Wendi Richter

Also Known As

Wendy Richter, Wendi Richter

Biography

Wendi Richter is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined WWE. She held the WWE Women's Championship twice and feuded with The Fabulous Moolah over the title. She was also involved in a storyline with singer Cyndi Lauper called the "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection". Richter, however, left WWE after losing the championship in controversial fashion. She then worked in the World Wrestling Council and American Wrestling Association (AWA), where she held both companies' women's titles.