Professional wrestling career Independent circuit īrooks appeared with numerous independent promotions, including Border City Wrestling and the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation (AWF). Brookshaw began training under Hutchinson in March 2000 and debuted in January 2001 as 'Tracy Brooks'.
This led to her being introduced to Ron Hutchison, a professional wrestler who operated the Sully's Gym professional wrestling school out of Toronto, Ontario. In her interview, Brookshaw said that she aspired to be 'the next WWF Superstar'. Brookshaw went on to engage in promotional modeling work with the Molson, Labatt and Budweiser beverage brewers. In 2000, she won the Toronto Sunshine Millennium Calendar contest which led to her being named Miss June 2000 and interviewed in the Toronto Sun. She is best known for her work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she spent most of her career.īrookshaw grew up on a pig and chicken farm in St. Tracy Brookshaw (born May 22, 1975) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, wrestling valet and referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks.