The bump card is real. Wrestlers only a finite amount of time to make an impact and leave a legacy in this industry. Some careers are cut short, while others go on longer than anyone can imagine. When wrestlers first start carving their own path in their career, it’s a true mystery on where they will end up.
The toll that these men and women put there bodies through is insurmountable. Sometimes while in the moment, while building the legacy, advancing the career, injuries are swept under the rug. The pain is fought through because, there is only so much time. A candle that burns at both ends.
For LuFisto, unfortunately, that candle has burnt out.
Making her debut under the name Lucifer in 1997 and finally taking the LuFisto moniker in 2002, LuFisto was a trailblazer. She was stopped by The Ontario Atheltics Commission from having an intergender match. Eventually this would get LuFisto banned from wrestling in Ontario for a period of time.
LuFisto started competing in the United States towards the middle of the 00’s. Gaining much notority when she became Combat Zone Wrestling’s first ever female Ironman Champion pinning Kevin Ownes, then Kevin Steen. Over the next couple years she made her mark on the deathmatch scene before becoming a main stay at SHIMMER. She has won dozens of championships throughout her storied career. Which leads to today.
LuFisto posted on her Facebook page that she can no longer continue to wrestle.
Thank you LuFisto, for your sacrifice and courage, for the barriers you’ve broken, for providing us with over a decades worth of memories. We at Bodyslam wish you the best in whatever it is you choose to do in your future.
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