She defeated Tamina Snuka and Alicia Fox en route to the final, during which she defeated Emma to grow to be the inaugural champion (the episode aired on tape delay on 24 July 2013, the day WWE officially begins her reign). Knight additionally competed at debut present of Turkish Power Wrestling in Ankara in January 2011, with a dropping effort in opposition to Shanna for the inaugural TPW Ladies Crown. Over the following several weeks, Maria competed in varied tag-workforce matches towards McCool, with Maria profitable three out of four matches. She won’t get out of bed or eat and never ever goes out – the one place is work as soon as per week. Paige’s NXT television debut came about on the third episode of the rebooted NXT, taped at Full Sail University, during which she misplaced to Sofia Cortez. Paige made her televised in-ring debut in a tag group match alongside Cortez on 19 March, the place the duo lost to Audrey Marie and Kaitlyn.
Divas Champion in historical past at the age of 21, the primary Diva to win the title in her debut match and the one lady to hold both Divas and NXT Women’s Championships at the same time. The title was retired later that 12 months resulting from WCW being bought by the WWF. After defeating WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte on two events, Paige was granted a title match on 20 June episode of Raw, where she didn’t seize the title, and can be attacked by Charlotte and her accomplice Dana Brooke post-match, before being saved by Sasha Banks. On thirteen July episode of Raw, after weeks of being outnumbered by The Bella Twins and their ally Alicia Fox, Stephanie McMahon called for a “revolution” in the Divas division, introducing the débuting Charlotte and Becky Lynch as Paige’s allies and NXT Women’s Champion Sasha Banks as an ally of Naomi and Tamina, which led to a brawl between the three teams. In the following months, Paige teamed up with Emma to feud with Summer Rae and Sasha Banks. Paige made her first successful title defence on 14 August episode of NXT, defeating Summer Rae.
Paige defeated Rae in a singles match, regardless of Rae’s pre-match assault, on 1 May episode of NXT. Paige returned on 18 May episode of Raw, after a one-month absence, saving Nikki Bella from an attack by Naomi and Tamina Snuka, before attacking Bella as well. This earned Paige a championship match in opposition to Diaz on 27 May episode of FCW Tv, the place Diaz’s chicanery led to Paige being disqualified and Diaz retained her title. She made her debut for FCW at a house present on 5 January 2012, using the ring title Saraya. From March 2012, Paige formed an alliance with Sofia Cortez, dubbing themselves the “Anti-Diva Army”. Fox didn’t secure Paige a victory in one other title match towards Lee at Hell in a Cell, Paige dissolved their alliance by attacking Fox the next night on Raw. This led to a tag workforce match the next week on 27 June episode of Raw, where Paige and Banks scored the victory. Upon her return, Paige began competing in various singles and tag workforce matches, ending on both winning and shedding sides. At the age of 15, she started working as a bouncer and bartender at her dad and mom’ pub whereas they have been away for wrestling bookings.
In November 2009, Knight captured the real Deal Wrestling (RDW) Women’s Championship from her mother in an elimination match additionally featuring Chelsey Love and Stacey Baybie. This prompted a triple risk match between Paige, Naomi and Nikki at Elimination Chamber, which Paige lost. At Survivor Series, Paige participated in a 4-on-four elimination tag team match where she was the last particular person from her workforce to be eradicated, courtesy of Naomi. In October 2011 at Volume 42, the Knight Dynasty lost another Shimmer Tag Team Championship match towards champions Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara when Saraya refused to assist Britani. At Battleground, Paige lost a rematch for the Divas Championship to Lee. 2 March episode of Raw, after which, the returning AJ Lee saved Paige from a submit-match attack by The Bellas. Raw, Paige turned on her companions and cut a worked shoot promo, the place she claimed Charlotte was only there due to her father and berated other members of the Divas division, together with Becky and Natalya. Everything merely flows, and whereas there are a couple of bizarre sentences, and the odd case of strange punctuation and grammar, that doesn’t matter both.