Jacqueline Moore

CTL-E-6987 · Person · other · Territory-to-national era · 1990s–2000s

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07859 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6987.

Jacqueline DeLois Moore (born January 6, 1964, in Dallas, Texas) built her foundation in Texas wrestling: trained by Skandor Akbar, she starred in the USWA as “Miss Texas,” becoming the inaugural USWA Women's Champion on March 2, 1992, and holding that championship fourteen times. After a WCW run in 1997–98 managing Harlem Heat, she joined the WWF in 1998 and, in WWE's own formulation, became the first African-American WWE Women's Champion when she won the revived Women's Championship in September 1998; she held it a second time in 2000, and in 2004 became the third woman ever — and the first in WWE — to hold the Cruiserweight Championship, again in WWE's formulation. In 2016 she became the first Black woman inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. She is not related to, and must not be confused with, Carlene Moore-Begnaud, the wrestler Jazz (W-16); the shared surname is coincidence, verified from independent sources for each woman before any fact was written.

The record

• Also known as: Jacqueline DeLois Moore, Miss Texas, Jackie Moore

Notes

Firsts disposition: ASSERTED only in WWE's exact formulations: 'first African-American WWE Women's Champion' (September 1998) and 'third woman ever — and first in WWE — to hold the Cruiserweight Championship' (2004); plus first Black woman in the WWE Hall of Fame (Essence). Birth year 1964 carried (one secondary source says 1966; 1964 is the multiply-supported form). Photo: CLEARED — 'Jacqueline Moore in 2019 (cropped).jpg' (John Manard), CC BY-SA 2.0 per Commons API extmetadata. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): A Texas-bred champion whose two WWE firsts are carried in the promotion's own exact wording, and whose identity is documented separately from Jazz's at every point — the namesake trap is named inside the record itself. Staged 2026-11-03 in packet W (professional wrestling), temp id — merge assigns the next sequential CTL-E id. No CTL-SPE roster id exists for professional wrestling — the AAES roster's wrestling shelf holds only Olympic wrestling and Bobo Brazil (CTL-E-6902). See the packet memo's roster-addition proposal.

Sources

• WWE. “Jacqueline to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2016.” wwe.com. (primary source · build store)
• WWE. “Jacqueline inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame 2016.” wwe.com. (build store)
• Essence. “Black women in wrestling.” essence.com. (build store)
• Wikipedia. “Jacqueline Moore.” en.wikipedia.org. (build store)

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