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Daphne was a larger -than -life character.

She was goth. She was rock and roll.

She was unhinged.

She was the scream queen.

In 1999, Shannon Spruill arrived in WCW as Daphne Unger.

and immediately left her mark on the wrestling world.

She made it cool for people who didn't feel like they fit in to find someone

else who didn't quite fit in.

She was the pioneer for alternative women in wrestling.

Whatever was going to get the story over, the character over, she was all

it. Oh, man!

Beloved by her fans, beloved by her peers, one of the most positive people

ever met in my entire life.

but sometimes the happiest people around you are the ones that are hurting the

most. Off camera, Shannon was fighting a battle no one else could see.

She knew how to play that character well because it also showed her suffering.

Most of her adult life, she fought bipolar disorder.

That is a fight.

She was either killing it or she had no ability to do anything.

You never know which Shannon you are going to get.

Enduring endless obstacles in the business she loved.

That head injury was bigger than maybe even she knew.

They weren't taking care of her medical bills.

She was in such pain all the time.

There was a light that went out on her.

I've looked in those eyes since she was born.

There was just something that wasn't the same.

I did not know how bad it had gotten.

Shannon was...

The best person. I want people to remember her for the person that she

for the person that she ended up on that day.

I always wanted to be an actress.

My agent called me up and asked me if I wanted to audition for a little four

-week reoccurring character for WCW.

Talking David Flair.

Hi, I'm Daphne Unger, and I'm from Peoria, Illinois, and I love all the

superstars after WPW.

That was it. That started the whole thing right there.

David Flair, he was wrestling Diamond Dallas Page.

He was getting his butt kicked, and Daphne comes running out.

Who in the world is coming out of here? Whoa!

People just have to kind of act crazy, and that's really all the information I

got. It was just going to be a one -two time gig, and she really blew it out of

the park. And next thing you know, she's on TV all the time.

My name is Darren Spruill. Shannon is my sister.

You may know her as Daphne.

They liked how I performed the character, so it was really kind of up

At that time, all of the women that you saw in mainstream wrestling had that

Barbie doll built.

She was something new, something totally different that stood out.

The cool, crazy, goth girl.

And the fans ate it up. They loved it.

My name is Chris Ford, and wrestling fans know me as Crowbar.

They came up with this idea that we were going to have a tag team.

We got along great. We just automatically clicked.

I think crazy characters are fun.

I was crazy.

David was crazy.

Daphne was crazy.

She just screamed bloody murder at the top of her lungs.

It's ear piercing.

Oh, my gosh. The scream, the scream. She had the scream forever.

Sometimes she'd just come into the room and... My mom screamed, what are you

doing, Darren? I didn't touch her. I didn't lay a hand on her, you know.

And she wouldn't let me get in trouble real bad for it because we were each

other's best friends. You know, we didn't know anybody else.

We're military brats. And with the military, you're moving around a lot.

don't know anyone but your mom and dad and your sister. So you just become

very close, almost where you can read each other's thoughts sometimes.

We always did things together.

We did a lot of theater.

She played soccer. She broke all of her fingers playing goalkeeper, diving into

people's feet. So Sam wasn't scared of anything.

She was quite an athlete.

She could sing.

She could dance. She could act.

And she was a straight -A student.

And she was beautiful.

She had it all.

My name is Quentin Sproul, and I'm proud to say I'm Shannon's father.

She was in three major movies before she was 10.

That was the first clue. When I saw her on the big screen, I was like, yeah, she

may try to go on and do other things.

Once she was bitten by the wrestling bug, that was it. She was in it. If he

it in her head that she's doing this, she's doing it.

I wasn't real pleased about the matter, but we went with it.

Daphne was up for anything, and I think that's what made it work so well. She

had a gymnastics background, which is how we got into teaching her spots.

He showed her safe ways to do moves that look athletic, look violent,

look cool, but are very safe if done right, which is how the Franken

was born.

She didn't want to look like the technical wrestler.

She wanted to make it look like she was the crazy girl who just happened to be

wrestling.

I'm Lexi Fife, and I've been in professional wrestling for 30 years.

And Shannon, a .k .a. Daphne, was my best friend.

Shannon had that magnetism that made you want to watch her.

And she got noticed, and so they started letting her do more and more.

There is your new cruiserweight champion of the world.

This is the best thing ever, because this is the mix of the two things that I

love the most in my life. It's athleticism, and it's acting.

Get your ex -pooter girl butt out here right now!

It just kind of rolled for her. You know, she was the Ferris Bueller of the

women. You know, it just always worked out for her.

She belonged in the spotlight.

She was drawn to be in the spotlight.

And she was just enjoying the ride.

But we all knew at some level that that ride could come to an end

at any time.

As Shannon's star rises, WCW crashes. And in 2001, the competition

swoops in and shuts it down.

WCW folded, and I went through this period of extreme depression.

And of course, you think, well, it's because you don't have your job anymore.

She knew she wanted to stay in professional wrestling.

She was talking to WWE and trying to potentially get a contract back with

So here's me, working my ass off, going to WWE, trying out, give me a job.

She had a developmental deal.

But never made it to the TV.

My developmental with the WWE was nine months.

And then I got let go.

And I was just, like, wrestling.

When she did lose her contract, she and her husband at the time were going

through a divorce.

She was going to have to move.

It was a whole bunch of crap at once.

She was trying some antidepressants, but they weren't working.

It threw her into a spiral.

I went over three months where I didn't sleep more than an hour a night.

And then I developed a stutter, and I was talking really, really fast.

I finally reached out to my daddy. He's my rock. I was like, Daddy, something's

wrong.

I don't know what's happening.

Sometimes you would just think it would be a lot easier if I didn't have to put

up with all of this.

That's not Shannon.

That was your first indication.

There would be moments where everything was great, and then there was other

moments where she just had the confidence of a mouse.

So Shannon was diagnosed as bipolar.

90 % of the time that I was signed by the WWE and I was in training, I was

bipolar, and I was on no beds.

Bipolar disorder is an instability of mood.

You'll be really, really depressed, and then all of a sudden there'll be a

switch in your brain, and you're manic.

Your brain tricks you because your chemicals are so messed up, which I'm

very familiar with. She had bipolar disorder, and I do too.

My name is Amanda Rodriguez, and I was a best friend of Daphne.

Mania, it can be really scary and really confusing.

You're like in the back seat.

And your body is the car, and someone else is driving it, and you don't

recognize yourself.

I just remember driving, just going, oh, my God, I'm crazy. Oh, my God, I'm

crazy. That's terrifying.

There are drugs that you can take.

The problem is they have horrible, horrible side effects.

Throwing up and headaches and all kinds of stuff like that.

There are times when she wouldn't take it consistently.

So she wasn't seeing the benefits of the medicines that she had.

She didn't want to be on medicine.

She wanted another way for it to be handled.

If you don't take care of it with professional support or medication, it

turn into depressive mania, where I believe the risk of suicide comes in.

One time, she was in a very manic mood, and my dad called me on the phone and

was like, she's got to get to the hospital, she's got to do something.

So I said, Jan, you've got to go to the doctor because I can't take care of you.

There's nothing I can do to help you.

There was times on the way that she was threatening to get out of the car and

just run.

But we got her there safely and checked her in, and she was there for a couple

weeks.

That's not something you want to do with your sister.

I hate that people in my life. You're just powerless.

watching a person struggle with this thing, and you're just like, what do you

do? You need to make sure that your children know that they're loved, no

what. We prayed through and talked through so many things.

She decided that she wanted to be in the ring and couldn't talk her out of it.

Following her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, in 2003, Shannon sets out on

indie circuit to rebuild her career and herself.

If she still thought she could do something, she still wanted to do it.

Shannon. That was it.

We thought she was doing better. We thought she had some success and she was

better control with the medicines and day -to -day life kind of stuff.

It was an opportunity for her. She wasn't at home twiddling her thumbs. She

getting to do stuff.

Independent wrestling is a totally different lifestyle than TV wrestling.

You're going from town to town to town, and that's when I met her.

And she was just like, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

All she thought about was wrestling.

It doesn't matter if there was five people in the audience or 50 ,000.

She went out there and gave the same exact performance.

That just completely encompasses who she was as a person and as a professional

wrestler.

My name is Chantel, but you may know me as Taylor Wilde, and Daphne is one of my

professional wrestling sisters.

I met Daphne at Chimmer in 2005.

Shimmer was the first time in any real American promotion that women were

highlighted, and it actually kind of changed the trajectory of where women's

wrestling was headed.

She really wanted all the girls to band together because she knew it was going

to be big.

Shimmer was a great place for all of us, and Daphne had a really, really good

time there.

We were a family there, and she felt it was a safe place.

As wrestling has grown, there's more opportunities for women, and

the women that are involved, they build each other up. And I really think Daphne

had a huge part in that.

By the time that we got together, she was full force, gung -ho. She loved

professional wrestling more than anything else in the world.

My name is Caleb Conley. I've been a professional wrestler for 20 years now,

for four of those years, I dated Shannon Sproul, known to the wrestling world as

Daphne.

I was 20 years old.

I was two years into the wrestling business, and she came, and she had a

matches, and we started talking, and then just blossomed right from there.

We worked on tons of shows together. We tagged a couple times. We wrestled each

other.

She opened up a lot of doors for me. She introduced me to a lot of people that I

would have probably never met on my own otherwise.

Even if she wasn't in professional wrestling, Shannon was so cool. She was

amazing.

But the bipolar thing was front and center our entire relationship.

I could wake up in the morning and I could just feel the energy change.

Sometimes she just couldn't get out of bed.

And then at other points she would be doing the elliptical for two hours a

And then all of a sudden she's like, I have to get off this medicine because

it's making me gain weight.

She lost the weight, but now she's also completely depressed and hates life.

She was very quick to lose her temper in those times. But when her moods started

to swing, I felt like she needed someone there that she could trust.

But it's hard to stay positive.

I was a dumb kid who thought he knew what he was doing.

I didn't. I realized that we are just two people that had a moment in time

together, and I loved her and she loved me, and we always had a pretty positive

friendship after the fact.

I think Shannon's bipolar disorder was very disruptive for her personal life.

But it didn't affect her work.

She could still get out there and ring and do what she needed to do.

Shannon's grit, charisma, and screen presence earned her another shot back on

television, this time with TNA.

WWE wasn't taking the women seriously at this point, and TNA decided they would,

and they had bangers. It wasn't bra and panties matches. It was real

professional wrestling.

Hannah didn't get brought in as a wrestler at first, and she didn't even

brought in as Daphne at first.

They indoctrinated Daphne back into TNA Wrestling as a parody of Sarah Palin,

and they called her the governor.

Our next -door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I

the executive of. Sarah Palin was the governor of Alaska and the running mate

for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

The first time Sarah Palin was on national TV, she was like, I could do

People didn't actually know who it was at first. I remember all the Wrestling

Gotham website.

They were like... But who is it? And it just took off.

What? Is that the governor?

It is! It's Governor Palin! People were completely committed to the storyline.

When was she going to transform, and who was she going to transform into next?

The story was she was actually in a mental institution, and they brought in

Stevie to bring her back to being the Scream Queen Daphne.

Daphne's bipolar was definitely...

A superpower for her. She knew how to play that character well because that

character was her.

Everything was so calculated from her hair to her makeup to her persona.

And I could just tell she was going to make it count this time.

When she got to come back to TNA and she was doing really well, it was like a

big F you to everyone who didn't believe in her.

When I joined TNA...

I started working with Daphne on screen because I really liked what she was

doing.

And I wanted her on my team.

Everything about her, she tried to make different, unique, and she was

successful. My name is Mick Foley. I am known as the hardcore legend. I knew

Daphne as a colleague and also as a friend.

Daphne was always up.

for anything.

She just really wanted to put on a good show. And she wanted to be whatever

professional wrestling wanted her to be. It's her fault.

I did not have any idea that the match that I was in would be the beginning of

the end.

With the Monsters Ball, man!

Monsters Ball, basically, anything goes.

Barbed wire bats and thumbtacks and things of that nature are encouraged.

Daphne was part of my crew. We did want her to play a role in the big match with

Abyss. Shannon called me that day, and she was like, they want to throw me

through this table with thumbtacks and barbed wire. And she goes, I don't

know if I feel comfortable.

I do remember the move being discussed.

And Daphne wanted to do it and felt like she could do it. It's just there's very

little room for error.

Looking back, we wish we had made a different call.

Table broke and she landed on her head.

It wasn't any of the wrestlers on the match's fault.

It was as safe as you can make it, but it was the actual fall and then the

concrete floor.

I remember watching on the monitor, and I just ran straight to medical, and I

was waiting for her to be brought backstage.

They dragged her to another room, closed the door, and they pushed us all away.

It was maybe 20, 30 minutes after the match when we realized how serious it

Daphne had broken her arm.

I just remember the whispering about concussions and that

she hit her head really hard and that she wasn't okay.

I believe she had no memory of where she was and what had just happened.

It was sad to see that someone who had so much potential and was realizing that

potential had been sidelined for this injury.

And for it to be an injury that turned out to be so consequential, to this day,

I feel terrible about it.

Just months after suffering a broken arm and serious head trauma, Shannon

returns to the TNA ring, desperate not to lose her spot on the roster.

The doctor told her she shouldn't ever get back in the ring again at that

And she was like, well, this is my life. I have to.

Knowing Daphne, she wouldn't want anyone to know how injured she was.

When it comes to wrestling, there's not a lot of room to be injured.

There's always someone younger, hungrier, more talented, better looking,

to take your spot.

I think there's a difference between cleared and cleared.

Why'd she do it?

The same reason we would all do that.

And that's because you want to further your career. You want to continue to

become more valuable in the wrestling business.

It's a shame, but we all do it.

Months after her debilitating injuries, Shannon takes on newcomer Rosie

Laudelove. Rosie was a larger woman.

She has a very, very strong offense. She had Daphne in between her legs and then

basically just hits down on her, right on her chest. Bam.

She literally landed on her and it hurt her sternum.

And I guess the wrestler in me, I was like, hell no.

If I would have laid still, I wouldn't have got the second concussion. I just

would have had a badly bruised sternum.

I got a bad stinger, another grade two concussion.

The wrestlers at TNA were mostly very supportive and checking in on her.

The company as a whole at that time, there was a whole lawsuit about it.

They weren't taking care of her medical bills, and they weren't doing follow -up

care for her.

I chose to file a worker's comp claim to try to prove in a court of

law that wrestlers are not independent contractors, we're employees.

And I just feel like at least what they can do is if you get injured in their

ring, they should pay for it.

She settled for money.

I know that part of her settlement at least was they gave her like a thousand

her action figures, which seems like such a crock of crap to me.

This girl had a near -death experience basically for your company, and the best

you can do is, hey, why don't you go make your own money hawking your

merchandise at an independent show?

So wild.

They've got concussion protocols now that they did not have back then. So a

of those changes were brought about by wrestlers like Daphne. She really kind

broke a barrier there for us.

But following two major injuries, Shannon's recovery is slower than

and the toll on her body is starting to show.

It wasn't an option to take the time off, but she was kind of forced into it.

We say that we have a bump card.

That's what we call it. There's only so many bumps you can take in your life

before your body says, yeah, no more of this.

I've got a long way to go. I see a light at the end of this tunnel.

And I see hope.

And it's really awesome.

For a while, there's going to be some things I'm going to have to push

I do remember her going into, like, a deep depression. I think whatever it did

to her brain, it was not good, and she went severely negative for a while after

that.

Some of you may have noticed a little bit of change in my attitude.

But a lot of people don't realize with concussions, if you have bipolar

disorder, it's going to amplify it or trigger it, and she was struggling with

that. There was a shift.

In her personality.

Trauma changes people.

It changes your brain chemistry.

That's just an uphill battle.

I just don't think people really realize how bad I've been hurt.

And as time has gone on, I don't think I'm going to be able to

wrestle anymore.

By 2011, injuries forced Shannon to make a decision about the future of her

career. All these injuries took a toll on her.

Like, I think she had headaches for months.

That was the beginning of the end for her, as far as, like, in -ring

We kind of put a foot down towards the end, especially after the concussions,

that she just did not need to go into the ring, and she agreed.

When you're a wrestler and you can't wrestle because of your paycheck,

So she was always trying to figure out what the next hustle was going to be for

her. Luckily,

she had a really great fan base.

She would be online trying to sell her 8x10s and her t -shirts.

She was doing appearances. She would pop up here and there and do autograph

signings at conventions.

And she was producing for Shine down in Florida.

Finding new purpose.

Shannon teams up with other female wrestlers to fight the stigma of bipolar

disorder. I think people don't really realize that for 10 years now I've had a

chemical imbalance.

I take medication twice a day, and it's something that every day, like, it's a

real thing, as opposed to, you know, me acting crazy as a gimmick.

Banded together as sisters, me, Daphne, Kimberly, and Amber Gertner, and got her

bipolar disorder awareness tattoos.

It's a colon, a parenthesis, and another colon. So it's like happy and sad for

depression and mania.

And it gives me a reason to talk about bipolar disorder.

And that had been the theme of our sisterhood.

She was always there to be the rock for everybody else. I think a lot of people

find it hard to comprehend, you know, that she was suffering too.

She would have times when she was getting ready to go to the grocery

she'd get out in the car and can't remember where she's going.

She would do some refereeing, and even that was giving her issues. Like, she'd

go down to make a count, and she was getting dizzy, felt a lot of vertigo.

Those concussions were just killing her.

She's like, when I die, I want my brain to go to science so I can research

what's going on with me and hopefully help people.

She had already filled out all the paperwork with the Boston CTE hospital

have her brain donated. She decided she needed to make a big change because I

think being around the business, not being able to wrestle, was causing her

depression.

And so she opted to leave.

For Daphne, losing wrestling was like losing the love of her life.

I miss being in the ring.

That's where my heart is, at least, is in this business.

Definitely.

Shannon, just like many professional wrestlers, when that run is over, don't

know how to become regular people.

How do we exist outside of that spotlight?

All of us have some kind of struggle like that.

She was big into self -medication for a long time.

It's a Band -Aid that you can put on a situation for a little bit, you know.

She has a couple drinks, she's feeling good, everything's fine, and then it all

kind of tumbles downhill after that.

She got in a car accident, and then she got in another car accident, and she had

to go to rehab.

because it was court -ordered.

The night before she was going to go into rehab, she

contemplated committing suicide.

I made her promise to always call me, and so that's why she called me that

night. And I took her to rehab the next day.

Every day I felt like I was having to talk her off a ledge for a while there.

Bipolar disorder, like, makes the bad stuff seem...

So bad.

I can't wrestle. I haven't wrestled since 2010.

She really struggled with her self -image.

With medication, she was gaining weight, so she was getting really depressed

about that. That's a really big problem, I think, in entertainment for all

women. Beauty and thinness is a currency. The fans that she was...

So enthralled with and loved, a lot of them started writing some negative stuff

about her.

Someone said, I look like Ozzy Osbourne and Roseanne had a kid.

The Internet can be cruel, and it was really causing her mental anguish.

She was having a lot of physical issues.

She got diagnosed with a thyroid issue, and she was having all these menopausal

symptoms, which makes your bipolar meds not work.

I felt guilt for too long.

She was going through a lot of things that would kind of beat anyone down.

But then COVID hit. Then she was even more isolated.

She would say things like, like, I'm so alone. I don't have anybody. And I'm

like, oh, my gosh, girl, you have so many people.

We always had plans about what we're going to do to get her out of the

that she is in.

She had a new apartment, she had a new job, and she was going back to school.

I talked to her that morning, and everything seemed to be fine.

And that's when the Instagram moment happened.

On the evening of September 1st, 2021, Shannon goes live on Instagram.

I wasn't even really familiar with Instagram Live.

But I just saw that bubble pop up, and it was that.

And I thought, oh.

And just basically talking her suicide note.

She stole her former roommate's gun.

She was saying, you guys got to take care of your brain, take care of your

brain. And she would say, take my brain to Boston, take my brain to Boston.

And I knew that it was a lot more serious than I had initially thought.

I've been a firefighter for 10 years, and I deal with people that are in

every time I go to work.

And she was just, she was in crisis.

She needed help.

I thought maybe about Penn.

20 seconds of it and got up and got dressed and was getting, calling my dad

saying, all right, hey, we need to go to Atlanta.

All of a sudden I started getting a ton of text messages.

When I logged on and she saw my name, she said, I'm sorry.

She goes, I'm going to break my promise.

I immediately went.

Called the police up there.

I'm commenting, saying, Daph, I love you. And then I'm seeing all the

I know. They're all logging in. They're all saying the same thing. You know,

call me.

I went to my cell phone and started calling her over and over

and over again.

I just kept getting the voicemail was full. The voicemail was full. I tried

calling her.

And I...

Calling her and texting her.

And I just knew that if I could get a hold of her, if I could get her to text

back, if I could get her on the phone, then I could make sure everything was

okay. She would listen to me.

But she wouldn't answer her phone.

And then it went black.

And I was just left staring at my phone, not knowing what I had actually

witnessed.

knowing what I had witnessed, but my brain was not allowing me to process.

When me and my dad got there, my mom was already there knocking on the door, and

of course there was no answer.

We had to call the fire department in to calm and knock down the door.

I was on the phone with her mom when they finally broke in.

It was her first night ever.

I was just waiting on the news.

And then when it arrived, it wasn't good.

Fire department came down and said they were sorry, but she had passed, and my

dad was on my left and my mom was on the right, and they both kind of knees

buckled, and I grabbed them, and one of the officers helped me grab them, and it

didn't really dawn on me that at this time she had done it.

I talked to her that morning, and I felt like if I had a chance to talk to her

again, we could have talked it out.

I didn't get a chance to talk her out of it.

I like to believe that she knew how much it hurt me.

She wouldn't have done it.

Even though your brain might be telling you that suicide is the only way,

And that you don't think you're worth it.

The hole that you leave is too much. It's too much to

fill.

I was mad at her because of my daughter.

My daughter knew her as Aunt Shan.

How dare she do this to my daughter? How dare she take Aunt Shan away?

How dare she take my friend away?

I'm driving down the road.

I'm supposed to be chipper. I'm supposed to go to shows. I'm supposed to shake

everybody's hand.

And meanwhile, this person that meant the world to me for years is gone.

Shannon, you were an incredible friend. I just wish you felt comfortable enough

to reach out and talk about the things that were bothering you. And I just wish

you were still here now.

It could be really difficult for Daphne to know how loved she was and

so unfortunate that she felt all alone.

That's why I encourage people to reach out and reach out to their friends.

That's what we're here for.

She was in a very dark place, and it was very real to her.

And that's what mental illness and CTE can look like.

It's like a veil.

She believed she had CTE and she wasn't going to let it be in vain.

God, that is her second grade?

Yeah, second grade or something like that.

She lived in O 'Fallon, Illinois, and that was, I believe, her second grade

picture.

She made an agreement with the University of Boston.

that she was going to donate her brain for research and made me promise

that I would make sure that that happened.

Shannon was going to be the first female brain in their study.

They say that there was CTE, but they don't know how much and to what extent

that it was.

The biggest thing for Daphne in her death was that she wanted to bring

into CTE and to what concussions long -term do and when you're willing to do

anything for wrestling, what can happen to you? We really need

to listen to her message about taking care of your brain.

As a wrestler with bipolar disorder, my brain health comes first.

I saw what it did to Daphne.

The best counselor in the world can't help anybody if they don't want to get

better. Shanna did, and she worked at it, and we fought the good fight.

She was never shy about talking about her bipolar disorder, so I think she'd

happy that we were being honest about it.

While Shanna was still alive, she had started to do some charity work with a

group called NAMI, which deals with mental illness.

It's a great cause, and it's a cause that Shannon was already invested in.

So I feel like giving in her honor and her name just keeps it going.

She did a lot for basically everyone.

It's time to repay.

The outpour of support and love made us realize even more how

special of a person she is and was.

I really don't think you'll ever find anybody in the wrestling business that

could say a bad word about Daphne, especially if you met her personally.

There was not a more giving performer to

her fans than Shannon Daphne.

You look at Daphne as a great character. It was fun. It was different.

But I think the match that epitomizes her as a human being is the match she

with Vicki Lyons.

I was somewhere on the road, and it was 2 a .m., 3 a .m., I couldn't sleep, and

I'm watching Forensic Files, and it's a story about a little girl who was run

over in a parking lot, and the terrible ordeal that this child went through.

I don't like how people make me feel.

It really touched my heart, and so I type in Vicki Lyons, and the first thing

that comes up is Vicki Lyons -Daphne YouTube wrestling match, and I think,

there's no way.

Vicki Lyons had always wanted to be a professional wrestler, and Daphne was

like, you know what? I'm going to teach you, and we're going to have a match.

She obviously had limited physical capabilities, but any time anyone would

her, no, you can't do this, she would look you dead in the eyes and be like,

yes, I can.

What unfolds is like one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in our

sport, and I've been around a long time.

Shannon knew how to make Vicky look like a star, and she damn sure did it.

That's suplex, Daphne.

Gets rocked on that one. Daphne surprised Vicky by putting her over for

victory in her one match that she trained five years for.

In that match, I see everything that's

good and right about professional wrestling.

I think it was just as good for Shannon as it was for Vicky.

It just showed you who she was as a person and what kind of a special heart

had.

I knew that Shannon was liked and loved, but I did not realize how many people

she had touched. It helped a lot.

It helped a lot.

Daphne's legacy is that she taught female professional wrestlers how

to be sisters, to love each other more.

build each other up more, and to look after each other, both inside and

the ring.

David and I were the wrestlers of that crew.

Without question, Daphne is the one that people remember the most.

She oozed positivity.

She was the greatest.

Thank you for just leading by example.

Thank you for being completely an original.

I'm not a religious person at all, but man, she always, always lets me know

she's paying attention to me.

I miss her every day.

I love her more and more every day. I have made it my duty to continue

her advocacy for women in wrestling, women in entertainment, and

for bipolar disorder patients.

I will always talk about you, Daphne.

Daphne is watching. She's always watching.

She's influencing women's wrestling today and forever because that was the

lasting effect she had. She's so missed, and I just want to say thank you,

Daphne, and we love you, and we miss you, and I hope you're proud of us.

Shannon loved her fans. She loved her family.

She loved her friends.

She would always be there for you if you needed her to.

That's what I would want people to remember.

I love that girl, I tell you.

We miss her and we love her.

I always thought we were going to be old and sitting in rocking chairs laughing

at jokes that we didn't have to say anything because we would just look at

other and start laughing.

I hope I did a good job for you.

I hope I did what you wanted. I hope I did a good job for you. And I miss you.

I miss you.

A lot.