TNA Knockout: O.D.B. / Jessica Kresa

Jessica Kresa (born June 6, 1978) is a female professional wrestler better known as O.D.B, currently working for TNA Wrestling.

Kresa's athletic background is not in wrestling, but in ice hockey, which her father encouraged her to pursue. She was the captain of the first girls team at her high school and played at St. Cloud State University for two years.

She began watching pro wrestling as a child. She enjoyed watching wrestlers such as The Killer Bees. She originally desired to be on the show American Gladiators. She hired a personal trainer in anticipation of her wrestling training.

She got her start in professional wrestling when she tried out for the first season of WWE's reality show, WWE Tough Enough. She made the top 25, but missed the final cut for the show. After returning home to Minnesota, Kresa began training. Soon after, she began wrestling in independent wrestling promotions all over the Midwest, facing men such as Ken Anderson and Shawn Daivari.

Kresa received her first national exposure in early 2003 as O.D.B. when wrestled Trinity in TNA Wrestling. She returned to TNA in early 2004 as Poison and was placed in a brief feud with Trinity. She appeared again in TNA during October 2004 and defeated Tracy Brooks.

In June 2006, Kresa started working in OVW as a heel in matches against Daisy Mae. Using the ring name ODB, Kresa brought the OVW Women's Championship alive when she created the title for herself, even though OVW did not recognize a women's champion at the time. She repeatedly cut promos saying that she was the new OVW Women's Champion, and OVW owner Danny Davis conceded and recognized the OVW Women's Championship. ODB lost her title to Katie Lea ( Katie Lea Burchill) in a Gauntlet Match on November 1, 2006. In the spring of 2007, ODB won the first ever "Miss OVW" crown with help from Victoria Crawford. Her ongoing feud with Lea led to a match between the two on June 1, 2007 where ODB was booked to defeat Lea to regain her title. ODB lost her title for the second time when she dropped it to Milena Roucka in a Six-Way Match on September 20, 2007.

O.D.B. was contacted by TNA Wrestling to appear at their annual pay-per-view Bound For Glory. This was confirmed on the October 10, 2007 edition of TNA Today where she was interviewed by Jeremy Borash. She was the first former Ohio Valley Wrestling female wrestling star to go straight to TNA instead of WWE. She made her in-ring debut at Bound for Glory participating in a 10 Knockout Gauntlet to crown the first-ever TNA Women's Champion. She was eliminated by Roxxi Laveaux(Nicole Raczynski), and the match was eventually won by Gail Kim. Since then, she has been a regular in the TNA Knockouts Division. She was booked as a heel, but was getting positive crowd reactions.

On the January 03, 2008 edition of Impact she won a 8 Knockout Gauntlet to determine the rankings of the women's division in TNA. On the January 17, 2008 edition of Impact, she defeated Angelina Love ( Angel Williams) and then challenged Awesome Kong to a title match at the pay-per-view Against All Odds.It was during this time, that she made her face turn. On the January 24 edition of TNA Impact! Awesome Kong attacked Gail Kim after Gail was named 2007 TNA Knockout of the Year and just as Kong was about to drop Gail with the Awesome Bomb, O.D.B. hit the ring to make the save. At Against All Odds, O.D.B. was defeated by Kong. At Destination X she lost a 3-way match, which included Gail Kim, to Awesome Kong. On April 13th at TNA Lockdown she and rival/friend, Gail Kim, defeated Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed (Melissa Anderson) .

TNA Knockout: Angelina Love / Angel Williams

Angel Williams (born September 13, 1981) is a Canadian professional wrestler and valet currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Angelina Love.

Angel debuted in wrestling in 2000, working for independent promotions around Canada. She was first a valet for various wrestlers such as Chris Sabin and Eric Young and then began to train under Rob Fuego to become a wrestler, as well. She was working for promotions around America when World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) spotted her and signed her to a developmental contract. After being let go from her developmental contract in May 2007, Williams resurfaced in Mexico's Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion under the name Canadian Angel on June 10, 2007. Angel has also appeared on an episode of The Jenny Jones Show about former geeks turned into physical competitors.

Williams began managing Johnny Parisi in the summer of 2005. On September 8, 2005, Angel won her first match in Deep South by defeating Michelle McCool. On September 22, Angel was scheduled to wrestle against McCool, but Michelle never showed up. Instead Daisy Mae came out and challenged Angel. Williams was injured at the February 9, 2006 DSW TV Tapings, but she still managed to participate in the first ever Bikini Contest in DSW. She didn't reveal her bikini because Palmer Cannon interrupted, which led to a match that featured him and Tommy Dreamer. During the match she couldn't physically get involved, so she walked backstage. On February 28, she underwent knee surgery to repair her torn ACL. By September 2006, Angel had recovered from her knee injury and returned to DSW that fall.

During November 2006, Angel started managing The Gymini. This didn't last long due to The Gymini being released from their contracts in January 2007. Angel then got in a feud with General Manager of DSW, Krissy Vaine, after she made Angel lose her matches due to distractions by other Deep South Divas. At one point Angel had enough and even attacked Vaine in her office. At the March 15, 2007 Deep South TV Tapings Angel aligned herself again with Vaine and was promoted the Co-GM of Deep South Wrestling. When Deep South Wrestling shut down in April, Angel was moved to Ohio Valley Wrestling.

Williams made her Ohio Valley Wrestling debut in a dark match at the May 16, 2007 television taping in Louisville, Kentucky, defeating Serena. However she was released from her developmental contract one day later.

Angel briefly worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2003 and 2004, mainly on Xplosion. Three years later in September 2007, she was contacted again by TNA to appear at their annual pay-per-view Bound for Glory, which was confirmed on the October 9 edition of TNA Today where she was interviewed by Jeremy Borash. At Bound For Glory, Williams participated in a 10 Knockout Gauntlet to crown the first TNA Women's Champion. During the match, she was eliminated by Gail Kim and O.D.B., and the match was won in the end by Kim. At Genesis, Angel competed in a 4-Way Match for the TNA Women's Championship with Kim retaining her title.

For trademark purposes, Angel began competing under the ring name Angelina Love. Love then formed a partnership with Velvet Sky, calling themselves "The Beautiful People". The duo defeated ODB and Roxxi Laveaux at Turning Point in a Knockouts Tag Team Match. Angelina Love as well as Velvet Sky turned heel on the March 13 edition of TNA Impact by forcing a makeover on Roxxi Laveaux followed by attacking her.



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Bonnie Maxon / Rain / Ms. Payton Banks

Bonnie Maxon, born September 10, 1981, is an American professional wrestler best known by her ring name Rain. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the name Ms.Payton Banks.

Maxon started working for a local promotion in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later after gaining the experience of a wrestler she started working for various promotions in the midwest, such as IWA Mid-South, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), NWA Midwest, Ring of Honor, SHIMMER, and Women Extreme Wrestling under the ring name Rain.

She frequently teams up with her tag team partner Lacey to form The Minnesota Home-Wrecking Crew (a play on the name of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew).

Maxon appeared as a "plant" on the October 18, 2007 edition of TNA Impact! holding up a huge white sign with black letters reading off "President of Robert Roode FanClub". She continued to appear in the crowd with pro-Roode signs for the following two weeks. Maxon was officially referenced to on the November 1st edition of "iMPACT" by TNA announcers, where she also had a staredown with Roode's former valet Traci Brooks, then known as simply Ms. Brooks. In the aftermath of a match on an edition of TNA Impact, after Ms. Brooks and Robert Roode defeated Chris Harris and Gail Kim, Brooks was about to leave the ring when she attacked and started a cat fight with Maxon. Following this, she was seen from far distances all around the Impact! zone. She was referred as Ms. Brooks' stalker by TNA commentators Don West and Mike Tenay.

Maxon appeared on the January 10, 2008 edition of TNA Impact! and attacked Traci Brooks. Following this, Robert Roode announced that she had been replaced by Maxon, under the new name (Ms.) Payton Banks. This resulted into a feud with Traci, that led to a match at Against All Odds where Traci came out on top. Their rivalry was far from over though, culminating into vicious brawling anytime they run into each other.