Overview

Date of Birth:
14 April 1975, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA more
Mini Biography:
Amy Dumas was born on April 14, 1975 in Florida. Not much is known about... more
Trivia:
Won the Santa's Little Helpers Match with Trish Stratus and Stacy Kiebler... more
Alternate Names:
Miss Congeniality / Lita
Filmography
Jump to filmography as: Actress, Self, Archive Footage
Actress:

* 2000s
* 1990s

1. Survivor Series (2006) (V) .... Lita
... aka WWE: Survivor Series (Australia)
2. "WWE Monday Night RAW" .... Lita (10 episodes, 2005-2006)
- Episode #2.5 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) (also archive footage) .... Lita
- Episode #2.2 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 4 September 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita)
- Episode dated 12 June 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 29 May 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
(5 more)
3. WWE Cyber Sunday (2006) (V) .... Lita
4. WWE Raw Family Reunion (2006) (TV) .... Lita
5. WWE Unforgiven (2006) (V) .... Lita
6. Summerslam (2006) (V) .... Lita
... aka Summerslam DX (Australia: DVD title)
7. "WWF Raw Is War" .... Lita (46 episodes, 1997-2006)
... aka Raw Is War (USA: short title)
... aka WWE Raw (USA: new title)
... aka WWF Raw (USA: new title)
- Episode dated 14 August 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 7 August 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 31 July 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 26 June 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
- Episode dated 5 June 2006 (2006) TV episode .... Lita
(41 more)
8. WWE Vengeance (2006) (V) .... Lita
9. WWE Backlash (2006) (TV) .... Lita
10. WrestleMania 22 (2006) (TV) .... Lita
11. WWE Hall of Fame 2006 (2006) (V) .... Lita
12. "WWE Saturday Night's Main Event" (2006) TV series .... Lita (unknown episodes)
13. WWE New Year's Revolution (2006) (TV) .... Lita
14. "Friday Night Smackdown!" (2005) TV series .... Lita (unknown episodes, 2005)
15. Survivor Series (2005) (V) .... Lita
... aka WWE Survivor Series (USA: promotional title)
16. WWE Taboo Tuesday (2005) (V) (as Lita) .... Lita
17. WWE Homecoming (2005) (TV) .... Lita
18. WWE Unforgiven (2005) (V) .... Lita
19. WWE Vengeance (2005) (TV) .... Lita
20. WWE Backlash (2005) (TV) .... Lita
21. WrestleMania 21 (2005) (V) .... Lita
22. Survivor Series (2004) (TV) .... Lita
... aka WWE Survivor Series (USA: promotional title)
23. WWE Unforgiven (2004) (TV) .... Lita
24. WWE Vengeance (2004) (V) .... Lita
25. WWE Bad Blood (2004) (TV) .... Lita
26. WWE Backlash (2004) (TV) .... Lita
27. WWE Armageddon (2003) (V) .... Lita
28. Survivor Series (2003) (TV) .... Lita
... aka Survivor Series: A Fall from Grace (UK)
... aka WWE Survivor Series (USA: promotional title)
... aka WWE Survivor Series: A Fall from Grace (USA: DVD box title)
29. WWE Unforgiven (2003) (TV) .... Lita
30. "WWE Velocity" (2002) TV series .... Lita (unknown episodes, 2002)
31. WWE Wrestlemania X-8 (2002) (VG) .... Lita
32. "Dark Angel" .... Thula (1 episode, 2002)
... aka James Cameron's Dark Angel (USA)
- Freak Nation (2002) TV episode (as Lita) .... Thula
33. Wrestlemania X-8 (2002) (V) .... Lita
... aka WWF Wrestlemania X-8 (USA)
... aka Wrestlemania X-VIII (USA: informal alternative title)
34. WWF No Way Out (2002) (V) .... Lita
... aka No Way Out (USA: promotional title)
35. WWF Vengeance (2001) (V) .... Lita
36. Survivor Series (2001) (V) .... Lita
... aka WWF Survivor Series (USA: promotional title)
... aka WWF Survivor Series: Winner Take All (USA)
37. WWF Rebellion (2001) (V) .... Lita
38. WWF No Mercy (2001) (V) .... Lita
39. Wrestlemania X-Seven (2001) (V) .... Lita
40. "Sunday Night Heat" (1998) TV series .... Lita (unknown episodes, 2000)
... aka WWE Heat (USA: new title)
... aka WWE Sunday Night Heat (USA: new title)
... aka WWF Sunday Night Heat (USA)
41. "WWF Smackdown!" (1999) TV series .... Lita (2000-2002, 2005) (unknown episodes)
... aka Smackdown! (USA: new title)
... aka Smackdown! Xtreme (USA)
... aka WWE Smackdown! (USA: new title)
... aka World Wrestling Federation Smackdown! (USA)
42. "WWF Metal" (1998) TV series .... Lita (unknown episodes, 2000-2002)
... aka WWE Metal (USA: new title)
43. WWF Armageddon (2000) (V) .... Lita
44. WWF Rebellion (2000) (V) .... Lita
45. WWF Unforgiven (2000) (V) .... Lita
46. WWF Backlash (2000) (V) .... Lita

47. "Extreme Championship Wrestling" (1997) TV series .... Miss Congeniality/Angelica (1999)
... aka ECW (USA: short title)
... aka ECW on TNN (USA)
48. "ECW Hardcore TV" (1995) TV series .... Miss Congeniality (1999); Angelica (unknown episodes, 1999)

Self:

1. "WWE Monday Night RAW" .... Herself (47 episodes, 2005-2006)
- Episode dated 20 November 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode dated 13 November 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode #2.4 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode #2.3 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Family Reunion (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
(42 more)
2. "WWE Saturday Night's Main Event" .... Herself (2 episodes, 2006)
- Episode #1.2 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode #1.1 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
3. "WWF Raw Is War" .... Herself (4 episodes, 1997-2006)
... aka Raw Is War (USA: short title)
... aka WWE Raw (USA: new title)
... aka WWF Raw (USA: new title)
- Episode dated 3 July 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode dated 10 April 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode dated 29 August 2005 (2005) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode dated 24 February 1997 (1997) TV episode .... Herself
4. "Extreme Championship Wrestling" .... Herself / ... (3 episodes, 2006)
... aka ECW on Sci-Fi (USA)
... aka EcW (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Episode #1.3 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Himself
- Episode #1.2 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Debut (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
5. ECW One Night Stand (2006) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
6. WWE vs. ECW: Head to Head (2006) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
7. WWE Divas Do New York (2006) (V) (as Lita) (also archive footage) .... Herself
8. WWE Royal Rumble (2006) (TV) (as Lita) .... Himself
9. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 (2006) (VG) (voice) (as Lita) .... Herself
10. "WWE A.M. Raw" (2005) TV series (as Lita) .... Herself (2005-)
11. "WWF Smackdown!" .... Herself (1 episode, 2005)
... aka Smackdown! (USA: new title)
... aka Smackdown! Xtreme (USA)
... aka WWE Smackdown! (USA: new title)
... aka World Wrestling Federation Smackdown! (USA)
- Episode dated 11 November 2005 (2005) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
12. "Friday Night Smackdown!" .... Herself (1 episode, 2005)
- Episode dated 11 November 2005 (2005) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
13. Summerslam (2005) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWE Summerslam (USA: promotional title)
14. WWE Viva Las Divas (2005) (V) (as Lita) .... Lita
15. WWE Hall of Fame 2005 (2005) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
16. WWE New Year's Revolution (2005) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
17. WWE Taboo Tuesday (2004) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
18. Summerslam (2004) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWE Summerslam (USA)
19. "Headbangers Ball" .... Lita (1 episode, 2004)
... aka MTV Headbangers Ball (USA)
- Episode dated 13 March 2004 (2004) TV episode .... Lita
20. WWE Divas: South of the Border (2004) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
21. WWE: Trish Stratus - 100% Stratusfaction (2003) (V) (as Lita) .... Lita
22. WWF Backlash (2002) (V) .... Herself
... aka Backlash (USA: poster title)
23. WWF Divas: Tropical Pleasure (2002) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
24. WWF Divas: Sex on the Beach (2002) (TV) (as Lita) .... Herself
25. "Fear Factor" .... Herself (1 episode, 2002)
... aka Factor miedo (USA: Spanish title)
... aka Fear Factor: The Series (USA)
- WWE Fear Factor (2002) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
26. Royal Rumble (2002) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
27. "The Big Breakfast" .... Herself (2 episodes, 2001-2002)
- Episode dated 18 January 2002 (2002) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
- Episode dated 9 March 2001 (2001) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
28. Before They Were WWF Superstars (2002) (V) (also archive footage) (as Lita) .... Herself
29. "Weakest Link" .... Herself (1 episode, 2001)
... aka The Weakest Link USA (UK: promotional title)
- WWF Superstars Edition (2001) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
30. "SM:TV Live" .... Lita (1 episode, 2001)
... aka SM:TV (UK: short title)
... aka SM:TV Gold (UK: new title)
... aka Saturday Morning Television Live (UK: long title)
- Episode dated 3 November 2001 (2001) TV episode .... Lita
31. WWF Unforgiven (2001) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
32. "Tough Enough" .... Herself (1 episode, 2001)
... aka $1,000,000 Tough Enough (USA: fourth season title)
... aka Tough Enough 2 (USA: second season title)
... aka Tough Enough III (USA: third season title)
... aka WWE Tough Enough (USA: new title)
... aka WWF Tough Enough (USA)
- Episode #1.7 (2001) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
33. Invasion (2001) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WCW Invasion (USA: informal alternative title)
... aka WCW/ECW Invasion (USA: informal alternative title)
... aka WWF Invasion (USA: informal alternative title)
... aka WWF vs the Alliance: Invasion (USA: informal alternative title)
... aka WWF vs. WCW/ECW Invasion (USA: informal title)
... aka World Wrestling Federation vs. World Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling Invasion (USA: long title)
34. Divas in Hedonism (2001) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWF Divas in Hedonism (USA)
35. Lita: It Just Feels Right (2001) (V) (also archive footage) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWF Lita: It Just Feels Right (USA)
36. WWF Judgment Day (2001) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
37. WWF Insurrextion (2001) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
38. "Live & Kicking" .... Herself (1 episode, 2001)
- Episode dated 10 March 2001 (2001) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
39. "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" .... Herself (1 episode, 2001)
... aka Open Mike (Canada: English title: short title)
... aka The Mike Bullard Show (Canada: English title: new title)
- Episode dated 14 February 2001 (2001) TV episode .... Herself
40. Survivor Series (2000) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWF Survivor Series (USA: promotional title)
41. WWF No Mercy (2000) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
42. Fully Loaded (2000) (V) (as Lita) .... Herself
... aka WWF Fully Loaded (USA: poster title)

Archive Footage:

1. "Friday Night Smackdown!"
- Episode dated 7 June 2006 (2006) TV episode (as Lita) .... Herself
2. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself
3. WWE $250,000 Raw Diva Search (2004) (V) (uncredited) .... Herself

Amy Dumas personal information

Amy Dumas completed graduation 6 months early and became a roadie for 5 years. She got interested in wrestling after watching Rey Mysterio Jr. She later made her way through wrestling schools before getting signed to ECW. She stayed there for nine months before quitting. Later that year she signed with WWF and debuted with Essa Rios. After her connection with Essa ended, Amy joined with Matt and Jeff Hardy and the three became Team Xtreme. Time went by and the threesome were popular everywhere. But it wasn't long before the group started facing problems and the three split for a while. But all of them returned together in 2002 at WWF Royal Rumble.
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Early life

Dumas attended many different schools throughout her childhood and adolescent years and managed to finish high school at Lassiter High School six months prior to graduation.[8][11] She also studied Spanish for three years. She attended college at Georgia State University, where she majored in education.[11] However, she dropped out in 1993 because she felt it was too much like high school.[8]

After winding up in Washington D.C., Dumas played bass guitar in several bands.[2][8] She was a roadie for another band for five years before becoming a wrestler.[2] By this time, she had also begun taking judo and kickboxing classes.[8][12]

Wrestling career

Dumas first became interested in wrestling after watching Rey Mysterio, Jr., a Mexican luchador, wrestle on an episode of World Championship Wrestling's WCW Monday Nitro.[3][13] She traveled to Mexico in 1998 to learn more about the sport and how to wrestle.[3][8] Dumas financed her training by dancing in a club under the pseudonym Misty.[14] During her stay in Mexico, Dumas trained under numerous wrestlers, including Kevin Quinn, Miguel Perez, and Ricky Santana.[2] Following the completion of her training, Dumas made several appearances with the Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre.[2]

After returning to the United States, Dumas began working as a valet on the independent circuit.[8] She worked in Maryland Championship Wrestling (MCW) under the ring name Angelica, at one point managing Christopher Daniels.[2] She also made appearances in NWA Mid-Atlantic, where she first met Matt and Jeff Hardy, who offered to train with her.[2][3]

Extreme Championship Wrestling

In the spring of 1999, she was approached by Paul Heyman, the owner and booker of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).[2][3] Dumas debuted in ECW as Miss Congeniality,[7] the on-screen girlfriend of Danny Doring.[6] Dumas later began using the name Angelica once again and made her pay-per-view debut on July 18 at Heat Wave 1999 where Doring kayfabe proposed to her.[6]

Dumas was introduced to veteran wrestler Dory Funk, Jr. by ECW wrestler Rob Van Dam, and Funk invited her to attend his wrestling school, The Funkin' Conservatory.[2][3][6] Dumas attended Funk's school alongside 23 men,[2][8] graduated from the school in August 1999, and returned to ECW.[2][6] Meanwhile, Funk and his wife compiled video footage of Dumas and sent it to the World Wrestling Federation.[2][3][8] The Federation was sufficiently impressed, and on November 1, 1999, Dumas was signed to a WWF developmental deal. After five months with ECW,[12] she made her final appearance on October 23, 1999.[2][8]

World Wrestling Federation

1999–2000

After honing her skills at the Memphis Championship Wrestling developmental territory, Dumas was given the ring name Lita and paired with luchador Essa Rios.[6][7] Lita and Rios made their WWF debut on the February 13, 2000 episode of Sunday Night HEAT, where Rios was booked to win the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship from Gillberg.[2] Lita mimicked his moves, notably the Moonsault and Hurricanrana, immediately after he had performed them on an opponent.[2] In May 2000, an angle was developed in which Lita found Rios cavorting with The Godfather and his hoes, causing tension between them.[2] Rios eventually turned on Lita by powerbombing her after she inadvertently cost him a match. As part of the storyline, Lita was saved from a beating at the hands of Rios by the Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff),[2] and the trio formed a stable known as Team Xtreme.[7] As a member of Team Xtreme, Lita developed a more "alternative" image, wearing baggy pants with a tight thong which was hiked up high above her pants, clearly exposed.[15] During her time with Team Xtreme, Lita became the only female to ever be physically involved in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match in WWE.[16]

In June 2000, Team Xtreme began an angle with T & A (Test & Albert), with Lita engaging in a rivalry with their manager, Trish Stratus.[1][2][6] The rivalry developed into an off and on long term feud between the two women that lasted until Stratus retired in 2006. The feud ended shortly after Fully Loaded 2000, where Lita pinned Stratus in a six person intergender tag team match.[6] Immediately following her feud with Stratus, Lita began feuding with WWF Women's Champion Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley.[3] In the main event of the August 21, 2000 episode of RAW is WAR, Lita, as part of a push, defeated Stephanie with a moonsault to win the Women's Championship for the first time.[2][3][6][17] The match also featured The Rock as the Special Guest Referee and constant interference from Triple H and Kurt Angle.[17]

Lita held the Women's Championship for 73 days,[17] which included retaining her title in a hardcore match against Jacqueline on October 9.[18] In the course of her reign, Lita became embroiled in the storyline feud between the Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian. In retaliation for her frequent interference in their matches, Edge and Christian cost Lita the Women's Championship, helping Ivory defeat her in a four way match on the November 2 episode of SmackDown!.[3][19] Ivory was in a conservative-based stable named Right to Censor at that time, which targeted Lita for her attire and moves. Lita attempted to regain the title on several occasions, wrestling Ivory at Survivor Series and Rebellion, but she was thwarted on each occasion by Steven Richards, Ivory's mentor. She spent the remainder of the year in an angle with would-be suitor Dean Malenko,[2][3] on one occasion unsuccessfully challenging him for the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship.

2001–2002

Lita continued to feud with Dean Malenko in early 2001, and she defeated him in a singles bout on the February 19 episode of RAW is WAR with the assistance of Matt Hardy. Following the match, Hardy kissed Lita, beginning their on-screen relationship and turning their real-life romance into an angle.[2][20] The couple wrestled in several intergender tag team matches throughout the early part of the year.

Following a brief feud between Team Xtreme and The Two-Man Power Trip (Triple H & Steve Austin) in April 2001, Lita began pursuing the WWF Women's Championship once again. She challenged Women's Champion Chyna at Judgment Day on May 20 but was defeated in what was Chyna's last WWF match. In the same month, Eddie Guerrero began teaming with the Hardy Boyz. An angle involving Guerrero and Lita began to develop,[20] but it was cut short in June 2001 when Guerrero was sent to drug rehabilitation, and Chyna, who was also supposed to be involved in the storyline, was also released from the WWF.

In July 2001, Lita and Trish Stratus joined forces to combat Stacy Keibler and Torrie Wilson, members of The Alliance: Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling wrestlers who were invading the WWF as part of The Invasion angle.[1] At the Invasion pay-per-view on July 22, Lita and Stratus defeated Keibler and Wilson in the first ever tag team bra and panties match.[1] Throughout The Invasion, Lita, Stratus, and Jacqueline feuded with Alliance members Keibler, Wilson, Ivory, and Mighty Molly. The Invasion storyline ended on November 18 at Survivor Series 2001, where Lita took part in a six pack challenge for the WWF Women's Championship, which had been vacated by Chyna earlier that year, but Stratus won the match and the title.[21]

In late 2001, the Hardy Boyz began an angle in which they were feuding with one another.[20][22] Lita refereed a match between them at Vengeance on December 9.[2][22] Jeff won the match with a worked finish that had Lita failing to notice that Matt had placed his leg on the rope during Jeff's successful pin attempt. Continuing the angle on the following episode of RAW, Matt defeated Lita and Jeff in a handicap match, shortly after informing Lita that both their relationship and the Hardy Boyz were finished.[23] Lita began accompanying Jeff Hardy to the ring for his matches, with the two implicitly involved in a deeper friendship.[24][25] On the December 17 episode of RAW, both Jeff and Lita were sidelined with kayfabe injuries following a title match between Jeff and WWF Hardcore Champion The Undertaker.[1] The injuring of both his brother and ex-girlfriend led to a reconciliation between the members of Team Xtreme, and on the December 20 episode of SmackDown!, Matt Hardy faced The Undertaker but was also injured. All three members of Team Xtreme were removed from WWF television for several weeks, with journalist Dave Meltzer attributing the removal to a lack of storylines for the trio. Head of Talent Relations Jim Ross stated in an interview that the removal of Team Xtreme from television was to enable them to "recharge their batteries."[26]

The Hardy Boyz competed in the 2002 Royal Rumble,[27] and, along with Lita, returned to WWF television in February 2002.[1][28] Lita resumed her pursuit of the WWF Women's Championship in March 2002 and made her in-ring WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania X8 on March 17, facing Stratus and WWF Women's Champion Jazz in a match in which Jazz retained her title by pinning Lita.[29]

World Wrestling Entertainment

2002–2003

On April 6, 2002, Dumas suffered what appeared to be a stinger while filming a fight scene for a role in the season finale of the television program Dark Angel.[2][8][30] The rehearsal required that she practice the hurricanrana that would be used in the episode, however, the stunt double Dumas was working with dropped her as she swung through the move, causing her to land squarely on her neck and shoulders.[1][31] After she underwent a CAT scan, it was revealed that she had suffered three cracks in her vertebrae, necessitating surgery.[2][32] On April 30, Dumas underwent neck surgery under Dr. Lloyd Youngblood, during which he used a section of her hip to fuse her C5 and C6 vertebrae together. She was the first Diva to undergo neck fusion surgery.[31] She spent the subsequent year rehabilitating, making appearances on Sunday Night HEAT as a color commentator, beginning in October 2002.[1][31][33][34] On the April 21, 2003 episode of RAW, she was kayfabe fired from her position as Sunday Night HEAT color commentator by General Manager Eric Bischoff after she rejected his advances and his request that she follow in the footsteps of SmackDown!'s Torrie Wilson and pose for Playboy.[2][31]

She returned to the ring after an absence of seventeen months on the September 15 episode of RAW, saving Trish Stratus from a beating at the hands of Molly Holly and Gail Kim.[1][2] Co-General Manager Stone Cold Steve Austin later explained to Eric Bischoff that he had rehired Lita. Lita and Stratus went on to defeat Holly and Kim in a tag team match on September 21 at Unforgiven. Lita feuded with Holly into late 2003, unsuccessfully challenging her for the Women's Championship on November 16 at Survivor Series.[2] On the November 17 episode of RAW, Lita and Matt Hardy were reunited after Hardy was moved from SmackDown! to RAW.[35] Continuing the angle, Holly interrupted as Hardy was about to propose to Lita, challenging the duo to face her and Bischoff in an intergender tag team match later that evening.[35] Bischoff later added the stipulation that Lita would earn a title shot if she won but would be fired if she lost.[35] Hardy and Lita lost the match after Hardy refused to tag in, with Hardy berating Lita for "selfishly" returning to RAW instead of SmackDown!, claiming that this showed that she cared more about the Women's Championship than about him.[35] Lita was rehired later that evening when Christian informed her that he had persuaded Bischoff to reinstate her.[2] One week later, Lita lost to Victoria in the first ever women's steel cage match in WWE history, with help from Matt Hardy.[36]

As Lita and Christian appeared to be developing a kayfabe relationship, so did Stratus and Chris Jericho.[2] On the December 1, 2003 episode of RAW, however, it was revealed that Christian and Jericho had bet one another "one Canadian dollar" as to who could seduce Lita and Stratus respectively first.[2][37] The revelation led to a storyline feud between Lita and Stratus and Christian and Jericho, with the males triumphing in a "Battle of the Sexes" match at Armageddon.[2][38] There was also a rematch the following night on the December 15 episode of RAW, but Chris Jericho stopped the match halfway through when Trish Stratus kayfabe injured her knee.[39]

2004–2005

Lita competed in the Women's division throughout early 2004, winning a battle royal to become the number one contender for the Women's Championship on the April 5, 2004 episode of RAW. Victoria defeated Lita to retain the Women's Championship at Backlash on April 18. The next night on RAW, Lita was reunited with Matt Hardy when Hardy attacked Kane in an attempt to prevent him from harming Lita, beginning a new angle involving the trio.[40] In the following weeks, Kane began repeatedly assaulting Hardy and attempting to seduce Lita. During the course of the angle, he kidnapped Lita and held her tied up backstage where he supposedly asked her a 'question',[40] and he persuaded Eric Bischoff to give her a title shot at Bad Blood on June 13. The next night on RAW, Lita revealed that she was kayfabe pregnant.[1][40] One week later, it appeared that Hardy was going to propose to Lita, but he was interrupted by Kane, who claimed to be the father of Lita's child, as Lita had slept with Kane to persuade him to stop attacking Hardy.[2] Two months later, it was revealed that Kane was, in fact, the father. Hardy and Kane feuded for several months, culminating in a "Till Death Do Us Part" match on August 15 at SummerSlam, with the stipulation that Lita would be obliged to marry Kane should Hardy lose.[2][41] Kane won the match, leading to he and a reluctant Lita marrying one another on the August 23, 2004 episode of RAW.[2] Despite being kayfabe married to Kane, Lita harried him during his matches, constantly aiding his opponents. On the September 13 episode of RAW, Lita miscarried after Gene Snitsky struck Kane with a chair, resulting in him falling on Lita.[2][42] The miscarriage led to Lita and Kane joining forces in order to take revenge on Snitsky.[2]

With the pregnancy angle over, Lita returned to the women's division in November 2004. She began a feud with Trish Stratus after Stratus called Lita "chubby" because of her pregnancy weight gain. At Survivor Series Lita challenged Stratus to a Women's Championship match, however, due to the months of humiliation and being verbally berated by Stratus, Lita was more concerned with doing as much damage as possible. She was disqualified when she choked Stratus and kayfabe broke her nose.[43] The feud continued, and on December 6, Lita was booked to defeat Stratus in the main event of RAW to win her second WWE Women's Championship.[2][43][44] During the course of the match, Lita botched a suicide dive to the outside when she over rotated by a fraction, barely escaping serious injury.[44] This move was later used in the build up to the title rematch she was booked for at New Year's Revolution against Stratus, who claimed, "You had to practically kill yourself to take the title from me". She defeated Lita, ending her second reign as Women's Champion on January 9, 2005 at New Year's Revolution.[45] In the course of the match, Lita suffered a legitimate injury to her ligaments,[46] tearing her left ACL after executing a Thesz Press off the ring apron.[2][44][47] She underwent surgery with Dr. James Andrews on January 20.[26]
Edge and Lita in July 2005
Edge and Lita in July 2005

Lita returned to WWE television in March 2005, mentoring Christy Hemme, who was in the midst of an angle with Stratus that featured a title match between them at WrestleMania 21.[2] Despite Lita's coaching, Hemme was defeated by Stratus.[48] Lita continued to feud with Stratus by proxy over the following weeks, with Kane defeating Stratus' companion, Viscera, at Backlash on May 1.[49] The relationship between Lita and Kane lasted until the May 16 episode of RAW, when Lita turned heel by betraying Kane, helping Edge defeat him in the finals of the RAW Gold Rush Tournament.[2] This was her first official heel turn in her entire five year run with the promotion. On the May 30 episode of RAW, Lita announced that she had filed for divorce, flushing her wedding ring down a toilet.[50] She then attempted to marry Edge on the June 20 episode of RAW, but the marriage ceremony was interrupted by a vengeful Kane, who emerged from beneath the ring.[51] The angle with Kane ended shortly thereafter.

Off-screen, at this time, Dumas had been involved with Matt Hardy romantically, but began an affair with Adam Copeland (Edge).[2][8] WWE then began to use the real-life issues between the three as an on-screen angle.[8] In April, Hardy was released from WWE,[9] only to be rehired several months later. Lita continued to act as Edge's valet as he went on to defeat Hardy at SummerSlam. On the October 3 episode of RAW, Edge, with the assistance of Lita, defeated Hardy in a ladder match, and Hardy was obliged to leave RAW as a stipulation of the match.[2]

2006

After Edge defeated John Cena to win the WWE Championship on January 8 at New Year's Revolution, he announced that he and Lita were going to celebrate by having sex in the middle of the ring the next night on RAW.[2] During the segment, Lita and Edge stripped to their underwear before retreating beneath the covers of a bed that had been erected in the ring. The event was interrupted by Ric Flair, leading to Edge leaving the bed to fight him. Lita, left alone, hastily redressed as Cena entered the ring and attacked her, delivering an FU to her.[52] Lita's bare breast was momentarily shown during the segment.[2] This "Live Sex Celebration" segment earned RAW a 5.2 rating, its highest ratings in over a year.[53][54]

On the February 6 episode of RAW, Lita teamed with Edge in a loss to Cena and Maria.[55] She continued to manage Edge into mid-2006, frequently interfering on his behalf during his feud with Mick Foley. In May 2006, Foley joined forces with Edge and Lita, with the trio defeating Foley's ECW rivals Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer, and Beulah McGillicutty in an impromptu six person tag team match at One Night Stand after Edge Speared and pinned Beulah.[56][57]

On the August 14 episode of RAW, Lita was booked to defeat Mickie James to win her third Women's Championship.[58] She also defeated James in their rematch on the August 28 episode of RAW by using the ropes for extra leverage during the pin.[59] Lita and Edge then feuded with Trish Stratus and Carlito, culminating in a bout between Lita and Stratus at Unforgiven, in which Lita dropped the Women's Championship to Stratus in what was Stratus' last WWE match.[60]

After defeating both Candice Michelle and Maria in the semifinals of a Women's Championship tournament, Lita, as part of her last push, defeated Mickie James at Cyber Sunday to capture the vacant title and begin her fourth reign as Women's Champion.[61] On the November 20 edition of RAW, after defeating Mickie James in a non-title match, Lita announced that she would be retiring from WWE after her match with James at Survivor Series.[62]

Because of the off-screen issues with Matt Hardy, fans began to shout obscenities to her during her matches.[8] By November, Dumas had decided to let her contract expire and retire.[8] At Survivor Series, on November 26, 2006, Lita was pinned by Mickie James, losing the Women's Championship in her final match in WWE.[1] The day after her retirement, Lita stated that her plans to retire began around mid-2005, when the feud between Edge and Matt Hardy was at its height.[10] Because of her involvement in the feud, the harassment she received from some fans was so strong that she felt as if "even when [she] was walking the dog there was going to be someone yelling 'You screwed Matt!' out the window."[10] Eventually, she became so fed up with the treatment she was receiving from these fans, she decided that the only way to avoid such harassment was to retire altogether.[10]

2007

On the December 10, 2007, RAW XV: 15 Year Anniversary Spectacular, Lita made a special appearance, engaging in a stare down with long-time rival Trish Stratus. Jillian, however, interrupted the stand-off between the two, resulting in Lita and Stratus attacking her, followed by the once rivals celebrating together in the ring. Lita also, although humorously, appeared in a backstage segment with Kane, her former on-screen husband.

Music career

Main article: The Luchagors

After her retirement from wrestling, Dumas moved back to Atlanta, Georgia and began writing songs with her new boyfriend Shane Morton.[8] The two formed the band The Luchagors in the summer of 2006,[8] and they debuted in September 2006 at a rock n' wrestling event called Rock -N- Shock at The Masquerade in Atlanta.[63] Dumas wore a top emblazoned with the symbol of the band during her final match in WWE. The band released their self-titled CD, The Luchagors on September 11, 2007.[8]

In April 2007, Amy Dumas accepted a job in Atlanta as a radio DJ for a punk show on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. EST called

In wrestling

* Finishing moves
o Litasault[65] (Moonsault)
o Swinging snap DDT
o Twist of Fate

* Signature moves
o Litacanrana[55] (Diving hurracanrana)
o Spin-out powerbomb into a kneeling pin
o Jackknife powerbomb
o Reverse Twist of Fate
o Headscissors takedown
o One-legged monkey flip
o Russian legsweep
o Tilt-A-Whirl Slam
o Diving crossbody
o Suicide dive
o Frankensteiner
o Superplex
o Leg-feed enzuigiri
o Snap suplex Followed By a Kip-Up

* Double team signature moves
o Poetry in Motion - with the Hardy Boyz and Trish Stratus. She also used this move with various other tag partners.

* Wrestlers managed by Lita

* Christopher Daniels[2]
* El Dandy
* Danny Doring[6]
* Amish Roadkill



* Essa Rios[6][7]
* Matt Hardy[7]
* Jeff Hardy[7]
* Kane[2]



* Christy Hemme[2]
* Edge[2]
* Mick Foley
* Randy Orton

* Entrance music
o Dumas originally used Essa Rios' entrance music when entering the ring.
o After her split from Rios', she was given "Electron," a WWE production theme which was later used by Terri Runnels.[66]
o She also used The Hardy Boyz' entrance music when accompanying them to the ring and competing in mixed tag team matches with them.
o Dumas then received a WWE production created specifically for her by Jim Johnson, entitled "It Just Feels Right." A remix was created and featured on WWF The Music, Vol. 5.[66]
o Boy Hits Car composed a theme for Dumas entitled "Lovefurypassionenergy" and was featured on WWF Forceable Entry.[66][67] Dumas used this theme until her neck injury.
o After her injury, she returned using a remix of "Lovefurypassionenergy" until her retirement in 2006.

Championships and accomplishments

* American Chronicle
o Female of the year (2006)[68]

* Pro Wrestling Illustrated
o Woman of the Year (2001)[69]
o Feud of the Year (2005 - Matt Hardy vs. Edge and Lita)[70]

* World Wrestling Federation /Entertainment
o WWF/E Women's Championship (4 times)[8][71]

Personal life

She had breast augmentation surgery in late 1999.[5][72] Dumas' hair is naturally brunette, although she has dyed it red throughout her WWF/E career.[1] She has a wide variety of tattoos: a three eyed green gargoyle on her upper right biceps, the word "Punk" on the inside of her lower lip, and the word "iconoclast" written in Russian Cyrillic letters on her lower back neck.[73] She previously had two piercings in her tongue and another two in her nose.[74]

Dumas is a known animal lover.[31][75] In 2003, she founded the animal charity Amy Dumas Operation Rescue and Education (A.D.O.R.E.).[8][75][76]

She began dating Matt Hardy in 2001.[2][77][78] In February 2005, it was revealed that Dumas had been romantically involved with fellow wrestler Edge for several months while still in a relationship with Hardy.[8][79] Shortly after the incident became public knowledge, WWE released Hardy. After Hardy returned, the real-life situation was translated into a storyline.[8][80] Hardy has stated in interviews that he and Amy have since patched things up, and he still considers her a close friend.[81] In the summer of 2006, Dumas began dating Shane Morton, her Luchagors bandmate.[8]

Media

Lita was featured in the June 2001 video and DVD release Lita: It Just Feels Right.[12][82] The video featured discussions of Lita's career to that point and showcased several of her matches.[12] Also in 2001, she appeared with The Hardy Boyz in Rolling Stone magazine's 2001 Sports Hall of Fame issue.[82]

Dumas' autobiography, written with Michael Krugman, Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D. - The Reality of Amy Dumas was published in 2003.[75] The book, which was featured on the New York Times bestsellers list, covered topics such as her family, childhood years, wrestling career, relationship with Matt Hardy, and her neck surgery and subsequent rehabilitation.

Dumas also appeared on a variety of television shows including Dark Angel,[2][8][30] Fear Factor,[83] and The Weakest Link's "WWF Superstars Edition" in 2002.[84] In 2004, she appeared on an episode of Headbangers Ball.

Aamy Dumas Biography

Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975) is an American former professional wrestler and valet, better known by the ring name, Lita. During her stint with World Wrestling Entertainment from 2000-2006, she became one of the most popular female wrestling performers in the sports entertainment company's history. She is a four-time former WWE Women's Champion,[2] and she is the lead singer of punk rock band The Luchagors.