Name: Marcie du Toit
Ring Name: Veronique
Hometown: Cyprus
Current Residence: Madison, WI
Birthplace: Nice, France
Height: 5’3″
Weight: 121 lbs
D.O.B.: 03.06.1982
Alignment: Face
Entrance Theme: “Spasm” by Peach
Achievements:
World Wide Web Wrestling Federation (W4F) TV Champion
Atlantic Championship Wrestling Champion
ACW Tag-Team Champion (on her own)
Millennium Wrestling Alliance Legacy Champion
A young woman found on the island of Cyprus in 1999 with no memory and no possessions, bar a name written on a scrap of paper in her pocket. The name Veronique.
The girl struggled to regain her memories and no-one on the island recognised her or claimed to know her. Despondant and lost she found herself approached by an old man who took her in, clothed her, fed her and gave her a job with the small time wrestling promotion he ran.
In time she began some basic wrestling training, only to realise she knew so much already. Memories came flooding back, wrestling moves, martial arts techniques, survival instincts. In no time she found herself competiting in the British Wrestling Alliance during their heyday in the early 2000’s.
When the BWA expanded internationally Veronique was recognised by a man in France. Through this man she came to learn her true identity, that of a French woman presumed dead after she went missing from her home in Nice. Marcie du Toit.
Marcie continued to use the Veronique name for wrestling, Ronnie to her friend Tim Worthington who she had met in the BWA. But in the back of her mind she always wanted to discover more about who she really was.
Unfortunately all she ended up with were dead ends. The man who recognised her could tell her prescious little about her childhood and her family, who had since passed away. Marcie embarked on a quest for more information, which took her to the US and a job with the World Wide Web Wrestling Federation.
She enjoyed success in the W4F, winning their TV Title and getting a shot at the Alliance of Wrestling Federations’ Television Title also. But outside of the ring Marcie kept finding more dead ends. After the W4F came a stint with the International Grappling Alliance as well as a long run as training partner valet for Tim Worthington. And then she started to compete herself in the Millennium Wrestling Alliance in 2006.
At first Ronnie competed in the MWA’s feeder promotion, Atlantic Championship Wrestling. She defeated Andersen to become the first and only ACW World Champion. Then she was set to be teamed with Andersen to go for the ACW Tag-Team Titles, but Andersen walked away from the match and left Ronnie on her own. Despite this she won the match and the Tag straps.
Veronique and Andersen had caught the eye of many people and a call up to the main roster was no surprise. Now they were in a bigger pond but their fierce rivalry continued to grow. The two enemies traded the MWA Legacy Championship several times and it was while competing for this title that answers began to trickle through, memories started to return.
Marcie was having dreams, starting to remember more and more about what happened to her seven years earlier in Cyprus. She remembered being on a wall and falling, crashing against rocks. She remembered that wall being to a Cypriot prison. And she remembered being pushed. But, most of all, she remembered who pushed her.
Aaron Andersen and Marcie du Toit had been married in Cyprus in the late nineties. They had been competing with each other and a relationship blossomed. It was also in Cyprus that Marcie first met Tim Worthington, accidentily running him down in a car accident that, while scared, she blamed her husband for.
Aaron was arrested an imprisoned. Marcie was devastated. In an attempt to make up for what she had done she broke into the prison to release her husband. And it was during their escape that he pushed her off the prison wall, falling onto a rockface before scrambling up the road to collapse in a ditch.
Marcie was overcome with guilt, regret and sadness. She left the MWA soon after and has not competed anywhere since then. Her story had come full circle, although the mystery surrounding the name of Veronique had still not been solved.