Nancy Benoit

Nancy Elizabeth Benoit (formerly Daus, Sullivan, Toffoloni; May 17, 1964 – June 22, 2007) was an American professional wrestling manager and model.

She appeared in Florida Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling where she was known under the ring name Woman.

When George Napolitano needed a beautiful young girl for the cover of the June 1984 edition of the pro-wrestling magazine Wrestling All Stars, fellow photographer Bill Otten suggested the 20-year-old Nancy Toffoloni Daus for the role.

Toffoloni, who had worked as a model, often sat alongside her then-husband Jim.

She had also been selling programs at the Orlando shows and appeared as Apartment Wrestler "Para" in Stanley Weston's Sports Review Wrestling magazine.

It was on this shoot where she met Kevin Sullivan, who eventually wanted her to be a part of his wrestling entourage.

After months of convincing, she finally became an on-air valet, taking the ring name "Fallen Angel".

As "Fallen Angel", Toffoloni made her in-ring debut on June 30, 1984, in Miami, Florida, for Florida Championship Wrestling.

Toffoloni became a part of Kevin Sullivan's stable of kayfabe "Satanists", which also included wrestlers The Lock, Luna Vachon, The Purple Haze, and Sir Oliver Humperdink.

Toffoloni and Kevin Sullivan traveled throughout the United States using the "Satanist" gimmick for promotions such as Angelo Savoldi's ICW and Southwest Championship Wrestling.

The two married in 1985.

On August 3, 1985, she wrestled Debbie Combs in Hawaii for NWA Polynesian Wrestling, in which she lost by disqualification.

Nancy Sullivan first appeared in WCW as a "fan" of Rick Steiner named Robin Green, wearing a Steiner T-shirt and large glasses.

She would sit in the audience and would interact with Steiner whenever he appeared.

She eventually turned on him, aligning herself with Kevin Sullivan and adopting the name "Woman" and becoming the manager of Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons).

After leaving Doom, she teamed herself up with Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen.

In late-1993, Nancy and Kevin Sullivan joined the Philadelphia-based promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling, where she reverted to the ring name "Woman".

In December 1993, Sullivan and The Tazmaniac won the ECW Tag Team Championship.

They held the championship until March 1994, when they were defeated by The Public Enemy.

After Sullivan left ECW in spring 1994, Woman began managing The Sandman.

The Sandman's character was estranged from his wife and valet, Peaches, who had left him after he accidentally struck her during a match while temporarily blinded.

Woman drove a wedge between The Sandman and Peaches, convincing him that Peaches was cheating on him with Tommy Cairo.

In keeping with The Sandman's character, Woman would open his beers and light his cigarettes prior to matches.

She began carrying a Singapore cane with which she would strike The Sandman's opponents.

At When Worlds Collide on May 14, 1994, Woman and The Sandman lost to Cairo and Peaches in a Singapore Cane match, after which Peaches caned The Sandman in the groin until Woman threw salt in her eyes, enabling The Sandman to regroup and cane Cairo and Peaches.

In mid-1994, The Sandman began feuding with Tommy Dreamer after he kissed Woman.

The feud culminated in an "I Quit" match on October 1, during which The Sandman was seemingly blinded when Dreamer pushed a lit cigarette into his eye and then caned him in the face.

Following the bout, Woman announced that she was leaving The Sandman as he was now "useless".

After Cairo mocked The Sandman, a guilt-stricken Dreamer challenged him to a match at November to Remember on November 5.

At the same event, Peaches attempted to reconcile with The Sandman.

Woman interrupted the reconciliation, caning Peaches and threatening The Sandman.

After Dreamer came to the ring to stop Woman, The Sandman revealed that he was not in fact blinded and attacked Dreamer, with his estrangement from Woman a ploy to pit Dreamer and Cairo against one another.

In April 1995 at Three Way Dance, Woman again left The Sandman, aligning herself with Shane Douglas.

At Hostile City Showdown on April 15, she helped The Sandman defeat Douglas for his second ECW World Heavyweight Championship by striking him in the knee with a Singapore cane, revealing the turn to have been another ruse.

Following The Sandman's victory, Woman began carrying the ECW World Heavyweight Championship to ringside.

Throughout mid-1995, she helped The Sandman defend his championship in a series of bouts with Cactus Jack.

In September, she began also managing The Sandman's ally, ECW World Television Champion 2 Cold Scorpio.

In late 1995, The Sandman began feuding with Mikey Whipwreck, during which a controversial storyline began in which Woman became visibly aroused while watching The Sandman cane Whipwreck.

In 2007, Benoit and her son Daniel were victims of a murder-suicide committed by her husband, then WWE professional wrestler Chris Benoit.

After graduating from DeLand High School in Florida, Toffoloni got a job answering phones at State Farm Insurance.