Dawn Marie Johnston is a former professional wrestler

Professional wrestling

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, better known by her ring name

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, Dawn Marie. She was active in the 1980s and early 1990s. She wrestled primarily in the Japan, National Wrestling Federation

National Wrestling Federation

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 (NWF), World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWF), and Ladies Professional Wrestling Association

Ladies Professional Wrestling Association

The Ladies Professional Wrestling Association was an all-female wrestling promotion which operated in the early 1990s . It was considered a successor to such women's promotions as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , but it differed in that, while GLOW slanted more toward WWF-style sports entertainment...

 (LPWA).

Professional wrestling career

In a six-woman match in Japan during the summer of 1985, Johnston teamed with Desiree Petersen

Desiree Petersen

Desiree Petersen is a professional wrestler. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and once held the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.-Wrestling career:...

 and Dump Matsumoto

Kaoru Matsumoto

Kaoru Matsumoto is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler, known by her ringname Dump Matsumoto, who competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling as one of the leading female wrestlers during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the stable Gokuaku Domei—which included Crane Yu, Condor Saito and...

 against Jaguar Yokota

Jaguar Yokota

is a Japanese professional wrestler and later wrestling trainer, who wrestled under the name . She is widely considered one of the greatest female wrestlers of all time, and, during her heyday in the early 1980s, was considered one of the best wrestlers in the world, irrespective of...

 (Rimi Yokota) and the Jumping Bomb Angels

Jumping Bomb Angels

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 (Noriyo Tateno

Noriyo Tateno

is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who is best known as one half of the tag team Jumping Bomb Angels with Itsuki Yamazaki...

 and Itsuki Yamazaki). The heels

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 controlled from the get go due to a sneak attack before the bell. The faces

Face (professional wrestling)

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 just made brief comebacks during the first 12 minutes. Dump won the match for her team.

In March 1986, she wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the Boston Garden, teaming with Velvet McIntyre against Bull Nakano and Dump Masamoto. She also wrestled as a part of Sensational Sherri's

Sherri Martel

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 team at the Survivor Series

Survivor Series (1987)

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 in 1987.

During the early 1990s, she competed in the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association

Ladies Professional Wrestling Association

The Ladies Professional Wrestling Association was an all-female wrestling promotion which operated in the early 1990s . It was considered a successor to such women's promotions as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , but it differed in that, while GLOW slanted more toward WWF-style sports entertainment...

 (LPWA) and wrestled against Magnificent Mimi

Mimi Lesseos

Mimi Diane Lesseos is an American female professional wrestler, actress, model and stuntwoman best known by her ring name Magnificent Mimi.-Early life:...

, Rustee "The Foxx" Thomas, Kat LeRoux, and Reggie Bennett

Reggie Bennett

Reggie Bennett is an American former professional wrestler. She is best known for her work in joshi puroresu organizations such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:...

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