Saraya Jade Bevis, a former AEW Women's World Champion, is a professional wrestler born in Norwich, England. Saraya is her ring name when wrestling for All Elite Wrestling (AEW). During her WWE days, her ring name was Paige.
Saraya made her professional wrestling debut in 2005, when she was thirteen years old, for her family's World Association of Wrestling company, under the ring name Britani Knight. Later on, she won more titles on the independent European circuit.
Saraya was signed by WWE in 2011 following talent scouting in England. She started competing in the company's developmental divisions, making her Florida Championship Wrestling debut in 2012 and going on a winning streak in NXT after that. At the age of 21, she became the youngest WWE Divas Champion when she won the Divas Championship in her main roster debut match in 2014.
Saraya had a medical hiatus due to a neck injury between 2015 and 2016. Due to another neck injury, Saraya formally withdrew from in-ring competition in 2018 at the age of 25.
After retiring, she continued to work for WWE as a contributor to programs associated with the company and in managerial capacities until her contract ended in July 2022. She formally joined AEW in September 2022, and she made her debut with the organization at the Grand Slam.
Saraya triumphed twice in both the WWE Divas Championship and the inaugural NXT Women's Championship. She is the only female wrestler to have won women's world titles in both AEW and WWE, as well as the only one to have held the NXT Women's Championship and the main roster titles in WWE at the same time.
Who is Saraya’s brother?
Roy Knight and Zak Zodiac Bevis are Saraya Bevis's two brothers. Saraya Jade Bevis is from a family of professional wrestlers; her older brothers, Roy and Zak Bevis, are also wrestlers, as are her parents, Julia Hamer-Bevis and Patrick Bevis. Her mother owns and runs Bellatrix Female Warriors, a women's wrestling company likewise situated in Norwich, in addition to the World Association of Wrestling promotion, which is run by her family.
Bevis went to Norwich's Hewett School. She had aspired to become a biologist as a child and was afraid of wrestling because of the damage her family had sustained. Bevis's father started teaching her wrestling techniques when she was ten years old.
Occasionally, she would square off against one of her brothers. At thirteen, Bevis's younger brother passed away. While her parents were gone, she worked as a bartender and bouncer at their pub when she was fifteen years old.
Zak Zodiac
English professional wrestler Zak Bevis was born on May 29, 1991. His family owns and runs the World Association of Wrestling (WAW), where he primarily competes under the ring names Zak Knight or Zak Zodiac. Aside from that, he has conducted seminars for various businesses and oversees training sessions for his family's wrestling school.
At the age of ten, Bevis started wrestling in the World Association of Wrestling in order to support his father's promotion. Zodiac's first title match was a WAW Youth Championship match against Phil Lea, which Zodiac lost.
Zak Zodiac is one of the World Association of Wrestling's (WAW) most successful wrestlers. Two WAW World Heavyweight Championships and one WAW British Heavyweight Championship have been won by him. He also has the WAW European Heavyweight Championship.
Furthermore, three WAW World Tag Team Championships and one WAW British Light Heavyweight Championship have been won by Zak Zodiac. Notably, in 2007, he was crowned the WAW King of the Rings.
Zodiac faced Dave Rayne for the RDW Lincolnshire Regional Championship on July 12, 2006, during RDW vs. WAW, marking his Real Deal Wrestling debut. His match ended in defeat. He defeated the champion, Mick Romeo, in a battle royal that took place in August after winning the RDW Heavyweight Championship number one contendership.
Zodiac and his brother, Roy Bevis, started working together on a regular basis around the end of 2010. Soon after, they took on the ring names Bexx for Zodiac and Bud for Roy, and they began going by the moniker Football Hooligans. On October 17, 2015, the Hooligans made their Insane Championship wrestling debut in their hometown of Norwich.
Zodiac, Andy Baker, and Tom LaRuffa participated in a 3-1 handicap match against the Big Show on the November 11, 2011 episode of SmackDown as part of his feud with Mark Henry; nevertheless, the three men were defeated.
Roy Knight
Born in England, Roy Bevis is a professional wrestler. His family owns and runs the World Association of Wrestling, where he primarily competes under the ring name Roy Knight. Along with his son Ricky Knight Jr., he is a former British tag team champion in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW). He has wrestled alongside his father, Ricky Knight, younger half-brother Zak Zodiac, and son, Ricky Knight Jr.
Bevis made his professional wrestling debut as the Zebra Kid in a tag match against Jamie Lee and the Brixton Brawler in Lingwood, Norfolk, at the age of thirteen. He teamed up with the Canary Kid in this bout.
Since then, he has competed in numerous independent promotions in the United Kingdom against opponents such as Robbie Brookside, Doug Williams, and his own father. Bevis' career has not been restricted to the UK either; in 2002, he competed against Jonny Storm, Joey Matthews and Jerry Lynn for the now-defunct Xtreme Pro Wrestling in the United States.
Bevis reclaimed the WAW World Heavyweight Championship on November 19, 2010, during a WAW show in Norwich, in a match pitting Scott Fusion and Karl Krammer against Bevis and his father, Ricky Knight.
According to the regulations, Bevis would reclaim the title if either man pinned Fusion or Krammer. Knight won by pinning Krammer, and Bevis took back the championship. In a Hardcore Tag Team match in March 2012, he and his father once again joined together to face Danny Boy Collins and former ECW Champion Steve Corino; however, Collins emerged victorious.
Bevis has gone back to using the Roy Knight ring name, and he and his brother Zak Knight have established the UK Hooligans, a tag team. The Devil's Playboys (Bret Meadows and Sam Knee) defeated the UK Hooligans in 2011 for the HEW Tag Team Championship. They won the vacant RQW European Tag Team Championship in September 2012 by defeating the Army of Two, which consisted of Scott Fusion and Aaron Sharpe.
FAQs
A. Saraya Bevis has two brothers, Zak Zodiac (Bevis) and Roy Knight (Bevis).
A. Zak Zodiac's real name is Zak Bevis, and he competes under the ring names Zak Knight or Zak Zodiac.
A. Zak Zodiac has won the WAW World Heavyweight Championship two times.
A. Roy Knight, under the ring name Roy Knight, is a former British tag team champion in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW).
A. The UK Hooligans tag team consists of Roy Knight and his brother, Zak Knight.