Birth name | Krista Hanakowski |
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Born |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
August 25, 1983
Residence | Vancouver, British Columbia |
Website | Krysta.com |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) |
Krysta Lynn Scott Krista Lynn Scott Krysta Kinisky |
Billed height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Billed weight | 135 lb (61 kg) |
Trained by |
Gary Williams Tony Armstrong |
Debut | May 2006 |
Krista Hanakowski (born August 25, 1983) is a Canadian professional wrestler, known by her ringname Krysta Lynn Scott, who has competed both in Canada and the United States having worked for All-Star Wrestling, Grand Prix Wrestling, Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling. Since her debut in 2006, Hanakowski is the first female wrestler since The Fabulous Moolah to regularly work for Grand Prix Wrestling in nearly 20 years.
A former student of "Wildman" Gary Williams, she appeared alongside her former teacher on the Canadian television documentary series Wrestling Reality. She was one of two female wrestlers, along with rival Purity Saint, featured on the series. Her relationship with then ex-boyfriend Tommy Ozbourne, another Wildman Academy graduate, was partly focused on in the series as well as her experiences as a female wrestler on the Canadian independent circuit.
Hanakowski has long been active in promoting women's wrestling in Canada, especially in the Maritimes, and has encouraged young women to enter professional wrestling both in interviews and her website. She has also been a strong advocate of responsible training in wrestling schools, having criticized other facilities she has visited, and has stressed proper training and physical fitness for prospective students.
Krista Hanakowski was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 25, 1983. Growing up in the nearby suburb of Hubley, she graduated from Sir John A. Macdonald High School in 2001 and later graduated with a degree in science from Dalhousie University in 2005. She had been a fan of wrestling during the Rock 'n' Wrestling era, her father having taken Hanakowski and her brother to WWF events as a child, and after graduation became interested in pursuing it as a career.