History Wrestling / LeilaniKai

* HulaAndLuaus: During the territorial era Kai really dressed up to make the Hawaiian gimmick work. She even got an apartment in Hawaii. With the territories dead she toned this down considerably on the independent circuit.

* HiddenDepths: Like Moolah, Kai is known for relying on fowls first and foremost. Unlike Moolah, Kai is more than competent on the mat, was fairly acrobatic in her prime, and when it came to fowls, was adept with exotic weapons [[FightingWithChucks like nunchucks]]. Still, she'd rather just poke you in the eye or bite your arm.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: WCW renamed her Patty Stone Grinder in the late 1990s.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Was comfortable on the top turnbuckle

* TagTeam: With Judy Martin as part of the Glamour Girls. They were champions in WWF and LPWA, known as "The Queens Of Wrestling" in the latter.

* EvilMinion: [[Wrestling/JimmyHart The Mouth Of The South]] or [[GorgeousGeorge Queen]] Christopher Love with Judy Martin, Ronnie P. Gossett Jr with Pippa L'Vinn. Johnny Fairplay when wrestling solo.

* EvilMinion: [[Wrestling/JimmyHart The Mouth Of The South]] with Judy Martin, Ronnie P. Gossett Jr with Pippa L'Vinn. Johnny Fairplay when wrestling solo.

* TagTeam: With Judy Martin as part of the Glamour Girls. They were champions in WWF and LPWA.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leilani_Kai The Other Wiki]].

* FlowerInHerHair: Kai as a singles wrestler.

* InterGenerationalFriendship: [[VitriolicBestBuds Of the sort]] Miss Garrett tends to have with her elders, but while you'd be hard pressed to find Leilani Kai saying anything nice about Santana Garrett to her face, Kai has been one of the driving forces behind Garrett's rise in the ranks of the independent circuit and actively campaigned for Garrett's debut in World Wonder Ring STARDOM.
* JustToyingWithThem: Usually PGWA shies away from putting its more one sided matches up for sell but made an extremely uncharacteristic exception for a "grudge match" between Leilani Kai and then rookie The Vixen([[Wrestling/AmazingKong not that one]]) that lasted ''31 minutes''. Kai could have ended it five but knowing PGWA gives wrestlers a 15 to 30 minute time allowance, decided to give The Vixen "chances" to fight back.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Leilani Kai and Malia Hosaka taking out their frustrations with Leah Von Dutch on [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]], [[KickTheDog who had nothing to do with]] Dutch ''or'' Legendary, inspired Wrestling/IvelisseVelez to start her own PowerStable. Las Sicarias proceeded to cripple every heel faction in SHINE Wrestling, including Kai's own Legendary when Velez's [[RevengeByProxy tit for tat to]] Thunderkitty caused friction between Thunderkitty, Hosaka and Brandi Wine. Thunderkitty by no means liked La Rosa, but found Kai and Hosaka's actions excessive, didn't like that they were dragging her into a conflict where the enemy was ''mostly'' justified in her opinion and took note of the fact none of Legendary treated her as well as Las Sicarias did their own.

* TheArtifact: Ring Warriors punished La Amazona by making Leilani Kai special guest referee for every challenge La Amazona made to La Rosa Negra's Battling Bombshell's Championship belt. In one such match where Wrestling/AngelinaLove filled in for Amazona, Kai was kept but had very little to do during the contest.

** [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Nikita]] didn't get her match with Riptide, thanks to Lexie Fyfe, and Lexie made her look like a rookie. Still, her trip to the US is letting her wrestle a legend, a WWF Women's champion. But Nikita was disappointed again, as she learned first hand Kai wasn't legendary for being a scientific wrestler but for being a dirty cheat. In their next match Nikita took less of a "wrestling" approach, mostly trying to pummel Kai into submission instead. But this lead her to respect Kai's toughness, if not her in ring style.

* URExample: The first woman inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame, and until 2011 the ''only'' woman listed. This might have remained if PGWA had not complained to NWA about Mildred Burke, June Byers, Penny Banner, Nell Stewart, Ella Waldek and Debbie Combs not being included yet. The NWA responded by inducting PGWA's first champion Susan Green.

* TheLastDJ: Leilani Kai is mostly a proponent of 1960s/70s era pro wrestling. In her early years her willingness to wrestle barefoot was considered bold, not that she did it often even then, but Kai was reactionary by the standards of the post territorial era, having a low tolerance for sexual {{gimmick matches}} and angles, plus a demand for well wrestled matches and concise promos. Wrestling/{{ECW}} was booked around "SexSells" after it left the NWA, its {{fan service model}}s outnumbering its women wrestlers by a wide margin. The WWF dropped its women's division, put "diva" valets in bubble baths, then brought wrestlers back for [[MudWrestling eggnog and gravy]] bowls. Kai wasn't used much in WCW to begin with but even less after her own account of chewing out Wrestling/VinceRusso for suggesting she appear in a bikini. From 1994 to 2010, the wrestling industry of the USA, even much of the independent circuit and Canada, was not for Kai. Still she hovered around, working how she wanted where she could, showing people how she felt women wrestlers were supposed to act. While the opportunities for wrestlers in the region did increase by a noticeable margin during the 2010s, Kai was now past her prime.

* LeotardOfPower: It was TheEighties, everybody wore them.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Leilani Kai and Malia Hosaka taking out their frustrations with Leah Von Dutch on La Rosa Negra, [[KickTheDog who had nothing to do with]] Dutch ''or'' Legendary, inspired Wrestling/IvelisseVelez to start her own PowerStable. Las Sicarias proceeded to cripple every heel faction in SHINE Wrestling, including Kai's own Legendary when Velez's [[RevengeByProxy tit for tat to]] Thunderkitty caused friction between Thunderkitty, Hosaka and Brandi Wine. Thunderkitty by no means liked La Rosa, but found Kai and Hosaka's actions excessive, didn't like that they were dragging her into a conflict where the enemy was ''mostly'' justified in her opinion and took note of the fact none of Legendary treated her as well as Las Sicarias did their own.
* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: For a loose definition of "hero" vs La Amazona in Ring Warriors. Amazona was quite possibly the most popular woman in the company at the time and was probably cheered more than Kai at first. It was only after Amazona helped Melissa Coates beat down [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]], the other contender for Ring Warriors' most popular woman, that Kai started getting unanimous cheers for opposing Amazona.

** [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Nikita]] didn't get her match with Riptide, thanks to Lexie Fyfe, and Lexie made her look like a rookie. Still, her trip to the US is letting her wrestle a legend, a WWF Women's champion. But Nikita was disappointed again, as she learned first hand Kai wasn't legendary for being a scientific wrestler but for being a dirty cheat. In their next match Nikita took a less of a "wrestling" approach, mostly trying to pummel Kai into submission instead. But this lead her to respect Kai's toughness, if not her in ring style.
** Sumie Sakai was another foreigner with a love for USA pro wrestling, another who had to be taught what Leilani Kai was all about the hard way. In PWS BLOW this time.