Interview with Debrah Miceli about her new book ’The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story’
Debrah Miceli is proud of her new book “The Woman Who Would Be King: The Madusa Story” (ECW Press, 305 pages).
Miceli, aka Madusa, aka Alundra Blayze, inspired and succeeded in two male-dominated professions — professional wrestling and monster trucks.
Here is my video interview with Debrah Miceli.
Always up for a challenge and talented in multiple endeavors, Miceli stood tall against her opponents, her male counterparts and those working behind the scenes.
An incredible journey, a roller coaster ride, beginning from a tumultuous childhood, Miceli persevered.
From her days as a youth, to pro wrestling training in Minnesota via the great Eddie Sharkey and Brad Rheingans, wrestling for $5 a show, wrestling for Verne Gagne in the AWA on ESPN, learning/wrestling in Japan and becoming the IWA Women’s Champ for All Japan Pro Wrestling, competiung for WWF and then WCW while igniting the Monday Night Wars, before turning her focus to another male-dominated avocation - monster trucks.
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Miceli, the first woman in Monster Jan, is a two-time Monster Jam champion. Michael Weber, who is the COO of FITE TV, lured her to monster trucks, when he worked for Monster Jam. He also worked in marketing and public relations for WWF, WCW and TNA Impact Wrestling.
Miceli — a WWE Hall of Famer and the first woman to win the PWI Rookie of the Year Award (1988) — tells her story, her way. Giving her recollections and remembrance of many incidents (yes, including the belt in the trash can) as well as so many people she encountered, she does not hold back.
The style, it’s like she is talking directly to you.
Pro wrestling historian Greg Oliver assisted on the book, and Paul Heyman — her friend stemming from her days with the AWA and later the Dangerous Alliance (also in the book) — penned the foreward.
Micedli continues to be active as an NWA producer, a motivational speaker and an author. She continues to tour on many platforms.
For more information go to https://madusa.com/.
She lives in Florida with her husband. She is a fan of rock group Guns N’ Roses, and with a name like Miceli, pizza is a thing. She has pizza night weekly with her husband, making their own.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Madusa_rocks
Here is the description of the book via ECW Press.
Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah “Madusa” Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets. Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah’s determination to persevere.
Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women’s belt, until being fired. In the rival WCW,
Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV.
Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink “Queen of Carnage” T-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys.
By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men.
Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood.
This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.Available now.
To order the book, go to:
https://ecwpress.com/products/the-woman-who-would-be-king-the-madusa-story
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