Early career (1975–1985) Seymour began training with
The Fabulous Moolah in 1975 after she finished high school. as in the
Hawaiian language Leilani translates to "heavenly flowers" and Kai translates to "ocean water". Early in her career Kai was tag team partners with The Fabulous Moolah, her first recorded match was a tag team match on the 20 June 1975, in which she and Moolah defeated Sheila Shepherd and
Sue Green. Throughout the 1970s Kai faced multiple women including
Donna Christanello,
Joyce Grable, Judy Mansfield, Kitty Adams, Sylvia Hackney, Terri Shane,
Toni Rose,
Vivian St. John and most notably
Vicki Williams who she feuded with through the majority of 1975. In 1977 she faced The Fabulous Moolah in a losing effort, in her first singles championship match for the
NWA World Women's Championship. She began tag teaming with Pepper LaBianco in 1978 where they challenged for the
NWA World Women's Tag Team Championship on multiple occasions. '''All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (1980–1986)''' On 17 May 1980 Kai wrestled her first match for
AJW in a 6-woman tag team match, teaming with Joyce Grable and Mami Kumano in a no contest against Ayumi Hori,
Jackie Sato and Lucy Kayama. Kai's first singles match for the promotion saw her face Mami Kumano which ended in a double count out. Kai wrestled for AJW until June 1980, sometimes wrestling for 8 to 9 days in a row. She returned to the promotion briefly in February 1981 before debuting for the
World Wrestling Federation in March 1981. Kai made sporadic returns between the years of 1982–1984, including appearing on the 14 June 1982 episode, where she returned to the company teaming with
Devil Masami and Wild Kazuki defeating the team of
Lioness Asuka, Mimi Hagiwara and Yukari Omori. She lost the title back to Nagayo in an April 1987 rematch.
World Wrestling Federation (1981–1989) Kai made her debut for the WWF on March 27, 1981, where she and The Fabulous Moolah defeated the team of Jill Fontaine and Suzette Ferreira, Kai and Moolah entered a feud with Fontaine and Ferreira, appearing regularly for the WWF. Majority of Kai's matches in her early WWF career consisted of tag team matches alongside Moolah, the villainous duo feuded with multiple different female tag teams. She continued to make various appearances for
American Wrestling Association,
Georgia Championship Wrestling,
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and
Mid South Wrestling among other territories. She began working with different women wrestlers including; Black Venus,
Peggy Lee,
Princess Victoria,
Velvet McIntyre and
Wendi Richter. In 1983 she, alongside The Fabulous Moolah, were involved in a long feud with Princess Victoria and Susan Starr trading victories back and forth. As a result, in early 1985, Kai who had been trained by Moolah, challenged Richter and defeated her for the WWF Women's Championship at
The War to Settle the Score, in
Madison Square Garden, with Moolah in her corner and
Cyndi Lauper in Richter's corner. On the March 8, 1985 episode, of
WWF Tuesday Night Titans, was interviewed by
Vince McMahon on her championship win. Kai and Richter feuded, involving American singer, songwriter Cyndi Lauper managing Richter and Moolah managing Kai. Kai defeated Richter multiple times on WWF
house shows, their feud culminated when Kai lost the belt to Richter at the first-ever
WrestleMania in the semi-main event. Their match was a part of the WWF's ''
Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection'', an era of wrestling that combined both mainstream music and professional wrestling. Kai went on to challenge Richter for the title multiple times but failed to regain the belt. Kai was then paired with
Judy Martin, the duo won the
WWF Women's Tag Team Championship from the team of
Desiree Petersen and Velvet McIntyre in Egypt in August 1985. Kai and Martin went on to feud with multiple women's tag teams including; Candice Pardue and
Penny Mitchell, and the team of Angie Minelli and Theresa DuBois. In June 1987 they began feuding with
The Jumping Bomb Angels (
Itzuki Yamazaki and
Noriyo Tateno) competing in multiple tag team matches, in November 1987 Kai and Martin officially became known as
The Glamour Girls, undergoing an image change involving bleaching her dark hair platinum blonde and being managed by
Jimmy Hart. Kai and Martin continued to feud with The Jumping Bomb Angels, facing the team in a
two out of three falls match at the
1988 Royal Rumble event, in which The Jumping Bomb Angels defeated The Glamour Girls capturing the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in June 1988 at an AJW event. Infamously Kai reported The Fabulous Moolah told Kai and Martin they were regaining the tag team championship belts as ordered by WWF higher-ups, once Kai and Martin won the belts,
Pat Patterson called them telling them they had "screwed up" the WWF's plans and that they had lost out on a match at
WrestleMania V, which would have been all four wrestlers biggest pay days to date. Kai and Martin held the tag team championship belts until 1989, when they were defunct after the company lost interest in having a women's division. The championship was abandoned when the promotion closed. She appeared on the March 22, 1997 episode, of
WCW Saturday Night, in a losing effort to
Malia Hosaka, after the match Kai and Hosaka were both attacked by
Luna Vachon. She lost to Madusa on the July 26, 1999, episode of
WCW Monday Nitro where she performed under the ring name Patty Stone Grinder. Her final televised appearances with the company were in backstage segments on the November 29, 1999 episode, of
WCW Monday Nitro with
Rhonda Singh in the women's locker room, and in a food fight with
Fyre and
Paisley, resulting in Kai choking on her food before being saved by
Juventud Guerrera. Kai was booked to wrestle
Brandi Alexander or
Mona, on an episode of
WCW Monday Nitro in late 1999. Once she arrived to the building she was greeted by
Vince Russo, who informed Kai she was facing her opponent in a
mud-match for a segment involving
Lex Luger and
Miss Elizabeth. Kai infamously stood up to Russo telling him to go and fuck himself, refusing to wrestle in a mud-match.
Bret Hart, agreeing with and defending Kai, witnessed the altercation. Kai grabbed her belongings and left the arena, refusing to work for the WCW ever again.
World Wrestling Federation (1994) In 1994, Kai made a brief return to the WWF challenging then WWF Women's Champion,
Alundra Blayze. Kai and Blayze had several matches at WWF house shows. Kai went on to face Blayze at
WrestleMania X for the WWF Women's Championship in a losing effort. Kai was the only wrestler to wrestle on both
WrestleMania I and
WrestleMania X. She faced Blayze multiple times on house shows in the following months, before exiting the WWF again in May 1994.
Independent circuit and retirement (1991–2015) Between the years of 1991 to her retirement in 2004 Kai worked mostly on the independent circuit. Kai traded the NWA Mid-Atlantic Women's Championship with Strawberry Fields in 2000, holding the belt a total of three times. On March 12, 2003, she defeated Madison to win the
NWA World Women's Championship in a dark match on a
TNA pay-per-view. She successfully defended the championship at the
NWA 55th Anniversary Show against AJ Sparx in October 2003. She was later stripped of the championship by then NWA President Bill Behrens on June 19, 2004, after Kai
no-showed several events. On September 5, 2013, it was announced that Kai would debut at Pro Wrestling Syndicate Bombshells against
Sumie Sakai, she was defeated by Sakai on September 28. In May 2014 Kai defeated Chelsea Diamond for the FCW Women's Championship, that same month she appeared on
West Coast Wrestling Connection slapping Kylie Sutton for implying she was old. The following week Kai was scheduled to face Sutton in a match, but after refusing to participate, she forced her manager
Jonny Fairplay to take her place. Sutton won the match by disqualification after Kai entered the ring attacking her before referees pulled her off. Her final match was a losing effort to
Leah Von Dutch at the
SHINE 31 pay-per-view in December 2015, she subsequently retired from professional wrestling. After becoming less active in-ring, she began training female wrestlers including
Amber O'Neal. She served as a trainer for the California-based
Women of Wrestling. In 2016 Kai was officially inducted to the
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, It was later announced she had signed an official
legends contract with the company. She made a second appearance on July 13, during the
Evolution pay-per-view, being officially recognized as one of the pioneers of WWE's women's evolution alongside several other WWE female legends. After the event she received her first ever professional wrestling t-shirt, which sold out from
WWE.com in less than a month. Kai appeared on an episode of
NXT in September 2025. == Personal life ==