Carlene Begnaud

African-American female professional wrestler, trainer and valet as Jazz. She first trained under the Junkyard Dog (Sylvester Ritter) and then under Rod Price after Ritter died. She started in 1998 under the name Jazzmyn before settling on Jazz, which she chose herself. Her debut match was against Jacqueline (Jacqueline Moore), her original inspiration to get into wrestling, and a woman she would later have several matches against in WWE. She first made her name in ECW, after breaking away from Justin Credible (P.J. Polaco)'s entourage. She was celebrated for being utterly fearless and willing to fight both women and men. At "ECW Heat Wave 99," she defeated Justin's manager Jason "The Sexiest Man on Earth" (Jason Knight) to become the first woman to win a match on an ECW PPV. In the first words she ever spoke on ECW TV, she asserted how different she was from other women in wrestling, saying, "My T&A stands for talent and ability." She went to Ohio Valley Wrestling after ECW closed and made her WWE debut as the last person to ever join the Alliance, at "WWE Survivor Series 2001" on November 18th in the Six-Pack Challenge for the vacant WWE Women's Championship (due to Chyna having been quietly pushed out the door earlier that year), which was won by Trish Stratus. Jazz would go on to hold the WWE Women's Title twice during her run with the company. She has also held the NWA CyberSpace (Staten Island, New York) Women's Championship, the WSU (Women Superstars Uncensored in New Jersey) Tag Team Championship with Marti Belle and Tina San Antonio as the Belle Saints and the NWA World Women's Championship. She and her husband, fellow wrestler Rodney Mack (Rodney Begnaud) opened a fitness center in 2007 and their own wrestling school, the Dog Pound. She was inducted into the WSU Hall of Fame in 2010, alongside Molly Holly (Nora Greenwald) and Dawn Marie (Dawn Marie Psaltis).