Post Chronicle - - 'Sensational' Sherri Martel, a WWE Hall of Famer, was found dead on Friday, June 15th, at her mother's home in Birmingham, Alabama, according to her husband of ten years, Robert Schrull.  Sherri was only 49 years old. In the early 1980's, Sherri began her career in the AWA.  In 1985, she defeated Candi Devine to become the AWA Women's Champion.  Over the next year, the rivalry between the two continued, with the championship bouncing back and forth on several occasions.

Damn, down goes another. Sherri Martel has become the latest former wrestling star to die young, joining Miss Elizabeth as one of the most high profile female performers of all time to die over the last few years. Now that UB has observed the week of mourning, he can now look back at the contribution that Sherri made to sports entertainment. First off, during the WWF's highest point of "family" wrestling entertainment, Sherri was running around with her massive cleavage, wearing thongs and garter-belts in a body that really had no business wearing them. She never had the looks of an Elizabeth or the body of a Sable, which made her the perfect bad guy manager. She would be picked up for a suplex, her skirt would drop and fans would cringe, hoping not to see too much. She linked up with Randy Savage after his Wrestlemania V turn and even managed Ric Flair in the mid 90s WCW. She was an accomplished female wrestler, but will always be remembered for her screeching interviews, big hair and being the only woman that fans didn't mind getting her ass kicked by Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, Brutus Beefcake, or whomever.

Details of her death are sketchy at this point...