Entering WWE during the wildly popular Attitude Era, Ivory was originally thrown into the role of manager for D'Lo Brown. She accompanied the talented Brown to the ring for a few months but eventually split and focused her attention on her budding feud with Debra and the Women's Championship. A trained, veteran wrestler dating back to the niche promotion GLOW, Ivory had very little trouble dispatching of Debra and taking the title. As the Women's champion, Ivory finally injected life into the women's division from an in-ring standpoint, She was the heel that ran her mouth relentlessly but always backed it up by beating the competition. Her rivalry with Tori, in particular, spanned basic, evening gown and hardcore matches and proved her adaptability as a performer. When her title reign ended at the hands of Miss Kitty at Armageddon, it was disappointing and Ivory could have become disenfranchised but she did not. Instead, she adapted her character to that of a prudish wrestler disgusted by the sexuality that fans and management embraced. That adaptation would serve her well later in the year, when she joined the Steven Richards-led Right to Censor and enjoyed a second career renaissance with WWE. The only member of the group, she was a key piece in keeping their momentum when she joined the group in October. She would capture the Women's title from Lita and become the heel centerpiece that the then-limited division was built around, not unlike her first stint with the championship. A feud with Chyna allowed her to show off her entertainment skills as she berated the Playboy cover girl and repeatedly mocked a neck injury suffered by the former Intercontinental champion. The feud ran for four months and culminated in a match for Ivory's Women's title at WrestleMania X-Seven. She lost that match, decisively and in short order, and eventually settled back into obscurity as the Invasion angle overwhelmed WWE programming through the second-half of the year. Ivory would flex her chops as a host throughout her career, anchoring television programs such as Excess and the WrestleMania All Day Long special that aired prior to the Showcase of the Immortals in 2000. A sexy woman who also participated in the annual Divas shoots, the woman was all over WWE programming when not beating her fellow competitors up between the ropes. It was her way of staying relevant and helping the company that gave her an opportunity nearly a decade after she starred in GLOW. Her contract came up in 2005 and Ivory chose not to renew, ending her six-year run with the company.
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