Melissa Coates
Coates at an NWA Anarchy event in October 2007
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| Birth name | Melissa Coates |
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| Born |
June 18, 1971 Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence |
McDonough, Georgia, United States |
| Alma mater | Lakehead University |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Melissa Coates The Bag Lady Mistress Melissa Mile High Melissa |
| Billed height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Billed weight | 150 lb (68 kg) |
| Billed from | Los Angeles, California |
| Trained by |
Killer Kowalski Ultimate Pro Wrestling Ohio Valley Wrestling Wild Samoan Training Center Deep South Wrestling NWA Anarchy |
| Debut | 2002 |
| Melissa Coates | |
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| — Bodybuilder — | |
| Personal info | |
| Born |
June 18, 1971 Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Professional career | |
| Pro-debut | IFBB Jan Tana Classic, 1996 |
| Best win | IFBB Jan Tana Classic champion, 1996 |
| Predecessor | Sue Gafner |
| Successor | Chris Bongiovannii |
Melissa Coates (born June 18, 1971) is a Canadian professional wrestler, bodybuilder, fitness model and actress. She is perhaps best known for appearing in the first two seasons of the Game Show Network show Extreme Dodgeball.
Prior to entering professional wrestling, Coates aspired to become a professional tennis player after watching Martina Navratilova. In order to train effectively for tennis, Coates began weightlifting at 15, and during that same year, she entered her first tennis competition in 1984, where she lasted until the finals. She re-entered the following year and won the Mid-Canada Junior Girls Championship. However, she soon began to shift her attention from tennis to bodybuilding and entered her first contest in the early 1990s, where she won the overall lightweight category of the Windsor Physique Contest. After she began making prominence, Coates decided to move to Los Angeles and worked for two gyms and two bars to finance herself. After being granted professional status in 1995, she won the Jan Tana Classic in 1996. In 1999, she took a leave from bodybuilding and subsequently began working as a model.
She also competed in the first two seasons of Extreme Dodgeball on the Game Show Network. Her team, the Barbell Mafia team, qualified for the playoffs in the first season but failed to qualify the next year.
After training at both Killer Kowalski's training school and Ultimate Pro Wrestling's Ultimate University. In 2005, Melissa Coates made an appearance in Naked Women's Wrestling League, hosted by Carmen Electra. Melissa fought another professional wrestler, April Hunter, in which both wrestlers appeared completely nude. The match was discovered to be rigged, much to the dismay of the audience.
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