World Championship Wrestling (1999–2001) Keibler began watching wrestling with her boyfriend at the time, Kris Cumberland. In September 1999, Keibler entered a nationwide contest that was held by
World Championship Wrestling to find a new member of the
Nitro Girls dance troupe, which was organized in an attempt to boost the show's declining ratings. A total of 300 women participated in the contest; the results were decided by a series of polls on WCW's website, which narrowed down the field to eight finalists. Keibler was declared the winner of the contest on the November 8, 1999 edition of
Nitro after receiving the most online votes out of the eight finalists, and she was given a spot on the dance troupe, along with a $10,000 prize. Her winning routine was watched by 4.4 million viewers. Despite wearing
business suits, her character was known to climb on top of the announcers' table and dance sensually. At 5 feet 11 inches, Keibler was one of the tallest women on WWE's roster between 2001 and 2006. During 2000, she dated
David Flair (both on-screen and off-screen), who was already involved in an on-screen relationship with
Daffney. Ms. Hancock set her eyes on Flair and ended up stealing him away from Daffney and continued to torment the woman whose boyfriend she stole, and the two would feud throughout the Summer of 2000. This led to Keibler's in-ring debut at the
Bash at the Beach in a
Wedding Gown match, which she lost after she removed her own gown. Hancock next briefly feuded with
Kimberly Page, but the storyline ended abruptly when Page quit the company. The angle, however, ended prematurely, as she revealed the pregnancy to be false, broke up with David Flair, and was taken off of television. When Stacy returned in 2001, she dropped the name Ms. Hancock and went by her real name. After this she and Torrie moved on to targeting
Jacqueline and were shown backstage enjoying watching Jacqueline cry over the elimination of Shadrick McGee from
Tough Enough. Stacy and Torrie then defeated Jacqueline in a handicap match on
Raw with help from
Ivory. On the
Heat before
SummerSlam, Stacy along with Torrie and Ivory, brutally attacked Lita backstage by injuring her knee, with the intent of preventing her from competing against them later that night. Stacy also had a brief reunion with Shawn Stasiak, and a short alliance with
Tazz, as they battled the likes of
Spike Dudley and
Tajiri. Stacy found it amusing how short these men were and told Torrie that their height made them lesser men. Torrie had begun dating Tajiri at this time and this caused the evil Stacy to begin an on-screen rivalry with her former friend. The feud started with a couple of mixed tag matches involving the women and included Stacy sneak attacking Torrie backstage on an episode of Raw.
Duchess of Dudleyville (2001–2002) in March 2002 As the
WCW/ECW Invasion was nearing its end, Keibler became the manager of the heel
Dudley Boyz. She made her first appearance in this role on the October 1, 2001 episode of
Raw, and was
nicknamed the "
Duchess of Dudleyville". Keibler's role with the Dudley Boyz came to an abrupt end during
Raw after WrestleMania when she was
powerbombed through a table after accidentally costing the team a match. She then set her sights on the WWE Women's Championship at
Judgment Day, facing Trish Stratus in a losing effort. She faced Stratus several more times in the succeeding weeks, but she never won a match against her.
Mr McMahon's personal assistant (2002) Keibler was originally
drafted to the
SmackDown! brand in 2002, where she immediately set her eyes on the man in charge, the heel WWE chairman,
Vince McMahon.
Dawn Marie made her debut on
SmackDown! as McMahon's legal assistant, who competed with Keibler for McMahon's affections.
Move to Raw and alliance with Test (2002–2003) A key storyline for Keibler's on-screen character occurred when she left
SmackDown! for
Raw. Keibler made her official
Raw debut on August 12, 2002, and immediately began feuding with the women there. She was given the role of being a special referee on a couple of occasions and used them as opportunities to abuse her power. Stacy liked counting quickly when her fellow bad girls were making pin attempts and counted slowly for the fan favorites. In another role as a special referee, Stacy was put in charge of a match between Test and
D'Lo Brown. At the start of the match Stacy slapped D'Lo in the face and hindered his attempts to win the match with slow counts. After D'Lo argued with Stacy about her actions, he was smashed in the face by a big boot from Test, which Stacy thoroughly enjoyed watching. She then made a quick 3 count to help the villain Test win the match. This would begin the on screen pairing between her and Test which would last for the remainder of 2002 and most of 2003. She enjoyed watching him rip apart fan favourites, such as the superhero
Hurricane and would also use her deviousness to help him win matches, such as when she delivered a low blow to
Goldust. As Test's on-screen marketing agent, she came up with the idea that Test should call his fans "Testicles," cut his hair, and reshape his image. This caused the gimmick to become popular with the audience and the couple switched from being villains into fan favorites in November 2002. This would be Stacy's first time as a
babyface in WWE. In the spring of 2003, Test, however, began verbally abusing Keibler, who also started managing
Scott Steiner. After months of build-up, Keibler finally left Test for Steiner on the June 2 edition of
Raw. Steiner defeated Test for Keibler's services at
Bad Blood, and Keibler seemed happy as Steiner's new manager, as the two alluded to having more than a professional relationship. Test, however, continued to harass Keibler and Steiner until Steiner accepted a rematch with Stacy's services on the line. On the August 18 episode of
Raw, Test won the match after faking a leg injury and then blindsiding Steiner with a big boot. A match was then set for
Unforgiven with the stipulation that if Test won, he would not only retain Keibler's services, Steiner then turned heel by attacking Keibler after her interference in his match on the September 29 episode of
Raw backfired. For a time, Test and Steiner worked as a tag team, sharing the services of Keibler as their on-screen
sex slave. She was then placed in a feud involving
Torrie Wilson and then-babyface,
Sable, both of whom had recently posed for a
Playboy cover. Keibler aligned with
Miss Jackie, neither of whom had posed for the magazine, claiming that they deserved to be in
Playboy over Sable and Wilson. Keibler and Jackie challenged Sable and Wilson to a
Tag Team Evening Gown match at
WrestleMania XX, which they lost when Jackie was pinned by Wilson, and the feud was dropped afterward. Before the feud was dropped, all the performers were playing face characters at the time. during a
house show in October 2004 She took over the 2004 Raw Diva Search for a few weeks, which led to several tag matches against the heel gimmicks of
Gail Kim,
Trish Stratus, and
Molly Holly and with partners
Nidia and the face gimmick of
Victoria. Keibler got upset victories over Kim, Stratus, and Holly. She earned a Women's Championship title match on October 11, 2004, but she was defeated by Stratus, who retained the title. Keibler also competed in the first-ever Fulfill your Fantasy
Diva Battle Royal for the WWE Women's Championship at
Taboo Tuesday along with Victoria, Nidia, Gail Kim, Molly Holly,
Jazz, and then-champion Stratus. When Orton challenged
The Undertaker to a match at
WrestleMania 21, Orton ended the relationship by hitting Stacy with an RKO, incapacitating her. He justified it by claiming he was demonstrating how ruthless he could be in order to defeat The Undertaker.
Super Stacy (2005–2006) Keibler then joined forces with
The Hurricane and Rosey. During this time, Keibler's WWE.com profile was moved from
SmackDown! to
RAW, though she never made an appearance on the brand before leaving the company. Keibler's final mention on WWE programming occurred on the March 6, 2006 episode of
RAW, where she was insulted by
Candice Michelle for placing third on
Dancing with the Stars during Michelle's unveiling of her
Playboy magazine cover. After completing her stint on
Dancing with the Stars, Keibler officially parted ways with WWE in July 2006 to move on to other endeavors.
Sporadic appearances and Hall of Fame induction (2011, 2019, 2023) After leaving WWE in July 2006, Keibler made a special guest appearance for WWE's reality show,
Tough Enough in 2011. Being a former
NFL Cheerleader, she helped prepare the contestants to perform publicly in
Universal Studios. On April 6, 2019, Keibler made a surprise return to induct Torrie Wilson into the
WWE Hall of Fame. In 2021, WWE Network listed Keibler as one of the women who made an impact in WWE outside the ring. On March 15, 2023, Keibler was reported to be entering the
WWE Hall of Fame, being confirmed on March 27, 2023. She was inducted by both Mick Foley and Torrie Wilson at the official ceremony ahead of
WrestleMania 39, appearing with fellow inductees on-stage during the second night of the event. == Modeling and acting career ==