Gail Kim

Gail Kim
Kim in 2017
Born (1977-02-20) February 20, 1977
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materRyerson University
Spouse
(m. 2012)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Gail Kim
La Felina
Billed height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Billed weight121 lb (55 kg)
Billed fromTampa, Florida
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Korea
Trained byRon Hutchison
Rob Etcheverria
Dave Finlay
DebutDecember 2000
RetiredApril 28, 2019

Gail Kim-Irvine (born February 20, 1977) is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenures in TNA Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In TNA, she was the inaugural and record setting seven-time Knockouts Champion and she also was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Madison Rayne. In WWE, she won the WWE Women's Championship in her first match.

Kim began her career wrestling on the Canadian-American independent circuit, before joining WWE in 2002. She became the first WWE Diva in history to win a championship in her debut match. After being released by WWE in 2004, Kim joined TNA in September 2005. There, she joined the tag team America's Most Wanted as their valet. After the dissolution of the group, Kim performed as a singles wrestler, eventually becoming the inaugural TNA Knockouts Champion in October 2007. During her time in TNA, she had an acclaimed feud with Awesome Kong, which is generally considered one of the greatest women's wrestling feuds of the 2000s.

She later left TNA in August 2008, to return to WWE three months later, where she remained until 2011. The following October she returned to TNA, where she was until 2025. In 2012, Pro Wrestling Illustrated named Kim the number one female wrestler in the world and in 2016 she was the first female to be inducted into the TNA Wrestling Hall of Fame.