Stacy Keibler
Stacy Ann-Marie Keibler (born October 14, 1979) is an American actress and retired professional wrestler, cheerleader, dancer, and model. She is best known for her tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Stacy Keibler
Stacy Ann-Marie Keibler
October 14, 1979
Rosedale, Maryland, U.S.
Miss Hancock
Skye
Stacy Keibler
Super Stacy[1]
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2]
130 lb (59 kg)[3]
1999
2006
3
Keibler began her professional wrestling career as a part of the Nitro Girls in WCW.[4][5] She quickly moved on to a more prominent role in the company as the manager Miss Hancock. As Miss Hancock, Keibler was known for doing table dances, her relationship with David Flair, and a pregnancy angle.[6][7] After WCW was purchased by the WWF (later WWE) in 2001, Keibler moved to the new company during the Attitude Era, using her real name and taking part in the Invasion storyline, also managing the Dudley Boyz.[6] Keibler also managed Test and Scott Steiner. Before her departure from WWE in 2006, she was affiliated with The Hurricane and Rosey and nicknamed "Super Stacy".[1][8]
Keibler was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars: season two, where she placed third.[8] She has also appeared on other ABC series such as What About Brian, George Lopez, and October Road, as well as the 100th episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as a bartender and on the USA Network show Psych. Keibler has also modeled, appearing in both Maxim and Stuff magazines.[9][10]
Keibler is considered to be a sex symbol and is known for her unusually long legs.[9][4][5] She has been known as both "The Legs of WCW" and "The Legs of WWE".[8] During Keibler's time on Dancing with the Stars, judge Bruno Tonioli nicknamed her "The Weapon of Mass Seduction".[7] Stacy Keibler was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 27, 2023.[11]
Early life
Stacy Ann-Marie Keibler was born on October 14, 1979, in Rosedale, Maryland, the daughter of Patricia and Gary Keibler.[4][12] Beginning at the age of three, Keibler took ballet, jazz, and tap dancing classes at Jean Kettell Studio of Dance in Dundalk, Maryland. She went to St. Clement Mary Hofbauer School in Rosedale for her early schooling.[4][5]
In 1990, Keibler won the title of Miss Maryland Pre-Teen, after competing for the title in Timonium, and went on to win the National Miss Pre-Teen Crown. After attending The Catholic High School of Baltimore, an all-girls school, she attended Towson University, where she studied mass communication.[5] She attended the university on a partial scholarship and had a 3.7 grade point average (GPA).[5][13] Keibler had minor parts in movies such as Pecker and Liberty Heights, as well as small modeling jobs.[4][5] Keibler became a cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens football team when she was 18.[4][5]
Professional wrestling career
World Championship Wrestling (1999–2001)
Keibler began watching wrestling with her boyfriend at the time, Kris Cumberland.[5] She can be seen in the crowd on an episode of Nitro in 1997 and the Starrcade 1998 pay-per-view before the television title match, dancing in an NWO Wolfpac T-shirt.[14] In September 1999, Keibler entered a nationwide contest held by World Championship Wrestling to find a new member of the Nitro Girls dance troupe, which was organized in an attempt to boost the show's declining ratings. A total of 300 women participated in the contest; the results were decided by a series of polls on WCW's website, which narrowed down the field to eight finalists. Keibler was declared the winner of the contest on the November 8, 1999 edition of Nitro after receiving the most online votes out of the eight finalists and was given a spot on the dance troupe along with a $10,000 prize. Her winning routine was watched by 4.4 million viewers.[5] Keibler performed dance routines every week on WCW's flagship show Monday Nitro under the name Skye.[5] By 2000, Keibler was appearing on WCW as a Nitro Girl, attending school full-time, and cheering for the Baltimore Ravens.[5]
She soon accepted a larger role and became a heel valet using the stage name Miss Hancock (some weeks spelled "Handcock"),[6][15] briefly serving as an associate for the tag team of Lenny Lane and Lodi dubbed Standards and Practices.[16] Despite wearing business suits, her character was known to climb on top of the announcers' table and dance sensually.[6] It was also during this period that she began using what would become her trademark ring entrance: slowly putting her forty-two inch legs through the second tier of ropes, pausing to let the crowd momentarily see her panties underneath her incredibly short skirts.[17] At 5 feet 11 inches, Keibler was one of few women in professional wrestling tall enough to step over the middle of the three ropes that surround the ring.
During 2000, she dated David Flair (both on-screen and off-screen), who was already involved in an on-screen relationship with Daffney. Ms. Hancock set her eyes on Flair and ended up stealing him away from Daffney and continued to torment the woman whose boyfriend she stole, and the two would feud throughout the Summer of 2000. This led to Keibler's in-ring debut at the Bash at the Beach in a Wedding Gown match, which she lost after she removed her own gown.[18] Hancock next briefly feuded with Kimberly Page, but the storyline ended abruptly when Page quit the company.[5][19] Keibler and Flair then began a feud with the Misfits in Action stable, including a mud wrestling singles match against Major Gunns at New Blood Rising.[6][18] During the match, she was kicked in the stomach, and she revealed herself to be pregnant the next night, beginning a new angle for herself and Flair.[6] Two proposed endings to the storyline were for either Ric Flair or Vince Russo to be the father of her child.[15] The angle, however, ended prematurely, as she revealed the pregnancy to be false, broke up with David Flair, and was taken off of television.[7]
When Stacy returned in 2001, she dropped the name Ms. Hancock and went by her real name.[6] On the March 12, 2001 edition of Nitro, Keibler revealed Shawn Stasiak as her "baby" and continued her role as a heel manager, siding with Stasiak. Shawn and Stacy would feud with Bam Bam Bigelow, with the evil Stacy using underhanded tactics to help Stasiak win 2 matches from a series of 3, including on the final edition of Nitro two weeks later on March 26.
Modeling and acting career
As the Fitness Editor at Stuff magazine during 2005 and 2006, Keibler wrote and modeled for her own occasional column, Getting Fit with Stacy Keibler.[10] She has appeared on the cover of that magazine twice -June 2005 and March 2006. Maxim named Keibler No. 5 in its 2006 Hot 100 issue, and No. 70 in its 2007 Hot 100.[9][45] In 2008, she was named No. 89 in Maxim's annual Hot 100 list.;[46] the following year she was No. 77.[47] In 2010, she was No. 82[48] and in 2011 she was No. 72. And in 2012 she was ranked 51.[49] Keibler has declined two invitations from Playboy to pose in the nude for its magazine.[4]
Keibler starred in a commercial for AT&T Corporation alongside Carrot Top.[4] She also auditioned and earned a role in Big Momma's House 2,[4] but she did not appear.
She competed in the second season of Dancing with the Stars, alongside her dance partner, Tony Dovolani.[41][50] Keibler received a perfect score of 30 from the three judges for her samba dance routine in week five.[8] This prompted judge, Bruno Tonioli, to nickname her a "weapon of mass seduction."[7] Overall, Keibler and Dovolani received four perfect scores.[8] Keibler was eliminated in the final episode,[41] coming in third to Jerry Rice, who placed second in the final round of the competition, and Drew Lachey, the winner of the season. Two of the judges, Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman, felt she should have at least placed second.[51] Oddsmakers had considered her the favorite to win the competition.[41]
Keibler has appeared on MTV's Punk'd twice. In season five Keibler took part in helping prank Triple H, which also included Stephanie McMahon. In season seven, however, Keibler was seen as a victim of a prank by her then-boyfriend, Geoff Stults.[52]
In February 2007, Keibler began a recurring role in ABC's What About Brian.[50] She played the role of Brian's new neighbor and love interest.[50] This was Keibler's first major acting role, following her previous minor roles in both Bubble Boy and Pecker.[5][53] Keibler guest starred on George Lopez on ABC.[50] In the fall of 2007 Keibler appeared both in The Comebacks and on ABC's drama October Road.[54][55]
In April 2008, she was named No. 64 in FHM's annual 100 Sexiest Women list.[56] Keibler was featured in an advertisement in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. In September 2008, Keibler appeared on ABC Family's mini television series, Samurai Girl as the heel character Karen.[57] On November 23, 2008, Keibler was named the "World's Hottest Athlete" by a sixty-four contestant bracket on InGameNow.[58][59]
Keibler hosted the E! Special Maxim's Celebrity Beach Watch: 15 Hottest Bodies on September 16, 2009, and The Ultimate Spike Girl 2009 Finale on Spike TV on October 1, 2009. On January 11, 2010, Keibler appeared as "the hot bartender", a new conquest for Barney, in the How I Met Your Mother 100th episode, "Girls Versus Suits". On February 3, 2010, Keibler appeared on an episode of the USA Network show Psych. On Oct. 4, 2010, Keibler made a guest appearance in the spy comedy Chuck season 4, episode 3 titled "Chuck versus the Cubic Z" alongside guests Nicole Richie and fellow WWE alum "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Keibler played the role of CIA agent "Greta".
In 2011, Keibler hosted Call of Duty Elite's Friday Night Fights.[60] In 2013, Keibler hosted a Lifetime show called Supermarket Superstar, where home chefs fought for their product to be sold in supermarkets.[61] In 2014, she reprised her role as Karina in the episode "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" of How I Met Your Mother.
Other media
Keibler made her video game debut in WCW Backstage Assault as her Miss Hancock character. She would later appear in thirteen WWE console games, which include: WWE WrestleMania X8, WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth, WWE Crush Hour, WWE WrestleMania XIX, WWE Raw 2, WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain, WWE Day of Reckoning, WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw, WWE WrestleMania 21, WWE Day of Reckoning 2, WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006, WWE 2K22 (as downloadable content) and WWE 2K23. Keibler also appears in Dancing with the Stars, a game based on the ABC series of the same name, and the WWE SuperCard and WWE Champions mobile games.
Personal life
Keibler's boyfriend of seven years from 1992 to 1999, Kris Cumberland, was a wrestling fan who first got her interested in wrestling, and they would sometimes go to WCW and WWF events within two hours’ drive of Baltimore.[5] In 2000, after winning $10,000 in the contest to become a part of the Nitro Girls, Keibler used the money to buy season tickets for the Baltimore Ravens, the team for which she cheers and was a former cheerleader.[4] In 2000, Keibler dated David Flair during their time together in WCW.[67][68]
From 2001 to 2005, Keibler dated Andrew "Test" Martin while they both worked together in the WWF/WWE.[69][68] Keibler moved to Los Angeles in 2004,[50] where she was roommates with Torrie Wilson.[4] In June 2005, Keibler was reported to be in a relationship with actor Geoff Stults.[70] The pair appeared together on MTV's Punk'd, with Keibler as the recipient of the prank.[71] Keibler and Stults were part-owners of the now defunct Hollywood Fame, a 2006 expansion franchise of the American Basketball Association.[72] The team went defunct after only one season.[73][74] Stults and Keibler split in 2010.
Keibler started dating George Clooney in July 2011.[75] Clooney and Keibler ended their relationship in July 2013.[76][77]
Keibler began dating Future Ads CEO Jared Pobre[78] in fall 2013, though they had been friends for several years previously. They were married on March 8, 2014, in Mexico.[79] They have two daughters[80][81] and a son.[82]