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Debra Gale Marshall (born March 2, 1966 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American real estate agent and former professional wrestling manager. She is better known by her ring name, Debra.

Career

World Championship Wrestling

Debra was a track runner, cheerleader and Homecoming Queen at high school before attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. She then became an Airline Attendant, before joining World Championship Wrestling along with her husband, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, in 1996.

Debra was originally one of many women who would stand on the entrance ramp and clap as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage entered the ring. On one occasion she was sitting at ringside while her husband was performing announcing duties. Ric Flair hit on her and she ended up throwing a drink in his face, much to Mongo's delight. This caused Mongo to want a match with Flair, so they set up a match for the Great American Bash pay-per-view in 1996. Mongo and Debra ended up turning on his partner, Kevin Greene, to join the Four Horsemen.

During this time, Debra bickered with Woman, with Mongo and Chris Benoit having to step in and separate them. Debra would usually have the last word after Woman and Benoit had left the area.

Jeff Jarrett arrived in WCW and Debra wanted him to join the Horsemen, while Mongo did not. She eventually helped Jarrett defeat Mongo to gain membership, forcing Mongo to team with him. Just as the duo had began to co-exist peacefully, Debra and Jarrett turned on Mongo. Debra recruited Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Bill Goldberg and Alex Wright to a shortlived stable which disbanded when Debra left WCW (and divorced Mongo).

World Wrestling Federation

Debra rejoined Jarrett in the World Wrestling Federation. At the beginning of her WWF career, Debra played the part of a shrewd businesswoman, wearing business suits and rarely smiling. She helped Jarrett win matches through cheating. Following Survivor Series: Deadly Games
in November 1998, Jarrett began a feud with "The Bizarre One", Goldust. A match was set for the December 1998 pay-per-view, Rock Bottom: In Your House, which Goldust announced would be a "Striptease Match", meaning that if Jarrett won, then Goldust would have to strip naked, but if Goldust won, then Debra would have to strip naked. Debra played mind games with Goldust in the weeks preceding to the match, flashing him in order to distract him and costing him matches.

On December 13, 1998, Jeff Jarrett faced Goldust in the Striptease Match. The crowd was strongly behind Goldust, as they wanted to see Debra strip. Unfortunately for them, Debra hit Goldust over the head with Jarrett's trademark Guitar, enabling Jarrett to win, meaning that Goldust had to strip. However, WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels ruled that, since Debra had hit Goldust with a guitar, Jarrett was disqualified, meaning that Goldust was the winner, and Debra had to strip. Debra was hesitant at first, but soon warmed up to the crowd, and stripped down to her bra and thong. However, before Debra could unhook her bra, The Blue Blazer (a disguised Owen Hart) entered the ring and covered her up, just as Shawn Michaels took off her bra.

Jarrett hoped this would be the last time anyone saw Debra in her underwear, but Rock Bottom was only the beginning. From that point on, in every Jeff Jarrett match, Debra would take off her blouse and show her bra in order to distract Jarrett's opponents. The strategy was normally successful, and helped Jarrett and his partner, Owen, defeat The Big Bossman and Ken Shamrock to become World Tag Team Champions. Jarrett became a defacto face as a result of Debra, who would willingly take off her blouse to show the crowd her "puppies" (a nickname originally bestowed by wrestler Road Dogg and immortalized by commentator Jerry Lawler).

Debra "won" the Women's Championship from Sable in an Evening Gown Match on May 10, 1999. Technically, in an Evening Gown Match, the winner is the woman who forcibly removes her opponent's dress. Sable took off Debra's dress, and should therefore have been the winner. However, Commissioner Shawn Michaels ruled that he considered the woman who had lost her dress the winner, making Debra the new Women's Champion. She would rarely defend the title, remaining a manager. Jarrett and Debra began feuding with Val Venis and Nicole Bass, leading to a match at Over The Edge on May 23, 1999; a match that took place immediately after Owen Hart had passed away after falling from the top of the arena in a stunt gone wrong. The feud ended in a bikini contest between Debra and Nicole Bass, which Debra won.

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