History Wrestling / SuYung

She also served as the ring announcer "Vannah" on the 2007 {{revival}} of Florida Championship Wrestling before accepting a developmental deal for more professional wrestling training as "Sonia". Although developmental did not pan out Su Yung has since wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, its {{spin off}}s SHINE and RISE, as well as RISE's partner Wrestling/ImpactWrestling, where she has a separate gimmick as "Susie" that served as a cast member of its "reality show" ''Wrestle House''.

Along with her QOC and Girl Fight Titles, she is a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/acw/acw-wm.html ACW (Anarchy Championship Wrestling) American Joshi Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3111 PW2.0 (Florida) Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=1191 WSU Spirit Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3272 FEST Wrestling Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-wm.html Impact Knockouts Champion]], the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=498 ICW (Florida) Women's Champion]] and a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2974 Kaiju Double Danger Tandem Champion]] with Hell Monkey.

She also served as the ring announcer "Vannah" on the 2007 {{revival}} of Florida Championship Wrestling before accepting a developmental deal for more professional wrestling training as "Sonia". Although developmental did not pan out Su Yung has since wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, its {{spin off}}s SHINE and RISE, as well as RISE's partner Wrestling/ImpactWrestling, where she has a separate gimmick as "Susie".

Vannarah Riggs (b. June 30, 1989) is an American valet turned manager turned {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, usually working under the ring name Su Yung. She debuted in 2007 after training in Memphis, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} under Bill Dundee and Kevin White. She spent most of her debut year working for Memphis Wrestling supporting athletes at ring side before deciding to start a career in between the ropes but when she did Yung was named the 2008 Memphis rookie of the year. She has since wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, its {{spin off}}s SHINE and RISE, as well as RISE's partner Wrestling/ImpactWrestling, where she has a separate gimmick as "Susie".

* TeamPet: Allysin Kay derisively referred to Yung as Valkyrie's attack dog, though Kay initially [[FalseFriend acted]] as if she was Yung's only friend in the group. Partly because she initially didn't care ''who'' beat Velez and wanted everyone at their best, and partly just for the fun of taking Yung by surprise after luring her into a false sense of security. April Hunter even put Yung on a leash.

* TheCorrupter: To Allie (Cherry Bomb) in TNA. When a machiavellian serial kidnapper like Wrestling/{{Rosemary}} is the positive influence in someone's life, you know Su doesn't have someone's best interest or any interests at heart.

** She defeated Angel Blue for the ACW American Joshi Title in the semi-final of the ''2017 American Joshi Queen of Queens Tournament'', June 18, 2017, and lost it to Sage Sin Supreme in the final that same night.

* TheCorrupter: To Allie (Cherry Bomb) in TNA. When a machiavellian serial kidnapper like Wrestling/{{Rosemary}} is the positive influence in someone's life, you know Su doesn't have someone's best interest or any interests at heart.

* TheCorrupter: To Allie (Cherry Bomb) in TNA.

Vannarah Riggs (b. June 30, 1989) is an American valet turned manager turned {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, usually working under the ring name Su Yung. She debuted in 2007 after training in Memphis, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} under Bill Dundee and Kevin White. She spent most of her debut year at ring side before deciding to start a career in between the ropes but when she did Yung was named the 2008 Memphis rookie of the year. She has since wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, its {{spin off}}s SHINE and RISE, as well as RISE's partner Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.

* FightingYourFriend: Her first sign of reluctance in Valkyrie was when she was pitted against former partner Tracy Taylor. Taylor was much more eager to throw down, and learned just how dangerous Yung had become.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: Faked. Premier Athlete Brand "fired" her as a setup for Rich Swann.

* LuckyCharmsTitle: To keep up the act that supporting Rich Swann, wore a pair of pants with the "word" [=SW*NN=] on them.

* ShoutOut: Her enthralled gimmick and has been compared on here to the film ''Film/{{JuOn}}''. Her later [[CharacterDevelopment development]] into the undead bride has even more similarities.

** After Jessicka Havok successfully defeated Allysin Kay in her "last stand", Kay sicked Yung on Havok to ensure Havok would not leave Shine on her own two feet. Yung would have succeeded had Ivelisse Velez not managed to get through the door the rest of Valkyrie were barricading. From then on, Yung was nigh unstoppable in Shine, with only champions Velez and Yim, being able to defeat her one on one. Yung even held on against original Valkyrie target Wrestling/AmazingKong(Nevaeh outsmarted Yung ''and'' Kong by sneaking up on them while they were fighting each other). That was until Havok herself returned from TNA seeking revenge on Yung...

* BlushSticker: She like to wear a [[Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pikachu]] hat in Anarchy, and paint her cheeks red to match.

* GarbageWrestler: "Undead" Yung has gained a reputation for them thanks to her matches with Jessicka Havok and Vanessa Kraven. Watching said matches reveals she's not particularly good at them, but being able to NoSell takes her [[VictoryByEndurance a long way]].

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: After becoming Memphis Ladies Champion Yung was conflicted between taking the belt to Tokyo or Okinawa. While they are different places, it's a little strange to compare an island with a city...

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Yung is always the {{nominal|hero}} face at least when facing Legendary(Brandi Wine and Malia Hosaka), being a LighterShadeOfBlack at worst when she had taken on some of Tasha Simone's cheating ways while feuding with her and Wine in Memphis Ladies Wrestling or later enthralled by Saraya. Yung went on to try and clean up her act and even partnered with Hosaka in Queens Of Combat, but no amount of good will she shows them does her any good long term.

** The basis of her feud ''and'' partnership with Tracy Taylor, prior to being enthalled by Saraya. Even in Main Event Championship Wrestling, where Yung did beat Taylor, it was due to cheating. Taylor was still the better wrestler, Yung knew it, and Yung's [[ItOnlyWorksOnce tricks only worked once]]. As a tag team Yung intentionally tried to follow in Taylor's footsteps, to become as skilled and courageous as her. That not working is what made Su susceptible to Saraya's enthralling. After that, Yung was basically Taylor's equal [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget at the cost of serving the enemies she had been unable to face with the same competence as Taylor]]...

* DragonsUpTheYinYang: She has a couple of singlets with a yin yang on top of two dragons design.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yung being Chinese was fairly important for different reasons in Wrestling/JerryLawler's Memphis Wrestling, Memphis Ladies Wrestling, Diana, Ring Warriors, STARDOM and Ice Ribbon, but PGWA billed her as an envious Japanese woman after Tracy Taylor and Tasha Simone(ignoring that Simone started it).

Vannarah Riggs (b. June 30, 1989) is an American valet turned manager turned {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, usually working under the ring name Su Yung. She debuted in 2007 after training in Memphis, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} under Bill Dundee and Kevin White. She has wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, its {{spin off}}s SHINE and RISE, as well as RISE's partner Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.

* BestServedCold: Radiant Rain [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot called]] her a "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] [[TheUndead dead]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] [[BuffySpeak thing]]" as Yung tried to "eat her face" during a FEST Title defense. Rain's mayhem with Valkyrie was one of the biggest causes of Yung's SanitySlippage, and while Rain had been forced out of the group before Yung was zombified, Rain was the one who hired Saraya. Saraya lead Su to Valkyrie, where Su was then abused and exploited for two years, ''in response'' to Rain leaving. Rain's caulouness and carelessness lead to Su Yung becoming a monster, [[LaserGuidedKarma then a title belt]] brought Rain to Yung.

* ByTheHair: Yung got sick of tagging and pulled her own partner SIS into the ring by the hair in CWF Mid-Atlantic. Even though they won, SIS didn't appreciate this treatment and the team did not last.

* NotSoDifferent: While Su recognized Kimberly was going crazy, she failed to notice the same about herself. There were a differences though. Su deteriorated over the course of years rather than months, Su suffered from feeling inadequate rather than delusional narcissism, and Su needed a little ''pushing'' to finally lose it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:As [[http://www.magnificentladiesofwrestling.com Magnificent Ladies of Wrestling Champion]]. This is how she looked ''before'' Sweet Saraya[[note]]Wrestling/{{Paige}}'s mother[[/note]] pushed her over the edge.]]
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* CheapPop: The Undead Bride will toss black flower bouquets into the crowd for one. Didn't really work in FEST, but people still tried to catch it.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yung being Chinese was fairly important for different reasons in Wrestling/JerryLawler's Memphis Wrestling, Memphis Ladies Wrestling, Diana, Ring Warriors, STARDOM and Ice Ribbon, but PGWA billed her as an envious Japanese woman after Tracy Taylor.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The basis of her feud with [[Wrestling/EmberMoon Athena]]. Su had finally become champion of Memphis Ladies Wrestling, where she wrestled her first matches, where she was a local television star, and then a little lady from Texas came in and beat her, again, and again, often in embarrassing ways. So Yung went to Athena's hometown, for Anarchy Championship Wrestling and Metroplex Wrestling. Yung found a good deal of success in Anarchy in particular, but kept losing to Athena.

** SHINE commentator Wrestling/DaffneyUnger had issued a BewareTheNiceOnes warning about Su, leading to Sweet Saraya [[EvilMentor pushing her over the edge]].
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Sienna Duvall claimed Yung and La Rosa Negra of got into the number one contention spot she fought for just because they were pretty. While Negra actually got it by defeating Duvall in an [[GimmickMatches empty arena]] exhibition after crashing the first Ring Warriors Bahamas show in Nassau, Yung ''did'' basically become one of the three original number one contenders basically by being. Yung got at least two more title shots after that even though she only earned one.

** Yung initially had a poor track record against Tracy Taylor, one win against half a dozen loses, but in Shine Yung looked up to Taylor as her tag team partner. Unfortunately The West Coast Connection was not particularly successful, Su blamed herself for it, and started gravitating towards Sweet Saraya, who apparently wanted to bring out the "best" in Su . This ended up with Yung and Taylor against one another again, only with Taylor on the losing side. But then Taylor returned to Shine after an intense training regimen specifically for defeating Yung, and did by making Yung choke on her own mist.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: After defeating Vanessa Kraven in a "Monster's Ball", Yung invited [=LuFisto=] to a wedding. [=LuFisto=] was shocked to see it wasn't the kind where people get married before her GarbageWrestler instincts kicked in. A blood stained dress has since became Yung's signature.

* DanceSensation: While still part of the West Coast Connection Yung started the Harlem Shake at a Shine event, to the confusion of usual dancer Tracy Taylor and usual goofball Nikki Roxx, with Mia Yim cheering her on. She even got Wrestling/AmazingKong and Lexie Fyfe to join in(which is how WWN got 100 thousand views while admitting their version [[AdaptationDecay wasn't even close to the original]], although Yung's individual start was better than most imitators)

Vannarah Riggs (b. June 30, 1989) is an American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} as Su Yung. She debuted in 2007 after training in Memphis, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} under Bill Dundee and Kevin White. She has wrestled all over the world, and is best known for her work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.

* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl: Obviously, but [[{{Xenafication}} at first]] she was just a valet, and then a manager, only deciding to become a wrestler when she learned Wrestling/JerryLawler's Memphis Wrestling was getting a [[DistaffCounterpart woman]] centered {{spinoff}}.

** She presented herself as utterly normal prior to her current gimmick.
** She was a SexySecretary for Premier Athlete Brand in [[Wrestling/DragonGate Dragon Gate USA]]. The brand successfully, if temporarily, reverted Yung from her zombie state during WWN's China tour, which made her less viscous but also more resistant to the usual abuses of Valkyrie stablemate Wrestling/AllysinKay.

* IHaveManyNames: She was "Sonia" in Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Florida Championship Wrestling {{revival}}. More literal in Ice Ribbon, where she was initially billed as "Vannah" before they conformed to the other Joshi feds and went with "Su Yung". "Disguised" herself as the luchadora "Lechuza" after losing to [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]] in the FEST Title Tournament for a match against Mr. 450, as well as Los Bendejos [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike disguised]] as luchadors Oraculo and Serpentico.

* SanitySlippage: Starting in 2009 due to an [[CantCatchUp inferiority complex]] regarding Tracy Taylor, eventually turning her into what you see above in 2016. 2016 was when she made a ''bit'' of a recovery in fact, with her lowest being 2014-15.

* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Sienna Duvall claimed Yung and La Rosa Negra of got into the number one contention spot she fought for just because they were pretty. While Negra actually got it by defeating Duvall in an [[GimmickMatches empty arena]] exhibition after crashing the first Ring Warriors Bahamas show in Nassau, Yung ''did'' basically become one the three original number one contenders basically by being. Yung got at least two more title shots after that even though she only earned one.
* ShoutOut: Her gimmick has been compared on here to the film ''Film/{{JuOn}}''.
* SignatureMove: Yung likes her swinging neck breakers, and baby swings, and a head scissors to the turnbuckle(aracnarana), and a full nelson into a La Reienera like stretch

* TeamPet: Allysin Kay derisively referred to Yung as Valkyrie's attack dog, though Kay initially [[FalseFriend acted]] as if she was Yung's only friend in the group. Partly because she initially didn't care ''who'' beat Velez and wanted everyone at their best, and partly just for the "fun" of taking Yung by surprise. April Hunter even put Yung on a leash.

* TheDogBitesBack: After Valkyrie's [[OpenSecret unofficial]] member Sweet Saraya turned Yung into one of her thralls, she turned Yung over to the official members and only checked on Yung periodically. While the enthralling process was physically abusive, Saraya was mostly guilty of neglect afterwards as Yung eagerly looked to her for further instructions. The other Valkyrie members were more abusive of Yung, physically and mentally, than Saraya was but Yung obeyed them for two years. When [=SoCal=] Val took over and merged Valifornia with Valkyrie, she was so bad Yung finally turned against the group and not even Saraya could stop her.

** Yung initially had a poor track record against Tracy Taylor, one win against half a dozen loses, but in Shine Yung looked up to Taylor as her tag team partner. Unfortunately The West Coast Connection was not particularly successful, Yung blamed herself for it, and started gravitating towards Sweet Saraya, who apparently wanted to bring out the "best" in Yung. This ended up with Yung and Taylor against one another again, only with Taylor on the losing side. But then Taylor returned to Shine after an intense training regimen specifically for defeating Yung, and did by making Yung choke on her own mist.

** After Yung signed to Ring Warriors Santana Garrett immediately expressed a desire to wrestle her, despite being in a tournament to decide the first battling bombshells champion. Yung ended up by passing the tournament to number one contendership, twice, the first time completely by passing Garrett too, the second time getting into a four way dance and outlasting Garrett(along with Silvie Silver and Melissa Coates). After that though, a loss to The American Sweet Hearts, Garretts team with Amber O'Neal, is what helped kill Yung's team with Amanda Rodriguez in CWF Mid-Atlantic. Garrett and Yung themselves were still [[FriendlyRivalry on good terms]], joining together to try and stop Valkyrie...until Sweet Saraya swooped in and soon enough Yung was helping Valkyrie dispose of Garrett and get the Shine belt on Taylor Made. After that Garrett proceeded to kick Yung's ass everywhere she could find it. After winning Costal Championship's women's title from Yung they entered an EnemyMine against Grace Storm and MJ Knight, but then Santana decided to work [[StudentAndMasterTeam with]] her student Gabi Castrovinci and fellow Yung victim Violet Payne instead.

** Jessicka Havok was known as "The Zombie Hunter" for taking down wrestlers like Lady Poison but found herself being hunted by what she described as a "zombie" in Yung thanks to Sweet Saraya and Allysin Kay in Shine. After returning from TNA Havok decided to return the favor by joining Leva Bates's efforts to save Yung from Valkyrie, only Havok didn't care so much for Yung's well being, forcing Bates's own [[RedShirtArmy minions]] to save Yung from ''her''. Even after Yung left Valkyrie to two continued to fight up and down the East Coast, be it for title belts (FEST) or personal reasons (Battle Club Pro), but they teamed up in Midwest All American Wrestling and continued to in Impact Wrestling for a couple years before turning on one another after a four way [[Wrestling/{{Abyss}} Monster]]'s [[GarbageWrestler Ball]].
** Su Yung and Leva Bates seemed to be pretty good friends, but they happened to have their eyes on the same title belts across the US. Bates showed the most concern when Yung was enthralled by Sweet Saraya and though her efforts were unsuccessful Bates was the first wrestler to successfully(if barely) resist Yung's purge. Bates was also the one organizing WSU's wrestlers against The Reckoning Yung was a part of.

** While one can certainly make case for Yung earning it, you'd have a hard time figuring out how she got a title shot at Nicole Savoy on volume 103, or why anyone feared Yung at all, if you only watched SHIMMER. Even volume 59, which helped along the angle with Saraya, ultimately used them to put over Christina Von Eerie.

* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Non romantic version, as Tracy is married to Michah Taylor, but depending on which promotion you watched Yung either went to Japan to become good enough to defeat Tracy Taylor, or to become a better tag team partner for Taylor. In the latter case, Su really didn't take the fact the losing pinfall was on her against Made In Sin ''again'' after returning to the states, despite Taylor's best efforts to console her.
* LimpAndLivid: She continued to deteriorate under Valkyrie's care to the point she would drag her feet to the ring. Even further in CWF Mid-Atlantic, where she came to the ring on [[PrimalStance all fours]]!

** After Yung signed to Ring Warriors Santana Garrett immediately expressed a desire to wrestle her, despite being in a tournament to decide the first battling bombshells champion. Yung ended up by passing the tournament to number one contendership, twice, the first time completely by passing Garrett too, the second time getting into a four way dance and outlasting Garrett(along with Silvie Silver and Melissa Coates). After that though, a loss to The American Sweet Hearts, Garretts team with Amber O'Neal, is what helped kill Yung's team with Amanda Rodriguez in CWF Mid-Atlantic. Garrett and Yung themselves were still on good terms, joing together to try and stop Valkyrie...until Sweet Saraya swooped in and soon enough Yung was helping Valkyrie dispose of Garrett and get the Shine belt on Taylor Made. After that Garrett proceeded to kick Yung's ass everywhere she could find it. After winning Costal Championship's women's title from Yung they entered an EnemyMine against Grace Storm and MJ Knight, but then Santana decided to work with her student Gabi Castrovinci and fellow Yung victim Violet Payne instead.

* NoSell: Like most zombie wrestlers Yung might sit up at any moment, as if whatever put her down really wasn't anything. This even freaked out Vanessa Kraven the first time she saw it after power bombing Yung. It left Madison Eagle's screaming "What do I do?"

* SignatureMove: Yung likes her swinging neck breakers, and baby swings, and a head scissors to the turnbuckle, and a full nelson into a La Reienera like stretch