There’s a kind of woman who glides into the squared circle like a neon ghost with unfinished business, all hips and venom, wrapped in spandex and bad intentions. Penelope Ford, born Olivia Hasler, isn’t just another pretty face in pro wrestling’s fever dream. She’s the smoke from the last cigarette in a room with no windows—blinding, bold, and guaranteed to linger.
She didn’t fall into wrestling. She dripped into it, like sweat off the lip of a bottle in a South Philly bar—Combat Zone Wrestling, 2014, where dreams go to get bled dry or baptized in chair shots.
CZW: Where the Pavement Starts to Crack
In Combat Zone Wrestling, the ring ropes aren’t just taut—they’re judgmental. The crowd is half-drunk, half-crazed, and all in. It was here Ford made her debut in the shadows—tagging with George Gatton on December 17, 2014, and rolling into 2015 like a girl with brass knuckles tucked inside her smile.
She tangled with Brittany Blake in the kind of matches that didn’t make headlines but left scars—on the body and on the résumé. Their feud burned quietly under the radar, all near-falls and missed chances, the kind of war that teaches you that not every match is about victory. Some are just survival.
Ford didn’t leave CZW with titles. She left with calluses.
AEW: Stardust and Sweat
By January 2019, All Elite Wrestling came calling—a new company with fresh suits and old money. Ford arrived alongside Joey Janela, a pairing that felt like a punk band trying to headline Carnegie Hall. They didn’t fit—but maybe that’s why they worked.
She debuted at Double or Nothing, tossed into a Casino Battle Royal like a card shuffled out of hell. Later, she traded Janela for Kip Sabian, her real-life love and ringside distraction. Their romance unfolded like a wrestling soap opera—sugar-coated chaos, wedding angles, and betrayals framed in glitter.
But Ford wasn’t just arm candy. She wanted to fight. And she did—pinning Hikaru Shida on Dynamite, earning a title shot at Fyter Fest. She lost, but walked out like she’d won something intangible: respect.
Her first PPV match? A last-minute fill-in for Britt Baker at Double or Nothing 2020, facing Kris Statlander. She was thrown to the wolves and didn’t flinch. That’s the Ford method—lose, bleed, pose anyway.
Blood on the Tulle: Street Fights & Miscarriages
Her wildest moment came on New Year’s Smash, a street fight with The Bunny against TayJay that blurred the line between spectacle and horror movie. Ford wore blood like highlighter, and the internet couldn’t look away.
She was rewarded with an AEW Dynamite Award for “Biggest WTF Moment.” Bukowski would’ve called it a “ballet of broken women,” spinning violence into something gorgeous.
Off-camera, the road grew darker. In March 2023, Ford revealed she’d suffered a miscarriage in 2022. No angles, no work. Just pain—real and raw. She didn’t disappear, but she didn’t need to explain either. Ford, ever the magician, knew how to make grief part of the act, even if the crowd didn’t see it.
Hiatus and Return: Anger with Eyeliner
For nearly two years, Ford vanished. Health issues, the company said. In wrestling, silence is either a coffin or a cocoon.
Then came October 8, 2024—a steel chair cracked across Jamie Hayter’s back. Ford was back, and she wasn’t smiling.
She cut through Hayter like a switchblade through silk. Lost their match on Dynamite. Lost to Britt Baker the next week. Didn’t matter. Penelope Ford was fighting again, and that was enough.
By February 2025, she’d formed a dark alliance with Megan Bayne, a union forged in fury. They lost a pre-show match at Double or Nothing. Then came the rematch. This time, Ford & Bayne didn’t just win—they announced themselves.
The Tag Queen Nobody Talked About
Before AEW, before the blood and gold, Ford had torn up the indie circuit. Alongside Maria Manic, she snatched up tag gold in Queens of Combat and Women Superstars Uncensored. She even captured a one-night reign with DDT’s Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, a title that’s part joke, part folklore. In Ford’s hands, it felt like both.
She was ranked #48 in PWI’s Women’s 100 in 2020, but she’s never cared about numbers. She knows the real rankings are carved in skin and memory.
Ford & Flame: The Person Behind the Persona
Behind the lashes and leopard print, Penelope Ford is Olivia Hasler. She’s been loved and left by Joey Janela, married to Kip Sabian live on AEW television, and bruised by life harder than she ever was by a turnbuckle.
She’s not a Hall of Famer yet. Maybe she never will be. Some wrestlers aren’t built for shrines—they’re built for snapshots. For one second of chaos where the camera flashes and someone in the front row says: “Holy sht, did you see that?”*
Penelope Ford is that moment. Not the winner, not the legend, but the flashbulb.
She’s the bite of vodka at midnight.
She’s mascara running after a moonsault.
She’s the scream after the bell.
And she’s not finished yet.