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biography:
Name: Amy Christine Dumas
Birthday: 14th April 1975
Age: 30
Hair colour: Red
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 5'7
Residence: Alanta, Georgia
Current Residence: sanford, nc
Signed With WWE: November 1999
Debuted: February 2000
Career Highlights: WWE Womens Champoin (2)
Ring Names: Angelica (ECW) Miss Congeniality (ECW) Lita
(WWE)
Amy Dumas trained to become a wrestler in mexico
and made her wwe debute in a match with
Essa Rios vs Gilberg and finishing the match with a moonsault.
It didnt take long for Lita to get involved in the matches
and play a big part in the show.
Soon after she started
wrestling in her own matches
and soon left Essa Rios and teamed up with the
Hardy Boyz to form Team Xtreme and she captured the
WWE Womens title. In
early 2002 she was asked to play a part in
"dark angel" during a stunt she was dropped on her head
and broke her neck in 3 places
she under went surgery and was out for 18 months.
she made her return in september 2003 and later that
month released
a biography called "a less traveled R.O.A.D. The reality
of Amy Dumas"
Which sold lots of copies
I am very much a spontaneous person.
I don't plan things out. I believe life flows better if you roll with it. Many situations are far beyond our control and a
waste of positive energy to fight. However, I am willing to pour all of my energy and focus to work on situations and outcomes
that I can have a hand in. Like the path I take to get from point A to point B, the type of people I surround myself with,
and the life experiences I have.
For example, growing up, I moved around a lot. Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando,
back to Fort Lauderdale and on to Atlanta, all before I was 12 years old. Being that young, I had little control over this.
But my nomadic childhood would help prepare me not to be afraid of change and also to adapt quickly to different situations.
I have always had an easy time making friends, but keeping close friends was difficult due to moving around. I spent six years
in Atlanta which is the longest I have lived some where to date.
I graduated high school early and moved out when I
was 17. My parents had divorced a few years prior.
I moved into a small studio apartment in midtown Atlanta and adopted
my dog Cody. He has been stuck with me ever since. I began to feel as though I was treading water and didn't wake up mornings
with a whole lot of passion. I knew that meant it was time to move on. My finds were limited, so upon exploring my options,
Cody and I decided to pack up and move into a group house outside of Washington, D.C.
A friend of a friend was visiting
Atlanta, when I told him about wanting to move. Half-jokingly, he said they were looking for another roommate. So two weeks
later, I headed up to DC. It was me and seven guys living in a house that was also home to a band, recording studio and tattoo
shop. I lived in the laundry room for $80 a month.
Needless to say, that got old quick. I saved up a little money and
headed to Europe for a month, again searching for something. I just didn't know what. Europe was a great experience and allowed
me to stay put for a little while upon my return. I then shared an apartment in Washington, DC for about a year.
After
that, I moved an hour and a half south to Richmond, Virginia. I knew some people there and rent was cheap, which meant I could
save more money and keep searching.
While in DC, I had taken up playing the bass guitar and tried being in a few bands.
Nothing ever really panned out. I traveled with some bands helping them out by moving equitment or selling merchandise. I
had fun doing that and being on the road was always a special time for me. Not knowing where your day would take you, who
you would meet, and giving an audience part of your soul every night. I knew I wanted to be a part of my life in some form.
I
have always believed that life is about finding your own personal niche, what makes you tick. You may be influenced by your
upbringing, your family's business, a teacher's suggestion, friends or your surroundings. You may have had a gut feeling from
a young age about what you want to do, while others search over half their looking for "it". In my opinion, searching itself
is half the fun. Because once you realize what you want to do, it's time to get serious and go for it.
It was around
the summer of '97 that I knew I wanted to be part of the WWF. At the time, I didn't know exactly what that meant or how I
was going to get there. I did know the world of sports-entertainment encompassed everything I'd been searching for. The WWF
had a lot of the same qualities that traveling with bands had, and you definitely get to give your soul to the audience every
night, but you also get to be extremely physical and athletic as well.
At first I didn't know how to start training
for wrestling, so I began training at a judo club. There I learned to have a competitive nature and feel contact while remaining
focused. I took a three-day crash course in Mexico, in a make-shift wrestling ring made of amateur wrestling mats and garden
hoses. I had never been in so much pain, but the feeling I had was complete euphoria. From that point on, anything that could
get me a step closer to the WWF was on my list. I didn't care how I long it took-inch by inch, mile by mile-I would be in
the WWF one day.
I signed a development contract on November 1, 1999, and debuted in February 2000. After a year and
a half of walking down that ramp, I still wake up some mornings not believing I am here. Everything feels so new to me, but
in a really good way. For the first time in my life, I can begin to think long-term and have a sense of what having a constant
is like. I am just starting to plant roots regarding my career in the WWF, my first long-term friends, and my new home in
North Carolina. It is a ver comfortable feeling knowing this is where I belong.
future goals
1. Continue to innovate the role of women in wrestling
2.
Be featured in a comic book
3. Put out a new book, unrelated to wrestling, about...you'll just have to wait and
see!
4. Utilize my free time by working with motivated individuals on pet overpopulation education and responsible
pet ownership, with a focus on raising funds for ADORE.
5. Keep on having fun with the gift of life
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