Sherri Russell
Biography
Sherri Martel was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri.
Martel began her professional wrestling career in the Mid South after training in Columbia, South Carolina. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined WWE, where she held the WWE Women's Championship. Also in WWE, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007. She also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance. By 2003, she and her husband Robert Schrull lived in Tennessee, where she helped him renovate homes. She was married and divorced at least twice during her life, and Booker T gave her away at one of her weddings. She had one son.
Death
On June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham. She was 49 years old. On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released the toxicology report stating that she died of an overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone. She was cremated after her death
Known For
Acting

1985
asSherri Martel

1995
asSister Sherri

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1993
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1991
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1988
asSherri Martel

1993
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri

1993
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1993
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1991
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1991
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1991
asSensational Queen Sherri (Valet)

1989
asSensational Sherri

1993
asS. Martel

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri

1991
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri

1991
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

2006
asSensational Sherri

1985
asSherri Martel

2021
asSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1985
asSherri Martel

2012
asHBK's Partner (archive footage)

1991
asSensational Sherri

2006
asSensational Sherri

1989
asSensational Sherri Martel

1989
asSensational Sherri

2015
asSister Sherri

1989
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri

1988
asSensational Sherri

1987
asSensational Sherri

1988
asSensational Sherri

1987
asSensational Sherri

1988
asPeggy Sue (Valet)

1993
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1990
asSensational Sherri

2018
as
2004
asSensational Sherri

2006
asSensational Sherri

1986
asSherri Martell

1988
asPeggy Sue (Valet)

1999
asSensational Sherri

1989
asSensational Queen Sherri (Valet)

1989
asSensational Queen Sherri (Valet)

1989
asSensational Queen Sherri (Manager)

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri

1986
asSherri Martell

1986
asSherri Martel

1986
asSherri Martel (Manageress)

1987
asSherri Martell

1988
asPeggy Sue (Valet)

1987
asSherri Martel

1990
asSensational Queen Sherri (Valet)

1991
asSensational Queen Sherri (Valet)

1991
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1995
asSister Sherri

1995
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1992
asSensational Sherri

1991
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1991
asSensational Sherri

1991
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1993
asSensational Sherri (Appearance)

1992
asSensational Sherri

1992
asSensational Sherri (Valet)

1996
asSister Sherri

1993
asSensational Sherri (Ringside)

1996
asSister Sherri

1996
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1993
asSherri Martel

1992
asSensational Sherri

1993
asSherri Martel

1996
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1996
asSister Sherri

1992
asSensational Sherri

1997
asSister Sherri

1997
asSister Sherri

1997
asSister Sherri

1994
asSensational Sherri (Manager)

1994
asSensuous Sherri

1994
asSensuous Sherri (Valet)

1997
asSister Sherri

1994
asSensuous Sherri (Manager)

1994
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1995
asSister Sherri

1995
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1995
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1995
asSister Sherri

1995
asSister Sherri (Manager)

1995
asSister Sherri (Manager)

2021
as(archive footage)
as
asSensational Sherri (archive footage)
asSherri Martel (archive footage)
asSherri Martel
asSensational Queen Sherri
asSensational Sherri
asSensational Sherri
asPeggy Sue
as
asSelf (Archival Footage)
Production
Crew
Directing