Madison Rayne

Ashley Nichole Simmons
TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne, 2014.
Data
Ring name	Madison Rayne Ashley Rayne Ashley Lane Lexi Lane Amber Lively
Additions to names	The Killer Queen The Queen Bee
height	160 cm
Fighting weight	52 kg
birth	February 5, 1986 West Lafayette, Ohio
Announced from	Seattle , Washington
Trained by	Jeff Cannon
debut	May 2005

Ashley Nichole Simmons (born February 5, 1986 in West Lafayette , Ohio ) is an American wrestler . She was best known during her time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she performed under the ring name Madison Rayne .

Private life

Simmons married Jesse Cabot on February 8, 2011. On March 17, 2013, she announced that she was pregnant for the first time. Their daughter was born at the end of August.

Wrestling career

Beginnings

Simmons began her career in 2005 in the independent scene in the US state of Ohio. At the Ohio Championship Wrestling promotion she won the OCW Women's Championship twice in 2007 and 2008 as Laxi Lane , of which she was the first title holder. October 19, 2008 won Simmons, now as Ashley Lane occurring, along with Neveah at the Women's Wrestling Organization Shimmer , also the first title holder, the Shimmer Tag Team Championship . They lost the title in May 2009.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009-2018)

In the TNA iMPACT! - January 8th, 2009 edition, Simmons debuted under her current ring name Madison Rayne in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Shortly afterwards she became a member of the Beautiful People , consisting of Angelina Love (later replaced by Lacey Von Erich ) and Velvet Sky . On March 8, 2010, she won the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship with Sky . At Lockdown on April 18, 2010, she defended the title with Sky against Tara and Angelina Love, who held the TNA Women's Knockout Championship . Simmons pinned Tara and won, through a special match clause, the title of Love and thus became the only one to have held both TNA women's titles. On July 11, 2010 at Victory Road , she lost the title again to Love through disqualification, but got it two days later at iMPACT! again because none of the beautiful people had intervened in their match and thus the title change is not lawful was. On July 27, 2010, she lost the Tag Team title to Hamada & Taylor Wilde after intervening in the defense of Velvet Sky & Lacey von Erich's title.

Madison Rayne, Lacey Von Erich and Velvet Sky as The Beautiful People, 2010.

Simmons had to give up the single title again to Angelina Love at The Whole F'n Show on August 9, 2010. Shortly afterwards, Tara turned out to be a mysterious motorcyclist who intervened several times on behalf of Simmons and accompanied her. They both formed an alliance, with Tara "under contract" with her. On October 11, 2010, Simmons won the individual title for the third time after her "partner" Tara had to lie down for her at the pin, as she won the title the day before at Bound for Glory . She gave the title to Mickie James after 188 days at Lockdown on April 17, 2011 . At Sacrifice a month later, Simmons lost their rematch to Mickie James. This was followed by a brief feud between Simmons and Tara, as this was no longer tied to them by Simmons' lost match. On 26 October 2011 she won at the records of Impact Wrestling with Gail Kim , the TNA Knockout Tag Team Champion title of Brooke Tessmacher and Tara . The team held this title until February 28, 2012. At the tapings to Impact Wrestling, they lost the title to Eric Young and ODB . In the broadcast as a PPV show Hardcore Justice on 12 August 2012, she won for the fourth time TNA Women's Knockout Champion title after Miss Tessmacher defeated . However, Simmons lost the title to Miss Tessmacher four days later at Impact Wrestling.

On July 3, 2013, she announced via Twitter that her contract with TNA had expired and was not being renewed.

On December 12th, Simmons returned on the Impact Wrestling episode, making the save for ODB against Gail Kim and Lei'D Tapa. On January 16, 2014, at Impact Wrestling: Genesis , Rayne defeated Gail Kim and won the Women's Knockout Championship for the fifth time. On April 27, 2014 she had to surrender the Women's Knockout Championship to Angelina Love at Sacrifice .

Ring of Honor Wrestling (2017-2018)

At the Survival of the Fittest event, Rayne competed against Deonna Purrazzo. She later entered the Women of Honor Championship tournament but lost to Mandy Leon in the first round.

WWE (2018)

On July 30, 2018, WWE announced that Rayne would compete in the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament.

Wrestling successes

Total non-stop action wrestling

• TNA Knockouts Championship (5 ×)
• TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1 × with Lacey Von Erich and Velvet Sky , 1 × Gail Kim )

• Shimmer Women Athletes
  • Shimmer Tag Team Championship (1 × with Nevaeh)

Ohio Championship Wrestling

• OCW Women's Championship (2 ×)

Dynamite Championship Wrestling

• DCW Women's Championship (1 ×)

Zero 1 USA

• Zero 1 USA Women's Championship (1 ×)

Web links

Commons : Madison Rayne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Madison Rayne profile on impactwrestling.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In audio: Madison Rayne Interview on Busted Open Radio - See more at: http://www.diva-dirt.com/2010/06/11/in-audio-madison-rayne-interview-on-busted-open- radio / # sthash.KvRxgdno.dpuf ( MP3 ; 5.0 MB) diva-dirt.com. March 2, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
2. ^ Madison Rayne's profile . Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on October 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 16, 2010. 
3. ↑ Arron Carlton: Ashley Lane is living her dream . Lethal WOW. October 19, 2008. Archived from the original on May 7, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 17, 2010. 
4. ↑ Shimmer Roster . Shimmer Women Athletes . Retrieved November 11, 2009.
5. ↑ Madison Rayne . In: Slam! Sports . Canadian Online Explorer . October 12, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
6. ↑ Tna Knockout Is Pregnant . PWInsider.com. March 17, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
7. ↑ News / Rumors . In: Slam! Sports . Canadian Online Explorer . September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on September 5, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
8. ↑ Announcement of the end of the contract , twitter.com from July 3, 2013
9. ↑ James Caldwell: CALDWELL'S TNA IMPACT RESULTS 12/12: Ongoing "virtual-time" coverage of TNA Impact - Feast or Fired, X Title match, more . PWTorch. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
10. ↑ Stuart Carapola: LIVE, ONGOING IMPACT WRESTLING - GENESIS 2014 COVERAGE: A SOLID HALF HOUR OF TALKING TO START THE SHOW . PWInsider. Retrieved January 16, 2014.