag team stable best known for notably worked on Independent circuit promotions, Shine Wrestling, Shimmer Women Athletes, Queens of Combats, and Women of Wrestling also formerly Women of Honor, World Wonder Ring Stardom, Global Force Wrestling, and World Xtreme Wrestling.
History
Formations
Garrett signed with David McLane's Women of Wrestling promotion in 2013. She debuted at WOW! Pandemonium Tour 2013, She came together with fellow WOW newcomer Amber O'Neal to form a tag team. The pair then successfully challenged and defeated Caged Heat for the WOW Tag Team Championships, ending Caged Heat's remarkable 10-year reign.
In June 2015, it was announced that Garrett would appear in Global Force Wrestling. She debuted for the promotion on their July 9 show in Appleton, Wisconsin in a winning effort against Melanie Cruise.
Garrett faced Brandi Wine on the August 25 at the Shine 12 event, which ended in a draw after an interference by Malia Hosaka. On September 28, at the SHINE 13, The American Sweethearts faced The S-N-S Express (Jessie Belle Smothers and Sassy Stephie), but lost when Stephie pinned O'Neal after an Kiss My Sass. On December 13 at Shine 15, Santana and Amber O'Neal lost to the S-N-S Express and due the pre-match stipulation were forced to disband.
After another stint in TNA, Garrett returned to Shine Wrestling at the Shine 23 event on December 5, 2014; confronting her villainous former tag team partner Amber O'Neal. Garrett defeated O'Neal in a singles match later in the evening. She unsuccessfully challenged Mia Yim for the Shine Championship at the Shine 24 event. On April 3, 2015, Garrett defeated Yim at Shine 26 in a title vs. title match to win the Shine Championship. She lost the title to Taylor Made on December 11.
O'Neal signed with Dave McClain's Women of Wrestling promotion in December 2012. She debuted at WOW! Pandemonium Tour 2013 losing to Jungle Grrl in singles competition. Later in the night, she came together with fellow WOW newcomer Santana Garrett to form the tag team The All-American Girls. The pair then successfully challenged and defeated Caged Heat for the WOW Tag Team Championships, ending Caged Heat's remarkable 10-year reign.
O'Neal debuted for Shine Wrestling as a babyface on May 24, 2013; competing against Ivelisse in a losing effort as SHINE 10. At SHINE 12 on August 23, Amber teamed with Santana Garrett in defeating Malia Hosaka and Brandi Wine, after a singles match between Santana and Wine ended in a no contest due to involvement by Hosaka. A month later at SHINE 14, the Sweethearts teamed with Leva Bates in a losing effort to the Express, which also included Nevaeh. At SHINE 15 on December 13, the Sweethearts were once again defeated by the Express, and per the stipulation, Amber and Santana were forced to disband. In singles action, Amber suffered losses to La Rosa Negra and Tracy Taylor at SHINE 16 and 18, respectively. At SHINE 20 on June 27, 2014, Amber was defeated by Crazy Mary Dobson, who replaced Leah Von Dutch, via DQ. During the match, Amber turned into a villainess and attacked Dobson with a steel chair, which led to the DQ decision. After the match ended, the evil Amber gave the Bullet Club gesture to Dobson, similar to that of the wrestling stable which has her real-life husband, Doc Gallows, as a member.
On December 5, Davis adopted the new ring name Amber Gallows, the "Bullet Babe". On January 4, 2015, O'Neal made her debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome, where she accompanied her husband and Karl Anderson to a match, where they lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata. On April 6, it was announced that O'Neal, billed as Amber Gallows, would be returning to NJPW the following month at Wrestling Dontaku 2015 to take part in the promotion's first match involving female wrestlers since October 2002. In the match, Gallows, her husband and Karl Anderson were defeated by Maria Kanellis, Matt Taven and Michael Bennett.
On November 29, 2015 at Queen of Combats 7, Green debuted and lost to Crazy Mary Dobson. One year later at QOC on November 27, 2016 Green defeated Rachael Ellering.
In 2016, Green toured Japan twice for World Wonder Ring Stardom. Her first tour being three months long, cut short by a broken collarbone while wrestling in India. Green's second tour of Japan was in late 2016, where she teamed with Santana Garrett for the 2016 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League. During this tour, Green also challenged Wonder of Stardom Champion Kairi Hojo to a match where Green lost to Hojo's diving elbow in a 15-minute match. Green was undefeated in singles bouts in Japan, prior to her loss to Hojo.
Green joined a team of wrestlers in February 2016 and travelled to India to unveil The Great Khali's new promotion and wrestling school "CWE". The workers put on two shows around India which drew crowds of more than 50,000 people. In Greens first match in India (a tag match of Green & Garrett vs Forbes & Michelle), she broke her collarbone while taking a hurricanrana. Green continued with the match and was airlifted to a hospital in Dehradun for surgery the next day.
After her time in WWE Tough Enough, Castrovinci trained further with World Xtreme Wrestling and would later make her in-ring debut for them at the end of 2015. In the beginning of February, she talked with TMZ about "being assaulted" by an opponent during a match with her training company.
On April 1, 2016, Castrovinci competed in a Rise of the Queen Tournament for the Championship Wrestling Entertainment promotion and proceeded to win the whole thing, defeating the likes of Layne Rosario/Cherry Layne, Rachael Ellering and Santana Garrett.
In wrestling
*Double team finishing moves
** Confederate Rocket Press / Confederate Alert Press (, sometimes into a Reverse STO from Gallows and followed by a Handspring moonsault from Garrett)
** Shining Star Prettier / Shining Van Star (Curb Stomp, sometimes into a Modified double underhook facebuster from Van Ness and followed by a Handspring moonsault from Garrett)
** Rocket Alert / Crotch Bury (Straight jacket backstabber, sometimes into a Springboard from Raquel and followed by a Handspring moonsault from Garrett)
** The Goodnight Star Press / The Ginger Snap Press (, sometimes into a from Hendrix and followed by a Handspring moonsault from Garrett)
*Double team signature moves
** Double snapmare followed by a double shoot kick
*Garrett's finishing moves
** Shining Star Press
*Gallows' finishing moves
** Amber Alert (Crucifix powerbomb)
** Corkscrew 450° splash
** Crotch Rocket
** Reverse STO
** Confederate Crush ()
** Superkick
** Vanprettier (Modified double underhook facebuster)
** , most often performed on a wrestler
*Raquel's finishing moves
** Straight jacket backstabber
** Springboard
*Hendrix's finishing moves
** The Kiss Goodnight ()
** The Ginger Snap ()
*Nicknames
** "The Next Big Thing" (Garrett)
** "Bullet Babe" (Gallows)
** "LVN" (Van Ness)
** "Gabriela Rio" (Raquel)
** "The (Irish) Red-Head Bomb-Shell" (Hendrix)
** "Kick-Ass Irish Vigilante (Hendrix)
** "Positively Poison" (Gallows used as a part of Bullet Club and in singles competition)
** "Cherry Pie" by Warrant (Van Ness used in singles competition)
** "Guru" by Dale Oliver (Raquel used in singles competition)
** "Freak Like Me (Edit)" by Halestorm (Hendrix used in singles competition)
Championships and accomplishments
*National Wrestling Alliance
** NWA World Women's Championship (2 times) - Gallows (1) Garrett (1)
*Queens of Combats
** QOC Championship (1 time) − Hendrix (1)
** QOC Championship Tournament (2015) - Hendrix (1)
** QOC Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) − Van Ness and Hendrix (1, current)
*Shine Wrestling
**Shine Championship (1 time)
*Women of Wrestling
** WOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) − Garrett (1, current)
*World Wonder Ring Stardom
** Wonder of Stardom Championship (1 time) - Garrett (1)
** International Grand Prix (2016) − Garrett

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