TNA Knockout: Taylor / Shantelle Taylor

Shantelle Larissa Malawski was born January 26, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. She is a Canadian pro wrestler currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Taylor. She is better known by the ring name, Shantelle Taylor. She was formerly working for the WWE under a development contract.

She made her professional wrestling debut in June 2003. In 2004, she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary, Slam Bam, which aired on the Discovery Channel.

In 2005 she won her first women's wrestling championship while competing in New Vision Pro Wrestling. She spent the summer of that year in Monterrey, Mexico working on her lucha libre style. In December she participated in a three-show tour of South Africa wrestling on a card that featured former WWE stars Kevin Nash, Andrew Martin and Scott Steiner. Also in December she was invited to a tryout in Buffalo, New York for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Malawski has worked for several independent wrestling promotions including SHIMMER Women Athletes, Ring Divas' Battle Angels, Twin Wrestling Entertainment, and Blood, Sweat and Ears. On April 16, 2006, Malawski defeated Traci Brooks to become the inaugural Battle Angels Women's Champion.

Malawski also spent time working the Pure Women's Action shows for the Pure Wrestling Association in Southern Ontario.

In May 2006, Malawski signed a deal with the WWE and reported to their developmental territory Deep South Wrestling. She made her Deep South in-ring debut at the June 27, 2006 tv tapings where she lost against Krissy Vaine when Vaine grabbed her tights. On September 9, 2006, Malawski defeated Vaine at Deep South Wrestling Grand Park Slam event in Six Flags Over Georgia. During her time in Deep South, she feuded with other divas such as Krissy Vaine, Tracy Taylor & Angel Williams. In January 2007, Malawski appeared on Smackdown!/ECW house shows as San-Eye, a masked Japanese wrestler, where she wrestled Jamie Noble. In June 2007 Malawski wrestled in dark matches prior to the Smackdown TV Tapings while wearing a mask.

On August 13, 2007 Malawski was released from her developmental contract.

In the February 2008 edition of WWE Magazine, she appeared in the section Sexy Superfan of the Month, and goes under the name of Shantelle M.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2008-Present)

In early 2008 Malawski signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

At the April 16, 2008, tapings of TNA Impact! Malawski wrestled for the company in a dark match where she was defeated by Raisha Saeed.

She then appeared on television as a "plant" on the May 29, 2008 episode of Impact!. She responded to the $25,000 challenge from Awesome Kong to any females age 18 or older in the audience, but was not selected to wrestle her. She reappeared in the audience on the June 5 episode of Impact! to challenge Kong, but once again was not selected to wrestle her. On June 19, She challenged Kong in the $25,000 Challenge. She was announced under the name Taylor, and became the closest by far out of any of the contestants to defeating Awesome Kong.

On the July 3 episode of iMPACT!, Taylor defeated Raisha Saeed and earned the right to face Kong again the following week in the $25,000 challenge, this time also being for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.

Jamie Szantyr / Velvet Sky / Talia Madison

Jamie Szantyr (born June 2, 1981) is an American professional wrestler and valet currently working for TNA Wrestling under the ring name Velvet Sky. She also works outside of TNA Wrestling as Talia Madison.

Szantyr was trained to wrestle at Jason Knight's "House of Pain Pro Wrestling Dojo". After completing her training, she began working as a valet and wrestler on the independent circuit using the ring names Miss Talia, Talia Doll, and Talia Madison. On the independent circuit she formed a tag team known as T&A with April Hunter. She was booked to her first wrestling championship during her time in World Xtreme Wrestling, getting the WXW Women's Championship after winning a battle royal on May 29, 2004.

Szantyr made a few appearances for the WWE in 2005 and 2006. On the February 24, 2005 edition of WWE SmackDown!, she appeared as an extra during the JBL "Celebration of Excellence" party. She was then defeated by Victoria on July 11 in a match taped for WWE HEAT. On January 2, 2006, she and Trinity were planted in the front row of the audience to be selected to dance with The Heart Throbs after their match in another HEAT segment. She also auditioned for the 2007 WWE Diva Search, but did not make the final eight. Szantyr later admitted that WWE wanted her to physically enhance her body, to which she chose to go to TNA as they took her as she is.

As Talia Madison she held Defiant Pro Wrestling Women's title, which she got on April 8, 2006 after defeating Alere Little Feather and Nikki Roxx in a three-way match.

She also wrestled in Women's Extreme Wrestling as Talia Doll, where she and April Hunter held the WEW Tag Team titles. The duo, known as T&A, defeated Amber O'Neal and Lollipop to get the titles on WEW's April 6, 2006 pay-per-view. She also held the WEW World Women's title (as Talia Madison), defeating Angel Orsini on May 5, 2007.

When TNA announced the creation of their women's division in 2007, Szantyr, using her Talia Madison ring name, was announced as one of the ten wrestlers in a 10-woman Gauntlet match to crown the first TNA Women's World Champion at Bound for Glory pay-per-view. Before the show she made non-wrestling appearances on the October 5 episode of TNA Today and the October 11 Impact!, standing at ringside for the debut match of Awesome Kong along with the other gauntlet match participants. In the weeks following the gauntlet match, her ring name was changed to Velvet Sky.

At the December Turning Point pay-per-view, Sky and Angelina Love were paired together and dubbed "Velvet Love Entertainment", later renamed to "The Beautiful People". After defeating O.D.B. and Roxxi Laveaux early in the show, Love and Sky assisted Gail Kim in her match against Awesome Kong. They assisted Kim again after another match against Kong on the December 6 edition of Impact! and at Final Resolution pay-per-view, helping to stop a brawl post match.

On the March 13 edition of Impact!, Sky and Love attacked Roxxi Laveaux and later that night Gail Kim, thus turning heel for the first time in TNA. At Lockdown Sky participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match, which was won by Roxxi. Sky participated in the Make Over Battle Royal-Ladder Match at Sacrifice which was won by Gail Kim. The team later became the biggest heels of the Knockouts division, next to Awesome Kong. Their segments often being the highest rating of the show. The two later added another factor to their gimmicks, placing brown paper bags over opponents heads. They usually harass Lauren Brooke on backstage interviews.

Jacqueline Moore

Jacqueline DeLois Moore (born January 6, 1966), or better known as simply Jacqueline is an American professional wrestler and actress. She worked for both WCW and WWE, and made history in the latter promotion as the first woman in WWE history to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (though, two women, Madusa and Daffney, had previously won the title when it was owned by WCW), and as the first African American and the first WWE Diva to win the WWF Women's Championship. Jacqueline also held the title of being the first Diva to apply for and receive her Referee's license, in WWE. She is currently working for TNA Wrestling.




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Tracy Brookshaw, part 3

Traci was announced as Robert Roode's manager at Bound for Glory 2006 and changed her name to Ms. Brooks. She managed him during the Fight for the Right Tournament at the October 28 iMPACT!. She lost to Eric Young in a bikini contest at Turning Point. After this, she was told to sign Young to a contract- no matter what it took to do it. In the storyline, Ms. Brooks began to pressure him into having sex with her. Finally, at Against All Odds Ms. Brooks successfully seduced Young into signing a contract with "Robert Roode Inc.". After sometime without a storyline, she entered a rivalry with Gail Kim and was defeated at an iMPACT! taping. At Slammiversary, she was taken out by Gail once again.

On the August 23, 2007 episode of iMPACT!, Roode wrestled Gail Kim, with Kim pinning Roode after a low blow leg drop. Following the match, Roode, unhappy at his loss, continued to attack Kim until Kaz came out to counter Roode. On the October 4 edition of iMPACT!, it was revealed that Brooks and Roode were not romantically linked, and that the only reason she continued to take Roode's abuse was to help her sick mother. Subsequently, on iMPACT! and at Genesis a female fan held up signs asking Roode to replace Ms. Brooks with her. Roode then joined the Angle Alliance with Ms. Brooks begrudgingly by his side.

At the Genesis pay-per-view on November 11, 2007, Traci fainted due to heat exhaustion, but appeared to be doing fine following help from medics. However, news reports have arisen that claim that her fainting was staged, as Brooks was asked to do so by Vince Russo.

At the January 10 iMPACT! tapings, Roode fired Ms. Brooks and replaced her with the female fan, identified by Roode as "Ms. Payton Banks." Shortly there after, Brookshaw reverted back to a face and to her Traci Brooks ring name and began feuding with Banks where She defeated Banks at the annual pay-per- view, Against All Odds.