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Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida), better known by her ring name, Lita, is an American professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand.

Dumas' high energy, high risk wrestling style in WWE as Lita quickly gained her a large and loyal fan base. She was a member of very popular Team Xtreme with the high flying tag team The Hardy Boyz. A two-time WWE Women's Champion, she has been one of the most popular WWE divas in history. Despite her in-ring history, she gained some measure of infamy for her involvement in a real life love triangle involving long time boyfriend Matt Hardy and fellow WWE wrestler Edge.

Early career

Dumas attended many different schools throughout her childhood and adolescent years. While in high school, she took up swimming and practiced judo competitively. She managed to finish high school 6 months prior graduation. Dumas played bass guitar in a band called "3 Card Trick", and she was a roadie for another band for 5 years before getting into wrestling. She also took 3 years of Spanish, which ended up helping her later life.

Dumas first became interested in the world of wrestling when she saw Rey Mysterio wrestle in WCW's Monday Nitro. She was so intrigued by the storylines that she felt like she wanted to be part of it. She had the idea of going to Mexico to learn how to wrestle and learn more about the sport. With some money saved, she made her way to Mexico and went to shows where she ended up meeting or watching future superstars such as Tajiri, Val Venis, Essa Rios, Super Crazy, and Chris Jericho perform.

Amy worked for promotions like MCW, EMLL, and NWA during her stay in Mexico, and was working for NWA Mid-Atlantic when she first met The Hardy Boyz. Lita also went to Peru to wrestle for ten days with an indy promotion. During her early days in wrestling, she also managed El Dandy.

In the spring of 1999, Amy was approached by Paul Heyman and was offered a deal with ECW. Dumas debuted in ECW as a valet for Danny Doring and Amish Roadkill under the name Miss Congeniality. She later became known as Angelica and on July 18, 1999, she got her first pay-per-view exposure at Heat Wave. ECW star Rob Van Dam introduced Dumas to Dory Funk, who invited her to his training camp. At the camp, she trained with 20 men. At her request, Funk treated her no different than the others. Dumas quickly gained respect from the other wrestlers at the camp and graduated from The Funking Conservatory in August 1999. While Dumas went back to ECW, Funk and his wife began compiling old videos they had taken of her and sent it to WWE.

WWF/WWE

When she arrived at the WWF Headquarters in late 1999, Dumas was told she was going to team up with luchador Essa Rios, as his valet Lita. Her gimmick was to mimic each of Essa's moves right after he had performed them on his opponents. She started doing photo shoots with Essa and her character debuted in February 2000.

As the months went by, her popularity became noticeable. After Rios turned against her after he had been mired in a slump, she was saved by and placed with The Hardy Boyz to become Team Xtreme. Her popularity skyrocketed along with Matt and Jeff during the WWF Attitude Era. She developed a new, more "alternative" image with her panties usually pulled up over her pants.

The feud with The Hardy Boyz and T&A mixed fellow newcomer Trish Stratus and Lita in this rivalry. After an intense feud, at the July PPV Fully Loaded, T&A and Trish teamed up to take on The Hardy Boyz and Lita in a 1st ever Six-Person Intergender match in which the men were alowed to wrestle the women. Lita won the match by pinning Trish after a Moonsault. The following week, Lita teamed up with the The Rock to defeat Triple H and Trish Stratus in the RAW main event.

Women's Division

On August 21, 2000, in the main event on RAW, Lita won the WWE Women's Championship for the first time by defeating Stephanie McMahon. Despite interference by McMahon's husband Triple H and Kurt Angle, Lita overcame the odds thanks in part to special guest referee The Rock.

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Athletes - Amy Dumas

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