2. Paisley (Prince Iaukea Vs Psychosis - WCW Uncensored PPV, 19/03/2000)

Video: Part One (4:25 - 10:00) Part Two (0:00 - 4:40)

This defence of the WCW Cruiserweight title held by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Iaukea (TAFKAPI) featured some textbook interference by his beautiful catsuit-clad assistant Paisley, showing how crucial it can sometimes be to have a ruthless, calculating valet in your corner.

Even before the bell is rung to start the match, Paisley eyeballs and tries to verbally intimidate Psychosis (left) from outside the ring (6:00 in of Part One), setting the tone for what is about to come. While Psychosis has his tag-team partner Juventud Guerrero ringside with him, he would be no match to Paisley in influencing the outcome of this match.

Paisley eyes up her prey....

After a fast start by Psychosis, The Artist soon turns the tide and throws his hurt opponent out of the ring (9:30 in). While Prince Iaukea attracts the referee's attention by going after Psychosis's partner Juventud Guerrero, Paisley coolly and calmly watches the stunned Psychosis pitifully stumble around ringside in front of her, before bending down and delivering a beautifully-executed slap to his face (9:48) to draw audible gasps from the crowd. After a push to the face from TAFKAPI, Paisley follows up with an additional slap to Psychosis (9:55) to complete the assault and give her man the clear upper hand.

.... before delivering an accurate slap to the face of Psychosis

Paisley distracts Psychosis as The Artist lies stricken

The match soon turns again though, and with The Artist lying prone in the ring and Psychosis lining up an attack from the top turnbuckle, Paisley crucially intervenes again (2:25 in of Part Two). An argument ensues between her and Psychosis to momentarily distract him from the match, before Guerrero grabs Paisley and foolishly kisses her. Enraged, Paisley rips the shirt off Guerrero's back before whipping him with it and removing his belt.

Paisley attacks Guerrero in retribution for his kiss

Psychosis fails to learn his lesson

While the ringside melee continues, Psychosis lands his aerial move on Prince Iaukea and looks set for the win. Going for the pin, the referee reaches two before Paisley shouts at Psychosis (3:00 of Part Two) to distract him from the task in hand. Fixing him in her gaze and further remonstrating with him allows The Artist to recover and, unseen by Psychosis, climb onto the nearby turnbuckle and land a flying DDT to clinch victory. As Guerrero tries to enter the ring after the pin, Paisley completes her work by delivering further whips to Guerrero with his own belt.

Paisley's interference clearly clinched the victory for her man in this match, and she displayed a impressive range of valet skills during this win. The two slaps to the hurt Psychosis early on in the match were clinically and hurtfully delivered, with both strikes executed out of view of the referee. The wild, frenzied attack on Guerrero after he had the temerity to kiss her would surely discourage any wrestlers with similar ideas in future. Meanwhile, her perfectly-timed intervention at the end of the match in not only distracting Psychosis at the count of 2, but holding his attention to allow Prince Iaukea attack unseen and clinch victory, showed a calculated ruthlessness in concluding an excellent all-round valet performance from the purple-clad princess.

Paisley slaps Psychosis a second time in helping her man to victory

1. Vivacious Veronica (Stunning Steve Vs Chuck Coates - WCW)

Video: Stunning Steve Vs Chuck Coates

To get things started, here is a nice example of a beautiful valet getting involved on numerous occasions outside the ring to exert pain on her wrestler's opponent. The lady in question is Vivacious Veronica, a short-term valet of Stunning Steve Austin in WCW from the early 1990s, and she takes every opportunity to inflict damage on the hapless Chuck Coates during the course of this bout.

Veronica's first attack - a kick to the face of a dazed Chuck Coates

As well as constantly haranguing the referee throughout, the ladylike Veronica really gets to work at 2:52 in, after Austin throws a dazed Coates out of the ring onto the floor below. A well-aimed sharp kick to the face of Coates by the Vivacious One is followed by her hitting him with the rose she has brought to ringside, bringing a satisfied smile to her face as she retires to a safe distance and allows Austin to resume his attack in the ring.

Happy with her work and the referee none the wiser

Another vivacious ringside attack (left) behind the referee's back

After Coates is thrown ringside again by Austin, a further attack by Vivacious Veronica then follows at 3:20 (unfortunately the cameras choose to focus on Austin being lectured to by the referee while she is at work), and it appears she also hits Coates with her stiletto during this attack before the action returns to the ring.

Coates suffers a hair-raising experience at the hands of Veronica

Her final intervention comes at 4:57, with Coates once again lying prone outside of the ring. A sly hair-pull is followed by Veronica daintily removing any of Coates' stray hairs from her hands that she has pulled out, leaving Austin to clinch an easy win following a clothesline and pin.

Coates berated by Veronica to submit

While Coates was clearly over-matched, Vivacious Veronica certainly helped to continue the suffering of Austin's opponent while Coates was prone outside of the ring. All three of her interventions were unseen by the referee, displaying excellent valet interference technique, and her verbal attacks on Coates in encouraging him to submit (and on the referee to end the match) while Austin had him in an arm-lock (1:45 - 2:15) will have helped further demoralise an already weakened opponent. A truly vivacious valet performance!

Celebrating the win after a vivacious night's work

Welcome to the Cheating Wrestling Valets blog!

This blog is dedicated to the wrestling valets who throughout history have accompanied their men to the ring and cheated, interfered, or otherwise manipulated the result of matches to secure a win.

Whether it's distracting the referee to allow their man to inflict an illegal move, physically attacking their man's opponent with a sly slap or rake to the face, passing a foreign object behind the back of a referee to their charge to inflict damage to their opponent, or just using their feminine wiles to dazzle and distract an opposing wrestler or referee to create openings for their man, this blog aims to capture as many examples as possible of cheating and match-influencing behaviour by female valets.

Where possible, a link to a video of the match in question will be provided, along with screen captures of the crucial moments involving the valet in question as she seeks to turn the match in her man's favour.