Taylor Wilde

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Shantelle Malawski
Born (1986-01-26) January 26, 1986 (age 38)
Toronto, Ontario
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Shantelle
Shantelle Stevens[1]
Shantelle Taylor[2]
San-Eye
Taylor
Taylor Wilde[3]
Billed height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[2]
Billed weight115 lb (52 kg; 8.2 st).[2]
Billed fromToronto, Ontario[3]
Trained byRob "El Fuego" Etcheverria
Deep South Wrestling LLC
DebutJune 2003

Shantelle Malawski[4] (born January 26, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Taylor Wilde[3], where she is the reigning TNA Women's Knockout Champion.[5]

Career

Breaking out

Malawski made her professional debut in June 2003 under the name Shantelle Taylor. In 2004, she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary, Slam Bam, which aired on the Discovery Channel.[6]

In 2005 she won her first women's championship while competing in New Vision Pro Wrestling. She spent the summer of that year in Monterrey, Mexico working on her lucha libre style. In December she participated in a three-show tour of South Africa wrestling on a card that featured former World Wrestling Entertainment stars Kevin Nash, Andrew Martin and Scott Steiner.[7] Also in December she was invited to a tryout in Buffalo, New York for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Malawski has worked for several independent wrestling promotions including SHIMMER Women Athletes, Ring Divas' Battle Angels, Twin Wrestling Entertainment, and Blood, Sweat and Ears. On April 16, 2006, Malawski defeated Traci Brooks to become the inaugural Battle Angels Women's Champion.

Malawski also spent time working the Pure Women's Action shows for the Pure Wrestling Association in Southern Ontario.

World Wrestling Entertainment

In May 2006, Malawski signed a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment and was assigned to their developmental territory Deep South Wrestling. She made her Deep South in-ring debut at the June 27, 2006 TV tapings as simply Shantelle, where she lost against Krissy Vaine when Vaine grabbed her tights. On September 9, 2006, Malawski defeated Vaine at Deep South Wrestling Grand Park Slam event in Six Flags Over Georgia. During her time in Deep South, she feuded with other divas such as Tracy Taylor and Angel Williams. In January 2007, Malawski appeared on SmackDown!/ECW house shows as San-Eye, a masked Japanese wrestler, where she wrestled Jamie Noble.[7] In June 2007 Malawski wrestled in dark matches prior to the SmackDown! TV tapings while wearing a mask.

On August 13, 2007 Malawski was released from her developmental contract.[8] Following this, she did not return to the independent circuit and was actually done with professional wrestling until TNA contacted her, as she had concentrated on pursuing a college degree instead. [7] In the February 2008 edition of WWE Magazine, she appeared in the section Sexy Superfan of the Month, appearing under the name of Shantelle M.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Six months after her dismissal from her WWE contract, Malawski would wrestle for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in a dark match at the April 16, 2008, tapings of TNA Impact!, where she defeated Raisha Saeed. [9] In May 2008 Malawski signed a contract with TNA, making her an official member of the TNA roster.[10]

She then appeared on television as a "plant" on the May 29, 2008 episode of Impact!. She responded to the $25,000 challenge from Awesome Kong to any females age 18 or older in the audience, but was not selected to wrestle her. She reappeared in the audience on the June 5 episode of Impact! to challenge Kong, but once again was not selected to wrestle her. On June 19, she challenged Kong in the $25,000 Challenge. She was announced under the name Taylor, and despite losing, she became the closest by far out of any of the contestants to defeating Awesome Kong.

On the July 3, 2008 episode of Impact!, Taylor defeated Raisha Saeed and earned the right to face Kong again the following week in the $25,000 challenge, this time with the TNA Women's Knockout Championship also on the line. The following week, Taylor (with the surname "Wilde" added to her ring name) defeated Kong in the $25,000 challenge and won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.[5] Wilde then retained the title in a rematch at Victory Road.

On the July 24, 2008 episode of Impact!, Taylor defeated Velvet Sky in five seconds to retain the TNA Women's Knockout Championship and also won a record for 'shortest match' in TNA "Impact Zone" history, and when immediately rematched, defeated her in 20 seconds, making another record in beating someone twice in 25 seconds total. Afterwards, Taylor was attacked by the duo of Velvet Sky and Angelina Love, and was given the 'Brown Paper Bag Treatment', before ODB and Gail Kim could make the save. On the September 11 episode of Impact she beat Angelina Love in the first ever Beautiful People Beauty Pageant, but was attacked by the Beautiful People, causing Rhino to make the save for a second time.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Shantelle's Online World of Wrestling profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  2. ^ a b c "Her correct weight, confirmed by her website". Shantelle Malawski. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  3. ^ a b c "Taylor Wilde profile". Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
  4. ^ "Shantelle at SLAM". SLAM Sports!. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
  5. ^ a b c "TNA official title history". TNAwrestling. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
  6. ^ "Shantelle Taylor's G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling Profile". G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonthyear= ignored (help)
  7. ^ a b c "Shantelle goes Wilde, wins TNA title". Miami Herald. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonthyear= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Shantelle Malawski released by WWE". WWE. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonthyear= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "Shantelle Taylor Works TNA Match, Knockout Appearing In Movie, Chris Nowinski". Rajah. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonthyear= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "New TNA Knockout Signing, Lethal-Val Segment Flops Again, Nash No-Shows". Rajah. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessdaymonthyear= ignored (help)

External links

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