Vanessa Kraven

Vanessa Kraven

Kraven in February 2015
Born	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Vanessa Kraven Vanessa the Mountain
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Billed weight	195 lb (88 kg)
Billed from	Deadhorse, Alaska
Trained by	Ron Hutchison Zaquary Springate III
Debut	April 2004

Vanessa Kraven is a Canadian professional wrestler who competes in several independent promotions in both the United States and Canada. She has also made several trips to Japan.

Kraven became interested in professional wrestling at an early age and later as a teenager during the so-called "Attitude Era". After graduating from hairdressing school in 2002, she began training at Sully's Gym under Ron Hutchison in Toronto and later under Zaquary Springate III in the United States before eventually making her professional debut in April 2004.

In late 2004, at Northern Championship Wrestling (NCW) 's ChallengeMania, she was introduced as "Vanessa Kraven" with a goth in-ring persona and appeared with her storyline half-brother James Kraven as an ally and bodyguard. She became a mainstay in the promotion, continuing to appear as a valet with Kraven, most notably, at the Night of the Blizzard supercard where James Kraven and Stalker faced brothers Adib and Sidi Mansour on the undercard. She was the last NCW Women's Champion, having held the title between early 2005 and August 2006, when NCW's women's division was disbanded.

Beginning in 2005, she worked for Montreal's International Wrestling Syndicate, debuting on March 26 by helping Kid Kamikaze win a match. She remained allied with Kamikaze over the next several months, managing him and aiding him during matches. She made her wrestling debut for the promotion on July 23, when she and Takao lost a tag team match to Damian and Kenny the Bastard. She picked up her first victory in December, defeating Lex Lurmon and Jagger Miles in a handicap match. Over the next year, she regularly competed in intergender matches, which included victories over Eric Lauze, Franky The Mobster, and Beef Wellington. In March 2007, she unsuccessfully challenged for the IWS Canadian Championship in a six-way match won by reigning champion Don Paysan. Later that year, she formed an alliance with Twiggy to take on SLI 2007 (Fred la Merveille and Kenny the Bastard), and on January 26, 2008, they lost a tag team match to the pair at Praise the Violence. Her last appearance for the promotion for several years was on August 23, when her match with LuFisto ended in a no contest when they were both attacked by Wellington. She returned to the promotion for the final show in 2010, competing in a six-way elimination match for the IWS Canadian Championship; the match was won by Max Boyer and also included Shayne Hawke, Alex Silva, Kid Kamikaze, and Mike Bailey.