![]() ![]() Sometimes the fans would get a little too handsy and Leroux would defend herself no matter who it was. “She could spit from the ring, and hit specific people in the second row, right in the forehead!” recalled Simmes in an interview with. From where he stood, Simmes said that Leroux had a natural talent to antagonize the crowds. Leroux knew a little about toughness from her parents Bonnie Ann Potvin Leroux and Arthur Corlew, whom one month after the birth of their twin daughters were arrested for disorderly conduct and assault of a police officer, according to articles from the Glens Falls Times in 1964 a friend, Arthur Winchell, was arrested at the same time.įor much of her career, Jon Simmes was the promoter of a group of women wrestlers that included Leroux and his wife Misty Blue Simms. “Everybody likes being mean right? Isn’t there people sometimes you’d like to go smash them one… they annoy ya? There ya go, it’s fun.” The very nature of being bad is what intrigued Leroux to become a pro wrestler. ![]() “I don’t care how much they hate me, they will hate me even more by the time I’m done,” she warned. There were stories on her toughness, her loyalty, her sweetness, but we’ll give her the first word, addressing how good it was to be bad.ĭuring an international tour in Germany in March 1991, Leroux talked to the Stars and Stripes military newspaper. The death of woman wrestler Kat Leroux on July 27, 2020, at the age of 55, brought forth plenty of memories from friends and colleagues in the wrestling business.
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