Carlene Moore was born and raised in New Orleans, which
is where she got the idea for her stage name "Jazz," seeing
as New Orleans is the home and originator of Jazz music.
In 1999, Jazz debut in ECW as the ringside assistant for
Justin Credible and Jason under the name "Jazzmyn". During
their matches she added salt to their opponent's wounds
by pummeling them with devastating hardcore violence.
After month's of disrespect from an ungrateful Justin Credible,
and Jason she decided to leave the duo and challenge Jason
to a match at ECW's 1999 pay per view; Heatwave where she
successfully defeated him. Jazz ended the match with a face
buster to Jason unto a steal chair. The crowd was behind
her and she earned credibility that night. She gained a
huge credibility against male superstars in inter-gender
matches seeing as there were no females to wrestle at the
time, and those who crossed her path in ECW were squashed.
She took out Angelica (WWE's Lita), Francine, Electra and
others. She often aligned herself with male superstars,
including Nova, and Tommy Dreamer. Months after the fold
of ECW, the WWE called her in for a few Dark Matches against
Ivory during Raw and Smackdown tapings.
Two months after these Dark Matches,
Jazz
debuted at
WWE's Survivor Series 2001 Pay
per view as the mystery opponent for the WWE Women's Title
6 - Pack Challenge, a title that was vacated by Chyna a
few months earlier that year. Trish Stratus won the Match,
however from that Night on Jazz made countless attacks on
Trish Stratus, Molly Holly, and the rest of the women of
the roster. Soon after, she started a heated feud against
Trish which eventually led to Jazz's winning the WWE Women's
Title for the first time on February 4th 2002. This feud
brought the WWE women's wrestling action that wasn't seen
over the last couple of years, and she immediately brought
credibility to women's in-ring performance, helping Trish
Stratus become a respected worker. Jazz's biggest match
in her reign was at WrestleMania 2002. At the Toronto Skydome,
Jazz defeated Trish Stratus and Lita in a Triple Threat
match for to retain the WWF Women's Title. Jazz's women's
title reign was cut short due to an ACL injury in her left
knee, which needed surgery. On May 13th 2002, Jazz dropped
the title to Trish during a hardcore Tag-Team match for
the WWE Hardcore & Women's Title's which consisted of Trish
and Bubba Ray Dudley against her and Steven Richards. Trish
won the title that night, and demanded Bubba Ray put Jazz
threw a table and he did.
On January 27th 2003, Jazz made her WWE return after a Victoria
and Trish Stratus Match. She walked down the ramp, pushing
the Women's Champ: Victoria out of the way, and entered
the ring to make a surprise attack on Trish Stratus. After
her attack on Stratus, She Declared "I'm Back, BABY!!,"
and indeed she was. She blamed Trish for her injury and
would go on to wrestle in a classic 3-way match at WrestleMania
2003 against Trish Stratus and Victoria. A month later,
she became a 2 time WWE Women's Champion at the Backlash
pay per view.
She
was now managed by Teddy Long, which gave her and the women's
Division even more credibility. He campaigned towards her
becoming the next women's champion, and he was instrumental
at backlash. One huge match of this reign was on May 18,
2003 at Judgment Day as she defeated Jacqueline, Trish Stratus
& Victoria in a 4-way to retain the Woman's title. Soon
after Ivory would see a winning streak against Women's Champ;
on June 2nd 2003, June 9th, 2003, and June 16th 2003, with
3 wins on Raw, Ivory seemed to be on the road to becoming
Women's Champ, the angle was seemingly dropped when she
became injured with a shoulder injury. On June 30th 2003
on RAW, she lost the Woman's title in a battle royal. For
the second time, her reign would be cut short because of
an injury.
In January 2004, she made her return to WWE Television.
She re-joined Teddy Long and Mark Henry. Throughout the
year she took part in the Women's Division, but unfortunately
did not win the title. On November 4, 2004, she was officially
released from her World Wrestling Entertainment contract,
although many felt as if she was one of the best women's
Wrestlers the WWE has ever had. Gail Kim and Nidia were
also released, cutting down the women's Division even more,
Jacqueline was one of whom was released months earlier.
She quickly began to work the independent circuit, proving
that despite being released, she was a true wrestler and
would continue to work. On June 24th 2005 on NWA Cyberspace,
she defeated April Hunter to win the Women's title.
In 2006, she re-signed with the WWE, to work under the new
ECW brand. On June 7th 2006, on a special WWE vs ECW television
show, Mickie James defeated her to retain the Women's championship.
Besides a few house show appearances, on January 18th 2007,
she and her husband
Rodney Mack were both
released from their contract, and she returned to wrestling
on the Independent Circuit.
In
November 2008, she gave birth to twin girls named Summer
and Skye. After a short break, she returned to wrestling
on the Indy scene. On December 12, 2009 Jazz made her debut
in
Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU), defeating
a former ECW and WEW rival
Angel Orsini.
That same night, she got in an altercation with
Amber
O'Neal, and challenged her to a match at WSU's
3rd Anniversary show (March 6, 2010). There she suffered
a loss to Amber.
