- Prior to her death, Martel had done limited independent shows due her lower back injury, an injury that made travel hard and bumping impossible.

- According to a police report, Martel had been outside the morning of her death and complained that she didn't feel well.

- Martel and husband Robert Schrull had been living next door to her mother. The couple had bought Sherri's mother a trailer when she was making money in wrestling. However, she had not been doing well financially, and badly needed lower back surgery due to constant pain. She apparently was hoping WWE would offer to pay for her surgery during the weekend she was inducted into the hall of fame.

- Before her death, WWE was considering hiring Martel as a female agent to work with the lady wrestlers. Genichiro Tenryu in Japan was also interested in bringing her to Hustle.

- In a strange note, when TNA used Martel as a possible manager for Robert Roode, Terry Taylor needed her social security number to cut her a check, but she tried, without success, to get paid cash on the spot.