The Norfolk Dolls won the new World Association of Women's Wrestling (WAWW) Tag Team Championship in June 2007 by defeating the Legion of Womb, but it became inactive due to no title defences by the Norfolk Dolls. Knight then allied with Melodi to form a tag team called the Norfolk Dolls (based on the movie The California Dolls) and they wrestled in multiple English promotions. Her earliest recorded match was in April 2006 when she, using the ring name Britani Knight, teamed with her mother for a loss in a triple threat tag team match in World Association of Wrestling (WAW). Professional wrestling career European independent circuit (2005–2011) īevis made her debut in 2005, at the age of 13, when her father, who was running a wrestling show, asked her to replace a wrestler who failed to turn up. At the age of 15, she worked as a bouncer and bartender at her parents' pub while they were away. Bevis' younger brother died when she was 13. From age 10, Bevis would occasionally get in the ring and fight one of her brothers, and her father would teach her wrestling moves. As a child, she was scared of wrestling because of the injuries her family received, and had wanted to become a zoologist. She attended The Hewett School in Norwich. Bevis and her family lived in a council house in Norwich. Bevis' mother once wrestled not knowing she was seven months pregnant with Bevis. The family runs the World Association of Wrestling promotion in Norwich and her mother owns and operates Bellatrix Female Warriors, a women's wrestling promotion also based in Norwich. She is part of a professional wrestling family her parents, Julia Hamer-Bevis and Patrick Bevis, and her older brothers, Roy Bevis and Zak Bevis, are wrestlers. Saraya Jade Bevis was born in Norwich on 17 August 1992. In 2012, Channel 4 produced a documentary about Saraya and her family, The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family, which was adapted into the 2019 feature film Fighting with My Family. In 2018, she received the WWE Year-End Award for General Manager of the Year. 1 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated 's Female 50 and was named Diva of the Year by Rolling Stone in 2014. In September 2022, she officially signed with AEW and made her debut for the company at Grand Slam. Following her retirement, she remained with WWE as a contributor to WWE-related programs and fulfilled managing roles until her contract with the company expired in July 2022. Paige formally retired from in-ring competition in 2018 due to injury, at age 25. In December 2017, she suffered an impact injury to the neck at a match, preventing her from competing further. In 20, Paige went on hiatus due to injury, undergoing neck surgery in October 2016. In her 2014 debut match on the main roster, she won the Divas Championship at the age of 21 years 233 days, making her the youngest WWE Divas Champion in its history. After talent scouting in England, WWE signed Bevis in 2011, and she began wrestling in its developmental systems, debuting on Florida Championship Wrestling in 2012 and later going on a winning streak in NXT. She went on to hold several championships on the European independent circuit. In 2005, at the age of 13, Bevis made her debut under the ring name Britani Knight for her family's World Association of Wrestling promotion. She is the only woman to ever hold both Divas and NXT Women's Championships simultaneously. She was a two-time (and the youngest) WWE Divas Champion and the inaugural NXT Women's Champion. She is best known for her time with WWE under the ring name Paige. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she performs mononymously as Saraya. Saraya Jade Bevis ( / s ə ˈ r eɪ ə/ born 17 August 1992) is an English professional wrestler.
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