Norris, who appeared briefly as part of BBC's Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends series several years ago which focused on WCW's 'Powerplant' training facility, was convicted last November on 24 counts, which included one count of conspiracy, five counts of forced labour, five counts of commercial sex trafficking and three counts of witness tampering.

Since 2001, Norris had been running a prostitution business out of Atlanta, Georgia.

From April 2005 to August of 2005, Norris and his co-conspirator Aimee Allen, recruited and forced women, many of whom were poor, homeless or drug addicts, to work for Norris as prostitutes and servants in his two homes in Georgia.

Norris lured several victims to his homes by falsely promising that he would train them to become successful wrestlers in his female wrestling company.

Allen, who pled guilty and cooperated with the government, testified against Norris at trial, and was later sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison.

One of Allen's key roles in the conspiracy was to convince victims that Norris's wrestling company was legitimate.

According to the evidence at trial, another co-conspirator, Cedric Jackson, kidnapped at least one victim and provided her to Norris. Jackson was previously sentenced to serve five years in prison.

Witnesses testified that Norris isolated the victims from their families and friends and monitored them at all times to prevent them from being able to escape.

Norris' control over the victims included a strict military structure that he imposed in his home. The defendant assigned each of his victims to a "squad" overseen by a "team leader," a woman conspiring with Norris to keep the victims in servitude. Allen was one such team leader.

Evidence at trial established that forced acts of prostitution occurred at nightclubs, in apartments, at hotels, in the back of Norris' truck, and in other locations in North Carolina and Georgia.

The profits from Norris' forced prostitution business were collected by him and held in his safe, along with the victims' identifications and mobile phones.

The victims also testified that they were forced to engage in sexual conduct with Norris.