History Wrestling / GailKim

* CanadaEh: She's a Toronto native trained in the city's "School Of Pro Wrestling" and "Squared Circle Gym", and would be billed from there occasionally in WWE. During 2004, WWE decided that Canadian wrestlers would only be billed from their hometowns if they had Canadian gimmicks - so Gail was billed from Korea (although she has Korean ancestry, she's not just born but raised in Toronto) even though Tim Baines of the Ottawa Sun called her a "Canadian Hero". In her second run, she was billed from Tampa, except when she competed in Toronto (to get a hometown pop).

* {{Cameo}}

Is married to Chef Robert Irvine (since May 10, 2012) of ''Series/DinnerImpossible'' and ''Series/RestaurantImpossible'', whom she met while doing an episode of ''Dinner Impossible'' as a WWE Diva.

* BareYourMidriff: Though her ring attires trend toward simplistic more often than not anyway, her WWE entrance attire frequently displayed it as well.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Has planted her feet atop the six sides of steel, pretty high ground. She once defeated {{Wrestling/Jacqueline}} with a crossbody off the top of the cage.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: All of her outfits really. She even has TNA attire that can be described as a screened v-neck. Or in this website's terms a {{cleavage window}} with a see through screen to ensure what's behind it stays in place. An AbsoluteCleavage window.

* RapunzelHair: Has wrestled with hair down past her back

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Was once booked in a "Legs Match" (because the Guest Hosts that week were Music/{{ZZ Top}}) where all the girls had to wrestle in short shorts, never mind the fact that she wrestled in hot pants normally.

** Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/VelvetSky. Her relationship with them started as relative apathy back when they were still called Talia Madison and Angel Williams but degraded into "hate hate hate" in both of her TNA runs after they dubbed themselves "Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople". Kong may have been who Kim was more famous for fighting but that feud only became [[ItsPersonal personal]] when [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Raisha Saeed]] urged Kong to become more vindictive. Before then Kim temporarily stopped pursuing Kong and the title belt to settle a personal matter with Love and Sky. Gail dislikes the duo so much that their reunion in 2014 led to her second HeelFaceTurn.

* GradualGrinder: La Felina's preferred tactic was to ground and stretch out her opponents to their breaking points, if not until the gave up then until their limbs were nigh useless. She did not do too well in knockdown brawls or exchanges of pin attempts.

** Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/VelvetSky. Her relationship with them started as relative apathy back when they were still called Talia Madison and Angel Williams but degraded into "hate hate hate" in both of her TNA runs after they dubbed themselves "Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople". Kong may have been who Kim was more famous for fighting but that feud only became [[ItsPersonal personal]] when [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Raisha Saeed]] urged Kong to become more vindictive. Before then Kim temporarily stopped pursuing Kong and the title belt to settle a personal matter with Love and Sky. Kim dislikes the duo so much that their reunion in 2014 even led to her second HeelFaceTurn.

** Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/VelvetSky. Her relationship with them started as relative apathy back when they were still called Talia Madison and Angel Williams but degraded into "hate hate hate" in both of her TNA runs after they dubbed themselves "Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople". Kong may have been who Kim was more famous for fighting but that feud only became [[ItsPersonal personal]] when [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Raisha Saeed]] urged Kong to become more vindictive. Before then Kim temporarily stopped pursuing Kong and the title belt to settle a personal matter with Love and Sky.

Gail Kim-Irvine (born on February 20, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a retired female Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, known for her high-flying innovative moves. Trained by El Fuego, Ron Hutchison and later, Fit Finlay, La Felina debuted in the year 2000, causing mischief in the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation and then touring for two years across the Canadian circuit after being unmasked. Gail Kim then got a developmental deal with Wrestling/{{WWE}} farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling in the USA and stopped by Michigan's All World Wrestling League. She went on to serve on the WWE's active roster for two years after she won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Championship]] on her very first night on Raw. She was abruptly released with many others in late 2004 and spent a year honing her craft in Mexico, Australia, Japan and UsefulNotes/SouthKorea.

* AllAsiansLookAlike: WWE kept pushing her to have an "Asian" gimmick, e.g. a racist stereotype who speaks {{Engrish}}, a sexualized Geisha, or something similar, to which she had to remind them that she was Canadian.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: One could argue she was the brains with ODB being the Brawn and Roxxi Laveaux being the beauty in TNA (though [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl ODB]] and [[HeroicWannabe Roxxi]] would argue for a switch). Heel opponents such as Molly Holly and Angelina Love have argued against Gail being "smart" too.

** On ''!BANG! TV'' while the Knockouts division was building up she got in a brawl with the Funkin Conservatory Women's Champion Claudia "The Claw" Reiff that quickly degenerated into a cat fight that Johnny Magnum, Christopher Daniels and even Dory Funk Jr were incapable of stopping, partly because the fans told them not to.

** Kim showed up at ''RISE 7'' when Wrestling/BullNakano was unable to make it. Kim didn't inherit Nakano's feud with Wrestling/{{Madusa}}, she was just their for meet, greet and photos. All the same, it was the first time Kim and Madusa had ever been in the same place.

* CurbstompBattle: When Victoria was was women's champion she fought off Molly Holly and Gail at once but then later got curbstomed when Gail started using the christo. Gail's first defense of the knockouts title against Kong ended up being successful but Kim hadn't yet figured out how to keep up a sustained offense against her and was beaten up almost the entire match as a result. Kim took advantage early on in her last woman standing match against Angelina Love and only slipped up a few times due to Sky's continual interference.

** [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] was built up as this in TNA, going so far as to attack Gail's non wrestling sister. Taryn Terrell became this for a bit in TNA when she thought Taryn was abusing her power as a referee to openly help Velvet beat her. For how that ended up, see WorthyOpponent and FireForgedFriends. But then Taryn's Dollhouse was pissed off Kong and Kim enough to make them join forces against her and it.
** Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/VelvetSky. Her relationship with them started as relative apathy back when they were still called Talia Madison and Angel Williams but degraded into "hate hate hate" in both of her TNA runs after they dubbed themselves "Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople".

* CanadaEh: She's a Toronto native trained in the city's "School Of Pro Wrestling" and "Squared Circle Gym", and would be billed from there occasionally in WWE. During 2004, WWE decided that Canadian wrestlers would only be billed from their hometowns if they had Canadian gimmicks - so Gail was billed from Korea (although she has Korean ancestry, she's born and raised in Toronto) even though Tim Baines of the Ottawa Sun called her a "Canadian Hero". In her second run, she was billed from Tampa, except when she competed in Toronto (to get a hometown pop).

** She spent an entire year in Apocalypse wrestling Miss Tracy or Miss Tracy and a tag team partner. Then she met Traci Brooks in Quebec (nCw), Connecticut (WXW), Ontario (BSE), [[Wrestling/BethPhoenix Phoenix]] butted in back in Toronto to gradually phase Felina out for her WWE tryouts but then she and Brooks were back at each other in Maryland(MCW), Florida (TNA which occasionally included Wrestling/BobbyRoode), Philadelphia (TNA UFW crossover), New Jersey (TNA LSW crossover), New York(Ball Park Brawl)...lets say she spent ten years fighting someone named Tracy or Traci all over North America.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Gail is called the "Wrestling/JohnCena" of the Knockouts Division for a reason. Make no mistake, no matter who the focus is, it always goes back to Gail eventually.

* TookALevelInBadass: Around 2007-ish. She went from arm wrestling and "double bull rope" matches with James Storm in Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} to being in cage matches, street fights and even a ladder match.

* {{Cameo}}: Has served as a referee for Boarder City Wrestling. On the October 5th 2016 show she dropped Wrestling/{{Rosemary}} for blatantly trying to cheat the debuting Heidi Katrina out of the Wrestling/{{CMLL}}-[=REINA=] International belt.

Gail Kim-Irvine (born on February 20, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a female Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, known for her high-flying innovative moves. Trained by El Fuego, Ron Hutchison and later, Fit Finlay, La Felina debuted in the year 2000, causing mischief in the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation and then touring for two years across the Canadian circuit after being unmasked. Gail Kim then got a developmental deal with Wrestling/{{WWE}} farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling in the USA and stopped by Michigan's All World Wrestling League. She went on to serve on the WWE's active roster for two years after she won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Championship]] on her very first night on Raw. She was abruptly released with many others in late 2004 and spent a year honing her craft in Mexico, Australia, Japan and UsefulNotes/SouthKorea.

* PowerStable: Planet Jarret