Professional Wrestling Career
Fury was contacted by Brian Dixon of All Star Wrestling when she was 18 years old. On February 26, 2002, Lisa Fury debuted as a manager for "The Wildcat" Robbie Brookside. Brookside went on to train her. In the summer of 2002, Lisa Fury began her training with Brookside in Kirkdale, Liverpool. After three months of intensive training, Fury was ready for her first match. She wrestled then European Women's Champion, Klondyke Kate.
Lisa Fury wrestled on the independent circuit of England and the rest of Europe for several years. From May 2006, she began touring with the Italian promotion, Nu-Wrestling Evolution, becoming one of its Destiny Girls; she continued to appear in the promotion as part of several tours during 2006 and into 2007.
In the summer of 2007, Lisa competed for the Independent Wrestling Federation at Wrestliada in Moscow, Russia. She was victorious against Russian Ladies Champion Vika Kamentsov in a non-title match.
On the November 13, 2009 episode of WWE SmackDown, Fury, under the ring name Lisa Taylor, lost a match against Beth Phoenix.
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