Meet the wrestler: Dixie Doyle

Provided by: Fusion Pro Wrestling
Contributed by: Anthony Welch/YourHub.com on 3/20/2006

After receiving a video game from her mother’s friend when she was 13, Courtney Schultejann was hooked on professional wrestling.

Seven years later, the 20-year-old Louisville resident takes on the big guys for real and mom’s not happy.

“My mom’s not too excited about it because I’m her little girl,” Schultejann said. My friends think it totally fits my personality.”

Schultejann has trained at the Altitude Pro Wrestling Academy in Aurora for eight months. Wrestling under the name Dixie Doyle, she has excelled rapidly in the sport and has proved herself as a top-notch performer in Fusion Pro Wrestling.

“When I first got started, I was so excited,” Schultejann said. “I was actually trying to hide how teed up I was just to be in the ring. It was really exciting.”

Schultejann credits Altitude trainers Billy Roberts and Jeff Michaelis for her success.

“Billy and Jeff are great trainers,” she said. With their guidance, I’m just going to get better. They’re great at what they do.

Schultejann is the only female on the Fusion roster, but that doesn’t faze her. She refuses to be intimidated.

“Even when I first got started, I told them I didn’t want to be treated like the only girl there,” she said.

The 2004 Monarch High School graduate says the only challenge she’s faced with wrestling is learning new ways to improve. Schultejann has her sights set on the big time – she wants to wrestle for World Wrestling Entertainment. So, she won’t settle for lackluster performances in the ring.

“I’m really hard on myself,” she said.

Schultejann recalls being extremely nervous before her first Fusion match. But the nervousness didn’t last long.

“Everyone was telling me to calm down and that I was going to be fine,” she said. “Afterwards, I was glowing. I was so excited

Schultejann wakes up at 4 a.m. to work out daily. She then works as an office manager at TransCentral Management. She wraps up her evening with training sessions at Altitude.

“I’m just trying to get myself out there and get as much experience as I can,” she said.

There’s an added bonus to being the only female that competes in the ring.

“It always feels good to beat up on the guys. I love the fan reaction of a girl beating up one of the guys,” she said.