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Harley Hamilton

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Career roles

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Professional Wrestler
American Wrestling Alliance
Start date unknown · Current

Personal & Professional Relationships

Family

Current roster placement

Women’s Singles · PrimaryTag TeamWomen’s Tag Team

Teams and factions

Current

Championships & Accomplishments

Promotion history

PromotionStatusRoleDates
American Wrestling AllianceActiveWomen’s SinglesStart date unknown · Currently active

Physical Description

Harley got her looks from her mother(thankfully), but carries herself with a badass swagger that is more synonymous with her famous father. She is an attractive, button-nosed, oval-faced strawberry blonde whose shoulder-length bombshell curls are more strawberry than blonde, giving off an almost pinkish hue. She has pouty lips and striking silver-blue eyes.
Physically, she is muscular, but not bulky. She has the toned, rock hard appearance of an elite athlete. Like her father, she is tattooed, with the phrase “It was her chaos that made her beautiful” inked on her inner right forearm in small script and a small tattoo of blooming flowers and leaves on the left side of her ribcage. On her right collarbone, she has a small, dainty, simplistic tattoo of heavenly bodies...a crescent moon with a flow of stars and the word “Nonpareil” written in thin cursive.

Biography & Background

Harley Hamilton was born into a wrestling family. Her father, Hamilton Graham, was a legendary world champion and widely considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Growing up, Harley was enamored with the sport and idolized her father, often watching him train and perform in the ring. Despite her passion for wrestling, Hamilton discouraged his daughter from pursuing a career in the industry, knowing firsthand the physical and mental toll it can take on a person and their loved ones.
Undeterred, Harley excelled in several sports throughout her youth, particularly basketball. She was a standout player in high school, earning a full-ride scholarship to St. Bonaventure University. During her time at the university, Harley played point guard for the basketball team and became the Atlantic 10's all-time leader in assists and steals.

After graduating from college, Harley decided to forgo a professional career in women’s basketball and follow in her father's footsteps and become a professional wrestler. Despite Hamilton's concerns, he could not dissuade his daughter from pursuing her dream. Instead, he proceeded to enlist the help of some of the greatest trainers in the world, including the legendary Roosevelt Wright and Joshi legend Miyuki Ozaki, to turn his daughter into the absolute best she could be. Under their tutelage, Harley became one of the most promising female wrestlers in the industry.

Harley entered the American Wrestling Association (AWA)'s developmental school, The Combat Corner, where she competed under her real name, Harley Graham. Her impressive training background and pedigree quickly caught the attention of the AWA's management, and she was earmarked for a position on the main roster.

In early 2017, however, Hamilton Graham was fired by the AWA, leaving his daughter devastated and outraged by the unfair treatment of her father. In tribute to him and in protest of the AWA's actions, Harley changed her ring name to Harley Hamilton. She vowed to honor her father's legacy and make a name for herself in the wrestling world on her own terms. With her natural athleticism, impressive skills, and unwavering determination, Harley Hamilton has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in the ring.

In-Ring Style

A gritty, "grind you down" technician in the mold of Greg Valentine or Fit Finlay with the toughness of Harley Race and the ring generalship of a Nick Bockwinkel or William Regal.

Strengths

1. Well trained- Learning under the tutelage of Hamilton Graham, Roosevelt Wright (the only known female student to successfully graduate from his training), and Miyuki Ozaki, Harley has had the best training possible and is unbelievably polished in the ring for someone of her experience level.
2. Psychology - She seems to know just exactly how to push everyone's buttons.
3. The fans - Whether it be their cheers or their boos, Harley thrives and is energized by their reactions and interactions with her.

Weaknesses

1. Trash talking - She runs her mouth a mile a minute and just doesn't stop... often to her own detriment.
2. Pisses off everybody - She seems to make enemies just by existing
3. Arrogance and temper - The combination of having absolute and complete faith in herself and being quick to anger leads Harley to often engage in actions where the possibility of a disastrous failure doesn't seem to cross her mind.

Character & Presentation

Heel. Not inherently evil, but this one’s got one heck of an attitude on her. She’s good and she knows it, but she doesn't have the slightest bit of humility as far as her talents and abilities are concerned. While she is deservedly booed for being egotistical, bratty, entitled and arrogant... there is a growing contingent of young female fans who absolutely adore her, finding her flash and style, affable personality, outgoing nature, take no BS attitude and uncompromising loyalty to her friends very admirable and relatable.

In-Ring Repertoire

Finisher

Hail to the Queen
With her opponent on all fours, Harley steps up off her kneeling opponent’s back and leaps into the air, crushing them on the way down with a double stomp to the back of the head.
Chainsaw Breakfast
After either lifting her opponent across her shoulders into a torture rack or lifting them up for a back suplex, Harley proceeds to flip them over and catches them with a kneelift to the jaw on the way down, all in one swift motion.
The Hot Girl Stunner
A stunner. Definitely an original creation and not stolen from any other wrestler.
Nonpareil” DDT
Standing behind her opponent, Harley grabs her opponent’s outstretched arm and uses it as a fulcrum, performing a somersault and driving them into the canvas with a reverse DDT.

MDK Finisher

The Octopus Clamp
A long forgotten catch wrestling hold taught to her by Roosevelt Wright. It is a variation of an Indian Deathlock and the pioneer to the Scorpion Deathlock, where the tail leg that is usually tucked under the arm is instead tucked between the legs. The result is an elevated inverted Indian Deathlock. Harley then bridges back and the ensuing calf crush is devastating.

Signature Moves

Sad, Beautiful, Tragic
A reverse neckbreaker dropped to one knee, as Harley instantly pops back up to her feet and then smoothly transitions into a spiked DDT
Leaping step-up kneelift to a cornered opponent followed by blown kiss to the crowd followed by a running bulldog headlock out of the corner. Her usual set-up for “Hail to the Queen
Cradle suplex
In tribute to her dear old daddy. Harley’s version of the move has the added twist of rolling back after connecting with the suplex and scissoring the opponent’s free leg, making it even more difficult to kick out. Always good for a flash pin or believable near fall.
Indian Deathlock
Or as Harley insists on calling it… “The Indigenous People’s Leglock”. The deadly leglock that Hamilton Graham used to recapture the World Title from a 19 year old Tommy Fierro is now his baby girl’s favorite submission hold. She’ll use the opportunity to slap and berate her opponent while they’re locked in this hold.
Tornado DDT on the outside of the ring- Often used as an out of nowhere cutoff or momentum killer, Harley has proven that she can pull off this maneuver from just about any situation and off any surface. We’ve seen her doing it while running off the ring apron, diving through the ring ropes, using the ringside barricade as a surface to run up and kick off, etc.

Other Moves

Stiff punches, chops, kicks, and forearm strikes
Busting heads and opening up eyebrows runs in the family.
No-look, back turned to the opponent springboard crossbody block
Done as a counter to being whipped into the corner or to the ropes. Although physically impressive, the alert or tactical wrestler will usually dodge or counter this quite easily.
Kick combination
Harley hits a superkick to the knee to drop her opponent into a kneeling position followed by a roundhouse kick followed by a knee lift. She will then finish off the combo with either a cradle suplex for the pin or a bicycle kick for a knockout blow.
The Atomic Skull Crusher
A bionic elbow, sometimes delivered to the back of the head.
Cartwheel evasion, sometimes while standing on the top rope
Rolling butterfly suplexes
Half crab w/ stomps to the head
Lifting her opponent’s head off the canvas and smashing them with a headbutt after they kicked out of a pin and immediately going for another pin
Reverse DDT onto the knee
Wind-up leaping elbowdrop
Russian legsweep transitioned into a Peruvian necktie choke
Penalty kick to the chest of an opponent standing on the floor while running across the ring apron.
Grinding a forearm into her opponent's face during pin attempts
Catch opponent’s leg -> spinning back elbow
Rolling snapmare followed by running into the ropes and hitting her seated opponent with a forearm smash or coming to a complete stop and slapping them across the face
Abdominal stretch w/ palm strikes to the opponent's exposed face and ending with Harley pulling up on the outside leg to stretch her opponent further
Flipping over the turnbuckles, landing on the ring apron, running across and climbing to the top rope before flying off with a diving clothesline or being slammed off the top by her opponent
Yakuza kick
Superwoman forearm smash
Done in the same motion as a Superman punch, Harley leaps into the air and smashes home a devastating forearm across her opponent's jaw
tree-of-woe dropkick
She'll often start this off by taunting and slapping her opponent and then going to the opposite corner and making a big show of it before delivering the dropkick
Masochistic tendencies
Harley has a tendency to dare her opponents to hit her harder if she doesn't think they're giving her their all
Arguing with the referee
They're always wrong and against her and it's so unfair, you know.
Hugging Casey Cash
Who wouldn't?
Smooching an opponent to distract them
Using the ring as a weapon
Tutored by some of the very best in the world, Harley knows every single inch of the squared circle. She can expertly use the ropes, turnbuckles, ring steps, ring apron, steel posts and even the ringside barriers as a weapon. Harley feels she is always at an advantage, as the ring essentially acts as her tag team partner.

Archive record

Indexed show matches
66

Name-based matches across archived shows.

First Indexed Appearance

Power Hour

April 8, 2017 · American Wrestling Alliance

These are exact indexed-name matches, not editorially verified appearances. Mentions, common names, or aliases can create false positives.