Paige

Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992) is an English professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE where she performs under the ring name Paige.

Bevis made her debut in 2006 in the World Association Of Wrestling, a promotion that her family runs, as Britani Knight. She went on to hold several regional championships on independent circuits inside and outside of England. In 2011, she signed a contract with WWE and eventually debuted on WWE's main roster in April 2014 and immediately won the WWE Divas Championship. Still currently holding the Divas Championship, she was also the inaugural NXT Women's Champion of the company's developmental branch NXT, at one point holding both titles concurrently.

Professional wrestling career

World Association Of Wrestling and various promotions (2006–2011)

She made her debut in 2006, at the age of 13 with her father running the show when one of wrestlers did not show up. Bevis with her ring name Britani Knight teamed her mother, Sweet Saraya in a triple threat tag team match in a loss. Knight would then allied Melodi in creation of a tag team, The Norfolk Dolls. Because of their winning streak in the women's tag team division, they won the World Association of Women's Wrestling (WAWW) Tag Team Title in October 2007, but it became inactive due to the lack of title defenses. After sending résumés to numerous companies, she traveled around the world, even though she was not getting paid that much.

Knight competed in singles competition as she had a chance to win the World Wide Wrestling League (W3L) Women's Title, but lost to Sara in the finals. In December 2007, Knight took part in a tournament where the winner would become the first WAWW British Champion, she made it all the way to the final but was eliminated by Jetta. Knight then lost a three way match in August 2008 where the winner would become the number one contender for the RQW Women's Championship with her mother as the guest referee. On August 2009, Knight defeated her mother, Sweet Saraya, in a best of three match to become the Herts and Essex (HEW) Women's Champion. She was also victorious against her for the WAWW British Title. After that, Knight captured the Real Deal Wrestling (RDW) Women's Title in an elimination match and the RQW Women's Title by winning over Jetta in a champion vs. champion match. On May 2010, Knight with her mother challenged Amazon and Ananya for the PWF Ladies Tag Team Title which they won. On October 2010, Knight took part in a one night ladies tournament in which she achieved victorious by defeating Sweet Saraya. Once again, she took on her mother but this time it was for the HEW Women's Championship but her mother won. On 11 November 2011, Knight won an elimination match to become the first WAWW Hardcore Champion. However, her jubilation was to be short lived as she lost the WAWW British Championship a few days later to Liberty.

Pro Wrestling: EVE (2010–2011)

Bevis, using the ring name Britani Knight, made her debut in Pro Wrestling: EVE on 8 May 2010, along with her mother Sweet Saraya (billed as Saraya Knight). She appeared in the main event at the first taping of the show with a lost to Greek wrestler Blue Nikita. Later, she also lost to Jetta in what was purportedly her opponent's last tour. On 16 October 2010 she had her first win in the promotion against Shanna. After almost a year, Knight returned to EVE on 8 April 2011 to participated in a two-night tournament to crown the first ever Pro-Wrestling: EVE Champion. In the first night, she won a Last Chance Battle Royal, then defeated Jenny Sjödin in the quarter-final match. The next day, she defeated Jetta in the semi-final match, and later in the finals defeated Nikki Storm to win the Pro Wrestling: EVE Championship. She would lose the title at theXWA War On The Shore 7 event against Sjödin. This is Knight's last match in Pro Wrestling: EVE. Knight only wrestled 11 matches, five times in 2010 and six times in 2011.

Shimmer Women Athletes (2011)

Bevis, again billed as Britani Knight, made her United States wrestling debut for the all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes on 26 March 2011. At the tapings of Volume 37, alongside her mother and tag team partner Saraya Knight (billed as the Knight Dynasty) were managed by the returning Rebecca Knox and made an open challenge, which was answered by Nikki Roxx and Ariel. The Knight Dynasty won via disqualification after the referee saw Roxx and Ariel using the Dynasty's brass knuckles. Later that same day, at the tapings of Volume 38, the Knight Dynasty unsuccessfully challenged the Seven Star Sisters (Hiroyo Matsumoto and Misaki Ohata) for the Shimmer Tag Team Championship. Prior to the reporting to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), Knight took part in her final Shimmer tapings on 1 and 2 October 2011. After several losses, which included the Knight Dynasty again failing to win the Shimmer Tag Team Championship for the second time, Saraya slapped Knight. This resulted in Knight brawling with her mother, before challenging her to a match. On Volume 44, Britani wrestled her final Shimmer match, defeating her mother in a no disqualification match.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Developmental territories (2011–2014)

Paige as NXT Women's Champion.

Bevis was first informed that there will be try-outs in the WWE when a talent scout came to a show in England. She failed in her first try in November 2010 but succeeded in April 2011. In September 2011, Bevis had signed a contract with the WWE and would report to its developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). Bevis made her debut for FCW at a house show on 5 January 2012, using the ring name Saraya. Bevis' ring name was then changed to Paige as she made her television debut in an appearance on the 26 February episode of FCW TV. From March 2012, Paige formed an alliance with Sofia Cortez, dubbing themselves as the "Anti-Diva Army". On the March 19 of FCW TV, Paige made her televised in-ring debut in a tag team match alongside Cortez, which the duo lost to Audrey Marie and Kaitlyn. Paige and Cortez then formed a brief association with Rick Victor in a win against Marie and Aiden English. On the 6 May edition of FCW TV, Paige pinned the FCW Divas Champion, Raquel Diaz in a non-title triple threat match, which also involved Audrey Marie. This earned Paige a title shot against Diaz on the 27 May FCW TV, where Diaz's chicanery led to Paige being disqualified and Diaz retained her title. Dissension was teased within the Anti-Diva Army as Paige moved on to feud with Audrey Marie; Paige lost to Marie on the 11 June FCW TV after Cortez interfered against her, signalling the end of the alliance. On the final episode of FCW TV on 15 July, Paige and Marie ended their feud with Marie victorious in a no disqualification match.

WWE went on to rebrand its developmental territory FCW, into NXT Wrestling. Paige's NXT television debut took place on the third episode of the rebooted WWE NXT taped at Full Sail University, where she lost to Sofia Cortez. From September 2012, after gaining a large surge in crowd support, Paige would go on a singles winning streak defeating the likes of Audrey Marie, Sasha Banks,Emma, Aksana and multiple wins over Alicia Fox.

On the 30 January 2013 episode of NXT, Paige was attacked by ring announcer Summer Rae due to Rae's jealousy of Paige's popularity and success. On the 13 February NXT, Paige suffered a shoulder injury after brawling with Rae, which Rae exploited later that episode to end Paige's undefeated streak. After Paige continued to confront Rae, Paige finally faced off against Rae in a singles match on the May 1 episode of NXT, where Paige emerged victorious despite Rae's pre-match attack. On June 5 of NXT, Paige defeated Tamina Snuka in the first round of theNXT Women's Championship tournament, and Alicia Fox in the semi-finals on the 3 July episode of NXT. On the 20 June taping of NXT (which aired on 24 July), Paige defeated Emma to be crowned the first-ever NXT Women's Champion.

Paige made her first successful title defense on the 14 August episode of NXT, defeating Summer Rae. In the following months, Paige teamed up with Emma to feud with Summer Rae and Sasha Banks. On December 4 of NXT, Paige successfully defended her title against Natalya. Also at NXT Arrival which Paige once again retained her title against Emma. On the 24 April episode of NXT, due to her elevation to the WWE main roster and win of the WWE Divas Championship, Paige was forced to vacate her NXT Women's Championship, ending her reign at 308 days.

Main roster and Divas Champion (2014–present)

Paige debuted on the main roster on 7 April 2014 episode of Raw, the night after WrestleMania XXX. She congratulated WWE Divas Champion AJ Lee on her successful title defense at the pay-per-view event. AJ slapped Paige and challenged her to an immediate match with the championship on the line. It resulted with Paige quickly defeating AJ to capture her first Divas Championship reign. This resulted in Paige becoming the youngest WWE Divas Champion in history at the age of 21. Paige had her first successful title defense on the 28 April episode of Raw when her impromptu match with Brie Bella went to a no contest due to interference from Kane. She then enjoyed her first successful title defense on pay-per-view against Tamina Snuka at Extreme Rules. She suffered her first main roster defeat on the 19 May episode of Raw to Alicia Fox in a non-title match. Because of the result, she will defend her title against Fox at Payback.