Mickie Laree James was born on August 31st 1979 and grew
up in Montpelier, Virginia. After High School, she trained at
KYDA's Wrestling School and then later at Dory Funk's Dojo.
She served as a valet for numerous male wrestlers early in her
career, including helping Tommy Dreamer win the Heavy Weight
Title in KYDA. She would inevitability make the transition to
a wrestler and quickly established herself in the independent
circuit. She wrestled for Florida Championship Wrestling, Ring
of Honor, Women's Extreme Wrestling, Maryland Championship,
Lady Sports and other federations, taking on the likes of Lexie
Fyfe Simply Luscious, Mercedes, Valentina, Malia, April Hunter,
Kara Slice, Amanda Storm, and numerous other wrestles including
male wrestlers.
In early 2003,
Alexis wrestled a WWE dark match
against Dawn Marie, however, she was not signed to a WWE developmental
contract until later in the year. She then become a NWA-TNA
superstar, working with Amazing Red, against Kid Kash and Trinity.
She later team with Raven, who was in a rivalry against Jeff
Jarett. On August 21, 2003
Alexis Laree signed a developmental
contract with the WWE and began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling.
In Ohio Valley Wrestling Alexis defeated Jillian Hall, Nikita,
Mike Mondo, Miss Passion and numerous others.
On October 10th, 2005, Alexis made her RAW debut as "Mickie
James", by running down to assist
Trish Stratus
against Victoria. She then begin a storyline as Trish
Stratus's #1 Fan, and would often be teamed up in matches
with her. On December 12th, 2005, Mickie James defeated
Victoria on Raw, to become the in a #1 Contenders for
the WWE Women's Champion. On January 8th, 2006 at the
New Years Revolution Pay Per View, Trish Stratus defeated
Mickie James to retain the Women's title. Thus far, she
was still playing the overly enthused Trish fan, but that
soon change. Soon after, she became jealous of Trish's
friendship with Ashley Massaro and attacked Ashley on
consecutive Raw shows, which lead to a grudge match. On
January 29th, 2006 at the Royal Rumble, Mickie Jamies
defeated Ashley Massaro with Trish Stratus as the guest
referee, and also confess that she loved Trish, pushing
the storyline in a lesbian direction. The next night on
Raw, (January 30th, 2006), Mickie James had a celebration
of Trish Stratus, however Ashley made a spectacle of the
segment, and dub her as being a Psycho, much to the arenas
delight. In the weeks that followed, Mickie's actions
and promos went in the direction of her having mental
issues.
She and Trish developed a heated rivalry, leading up to
April 2nd 2006 at WrestleMania 22, in which Mickie James
defeated Trish Stratus to win the Women's title. An interesting
note from the arena was the crowd as fully behind her,
and giving Trish heat, Mickie who was heel, became a fan
favorite that night. The two would had a rematch on April
30th, 2006 at Backlash: Trish Stratus defeated Mickie
James by DQ, thus Mickie remained the Women's champ. Trish
Stratus legitimately become injured in the match, but
despite that, she continued to make appearances to continue
her rivalry with Mickie, in order to support a feud with
Beth Phoenix against her. On June 5th, 2006 on RAW, Beth
Phoenix w/Trish Stratus defeated Victoria who was accompanied
by Mickie, Beth however would get injured in the match,
putting a halt to the feud.
