Naomi (wrestler)

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Naomi at the Wrestlemania-Axxess event in 2017.

Naomi at the Wrestlemania -Axxess event in 2017.
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Surname Trinity Fatu
Ring name Naomi
Naomi Knight
height 165 cm
Fighting weight 68 kg
birth November 30, 1987
Sanford , Florida , USA
debut September 3, 2009

Trinity Fatu (* thirtieth November 1987 in Sanford , Florida , USA as Trinity McCray ) is an American professional wrestler , dancer , singer and model . She is currently under contract with World Wrestling Entertainment and appears under the ring name Naomi . She is one of the main actresses on the reality show Total Divas . She is the wife of Jonathan Fatu , better known by his ring name Jimmy Uso . Through this marriage she is a member of the famous Anoaʻi wrestling family . Her biggest achievement was receiving the SmackDown Women's Championship twice .

Private life

She was a cheerleader and dancer for the Orlando Magic in the NBA from 2007 to mid-2009 . She was also a backing dancer for rapper Flo Rida . In May 2014, Naomi released a song entitled "Dance All Night" and the accompanying music video was released on WWE's YouTube channel. She is also married to wrestler Jonathan Fatu, better known as Jimmy Uso. In addition to The Miz , Maryse Ouellet , Heath Slater , Bo Dallas , Curtis Axel and Luke Harper , Naomi starred in the 2017 WWE Studios-produced film '' The Marine 5: Battleground ''.

Wrestling career

WWE (since 2009)

Florida Championship Wrestling (2009-2010)

In August 2009 she signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment . She made her debut under the ring name Naomi Knight on September 9, 2009 at Florida Championship Wrestling , the former WWE development league. She was used as a lumberjill in the match between Angela and Serena Mancini. On October 29, 2009, she played her first wrestling match. She and Alex Riley lost in a mixed tag team match against AJ Lee and Brett DiBiase. On May 20, 2010 a tournament was started to determine the first FCW Divas Championesse . On June 20, 2010, she defeated Serena in the final and became the first female wrestler to win the FCW Divas Championship . She lost the title to AJ Lee on December 16, 2010. In October 2010, her ring name was changed to Naomi . She played her last match at FCW on October 3, 2011, when she lost a match for the FCW Divas Championship against Audrey Marie .

NXT and The Funkadactyls (2010-2014)

She took part in the third season of NXT . Her mentor was Kelly Kelly . She made her debut on the September 7, 2010 episode, winning a dance competition. She competed in various competitions against the other participants. In the final episode on November 30, 2011, she lost to Kaitlyn and finished in second place in the third season of NXT.

On January 9, 2012, Raw , she made her debut on the main roster with Cameron as dancers of Brodus Clay. She formed the team The Funkadactyls with Cameron and from then on they appeared as dancers of Brodus Clay. On December 16, 2012, she won a Battle Royal at the pre-show of the pay-per-view WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs and thus got a chance at the WWE Divas Championship . On the same evening she lost the title match against Divas Championesse Eve Torres . Brodus Clay started a feud against Tensai . During the feud, the two teamed up and formed the Tons of Funk team . She and Cameron were then the dancers of the Tons of Funk. The four then feuded against the Bellas and Rhodes Scholars ( Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow ). After the Tons of Funk broke up, she and Cameron accompanied R-Truth and Xavier Woods at their matches. At WrestleMania -30, she got a chance at the WWE Divas Championship in a Vickie Guerrero Invitational Match . In this match AJ Lee was able to successfully defend her title. Aksana , Alicia Fox , Brie Bella, Cameron, Emma, ​​Eva Marie, Layla El , Natalya , Nikki Bella, Rosa Mendes, Tamina and Summer Rae were also involved in this match . In the following weeks she was attacked by her friend Cameron and the Funkadactyls were disbanded. At WWE Money In The Bank 2014 , she got another chance at the WWE Divas Championship . She lost the match to Paige . She then feuded against her former best friend Cameron.

Heel-Turn and Team BAD (2015-2016)

Then she became the Valet of Usos and feuded with her husband Jimmy Uso and her brother-in-law Jey Uso against the WWE Tag Team Champions The Miz and Damien Mizdow and Alicia Fox. In the course of the feud, the Usos secured the WWE Tag Team Championship . After that, they feuded against Cesaro , Tyson Kidd, and Natalya. The Usos lost the WWE Tag Team Championship to Cesaro and Tyson Kidd. She then feuded against Paige and Nikki Bella for the WWE Divas Championship , but she couldn't get the title. On July 13, 2015, after Stephanie McMahon announced a revolution in the Divas Division, she first put Charlotte and Becky Lynch on the side of Paige before Naomi and Tamina came out and claimed their seats. In response, Stephanie McMahon announced Sasha Banks , who was joining Naomi and Tamina. From then on, the 3 were on the road as Team BAD . They feuded against Team PCB and Team Bella . On February 1, 2016, she and Tamina attacked their stable colleague Sasha Banks and threw them out of the stable. On February 21, 2016 at WWE Fastlane , she and Tamina lost in a tag team match against Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks. After this defeat, the feud between Team BAD members and Sasha Banks was finally closed.

SmackDown and SmackDown Women's Championship (2016-2019)

Naomi won the first WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal in 2018.

Due to a torn ankle tendon and a film break for `` The Marine 5: Battleground '' Naomi was absent from TV events until after the returning WWE Draft, which took place on July 19, 2016, which is why the group `` Team BAD '' was included Tamina, who was also injured, was unofficially split. The aforementioned draft made it SmackDown and has been part of the SmackDown roster ever since. Naomi made her official return with a revised gimmick on August 16, 2016 on SmackDown LIVE, where she was supposed to play against Eva Marie, but she did not appear. In late 2016, she suffered another ankle injury.

She returned in late January 2017 and started a feud against Alexa Bliss for the SmackDown Women's Championship . On February 12, 2017, at the WWE Elimination Chamber , she defeated Alexa Bliss to win the SmackDown Women's Championship . In the February 21, 2017 edition of SmackDown, she had to give up the title due to a previous knee injury. She made her return on SmackDown on March 28th. On April 2, 2017 at Wrestlemania , she won the SmackDown Women's Championship for the second time in her career after beating Alexa Bliss, Becky Lynch, Carmella, Mickie James and Natalya in a six-pack challenge . At SummerSlam on August 20, 2017, she lost the title to Natalya . After losing the title, she only worked smaller singles matches or tag team matches, which she mostly won, but she could no longer secure a title chance after losing the title.

Raw (2019)

As part of the 2019 Superstar Shake-Up, Naomi switched from SmackDown to Raw on April 15, 2019 . She participated in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match on May 19, 2019, but did not win the match. She has since paused for reasons unknown.

SmackDown (since 2020)

On January 26, 2020, she returned to the Battle Royal as part of the WWE Royal Rumble PPV, but did not win the match. She was drafted to SmackDown in the course of this. She won a Number One Contenders match against Carmella on February 21, 2020 and will be given a chance for the SmackDown Women's Championship on February 27, 2020 .

Wrestling successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naomi biography (in English)
  2. ↑ FCW event results from October 29, 2009
  3. ↑ FCW results from June 10, 2010
  4. ↑ FCW results from December 16, 2010
  5. ↑ FCW results of October 3, 2011
  6. ↑ WWE Monday Night RAW short report, January 9, 2012
  7. ↑ WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2012 Results
  8. ^ Wrestlemania 30 results
  9. ↑ WWE Money In The Bank 2014 results
  10. ↑ WWE Raw Results July 13, 2015
  11. ↑ WWE Monday Night Raw Results + February 1, 2016 report
  12. ↑ WWE Fastlane 2016 PPV results + report ( memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www4.wrestling-infos.de
  13. ↑ Trinity Fatu on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed February 12, 2017]).
  14. ↑ WWE "Elimination Chamber 2017" / "No Escape 2017" report and results from Phoenix, Arizona from February 12, 2017 (incl. Videos) wrestling-infos.de, accessed on February 13, 2017
  15. ↑ WWE SmackDown Live # 914 report and results from Anaheim, California from February 21, 2017 (including videos) wrestling-infos.de, accessed on February 22, 2017
  16. ↑ WWE "Wrestlemania 33" results + report from April 2, 2017 wrestling-infos.de, accessed on April 3, 2017
  17. ↑ Results of WWE SummerSlam 2017. bleacherreport, accessed on August 21, 2017 .

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Commons : Naomi  - collection of images
personal data
SURNAME Naomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fatu, Trinity (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanford , Florida , USA