Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992)is an English professional wrestler and actress presently signed to WWE less than the ring identify Paige wrestler performing on the Uncooked manufacturer. She is a two-time Divas Winner and was the inaugural NXT Women's Winner in WWE's developmental department, NXT. She is the only human being to have held both championships concurrently, and as of September 2016, her 308-day reign as the NXT Women's Champion is the longest in the title's historical past.
In 2005, at the age of thirteen, Bevis made her debut in the Planet Affiliation of Wrestling, a marketing run by her household, beneath the ring title Britani Knight. She went on to maintain quite a few championships on impartial circuits in just Europe. In 2011, she signed a agreement with WWE and commenced wrestling inside of its developmental systems, eventually debuting on WWE's most important roster in April 2014. In her debut match on the most important roster, she received the Divas Championship, becoming the youngest champion in the title's record at the age of 21.
Bevis built her debut in 2005,[five] at the age of 13, when her father, who was working the exhibit, requested her to change a wrestler who failed to flip up. Her earliest recorded match was in April 2006 when she, applying the ring name Britani Knight, teamed with her mom for a reduction in a triple risk tag team match in World Association of Wrestling (WAW). Knight then allied with Melodi to form a tag workforce named the Norfolk Dolls (primarily based on the movie The California Dolls) and they wrestled in various English promotions.The Norfolk Dolls won the new World Association of Women's Wrestling (WAWW) Tag Group Title in June 2007 by defeating the Legion of Womb,but it grew to become inactive owing to no title defenses by the Norfolk Dolls.
At the age of 14, Knight sent résumés to quite a few wrestling promotions about Europe and attained a opportunity to wrestle in nations around the world like Scotland, Wales, Belgium, France, Turkey, Denmark, Norway, and Germany, as perfectly as the United States, handling to travel by herself at 14. She commenced to contend for singles championships without having a great deal preliminary results. In Scotland, Knight competed for the World Extensive Wrestling League (W3L) Women's Title, but missing to Sara in the match finals in September 2007. In December 2007, Knight took part in a event where by the winner would develop into the very first WAWW British Champion, but shed in the finals to Jetta.[19][24] In 2008, Knight challenged both Sara and Jetta for their respective titles, but failed in her title bids.