New Diva had debut in FCW

Subject: New Diva had debut in FCW Fri 06 Jan 2012, 8:38 pm

According to Diva Dirt:

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Standout independent British wrestler, Britani Knight, has reported to WWE’s developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling.
Knight flew from her native England to Tampa, Florida earlier this week and made her debut at an FCW live event last
night as part of a six-Diva battle royal under the name “Sariah”,
reports PWInsider. The name is probably meant to be Saraya, which is Britani’s real name
and her mother’s ring name. Expect her to have a new WWE name soon.

Prior to signing with WWE, Britani was best known for her work in
Pro-Wrestling: EVE, where she was the first ever champion, SHIMMER and
her family’s WAW promotion.

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Subject: Re: New Diva had debut in FCW Fri 06 Jan 2012, 8:42 pm

This is a long read, but a fantastic account of Britani posted on Ringbelles Online.

England’s Saraya-Jade Bevis has reported for duty and started training at WWE developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) today – wrestling in a battle royal under the name "Sariah"
according to PWInsider, though this could just be a phonetic spelling
of her real name by the writer who doesn’t know the correct spelling yet
– becoming the latest in a long line of British talents to end up
signing for the world’s premier wrestling promotion. Until her final
wrestling appearance in November last year, Bevis had competed under the
ringname of Britani Knight, primarily for her family’s WAW promotion, but also across Europe for numerous promotions and for SHIMMER Women Athletes in the USA. Bevis had been on both WWE and TNA’s
radars for some time, having had initial unofficial looks from both
promotions, but was signed following her first official tryout in April
2011 with WWE. There were inaccurate internet reports circulating
within hours of her tryout that she had “signed” – none of
which originated with Bevis or her family – which caused issues for the
then-eighteen year old, but regardless, she received and signed her
professional contract about a month after her tryout and has spent the
majority of the rest of the year getting her visa and passport sorted
for the eventual move. During this time, “Britani Knight” had a chance
to finish up the first phase of her career with an extended (unofficial)
farewell tour which included a final Summer Season with WAW, a final
run of dates around Europe, a final SHIMMER weekend in October which saw
her bow out after defeating her mother Saraya Knight at the taping for Vol 44, and her final independent dates on the weekend of WAWW’s “The Return” show, which saw her lose her British Ladies Title to Liberty, then team one final time with her mother the following evening against the team of Allison Danger & Liberty.
I’ve known Saraya-Jade (better known amongst her friends and colleagues simply as Raya)
since 2007, and I’m proud to say that for a lot of that time, not only
has she been my favourite wrestler, she has been my friend – so I’m not
even going to try to hide my bias here. I’m pleased as punch that she’s
made it this far, and I never once doubted that she would make it. The
first time I ever saw her wrestle was at ChickFight 7
in Great Yarmouth on January 14, 2007 (which is coincidentally the same
day I met site co-founder Lee Burton) as a special added bonus tag team
match, where she and her partner at the time Melodi (together known as the Norfolk Dolls – a take-off of the famous “California Dolls” female tag team in the 1981 movie of the same name) wrestled the heel team of Destiny & Kharisma.
While the match wasn’t particularly great, there was something about
the Dolls – Britani in particular, since I knew she was the daughter of “Rowdy” Ricky Knight and Sweet Saraya – that stuck with me. In a review I wrote of the show at the time, I remarked “The Dolls are going to be something special in a few years time, if they can just get the exposure.”

Over the following few years, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve
been at shows and watched Britani Knight wrestle and valet – I’ve even
sat and watched shows from the crowd with her – but two things never
changed. Her passion to entertain and her steady improvement every
single time I saw her. Tag team partner Melodi fell by the wayside as
real-life and other interests took precedence over wrestling, but that
was never the case for Raya. Coming from a wrestling family, she never
appeared to have any thoughts other than the fact she was going to make
it in this business, and as some of what can loosely be termed as the
“first ChickFight generation” started to leave the business for family
or work (Eden Black, Jade, Skye amongst others) Raya was blossoming as a singles competitor. New Diva had debut in FCW Britani-hits-the-Knight-Light-265x300

New Diva had debut in FCW Britani-hits-the-Knight-Light-265x300

I remember being in Takeley for a WAWW/HEW
double header show on December 22nd, 2007 and seeing Britani compete
four times in one day (three times in a tournament for the WAW British
Ladies Championship) and then coming back for a tag match in the evening
which went about half an hour, and by then being pretty sure that she
was destined for bigger things. 2008 was another growth year, but it
was the start of 2009 (during WAW’s Fifteenth Anniversary Show on
February 22nd) that represented Britani’s defining moment to that point –
a heel turn on her mother that set her and Sweet Saraya on collision
course. That heel turn was the absolute making of the youngest Knight –
previously any matches with her mother had been typified with some good
humoured bantering (such as the “Christmas Dinner” match on December
21st, 2007 which saw the two battle over who would cook the Christmas
Dinner in the Knight household), but now they were typified by
aggressiveness and outright viciousness.

Britani picked up her first singles title in the form of the HEW
Women’s title on August 22nd, then won the WAW British Ladies title from
her mother during 2009’s Great Yarmouth summer season at The Atlantis
on August 31st and went on to later add the RDW and RQW Womens Titles that same year. From that Summer through to now, Britani was in her pomp – wrestling across the country for WAW, All Star, RDW, HEW, Premier
(where she and her mother became the Women’s Tag Champions – and
actually got banned from a building following a particularly violent
match with the London Inc girls of Amazon & Ananya) and the holiday camp scene, not to mention across the continent for GSW
(where she added their women’s title in January 2011), and more.
Knight’s charisma was astonishing – and many times I’ve come away from
lacklustre shows in Britain still pleased I got to see Britani mug,
strut, preen and complain to audiences – a wonderful complement to her
obvious in-ring skills. WAW always have a unique sounding award in
their year-end achievement polls on their website, that being for the “Wrestler who gives most value for money”. Well, for my money, that’s Britani every single year.

In the last year or so, Britani’s been the first EVE
Champion, and made her US debut for SHIMMER alongside her mother in a
whirlwind of a tag team – hamming it up (initially in tandem with Rebecca Knox
in March 2011) as a stark contrast to her deathly serious and
beligerent mother Saraya, and then in October as the sympathetic
babyface in one final blowoff match with her mother on Vol 44.

I’ve spent much of the last few years writing about how great Britani
is – both on websites and in print media – so it’s kind of weird to
write this article now, given that “Britani Knight” is no more. Other
than hard work, I have no idea what lies ahead now for Raya. As far as I
am concerned, she’s already good enough to go straight to the main
roster – but I’m sure there’ll be a period of settling in and
re-programming her from working her usual style to what WWE want of
their female competitors – and then there’s her age. Although there have
been exceptions in the past – such as Rene Dupree and Kelly Kelly,
WWE traditionally don’t want athletes on their main roster under the
age of 21. While everybody who knows her have offered her
congratulations on her signing, the truth of the matter is that she’s
achieved step one, and the real challenges and hard work start now – and
in the “WWE Universe” there are no promises. FCW to WWE to Champion is
no easy three-step plan, but I’ve had faith for the last five years and
I’m not about to stop now.

- Stew Allen (who’s said his “final” goodbyes to Raya at least four times… it’s good to see you over there, champ)

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This is some of the most exciting news I've seen from WWE in a VERY long time. Britani is one of the best female wrestlers to EVER come out of England and probably all of Europe. Having seen her live for 8 matches, she has an amazing amount of charisma and can work a crowd like none other.

Subject: Re: New Diva had debut in FCW Fri 06 Jan 2012, 11:22 pm

Awesome so happy she finally is in FCW.

I will read that long article after SD.

I also go to Ringbelles often.

Subject: Re: New Diva had debut in FCW Sat 07 Jan 2012, 12:43 am

I am extremely happy she finally made her debut. I have been familiar with several women before joining the FCW ranks: AJ Lee, Juliet the Huntress, Serena, and now Britani Knight. While I've been happy for all of them, I feel like Britani has the most potential. I just hope the WWE knows what kind of talent they have signed and do something good with her. Personally, I think she could out wrestle all of the current FCW women and think she should only be there to get used to the WWE way of business.

Ringbelles is an AWESOME site. My only compliant with it is that they don't update enough.

Subject: Re: New Diva had debut in FCW Sat 07 Jan 2012, 12:51 am

^ Yeah I check them like every couple of days.

I think she will have a good career in WWE.

She's so young and can already wrestle so well things should go well.

If not there is always TNA and Shimmer etc.

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