Line #38 Wrestling/AshleyMassaro


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6	[[caption-width-right:272:Let's light a fire tonight!]]
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8	Ashley Marie Massaro (May 26, 1979 – May 16, 2019) was an American professional wrestler, actress and model best known for her time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Ashley from 2005-2008 after winning the 2005 Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch. Starting off as [[{{jobber}} a punching bag]] of [[TheMistress Vince]]'s [[GirlPosse Devils]] (Wrestling/CandiceMichelle, Wrestling/TorrieWilson, and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]]), she eventually became a valet for [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London and Brian Kendrick]] before transitioning into a full-time competitor until retiring in mid-2008 to tend to her sick daughter.
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10	Massaro was never trained properly by WWE before getting into the ring, which led to her botching a lot, becoming injury prone and her being considered one of WWE's worst in-ring performers. Regardless, she still had a lot of fans due to her sex appeal, and has posed for ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' multiple times. She was also a contestant on ''[[Series/{{Survivor}} Survivor: China]]'' in 2007--for tropes related to that, see [[Characters/SurvivorChina here]].
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12	After a decade away from wrestling, she was planning on a return to the ring, but unfortunately took her own life ten days before her 40th birthday.
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15	!! "You'd better hold on tight, 'cause I'm gonna trope you nice!"
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17	* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/{{Melina}} would be the biggest. They actually faced each other at two ''[=WrestleMania=]s''
18	* BarelyThereSwimwear: At ''No Way Out'' 2007, she showed up in a bikini with two tiny Playboy bunny pasties on her breasts.
19	* BigApplesauce: From Long Island.
20	* BoundAndGagged: What Wrestling/MickieJames did to her to psych Wrestling/TrishStratus out.
21	* CanonName: She only wrestled as '''Ashley''', but is almost always called by her full name in retrospect. When she won the Diva Search, she was addressed by her full name.
22	* CassandraTruth: Ashley was the first to recognize something was not quite right with Mickie James but no one paid her much attention until Mickie was tying her up and beating the piss out of her.
23	* TheCavalry: Downplayed in Victory Pro Wrestling, as she didn't interfere in Payton Banks and Jillian Hall's match when Jillian started cheating, despite the "We Want Ashley" chants, but she ''did'' convince the referee to reverse his decision.
24	* DarkIsNotEvil: Dressed up as a gothic angel and fairy for two Halloweens, was a face at the time.
25	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She cut her hair in 2008, shortly before retiring.
26	* FauxActionGirl: Was actually given two [=WrestleMania=] matches and pushed for the Women's title at one point, despite her wrestling ability being... well... nonexistent. She revealed years later that WWE had never actually trained her properly and she had only ever been trained on a per-match basis.
27	* FinishingMove: A spear and the Starstruck (a diving-from-the-second-rope elbow drop).
28	* GlassCannon: Was only in WWE for three years and probably suffered as many injuries as someone who had been wrestling for ten years due to her lack of training. She even had to wrestle Melina for the Women's Championship with a broken foot.
29	* GoodBadGirl: She called herself 'The Dirty Diva' and would sometimes have ring gear that evoked lingerie, and celebrated winning a Bra & Panties gauntlet match by proudly stripping off anyway. She was always a face in WWE.
30	* GoodIsNotSoft: Despite being a face, she was the one who delivered BrutalHonesty to Mickie James when she began overstepping Trish's boundaries; even getting the crowd to chant "she's a psycho" at her.
31	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She was a face during her entire WWE tenure and had blonde hair.
32	* MarshmallowHell: Was a victim of this on one occasion when Wrestling/JillianHall tried to smother her out of jealousy for her appearance in Playboy.
33	* MinidressOfPower: Or skirt if you will.
34	* MsFanservice: Posed for Playboy three times (though the first two were before she joined WWE). And was frequently showing as much skin as possible on TV.
35	* TheMentor: On screen, it was Trish Stratus. Off screen, Wrestling/MattHardy helped when he could.
36	* NotLikeOtherGirls: In the Diva Search, she boasted that she wasn't here just to be MsFanservice and wanted to wrestle, and in another segment said she wasn't like "the other sluts" in the contest.
37	* OfCorsetsSexy: Her gear for ''[=WrestleManias=]'' 23 and 24 evoked corsets, and sex appeal was the intent.
38	* OlderThanSheLooks: She actually looked better than she did in her twenties while she was in her thirties.
39	* PerkyGoth: While having Goth looks (complete with several tattoos and piercings), she loved to party, and to find the party in people who claim they don't.
40	* StockingFiller: Fishnets were usually a big part of her look.
41	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She always had an alternative, pop punk look, and was presented as somewhat more tomboyish than the rest of the Divas. But her gear usually had a skirt, she often [[PinkMeansFeminine wore some pink on it]] and had no problem wearing lingerie.
42	* TomboyishBaseballCap: She wore a backwards black cap in her debut in 2005 (she also won the 2005 Diva Search). She stopped wearing it in around her return in 2008.
43	* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Jillian Hall became allies on Smackdown in 2006 after Kristal Marshall and Michelle [=McCool=] decided to go after them. But after Ashley became a Playboy cover girl, Jillian turned on her out of jealousy.

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