Jessica Kresa (born June 6,
1978) is an American
professional wrestler better known as
ODB (short for One Dirty Bitch),
currently working for Total Nonstop Action
Wrestling where she is the current TNA Women's Knockout
Champion.
Early life
Kresa's athletic background is in
ice
hockey, which her father encouraged her to pursue.
She was the captain of
the first girls' team at her high school and played at St. Cloud State
University
for two years. She began watching
professional wrestling as a child. She enjoyed watching wrestlers
such as
The
Killer Bees. She originally desired to be on the show
American Gladiators.
She hired a personal trainer in anticipation of her wrestling
training.
Professional wrestling career
Early career
Kresa got her start in professional wrestling when she tried out
for the first season of WWE's
reality
show,
WWE Tough
Enough. She made the top 25, but missed the final cut for
the show. Back home in Minnesota, she began training and was soon
wrestling in independent wrestling promotions all over the Midwest,
facing men such as
Ken Anderson and
Shawn Daivari. Kresa received her
first national exposure in early 2003 as ODB, wrestling
Trinity in
Total Nonstop Action
Wrestling. She returned to TNA in early 2004 as Poison and was
placed in a brief feud with Trinity. She appeared again in TNA
during October 2004 and defeated
Tracy
Brooks.
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2006–2007)
ODB in Ohio Valley Wrestling
In June 2006, Kresa started working in
Ohio Valley Wrestling as a
villain. Using the ring name
ODB, as part of her storyline, she created the
Women's Championship even though
OVW did not recognize a women's champion at the time. She
repeatedly cut promos saying that she was the new Women's Champion
and OVW owner
Danny Davis conceded and
recognized the Women's Championship as an official title. ODB lost
her title to
Serena Deeb in a
four-way match on September 13, 2006. In the spring of 2007,
ODB won the first ever "Miss OVW" crown with help from
Victoria Crawford. After Deeb dropped the
title to
Katie Lea, ODB engaged in
an ongoing feud with her which a led to a match between the two on
June 1, 2007 where ODB regained her title and ended Lea's reign.
ODB lost her title for the second time when she
dropped it to
Milena Roucka in a Six-Way match on
September 19, 2007.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–present)
Kresa was contacted by
Total Nonstop Action
Wrestling to appear at their annual pay-per-view
Bound for Glory. She made her
in-ring re-debut at Bound for Glory, participating in a 10 Knockout
Gauntlet to crown the first-ever
Knockout Champion. She was
eliminated by
Roxxi Laveaux, and
the match was eventually won by
Gail Kim.
She was originally booked as a villain in the women's division, but
her abilities and comical "drunken" antics created positive crowd
reactions, resulting in a naturally gradual
fan favorite push.
On the January 3, 2008 episode of
Impact! she won a Eight Knockout Gauntlet
to determine the rankings of the knockout's division in TNA. On the
January 17, 2008 episode of
Impact!, she defeated
Angelina Love and then challenged
Awesome Kong to a title match at the
pay-per-view Against All Odds. On the January
24 edition of
Impact! Kong attacked Gail Kim after Kim was
named 2007 TNA Knockout of the Year, and just as Kong was about to
drop her with the Awesome Bomb, ODB hit the ring to make the save.
At Against All Odds, ODB was defeated by Kong. At
Destination X, she lost a three-way
match, which included Kim, to Kong. At
Lockdown, ODB and Kim defeated Kong and
Raisha Saeed. The following
month at
Sacrifice, ODB
participated in the first-ever Knockouts "Make Over Battle Royal",
which was also won by Kim.
In mid-2008, ODB began feuding with
The Beautiful
People (Angelina Love,
Velvet Sky and
Cute Kip) alongside
Rhaka Khan and
Rhino. On the October 30 edition of
Impact!, ODB joined
A.J.
Styles,
Samoa
Joe,
Jay Lethal,
Consequences Creed,
Petey Williams,
Eric Young and
The Motor City Machineguns to
form
a faction of younger
wrestlers to oppose
The Main
Event Mafia.
At
Genesis, after scoring the pinfall
in a six-way match, it was announced that ODB would get a shot at
the
Knockout
Championship. In this time ODB feuded with The Kongtourage with
most results as wins. At
Against
All Odds she unsuccessfully challenged Awesome Kong for the TNA
knockout title. The next week on
Impact!, she cut a promo
about letting "one lucky guy spend the night" with her and at
Destination X, she chose
Cody Deaner as her date. Subsequently,
Deaner became her manager. At
Lockdown, ODB won the Queen of the Cage
match. The following month at
Hard
Justice ODB and Deaner faced Angelina Love and Velvet Sky in a
tag team match where Love's Knockouts Championship was on the line.
Deaner pinned Sky to apparently make ODB the new champion, but the
duo then began arguing over who was the true champion. At
No Surrender, ODB defeated Deaner to win
the Knockout Championship. After successfully defending her title
against Awesome Kong and
Tara, she
would now face both of them in a 3-way dance at
Bound for Glory. At Bound for Glory,
ODB defeated both Kong and Tara to retain her Knockout title.
On November 2, 2009,
Dixie
Carter announced on her
Twitter page
that Kresa had signed a new multi-year deal with the company.
In wrestling
Championships and accomplishments
Professional wrestling
Mixed martial arts
| 0-1-0
(wins-losses-draws) |
| Result |
Opponent |
Method |
Event Title |
Date |
Round |
Time |
| Loss |
Kelly Kobold |
Submission (Armbar) |
ROF 9 - Eruption |
08/9/2003 |
1 |
N/A |
References
- Online World of Wrestling
- Fight Finder - Jessica Kresa's Mixed Martial Arts
Statistics
- • Captured-Beauty.Com -// O.D.B
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