and during her time at LAW.
The highlight reel is a fan-edit made up of clips from the bigger fuller-length biopic. It's begun to make rounds on social media.
We open up at a convention center. Kat is on a small panel of wrestlers doing a Q&A session. Several fans in attendance raise their hands to ask a question.
"You, towards the middle. I thiiiink you were first. Go for it!"
"So at the risk of sounding out of pocket, your current look at LAW is lovely but to me it's always begged the question "How in the world does Kat Hart avoid wardrobe malfunctions?!"
"Heheheh!" Laughter filled the atrium, Kat's laughter included. She slowly composed herself, grabbing her mic at the table in front of her.
"You don't have to take that one." One of the staff advised. But Kat insisted
"No, no, it's a legit question! I've got it. I've got it......"
"So, Sir, you'd be surprised....you'd be surprised how far you can make it in this world with just a little bit of a body glue or boob tape. AND A DREAM!" Laughter ensure once more as Kat balled her fist to commit to her delivery here with a semi-serious tone.
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We cut to a segment near the beginning of the documentary. We follow Kat through what seems to be an abandoned, run down building. Little remains of it but drywall, concrete, and foundation. She occasionally knocks on the odd wall. Even with large chunks of the ceiling missing, it's clear that the building couldn't have been too big. Maybe about as big as as a small department store. As the masked woman navigates what seems to be mostly debris and wreckage she narrates her walk and exploration to the viewer.
"So, if you went through the hassle of getting this documentary, maybe you brought it, maybe you found it through other means in shady places on the internet. Point is, if you invested time, effort, or money into getting this then it's only fair that I take the time and effort to share with you things about myself that you might not know, already....things like...my hometown...." She put her arms out to take it all in.
"What you see here is the very first place I started to actually train and take up pro wrestling....or at least, what's left of it. It was smalltime. House of Gains and Professional Wrestling it used to be called. And this city....? St. Louis, Missouri."
"If you've ever cyber stalked me and seen images of me in cowgirl outfits and the like, it's cause I'm from the Midwest. Fun fact: it took me a few years to learn to kick the accent, haha." She continued walking. Amidst wreckage, you could see some of the old chains that used to hold up some of the sandbags.
"I've got a lot of love for this place. For my old gym and for this city. It was here that I ironed out a lot of my workout regiments. A lot of them I still follow to this very day. I never skip leg day, as you can probably tell. It was here that I wrestled my first few matches. The old wrestling trope is that when you're first starting out in the indies, they make you wrestle for fifty dollars and a hotdog...hey tropes come from somewhere, right? That's how it was for me. Wrestling for handshakes and chump change, grinding and learning where I could." Hart would shrug.
"My first few matches, I was making peanuts. But the free meal every now and then was nice." She peered through a doorway that was lacking a door. She pointed down the street.
"You know, about fifteen-twenty blocks that way was my folk's old shop. Mom, she would always hate seeing me come back sore or bruised from training and from wrestling. Dad was always encouraging. He always saw something in me....Mom and Pop ran a pharmacy down there. I could pass highschool chemistry, but I wasn't cut obviously wasn't cut out for the family business, you know? I was always better at applying holds than I was at applying formulas, haha..." There was a clear sentimental tone. But before we could take it in with her, the next clip came
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Kat narrated over several clips of her time in the ring and backstage at USWW, United States Women's Wrestling.
"I worked quite a few promotions after moving away from home to do this wrestling thing. I was on the road a lot. Most fans today know me for my time in Mexico. It's by far where I had the most success before coming to LAW. It's also where I came into my own as The Super Kitty. It's here I discovered the gimmick. But my first big break, and just as important to me was my time in USWW."
"A lot of savvy fans know that's where I first met Alaina. Now, there's a woman that never changes. And I mean that in the best possible and most loving way. She's one of the very first women I truly and genuinely looked up to in wrestling. I still do, to this very day. Back in USWW, we'd had chats for hours on end about the industry, about life. I think the biggest "upset" win of my career was when I first managed to beat The Amazon wayyyy back in the day when I was still coming up. Now granted, she did end up settling the score. Alaina went on to beat me for the USWW Championship. But what was most valuable to me in my time at USWW wasn't any one match. It was the chance to network. To meet the right people, meet and impress the bigger names out there. Make them take notice of me way back when so that I could pay my dues and become a big name, myself."
"I met the men women who would help impart wisdom and experience in that molded me into who I am today. Women like Alaina Sanders, my old manager Mina Diaz, my old... I'll say mentor...Lydia Donelle...."
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In a sit-down interview, a few open-ended questions steer Kat toward certain subject matters.
"So, Kat, during your time in Mexico, which match would you say stuck with you the most? It could be a big win, a big loss. Just something that you still look back on to this day."
"Hmmmmm...." The Super Kitty put her hands together and contemplated.
"Well, it's hard to narrow down because I wrestled at a few different places down south and south of the border for about ten years. I was going back and forth between the South and Mexico because I was still with USWW for a while. I spent a lot of time on the road but I also made time to share locker rooms with many wrestler, to learn what I could, to pay my respects where I could." Different highlights and visuals accompanied her response as she went into detail. Clips of her driving, entering different motels, entering different arenas, suiting up in different locker rooms, etc.
"Out of all the places I wrestled during that leg of my career, I had the strongest attachment to a place called Lucha Libre Alianza. Mina Diaz, my manager at the time, worked with me, interviewed me, and did the costume design for me to debut as The Super Kitty. And one of friends that at the time that would routinely fly down to train with me and so forth, was Lydia."
"Lydia used to train with me even before I started at LLA. She said she saw something in me. Wanted me to be safe and avoid having my career derailed by injury. She was actually pretty motivating. I guess that's how she draws you in when you're on her good side. And to her credit, she taught me a bunch of useful hints and tips that I still use to this day. But there's a lesson she imparted on me that was even bigger. See, for all of her encouragement and mentoring, Lydia only ever wrestled me in a match just one time." Hart raised her index finger towards the interviewer off screen.
"In retrospect, that just makes sense. She traveled the world wrestling all over. Didn't retire until she hit thirty. She always had somewhere to be. But even though she had time to occasionally check up on me and to train with me, she'd always shoot me down when I asked for match...."
"Eventually we did wrestle. And coming back to your question, my match with her stuck with me the most. I still remember it vividly to this day"
"Picture this. The Super Kitty has a historic debut in a major promotion in Mexico. The crowd loves it. On that night, I won the LLA Championship, their top belt at the time. I was even more of a workhorse back then. I was defending that thing week in and week out. I was selling out the arena each and every time. Anyone that's followed me for several years knows that I used to come out to this song called "back2back". And the song was given to me because the kids would always say that I pick up back to back wins....a whole 20 of them, defending this belt! But then we get to defense number 21...."
"Lydia Donelle flies down and shows up unannounced. She meets me in the center of the ring. We promo back and forth and agree to wrestle for the title the very next week. I was on a roll and she didn't want to throw off my rhythm. Like I said, she can actually be quite nice when she wants to be. It's bizarre. The whole time she was super pleasant. Even that crowd liked her at the time."
"I want you at your best!"
"Let's blow the roof off this place!"
"It's gonna be a 6 star match!"
"All this hype stuff. But the fight night comes a week later and from bell to bell, Donelle is just taking every shortcut, every low road. Forget bending rules, she was straight up playing by her own set of rules. And I remember it vividly because it stuck with me. My training sessions with her were honest spars. But this match? I open up looking for a test of strength, I lock one hand with her, and with her other hand? Eye poke. I get locked up in her Serpent's Purgatory Torture Rack and manage to grab the ropes? She bends my spine wayyyy past what should have been the 5-count. She knew no one wanted to see a DQ finish."
"Every time I got some steam going, she had something ready for me, something illegal. But the worst part was how it all ended."
"At the time, I thought the referee made a mistake and stood too close to the action when Lydia hit that move she does, "Needle Break", she calls it. My legs swiped the official on the way down, but when I watched it back, it was clear she did it on purpose. The ref goes down. I get up. She goes for my mask, needless to say that the lady wasn't looking to make any friends that night. And while I'm stuck fixing my mask and doing what I can to keep it on my face, Lydia punts me between the thighs. I couldn't even process the rest in real time. One Rainer Drop later and it was the end of the night for me....."
"She took their top title and hightailed it out of there. I didn't even get a chance to see her leave. I was knocked out. Her finisher is no joke."
"I called, I texted, I emailed. Nothing. I spent actual time and money traveling, trying to chase her down all over just to get a rematch out of her. I was young, and a lot less aware of how my actions affected those around me...a year and change later, girl retired. Suddenly leaving LLA like that left them high and dry with no credible top champion and no one to fill either of our shoes....within the same year she retired, the promotion closed down."
"All those years she trained with me, taught me to how to avoid injury, how to get in touch with the right people. All that time she spent helping me become somebody in wrestling, it was all leading to that one match. She raised me up like cattle so she could feast on me when I peaked. But...I didn't peak. Honestly, I still haven't. I learned from my match with her. I took one final lesson from her that day."
"What Lydia taught me in that match was that....when the bell rings, the man or woman standing across the ring with you will show you who they really are. They'll show their true colors..."
"I never got my rematch with Lydia. So imagine..."
"Imagine the look on my face when I see she signed with LAW and came over to my neck of the woods, heh...."
"Lydia, I dunno if you're here to mess with me or to get your sick kicks some other way, but mark my words. If you plan to stick around at LAW, I will not rest until I settle the score with you. LAW is Super Kitty territory. And you can only slither 'round here for so long before I manage to corner you and settle the score. It's been ten years in the making. But I WILL get my rematch." Kat looks intently at the camera. It was clear her words came from the heart. It was clear this rivalry was very personal to her. If and when she managed to get ahold of Lydia again, the world at large would find it exactly how personal.
Our clip ends there, intentionally cut to for the sake of playing up tension. In time, copyright strikes would remove it from various mediums. But by then it would already be too late. Bits and pieces of Kat's past were now public domain. And pressure fell on Lydia to explain her dubious actions from back in the day.....
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