Daffney | |
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Daffney in July 2010
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Birth name | Shannon Claire Spruill |
Born |
Wiesbaden Army Airfield, Wiesbaden, Hessen, West Germany |
July 17, 1975
Residence | Valrico, Florida, United States |
Alma mater | Georgia State University |
Spouse(s) | Rich Ward (divorced) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) |
Daffney Daffney Unger Lucy Lucy Furr Shark Girl Shannon The Governor Draculetta |
Billed height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Billed weight | 130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st) |
Billed from |
Paradise Island 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (as Shark Girl) Badstreet, Atlanta, Georgia Unknown parts of Alaska Sybil, Texas Charlotte, North Carolina Transylvania (as Draculetta) |
Trained by |
WCW Power Plant Malia Hosaka Selena Majors Leilani Kai |
Debut | 1999 |
Shannon Claire Spruill (born July 17, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and valet currently working for Shine Wrestling. She is best known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1999 and 2001 under the ring name Daffney and for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a TNA Knockout, where she used the ring name "The Governor", a caricature of Alaska governor and former United States Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, before returning to her Daffney ring name and gimmick.
As a "military brat", Shannon Claire Spruill was born on July 17, 1975, at the Wiesbaden Army Airfield; which is United States Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany, where her father was stationed. In 1976, her family returned to the United States, residing first in Salt Lake City, Utah, then in Savannah, Georgia and finally on the Scott Air Force Base in St. Clair County, Illinois. They later relocated to Oxford in the United Kingdom for three years, before moving to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany until 1987, when her father, by then a Lieutenant Colonel, retired.