Gail Kim

Gail Kim, also known as Gail Kim-Irvine, is a Canadian-American professional wrestler, now retired, who was born on February 20, 1977. She is best known for her years in TNA Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment, where she became one of the leading names in women's professional wrestling. She started on the Canadian-American independent circuit and joined WWE in 2002, winning the WWE Women's Championship in her first match, which made her the first WWE Diva to take a title on her debut. After her release in 2004 she signed with TNA in September 2005, first as a valet for America's Most Wanted and then as a singles competitor. In October 2007 she became the inaugural TNA Knockouts Champion, and she went on to hold that title a record seven times and the Knockouts Tag Team Championship once alongside Madison Rayne. Her feud with Awesome Kong is generally ranked among the greatest women's wrestling rivalries of the 2000s. She left TNA in August 2008, returned to WWE that November and stayed until 2011, then went back to TNA until 2025. Pro Wrestling Illustrated named her the top female wrestler in the world in 2012, and in 2016 she became the first woman inducted into the TNA Wrestling Hall of Fame.