5 things you (maybe) didn't know about Beth Phoenix 

#3. An Undertaker coloring contest was her first WWE connection

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Beth Phoenix came from humble and meager beginnings. Although she was an avid fan of professional wrestling, her family could not afford tickets when WWE came to town. Phoenix would have to find another way to see the cast of characters she was becoming increasingly infatuated with.

Her first WWE connection would come by way of a coloring contest. Phoenix was 11 years old when WWE conducted the contest via the local Star-Gazette newspaper,

"There was a full page ad featuring the Undertaker with Paul Bearer in it. My family couldn't afford to buy me tickets to go see wrestling live and I had been begging, and begging, and begging, so I kind of took matters into my own hands and colored this picture of Undertaker and Paul Bearer and I sent it in."

Phoenix spent hours coloring and described the work of art as her life's "Mona Lisa." Her efforts; however, were not in vain. Soon Phoenix received a big envelope in the mail with her photo returned. She won four tickets to a Monday Night RAW taping in Binghamton, NY. It would be Beth's first WWE live experience and her earliest connection to the company.