Shannon Hall

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Shannon Hall
An image of Shannon Hall.
Statistics
Ring name(s) Shannon Hall
Billed height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Billed weight 165 lb (75 kg)[1]
Born April 18, 1970 (1970-04-18) (age 38)
Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA [2]
Resides Los Angeles, California
Trained by WWE
Debut 1998

Shannon "Dallas" Hall-Trujillo (born April 18th, 1970) is an American boxer, bodybuilder, professional wrestler, Toughwoman competitor and American Gladiator known as Dallas, She is most well known as being the first ever Toughwoman Champion and as the American Gladiator Dallas. She has also worked for the Toughwoman Association as well as the IFBA Boxing League.

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[edit] American Gladiators

Shannon Hall-Tujillo competed as Dallas as an American Gladiator in 1995.

[edit] Tough Woman Contests/Boxing career

Before winning the Toughwoman Championships Shannon had never boxed a day in her life.

In 1996, a Toughwoman Contest was added to the Toughman circuit. Hall became the star of the new sport winning the two Toughest Woman in the World Titles contested in 1996 and 1998.

Hall won the Toughwoman title in 1996 and successfully defended it in February of 1998, both times before a Pay-per-view audience.

Hall went undefeated in ten fights in Toughwoman contests, winning the 1996 Toughwoman World Title and in 1998 an IFBA Platinum Heavyweight Championship.

In one of Shannon's biggest matches as the IBA Heavyweight Champion, she faced off against Suzy Taylor going to the ninth-round she lost via TKO. The 10-round bout was stopped at 1:30 in the ninth round when she was trapped in a corner after fading heavily. Hall reportedly had lucrative contracts waiting for her if she had won the fight, but she lost to the hard hitting Suzy Taylor.

Hall broke her nose during the fight and took a bit of a sabbatical from boxing thereafter.

[edit] Accomplishments

  • Miss Fitness America finalist (California Winner)
  • Television American Gladiator "DALLAS"
  • Toughwoman World Champion

IFBA Platinum Boxing Champion

[edit] Wrestling

Shannon "Dallas" Hall-Trujillo was signed by the WWF in 1999. She trained alongside many other future WWF Divas, but was never brought onto television. She was eventually released alongside Nicole Bass, and Ryan "Alicia Webb" Shamrock on July 19, 1999.

[edit] Personal life

Shannon attended Arkansas State University where she joined Delta Zeta (Omicron Epsilon chapter). Shannon has a 5 year old son and had another child in 2005, she now resides in Los Angeles.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Shannon Dallas Stats. Leanladies.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
  2. ^ Shannon Dallas TV. tv.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.

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