Debra Miceli, also known as Madusa and Alundra Blayze to wrestling fans, is a near-four decades veteran of professional wrestling, a three-time WWE champion and a WWE Hall of Famer.
Miceli recently released a new book, “The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story,” and she gave a wide-ranging interview to Web Is Jericho where she chatted about a variety of subjects.
Miceli was asked about working with WWE legend and fellow WWE Hall of Famer, “Sensational” Sherri Martel.
“I was scared sh*tless of Sherri at first, because she was very hard school and very kayfabe,” Miceli said.
“Kayfabe was very strong in our day. So not only did we not talk or speak to each other, we did not ride with one another or anything. She believed in that so much. I was still learning about kayfabe. But no one ever schooled me in on it, and I had to learn the hard way. There are incidents when she wouldn’t talk to me about the match, and she wouldn’t do anything until the day of and she would just call it out there, and it was the best learning session of my life. She really made me listen, watch, learn and hone into my craft.”
Miceli continued: “She was a brawler. She wasn’t a technical wrestler, but she brought it. Her timing and psychology was impeccable in this business. Impeccable. So to get to work with her was incredible. And she was a good seller. If she thought you did something wrong, she would tell you in many ways. There’s a match her and I had, I did a German suplex, and it looked like I knocked her out. And I took her head and shook it. And everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, she killed her.’ I’ll never forget after, Sherri said, ‘That was some good sh*t!’ When I see that video clip, and people make negative comments, I just giggle. You can’t help but laugh, cause people just don’t know.”
Read the full interview with Miceli here.
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