Nia Jax

Savelina Fanene
Nia Jax at a WWE event in 2018.
Data
Surname	Savelina Fanene
Ring name	Nia Jax Lina Zada
height	183 cm
Fighting weight	123 kg
birth	May 29, 1984 Sydney , New South Wales , Australia
Announced from	San Diego , California
Trained by	WWE Performance Center
debut	May 7, 2015

Savelina Fanene (born May 29, 1984 in Sydney , Australia ) is an American wrestler who is currently under the ring name Nia Jax with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under contract and appears on their weekly show RAW . Her biggest achievement to date is receiving the Raw Women's Championship and WWE Women's Tag Team Championship .

Private life

Savelina Fanene was born as the daughter of the German Renate and the American Samoan Joseph Fanene in Sydney, Australia, but grew up mainly in Honolulu , Hawaii . Fanene comes from the Anoaʻi family known in wrestling, the famous wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is her cousin. After moving to California with her parents , she attended Carlsbad High School in San Diego and Palomar College in San Marcos , where she played basketball. Before and during her wrestling career, Fanene was and is active as a model.

Wrestling career

WWE (since 2014)

NXT (2014-2016)

On May 7, 2015 debuted Fanene under the ring name Zada at a NXT internal house show where they played their first wrestling match. In her debut match, she and Devin Taylor lost in a tag team match against Bayley and Carmella . She made her official NXT debut under her current name Nia Jax on October 14, 2015 in a single match against Evie, which she won. At NXT, she started a winning streak. In doing so, she defeated a number of opponents. She formed an alliance with Eva Marie and feuded unsuccessfully against Bayley for the NXT Women's Championship . She also feuded for the NXT Women's Championship against Bayley's direct successor Asuka . Against them it was unsuccessful.

Raw and Raw Women's Champion (2016-2018)

Nia Jax at the WrestleMania 34 event after winning the Raw Women's Championship .

On July 19, 2016 at SmackDown , she was reassigned to the Raw squad through the 2016 WWE Draft . At Raw she was able to build another winning streak.

Due to a storyline, she was the partner of WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore , but this "relationship" ended when Amore was suspended from the WWE in January 2018. On January 28, 2018 at the Royal Rumble , Jax took part in the women's first Royal Rumble Match. She intervened as number 22 in the match, eliminating four women before she was kicked out of the match by an alliance of six women, namely Asuka, Brie Bella , Nikki Bella , Bayley, Trish Stratus and Natalya .

After two unsuccessful attempts to defeat the unbeaten Asuka, Jax suddenly became a fan favorite in March after her best friend Alexa Bliss publicly made fun of her appearance and behavior. That rivalry earned her a title match on April 8, 2018 at Wrestlemania 34, where Jax won a title for the first time in her career with the WWE Raw Women's Championship . She lost her title on June 17, 2018 at Money in the Bank to Alexa Bliss after she redeemed her Money in the Bank suitcase during the title match between Jax and Ronda Rousey . At WWE Extreme Rules, Jax redeemed her rematch clause against Bliss in a no-rules match on July 15, 2018, but was unable to regain the title.

Tag Team with Tamina (since 2018)

On October 28, 2018, Jax won a 20 Women Battle Royal at the first all-female major event WWE Evolution, thus securing another title chance in the near future.

At the Survivor Series on November 18, 2018, Jax was part of the raw team in the traditional 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match. At the side of Tamina Snuka, Mickie James, Bayley and Sasha Banks, she competed against Team Smackdown ( Naomi , Sonya Deville , Carmella, Asuka and Mandy Rose ) and was the last fighter on Team Raw against Asuka as the last fighter on the team Enforce Smackdown and thereby make the overall victory perfect for your team. At the Royal Rumble 2019 , Jax put herself into the Men's Royal Rumble Match, for which she switched off R-Truth , which should start in the match as 30th. She underwent surgery on both knees in March 2019 and has been falling out since then. She returned to the TV shows in August 2020.

On August 30, 2020, she won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship together with Shayna Baszler . For this they defeated Bayley and Sasha Banks .

Wrestling successes

World Wrestling Entertainment

• Raw Women's Championship (1 ×)
• WWE Women's Tag Team Championship (1 ×) with Shayna Baszler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An XL model mixes up the WWE stars , Sport 1, February 22, 2017
2. ↑ WWE NXT Live Results from May 15, 2015 cagematch.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
3. ↑ WWE NXT # 288 Results & Report from Winter Park, Florida from October 14, 2015 (incl. Videos) wrestling-infos.de; October 15, 2015; accessed on August 9, 2018
4. ↑ Martin Hoffmann: WWE suspends Enzo Amore. Sport1.de, January 24, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ WWE “Royal Rumble 2018” results + report from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from January 28, 2018 (incl. Videos + complete pre-show) wrestling-infos.de; January 28, 2018; accessed on August 9, 2018
6. ↑ WWE "WrestleMania 34" report + results from New Orleans, Louisiana from April 8, 2018 (incl. Videos + complete pre-show) wrestling-infos.de; April 8, 2018; accessed on August 9, 2018
7. ↑ WWE “Money in the Bank 2018” report + results from Chicago, Illinois (June 17, 2018) (incl. Videos + complete pre-show) wrestling-infos.de; June 17, 2018; accessed on August 9, 2018
8. ↑ alexa-bliss-nia-jax-results wrestling-infos.de; de.wwe.com; July 15, 2018; accessed on October 29, 2018
9. ↑ wwe-evolution-der-first-pure-women-event-live-results / power-Wrestling.de; October 29, 2018; accessed on October 29, 2018
10. ^ Christian Bruns: Survivor Series Results. Power-Wrestling.de, November 18, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Nia Jax  - collection of images

• Nia Jax profile on wwe.com