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{{short description|Professional wrestling tag team}}
{{Infobox Wrestling team
|article_name=Team Blondage
|type=T
|members=
|former_members=[[Kristin Eubanks|Kristin Astara / Krissy Vaine]]<br>[[Amber O'Neal]]<br>[[Jaime Lynne|Lollipop]]
|names=Team Blondage<br>Team Blondage 2.0
|hometown= [[North Carolina]]
|debut=2004
|disbanded= 2010
|}}

'''Team Blondage''' was a [[professional wrestling]] [[tag team]] that consisted of real life friends [[Amber O'Neal]] and [[Kristin Eubanks|Krissy Vaine]]. They are mostly known for their work in [[Shimmer Women Athletes]], where they were the first tag team ever formed in the promotion's history.

==Career==

===Team Blondage===
After an injury Amber Holly returned to the ring on May 16, 2004, adopting the ring name Amber O'Neal and the [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick|gimmick]] of a [[motocross]] racer.<ref name=steve>{{cite web|url=http://www.gerweck.net/amberonealinterview.htm|title=Interview with Amber O'Neal|author=Gerweck, Steve|publisher=Gerweck|accessdate=2008-12-08|date=November 14, 2004|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120162228/http://www.gerweck.net/amberonealinterview.htm|archivedate=November 20, 2008}}</ref><ref name=glory>{{cite web|url=http://www.glorywrestling.com/gg/AmberHolly/AH.asp|title=Amber O'Neal's profile|publisher=GLORY|accessdate=2008-12-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123034833/http://glorywrestling.com/gg/AmberHolly/AH.asp|archivedate=2009-01-23}}</ref> She changed her name because of her respect for [[Nora Greenwald]], who used the ringname Molly Holly.<ref name=gloryint>{{cite web|url=http://www.glorywrestling.com/News/20040418.asp|title=Amber Holly/O'Neal Talks To G.L.O.R.Y.|publisher=GLORY|author=Rules, Joe|accessdate=2008-12-08|date=April 18, 2004}}</ref> Greenwald helped O'Neal in her tryout matches with [[WWE|World Wrestling Entertainment]].<ref name=gloryint/>

In late 2004, O'Neal formed a [[tag team]] with [[Kristin Eubanks|Krissy Vaine]] known as Team Blondage.<ref name=steve/> The team wrestled primarily on the North Carolina [[independent circuit]], appearing with [[Professional wrestling promotion|promotions]] such as [[Shimmer Women Athletes]] and Women's Extreme Wrestling. Team Blondage defeated Cle-ho-patra and Navaho to win the vacant WEW Tag Team Championship on May 8, 2005 at the WEW [[pay-per-view]] "No Ho's Barred". In the course of their reign, Vaine signed a contract with WWE. Vaine was subsequently replaced within Team Blondage by [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] alumna [[Jaime Lynne|Lollipop]]. On the April 6, 2006 WEW pay-per-view, O'Neal and Lollipop lost the WEW Women's Tag Team Championship to T and A ([[Velvet Sky|Talia]] and [[April Hunter]]).

===Team Blondage 2.0===
After a long term hiatus prior leaving WWE and the wrestling business for over a year, it was announced that Krissy Vaine decided to return to the wrestling industry and reunite with her Team Blondage partner, Amber O'Neal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wrestlingnewscenter.blogspot.com/2008/12/krissy-vaine-returning-team-blondage.html|title = Krissy Vaine Returning - Team Blondage Back Together (?)}}</ref> They have now announced themselves to be dubbed, Team Blondage 2.0. They would go on to win their return match they have won against the Scream Queens ([[Daffney]] and [[MsChif]]).

== Championships and accomplishments ==
*'''Women's Extreme Wrestling'''
**WEW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - O'Neal and Vaine (1) and O'Neal and Lollipop (1)<ref name=lethal>{{cite web|url=http://www.lethalwow.com/bios/amber.htm|title=Amber's profile|publisher=LethalWOW|accessdate=2008-12-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211162829/http://www.lethalwow.com/bios/amber.htm|archivedate=2008-12-11}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Women's wrestling teams and stables]]
[[Category:Independent promotions teams and stables]]

Team Blondage - Revision history

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