Amy Dumas
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Amy Christine Dumas, better known as Lita (born April 14, 1975), is an American professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment, and a former valet in Extreme Championship Wrestling.
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Career
Amy Dumas came to a wide audience first in ECW in 1999 as the valet for Danny Doring and Amish Roadkill, known as Miss Congeniality. She left ECW for WWF (WWE) in late 1999.
Upon her arrival in WWF, she was placed as the valet for a lucha libre wrestler named Essa Rios. As her popularity rose, she was placed with the Hardy Boyz to become Team Xtreme. Her popularity skyrocketed along with Matt and Jeff during the WWF Attitude era.
While filming a guest appearance on the FOX TV series Dark Angel in 2002, she suffered a severe neck injury that required surgery. She returned as a color comentator on WWE Sunday Night Heat, but returned to in-ring action in September 2003.
At WWE New Year's Revolution, while performing a Lou Thesz Press off the ring apron, Lita suffered a torn ACL in her left knee.
Lita was a face from May 2000 (when Essa Rios left her) until May 16, 2005, when she turned heel by helping Edge defeat her onscreen husband, Kane, and thereby win the WWE RAW Gold Rush Tournament. Lita has now filed for "divorce" against her "husband".
Finishing/Signature Moves
- DDT
- Litasault (Top-rope Diving Moonsault)
- Reverse Twist of Fate
- Head Scissor Takedown
- Litacanrana
- Rear Naked Choke (Sleeper with body scissors)
Wrestlers managed by Lita
- El Dandy
- Danny Doring
- Amish Roadkill
- Essa Rios
- Matt Hardy
- Jeff Hardy
- Christy Hemme
- Kane
- Edge
Personal Life
For six years, she had had a real-life relationship with Matt Hardy, until he broke up with her in late February 2005. The split occurred because Lita had sexual relations with fellow WWE wrestler Edge. The fallout of the affair led to Matt Hardy's release. On April 18, 2005, Lita's appearance in Madison Square Garden was met with jeers and calls for Matt Hardy by a significant section of the audience. Similar chants were directed at her the following week during her backstage interview, but since the show was pre-taped in front of a British audience the chants were edited out in the American broadcast.
In May 2005 Dumas was aligned with Copeland onscreen. She was rumored to have expressed slight discontent with this storyline as she still had feelings for Matt. In addition, the storyline was seen as tasteless by Hardy himself along with many smarks.
Trivia
- Lita is of Puerto Rican, Mexican, French and Irish descent.
- Lita has her own charity. A.D.O.R.E - Amy Dumas Operation Rescue and Education.
- Lita is the only female to win both her titles in the main event of RAW.
- Lita is the only female diva to appear in Rolling Stone magazine.
- Amy Dumas as a young adult she would volunteer her time to animal shelters and also during her 15 month neck injury she founded her animal charity A.D.O.R.E and donated time and money to animal shelters in North Carolina.
- Amy Dumas played in a band called '3 Card Trick'
- Lita recorded a song "When I get You Alone" which is found on the WWE Originals CD.
- Amy has a younger brother, Billy Dumas.
- Amy has had 3 dogs. Cody (passed), Mason (passed), and Lucas. She is currently fostering a dog named Louie.
Books, DVDs and VHS
- Autobiography: Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D.-The Reality of Amy Dumas, 2003, with Michael Krugman.
- DVD and VHS: Lita: It Just Feels Right, 2001.
Championships and accomplishments
- WWE Women's Champion (2)
- August 21, 2000 - October 30, 2000
- December 6, 2004 - January 9, 2005
| Preceded by: Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley | First | Succeeded by: Ivory |
| Preceded by : Trish Stratus | Second | Succeeded by: Trish Stratus |
Other accomplishments
- Winner of the 2001 PWI Woman of the Year Award
External links
- AdoreYourPets.org (http://www.adoreyourpets.org); Official charity website
- WWE Profile (http://www.wwe.com/superstars/raw/lita/profile.jsp); Official WWE profile site
- Amy-Net.org (http://www.amy-net.org); Successful and popular fansite