TNA Knockout: Trenesha Biggers, Rhaka Khan

Trenesha Biggers was born December 25, 1981 in Champaign, Illinois.
She is a model and pro female wrestler who is currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Rhaka Khan.
Trenesha was in the final top 25 in the 2005 WWE Diva Search.

Before she began her wrestling career, Biggers played college basketball.
At 6'3" it's no wonder.
She also played volleyball at Florida State University.
She eventually began work as a model and entered the WWE Diva Search, but was eliminated during the top 25. But WWE later expressed interest in Trenesha and signed her to a developmental contract. Biggers trained with Marty Jannetty for two months and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling.

Trenesha made her debut in Deep South Wrestling as the valet of The Regulators.
Later, she and Angel Williams began a feud with Kristal Marshall, Tracy Taylor, and Michelle McCool.
On February 9, 2006, Biggers participated in a bikini contest; however, there was no winner due to an interruption by Palmer Canon.
Trenesha and Williams later accompanied Canon in a match against Tommy Dreamer, who had McCool, Taylor, Marshall in his corner.

Then on May 4, 2006, WWE released Biggers from her development contract.

After WWE released Trenesha from her development contract, she began wrestling for Japan's Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX promotion as Panther Claw.
She has also worked for Florida's Full Impact Pro and Philadelphia's Women's Extreme Wrestling promotions under the name Black Barbie.

On February 10, 2008, she debuted on TNA at the Against All Odds 2008 pay-per-view. She distracted Petey Williams during his match against Scott Steiner, helping Steiner to win. On the following edition of Impact!, Steiner introduced Biggers as Rhaka Khan (the name is a homage to soul singer Chaka Khan). Since then she has also began to manage Petey Williams in his matches. She made her in-ring debut against LAX and Salinas. Her team would lose after Homicide applied Da Gringo Killa to Petey Williams. At Lockdown, Rhaka participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match which was won by Roxxi Laveaux. Rhaka also participated in the first ever Knockouts "Make Over Battle Royal" at Sacrifice, won by Gail Kim.

TNA Knockout: Christy Hemme

Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme was born October 28, 1980, in Poway, California.
She is an American actress, singer, model and pro wrestler and valet.
Hemme is currently signed to TNA Wrestling, and is also known for her appearances with WWE.
Christy grew up in Temecula, California, where she enjoyed racing street bikes and dirt bikes and was a "self-described" tomboy.
She grew up watching wrestling, and favored The Undertaker.
Hemme was a cheerleader for two years at Temecula Valley High. She graduated in 1998 at age seventeen. Hemme attended Mount San Jacinto College, where she majored in dance.

Hemme has a brother, David, and a sister, Deena Hemme, who is also a model.
Her father, Robert, owns an insurance agency in her hometown of Temecula.
Her mother Susan died in 2002. Christy stated in the DVD Viva Las Divas of the WWE that the week she won the WWE Raw Diva Search was on the anniversary of her mom's death.
Also her hair is naturally blonde but she dyes it red in honor of her mother, whose hair was red.

Christy is an avid motorcyclist. She owns a Harley Davidson Dyna Glide Low Rider.

Hemme's tattoos include an eagle on her left wrist, a heart on her right wrist, a star with a heart in the middle on the back of her neck, a linking design running down her right side, matching loop triangles on the outsides of both wrists, a small heart on her lower back, and a heart with the same loop triangle in the middle on her left shoulder, which has since been expanded. Hemme also has several piercings: in her ears, tongue, bellybutton, and two in her nostril.

In her blogs, she regularly professed a love of music and interest in songwriting. She cites musical influences such as AC/DC, The Doors, Mother Love Bone, Nine Inch Nails, and Pink Floyd.


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Alex Shelley

Patrick Martin was born May 23, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan.
He is better known by the ring name Alex Shelley.
Alex is an American pro wrestler currently wrestling for TNA Wrestling.
He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for Ring of Honor, as well as in Japan, for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX, where he currently holds the AAW Tag Team Championship with Chris Sabin, whom he currently teams with in TNA as the Motor City Machine Guns.

In July 25, 2008, Shelley and five other TNA wrestlers ( Sonjay Dutt, AJ Styles, Jay Lethal, Johnny Devine and Chris Sabin ) traveled to Mexico to compete in the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Grand Prix International tournament, where Shelley came out victorious in the finals against Ultimo Guerrero.

James Guffey / Jimmy Rave

James Guffey was born December 8, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an American professional wrestler, better known by his wrestling name, Jimmy Rave. He is currently employed by TNA Wrestling.

Rave wrestled for numerous professional wrestling promotions on the independent circuit, among them Combat Zone Wrestling, Full Impact Pro and NWA Wildside and toured Japan with the Dragon Gate promotion on two occasions.

In August 2007 it was announced that Rave had signed a contract with TNA Wrestling. He returned to the promotion at No Surrender on September 9, 2007, where he appeared alongside Christy Hemme and Lance Hoyt (later known as Lance Rock). The trio was subsequently named the Rock 'n Rave Infection, with Hemme, Rock and Rave adopting the mannerisms of a rock band and carrying Guitar Hero game controllers to the ring.