Sensational Sherri is one of the greatest valets of all time. Born Sherri Schrull, Martel joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. She then joined the WWE where she held the WWE Women's Championship before managing wrestlers the calibre of Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She also appeared in ECW and WCW in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW. By 2003, she was completely removed from the wrestling business and renovated homes in Tennessee alongside her husband Robert. In 2005, she returned to the WWE to take part in a storyline with Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle shortly before WrestleMania XXI, singing a parody of Michaels' theme song with Angle on Smackdown. She was inducted into the 2006 WWE Hall of Fame by Ted DiBiase. Later that year, she worked in TNA, taping a backstage vignette trying to offer her managerial services to "free agent" Bobby Roode; it was her last wrestling television appearance. She was married and divorced twice during her life and Booker T even gave her away at one of her weddings. She had one son. On the morning of June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in Alabama. She was 49 years old. On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators released the toxicology report stating that she died of an overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone.
