Joanie Laurer Biography

Joanie Laurer will forever be remembered for playing her role as "Chyna" in the WWE. Joanie took the role of "Chyna", and made it larger then life bewteen the years of 1997 and 2001. She became the first Female to ever Compete in the Royal Rumble in 1999,and also the first Female to compete in the King Of The Ring that same year. One of her most prestigious career moves was becoming the WWE's first Women Intercontiental Champion (on October 17th, 1999 in Cleveland, Ohio at the No Mercy Pay Per View).

On September 25th, 2000 Playboy released the November issue, featuring Chyna. During this time, she was in the midst of a feud with the stable of Right to Censor. The group would try to censor her Playboy issue, saying that it was immoral. This would lead up to matches such as Val Venis and Steven Richards beating Chyna &Billy Gunn at No Mercy on October 22nd, 2000 on Pay Per View, as well as December 10th, 2000 at the Armageddon pay per view, where Val Venus pinned Chyna. Throughout this, Right to Censors on female member; Ivory, instigated the feud. As the feud developed, Ivory added momentum to a piledriver performed by Val Venus on Chyna, which was the event that drove the storyline of Chyna breaking her neck.

Ivory, being Women's champion at the time, continued a verbal war against Chyna, and challenged Chyna to a match at the 2001 Royal Rumble. Chyna accepted the match and dominated, only to further the storyline by re-injuring her neck, and Ivory picking up the win. This feud also promoted Chyna's book "If They Only Knew," by Ivory and the rest of Right to Censor expressing disdain for it. At Wrestlemania X-7, Chyna defeated Ivory to win the WWF Womans Title, and from then on, wrestled women. The new direction of Chyna not wrestling men, was justified by her neck injury.

As Women's Champion, Chyna dominated and defeated woman such as Ivory, Molly Holly, and Trish Stratus. During this time, she was in a dispute with the WWF and she was pulled off of television, and the Women's title would not be defended for some time. Her last match would be on May 20th, 2001, in Sacramento, CA where she defeated Lita in a very competitive match-up. On November 18th 2001, in Greensboro, North Carolina at the Survivor Series Pay Per view, as Women's Title 6-PAC CHALLENGE, was held; Lita vs Trish vs Jacky vs Ivory vs Molly vs Jazz, in which Trish Stratus became the new WWE Women's Champion. On November 30, 2001, Joanie Laurer's WWF contract officially ran out.

In 2004, a Chyna sex-tape was released titled "1 Night in China," featuring Joanie engaging in sexual acts with former WWF Wrestler; X-Pac (Sean Waltman), which was highly controversial. X-Pac was her boyfriend at the time, and he would also guest appear on the forth season of VH1's "The Surreal Life," in which Chyna was starring on.

In 2006 she appeared on the VH1 show; My Fair Brady, which starred Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry, her Surreal Life co-stars. She then starred in 2007's The Surreal Life: Fame Games.