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My Take
Gail Kim is one of those wrestlers whose record does the talking. Born in Toronto in 1977 and a Toronto Metropolitan University graduate, she won the WWE Women's Championship in her very first match, which still sounds almost unfair when I say it out loud. Then she went to TNA and became the inaugural and seven-time Knockouts Champion, basically defining that division. What I respect most is the longevity and the trail she blazed for women's wrestling on both sides of the border. She's retired now, but calling her a pioneer of the Knockouts era feels less like hype and more like plain fact to me.
Overview
Gail Kim-Irvine (born February 20, 1977) is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenures in TNA Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In TNA, she was the inaugural and record setting seven-time Knockouts Champion and she also was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Madison Rayne. In WWE, she won the WWE Women's Championship in her first match.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Gail Kim
- Name (Japanese)
- ゲイル・キム
- Reading
- げいる・きむ
- Born
- February 20, 1977 (age 49)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Snake
- Origin
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 162 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- professional wrestler / actor / model / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Toronto Metropolitan University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.