"It's really hard to go put mascara on a lady in the mall, and people recognize you and ask you what you're doing there, and all you can think of saying is, ‘I'm trying to make a living.' It was time to move on, time for me to make a living." I don't want to quit on you, but it's kind of silly if you can't uphold your end of the deal.'" "I said, ‘I think you owe me some back pay. "They called and told me they were ready to make the second season," Moretti said. Moretti recollected that even though she was under contract with McLane's organization, “they just stopped paying after we were done shooting." So when she was called to make a second season of POWW, she made the difficult decision that her young in-ring career would come to a close. The kind of money you're paying is ridiculous.'" to POWW, I told, ‘This is my job, and I have to make money from my job. After filming the first season with POWW, however, she realized that things weren't going as she needed them. McLane, in his new organization, Powerful Women of Wrestling. to join the promotion's original founder, David B. Eventually, Moretti moved on from her success with G.L.O.W. However, all good things must come to an end. "Let's do this outright, put our costumes on, and really get this thing sold, bring people in." It was like it was our show," Moretti explained of G.L.O.W.
"We were all really young and had a lot of creative freedom, which was really cool. girls, looked to make the best of it, with Lisa becoming both a singles and tag team champion in her short time with the organization. Though the conditions were hardly ideal, Moretti, as well as the rest of the G.L.O.W. The thing was stiffer than stiff, like wrestling in your living room or on plywood." We just had videos and ring time - on a boxing mat mind you, not even a wrestling ring. We pretty much figured it all out by watching men's wrestling. "It's so hard to watch the footage because we were all so lame at what we did," recalled the future Ivory. Created by David McLane and Jackie Stallone, Sylvester Stallone's mother, the organization was a product of Stallone's all-women gym Barbarella's and lasted four seasons from 1986-1992.ĭespite having little experience, Moretti was ready to make the most of the opportunity, knowing that it wouldn't be easy.
was a brand-new promotion based in Las Vegas that featured all women entertainers. With some nudging from a friend, Lisa became "Tina Ferrari," one of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Though her WWE career wouldn't start until more than a decade later, Moretti was just a college student when the bug to be an entertainer first bit. However, her time in WWE is but one chapter of a storied tale. Therefore, to say that the six and a half-year career that Ivory - who also goes by the name Lisa Morettii - spent in WWE was a success would be an understatement. Becoming a three-time Women's Champion in WWE is no easy feat.