Victoria Ann Moreno (born September 15, 1972), better known by her

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Lady Victoria, is an American

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, manager/valet, and

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. She began training to wrestle in 1991 and made her American professional wrestling debut on January 16, 1993. Lady Victoria made her first

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wrestling appearance during the

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(EMLL) event held at the

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in Los Angeles on July 9, 1994 as well as her Lucha Libre

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debut in

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in 1995 and television debut at

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on July 15, 1996. During her career, Lady Victoria has performed all over the USA and Mexico, performing for companies such as AAA, CMLL/EMLL,

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Promo Azteca ''Promo Azteca'' (AZTECA, originally known as ''Promotora Mexicana de Lucha Libre'', PROMELL) was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Tijuana, Mexico, by Fuerza Guerrera in 1995. It was taken over by Konnan and Jorge Rojas the ...

, and

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Professional wrestling career

California and AAA

Moreno debuted as Victoria Starr, after being trained by Billy Anderson and

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. She began wrestling as Lady Victoria three months into her career. She first performed in

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and < ...

in late 1993, where she was first introduced to the

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style of wrestling. Having found this style closer to home, she began training and performing Lucha Libre at the All Nations Center in Los Angeles and the

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in Pomona Valley for Sergio Garcia. She then worked for the

promotion in Baja California in 1995, Lady Victoria grew her fan base by performing all over the United States independent shows for various companies in American style wrestling. At his time she had first comic book published by Pin & Ink, ThunderGirls Series titled “Lady Victoria vs. Queen of the Vampires”. She also worked for the

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(PGWA) out of

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. Lady Victoria’s first major television debut was with AAA, where some of her biggest feuds were with

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. Lady Victoria was introduced at the

main event in

on July 15, 1996 as the valet and Manager to

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while Miss Janeth was valet and manager to Killers. Later that night, her right hand was fractured which limited her performance for the next three to four months. During this time,

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was suspended for

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ing Lady Victoria.http://www.quebrada.net/columns/old/11.htm She then also starting wrestling as both Lady Victoria and masked as Chiquitibum (pronounced – chi-qi-ti-boom). She feuded with

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(Miss Janeth’s older sister), Miss Janeth, and

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. She also occasionally teamed with

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and Princesa Apache.

Independent circuit

Performing as Alondra in

, she feuded with Miss Janeth, Barbara Blaze, La Indomable, Mohicana, and

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. She performed for the company from 1996 to 1999. Alondra also occasionally teamed up with Irma Aguilar. Shortly after leaving AAA, Lady Victoria was invited to ''

'' where she managed and acted as a valet to

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and occasionally the tag team of

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and

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. Being the only woman wrestler/manager in the company, she was elected to start a Women’s Division, which got under way with few Luchadoras and several “Indy” promotions to ready for television, which led her to continue performing with IWRG as Alondra and CMLL/EMLL as Lady Victoria.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

(EMLL), Lady Victoria feuded with

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, Infernal, and

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. She also partnered with

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and Princessa Blanca. Then, as Lady Victoria was so over from being

’s valet prior in Promo Aztecas, they began to partner her with La Diabolica against Lady Apache and Princessa Blanca.

La Familia de Tijuana

In early 1999, Lady Victoria was feeling a home sick and decided to return to the USA to perform in Baja California. Upon returning, Lady Victoria became the valet for

, which eventually led to the formation of the

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alliance, as well as a feud with Lola Gonzalez. La Familia also began their stint in XPW in 2001. Lady Victoria accompanied La Familia to

(XPW), where they were known as Mexico’s Most Wanted (MMW), in 2001. She performed with Damien and Halloween not only as a manager, but participated in six man tag matches. She had feuds with opposite gender Angel in singles competition. She left Mexico's Most Wanted briefly to join The Black Army, only to return to the side of MMW. Lady Victoria ultimately took a break from performing altogether in 2002.

References

External links

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