Nitro Girl Fyre (Teri Byrne)

Teri Byrne started out competing as a fitness model. She joined WCW's original Nitro Girls as Nitro Girl Fyre on July 14, 1997, and stayed with them until 1999.

Byrne met Kimberly Page, who worked out in the same gym. Kimberly approached her with the idea of joining her new Nitro Girl troupe. Teri wowed everyone at the audition and got the position. Two weeks later, she and six other complete strangers debuted on NITRO. 

Fyre

Her family and friends were obviously shocked that she was going to dance for a wrestling company after spending 5 years at a cushy mortgage company job. "I was always the straitlaced good kid out of all my siblings. Everyone thought I went off the deep end."

She appeared in a non-nude Nitro Girls pictorial in the September 1998 issue of Penthouse, along with Melissa Bellin, Chae An, and Kimberly Page.

For two and a half years 'Fyre' appeared on Monday nights with the Nitro Girls until January 2000. At that time, with a change in the WCW management, as well as troupe leadership (Kimberly left the Nitro Girls), Byrne decided it was time to move on.

Teri Byrne

 "The concept of the troupe changed, and the direction they wanted to take the girls in really changed. It was too difficult for me to go along with those changes. Being one of the originals, I really put my heart and soul into the group, and I didn't feel good about what was being done. One week we're excited to be back and dancing, the next I'm getting mashed potatoes thrown at me and I'm wrestling."

Disappearing for almost a year, Byrne resurfaced with several other ex-Nitro Girls (Spice, Paisley, Tygress, and Chae) to begin a singing career with their new group called Diversity 5.

She then opened a website as a model but shut it down after a couple of years.

Byrne is currently single and living in Charlotte, North Carolina. For the last nine years she has worked for the University of Phoenix; two years in Atlanta as Enrollment Manager, then three years in Augusta, Georgia as director of enrollment before becoming regional director of enrollment for the Southeast region.

• Diamond Dallas Page was married to the original and head Nitro Girl Kimberley.  

• Shawn Michaels married Nitro Girl "Whisper" (Rebecca Curci).

• Booker T married Nitro Girl "Spice" (Sharmell Sullivan). 

• George Clooney is currently dating Nitro Girl "Skye" (Stacy Keibler).

• But for some reason Nitro Girl Fyre (Teri Byrne) was my favourite!