Cathy Allison Corino (born March 31, 1977) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager, better known by her ring name, Allison Danger.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (2000–2002)

Corino's older brother Steve Corino is a professional wrestler as well, and while working for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) he introduced his sister to the ECW locker room. Corino befriended Francine, a manager for ECW, and in May 2000 Francine and Corino attended an IWA Reading wrestling show in Reading, Pennsylvania together. ECW alumnus The Sandman's wife Lori (who usually accompanied him to ringside) was unavailable, so The Sandman invited Corino to substitute for her. Corino accepted at the urging of Francine and enjoyed the experience so much that she worked for the same company again several weeks later.

The next month, she joined the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF) and began training under Rapid Fire Maldonado and her brother in the IWA Cruel School in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Corino adopted the persona of Allison Danger, a tattooed punk. Her first match was a mixed tag match with Rapid Fire as her partner in Reading. Danger and Maldonado continued to team together, and on March 24, 2001, in Plainfield, New Jersey they won the IWF Tag Team Championships in a four-way tag match. After Maldonado suffered an injury, Biggie Biggs replaced him as Danger's partner. They lost the titles to Hadrian and Damian Adams on September 16, 2001, in West Orange, New Jersey.

Throughout 2003 Danger worked for Jersey All Pro Wrestling and IWA Mid South. Between July and August 2003, she toured Japan, replacing her friend Daffney who had to pull out at the last moment.

At the Volume 37 tapings, Danger formed a tag team with Leva Bates known as Regeneration X, defeating Jamilia Craft and Mia Yim in their first match together. Danger later received her first championship match in Shimmer when she and Bates challenged Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara for the Shimmer Tag Team Championship at Volume 45. However, they were not successful in winning the titles. At Volume 48, Regeneration X received another opportunity at the titles as part of a four-way elimination tag team match, and at Volume 52 against Danger's previous rivals the Canadian NINJAs. They were unsuccessful in these matches as well.

On April 9, 2013, Shimmer announced that Danger would be retiring from in-ring action after the following weekend's events. Danger wrestled her final match on April 14, 2013 on Volume 57. She and Leva Bates defeated Ayako Hamada and Cheerleader Melissa in a tag team match via reversed decision, when Melissa refused to release a submission hold on Danger. Post-match, Danger revealed that she had suffered a stroke the previous January, after which lesions were found in her brain; though they were not life-threatening, she was forced to end her in-ring career.

WWE (2021–2022)

On October 8, 2021, it was reported that Corino was signed by WWE as WWE Performance Center coach, after having been a guest coach at the facility in May of the same year. Joining her brother Steve Corino, at that time trainer and producer, Allison Corino was highly acclaimed on her job with the female recruits; however, her stint was cut short when she was released from her contract on January 5, 2022. In an interview conducted with Renee Paquette in July 2022, Corino stated that her stint in WWE had left her in financial and emotional ruin, as taking on the job required her to rent a new home in Florida just after her husband had purchased a new house in the Carolinas. When WWE released her just three months into the new job, Corino was left unemployed in a state she had no connection to and stuck in a lease she could not break. On July 9, it was confirmed that Corino joined Maria Kanellis' new promotion Women's Wrestling Army (WWA) as a coach.

Personal life

Corino attended Perkiomen Valley High School in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where she was a cheerleader and took part in field hockey, softball and track running. After graduating from high school, she played ice hockey for two years.

Corino married Swiss professional wrestler Marco Jaggi, known professionally as Ares, in 2008. The show is co-hosted by her SHIMMER colleague Amber Gertner who appears as the backstage interviewer for the promotion.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Cauliflower Alley Club
  • Women's Wrestling Award (2024)
  • Independent Wrestling Federation
  • IWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rapid Fire Maldonado
  • International Catch Wrestling Association
  • ICWA Ladies Championship (1 time)
  • New Breed Wrestling Association
  • NBWA Women's Championship (1 time)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked No. 21 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2008
  • Pro Wrestling WORLD-1
  • WORLD-1 Women's Championship (1 time)
  • World Class Extreme Wrestling / ThunderGirls
  • WCEW/ThunderGirls Divas Championship (1 time)
  • World Association of Wrestling
  • WAWW World Championship (1 time)
  • World Xtreme Wrestling
  • WXW Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alere Little Feather

Notes

References

  • Allison Danger at OnlineWorldofWrestling.com
  • Interview with Alan Wojcik
  • Interview with Steve Gerweck
  • Solie's title histories
  • Allison Danger's Japanese Journal
  • Allison Danger's podcast at Diva-Dirt.com
  • The Allison Danger European Wrestling Tour 2007