History Wrestling / Paige

** Since her return to wrestling in AEW, she got a new arch-enemy in Wrestling/BrittBaker. Originally a Babyface and Baker a Heel, negative fan reception towards the returning veteran kiboshed the plans and caused a FaceHeelDoubleTurn that switched roles in that she's now a nasty heel and the AEW Original an {{Anti Hero}}ic face.

** Speaking of which, the Bellas were such arch-rivals to her that it wound up spawning 2015's "Divas Revolution."

* UnflinchingWalk: SexyWalk: Paige [[SupermodelStrut strutting away]] from an exploding car without looking back in the ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014'' trailer.

* {{Unflinching|Walk}} SexyWalk: Paige walking away from an exploding car in the ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2014'' trailer.

After her retirement, Paige repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needed to fully recover before she could do so. On September 21, 2022, she made her AEW debut at ''Dynamite Grand Slam''. It was later announced on November 9 that she is 100% cleared to return to the ring and will do so against Wrestling/BrittBaker at the 2022 ''Full Gear''.

Following a brief absence to further promote ''Fighting with My Family'', Paige's final appearances in WWE would occur between 2019 and 2020, wherein she returned as the manager of the Kabuki Warriors, a tag team between [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and Kairi Sane[[note]]although they would eventually sever ties with her in October 2019 after [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]][[/note]] and appeared via Skype to announce the opponents for then-[=SmackDown=] Women's Champion Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36''. She announced on June 10, 2022 that she would be leaving WWE effective July 7.

After her retirement, Paige repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needed to fully recover before she could do so. On September 21, 2022, she made her AEW debut at ''Dynamite Grand Slam''.

After her retirement, Paige repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needed to fully recover before she could do so. On September 21, 2022, she made her AEW debut at the 2022 Grand Slam.

After her retirement, Paige repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needed to fully recover before she could do so. On September 21, 2022, she made her AEW debut at the 2022 ''Grand Slam''.

Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992) is an English professional wrestler best known for her time in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she performed under the name Paige. She is currently signed to Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, where she performs under the mononym Saraya.

Following a brief absence to further promote ''Fighting with My Family'', Paige's final appearances in WWE would occur between 2019 and 2020, wherein she returned as the manager of the Kabuki Warriors, a newly-formed tag team between [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and Kairi Sane[[note]]although they would eventually sever ties with her in October 2019 after [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]][[/note]] and appeared via Skype to announce the opponents for then-[=SmackDown=] Women's Champion Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36''. She announced on June 10, 2022 that she would be leaving WWE effective July 7.

After her retirement, Paige has repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needs to fully recover before she can do so. On September 21, 2022, using her real name, Saraya made her Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling debut.

Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992) is an English former professional wrestler best known for her time in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where she performed under the name Paige.

Following a brief absence to further promote ''Fighting with My Family'', Paige's final appearances in WWE would occur between 2019 and 2020, wherein she returned as the manager of the Kabuki Warriors, a newly-formed tag team between [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and Kairi Sane[[note]]although they would eventually sever ties with her in October after [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]][[/note]] and appeared via Skype to announce the opponents for then-[=SmackDown=] Women's Champion Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36''. She announced on June 10, 2022 that she would be leaving WWE effective July 7.

Since her retirement, Paige has repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needs to fully recover before she can do so. On September 21, 2022, using her real name, Saraya made her Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling debut.

Since her retirement, Paige has repeatedly voiced wishes to return to the ring but stated that her neck needs to fully recover before she can do so.

In 2015 and 2016, Paige went on hiatus due to injury. She underwent neck surgery in October 2016, but suffered an impact injury to the neck during a match in December 2017, preventing her from further competing. She ultimately announced her formal retirement from in-ring competition at age 25 on April 10, 2018, but was announced the next day by Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon as the new appointee for the role of General Manager of ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live!]]'' following the resignation [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]].[[note]]This role was reportedly given to her by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon to help keep her on TV to promote her biopic.[[/note]] She retained this role through the rest of the year.

Following a brief absence to further promote ''Fighting with My Family'', Paige's final appearances in WWE would occur between 2019 and 2020, wherein she returned as the manager of the Kabuki Warriors, a newly-formed tag team between [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and Kairi Sane[[note]]although they would eventually sever ties with her in October after [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]][[/note]] and appeared via Skype to announce the opponents for then-[=SmackDown=] Women's Champion Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s match at ''[=WrestleMania=] 36''. She formally announced on June 10, 2022 that she would be leaving WWE effective July 7.

Saraya-Jade Bevis (born 17 August 1992) is an English former professional wrestler known previously as Britani Knight. She made her first debut for the World Association Of Wrestling Academy at age 13, when she was asked to fill in for another wrestler who could not make a show. She has since competed for various European promotions and was invited to work for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} in 2011. She signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} later that year, where she performs on the main roster and in its developmental territory, [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]], under the ring name Paige.

Britani Knight has won the Herts & Essex Wrestling Women's Championship, the Real Quality Wrestling Women's Championship, the German Stampede Wrestling Women's Championship, the Pro Wrestling EVE Championship, the World Association Of Wrestling Ladies Hardcore Title and The Swiss Championship Wrestling Ladies Championship. Britani also won the Pro Wrestling Fighters Ladies Tag Team Championships with Sweet Saraya and the WAWW Tag Team Titles with Melodi. Paige briefly held the WWE Divas Championship and the NXT Women's championship at the same time, marking the first time that an individual held titles in both leagues simultaneously.

She is a two-time Divas Champion, and has been a cast member of the show ''Series/TotalDivas'' since its third season. In 2017 Wrestling/DwayneJohnson announced he would be producing [[Film/FightingWithMyFamily a biopic based on her life]], with Creator/FlorencePugh portraying her.

As of April 10th, 2018, she has officially retired from wrestling due to an injury sustained in 2017, but has been appointed as the General Manager of ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live!]]'' after [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] had resigned from his position to compete full-time.

* TheAce: In real life. She's a wrestling prodigy.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her actions as ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown Smackdown Live!]]''[='=]s General Manager led to the creation of [[Wrestling/BeckyLynch "The Man"]]. She booked a Triple Threat match where the champion Wrestling/{{Carmella}} would face Becky and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair for ''Wrestling/{{Summerslam}} 2018''. At the end of said match, with Charlotte stealing the victory and the championship from her hands at the last minutes of the match, and feeling that everything she worked for has been stolen again, Becky [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] on Charlotte, and their friendship was destroyed. This, in turn, would lead to the revamp of Becky as a Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin-like character (with the audience ''refusing'' to boo her), a series of well-received matches against Charlotte (including a [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter four-and-three-quarter-star-rated]] Last Man Standing match at ''WWE Evolution''), the Twitter feud with Creator/RondaRousey, Becky being injured by Wrestling/NiaJax in the ''Raw'' go-home episode for ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'' (and the resulting injury from Nia's botch making Becky look like a warrior), Becky being left out of ''SS'' due to said injury, and the main event of ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 35'' being changed from Ronda vs. Charlotte into a Triple Threat match with Becky inserted as a challenger between the two champions in a "Winner Takes All" match... which she won, resulting in Becky being the first Women's Champion holding both the Raw and Smackdown Women's titles at the same time and becoming [[TheAce the new face]] of [[Wrestling/WWENewEra the WWE's "New Era"]]. Oh, and if that wasn't enough, in RealLife, her new persona being called "The Man" led to a series of Twitter quips with Wrestling/SethRollins, who also called himself "The Man"... and who eventually not only would become his boyfriend, but also the father of her child.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Saraya and Britani Knight were tag-team partners as the {{heel}} team of the Knight Dynasty. However, their repeated losses - especially Britani's - frustrated Saraya, who blamed Britani for each loss... which resulted in Saraya abandoning Britani to then tag team champions Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara in an effort to get her to take things more seriously. Britani [[RageBreakingPoint had had enough]] when, after she lost to [[Wrestling/BillieKay JessieMcKay]], Sweet Saraya [[IHaveNoSon disowned Britani as her daughter]] and slapped her. Britani in turn disowned ''Saraya'' as her ''mother'' and hit her back, prompting an impromptu brawl that required other wrestlers to step in to drag them apart. It's hard to classify it as a "betrayal" considering what happened, but her mother's mistreatment was certainly the catalyst of Britani's face turn and she did turn against her.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The way her upbringing was described in the ''Stone Cold Podcast''. First off, she was (in her own words) "taking bumps as a fetus" because of the fact that her mother, Sweet Saraya wasn't aware of her pregnancy until a match where she got thrown ''outside the ring'' and came up feeling ill. And Saraya was pretty far along at that point. And then, the bulk of Paige's initial ring training occurred while she was still barely a teenager, at the hands of her mother and brothers. Any wrestler who's gotten good will tell you that being trained to wrestle can be [[TrainingFromHell harsh and physical]], and the Knight family's training style is particularly [[TheSpartanWay severe and abrasive]], sometimes [[UnnecessaryRoughness unfortunately so]], as several of Paige's classmates in WAW and Bellatrix have attested to regarding her mother. During this training and in the early goings of her career, she would often be stiffed if she screwed up a move, a practice she later returned onto others in FCW developmental until the WWE's trainers informed her that it was a no-no. Also, she describes an incident where she was apparently '''''hit by a car''''', looked like a bloody mess, and her dad essentially told her that if she could still move her toes, she would still work the match that night. Again, she was still a teenager. She signed with FCW after just turning 18. This is considered "hilariously" abusive rather than just outright so only because Paige volunteered for much of it and is proud of what she's gained through it. She was tough and strong enough to be hired on as ''a bouncer at fifteen years old'', for example, on top of the entirety of her wrestling career.

** Acknowledged Wrestling/{{Naomi}} as this. Previously on NXT she also acknowledged Wrestling/SashaBanks as this too—however Sasha turned out to be [[FaceHeelTurn a rather sore loser]].
* WrestlingFamily:
** Her entire family wrestle as the Knights. Speaking of which…
** Her mother apparently had no idea she was pregnant with Paige and wrestled up to her sixth month. Paige was literally in the ring before she was even born.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The way her upbringing was described in the ''Stone Cold Podcast''. First off, she was (in her own words) "taking bumps as a fetus" because of the fact that her mother, Sweet Saraya wasn't aware of her pregnancy until a match where she got thrown ''outside the ring'' and came up feeling ill. And Saraya was pretty far along at that point. And then, the bulk of Paige's initial ring training (which any wrestler will tell you can be [[TrainingFromHell harsh and physical]]) occurred while she was still barely a teenager, at the hands of her mother and brothers. During this training and in the early goings of her career, she would often be stiffed if she screwed up a move (a practice she later returned onto others in FCW developmental until the WWE's trainers informed her that it was a no-no). Also, she describes an incident where she was apparently '''''hit by a car''''', looked like a bloody mess, and her dad essentially told her that if she could still move her toes, she would still work the match that night. Again, she was still a teenager (she'd just turned 18 when she signed with FCW). Counts under these relatively less traumatic tropes of abuse simply because she volunteered for much of it, is proud of what she's gained through it (being both tough and strong enough to be ''a bouncer at fifteen years old'', for example), and loves her wrestling career.
** It later turned out that rough treatment from the Knight family training was pretty standard fare. Several of Paige's classmates in WAW and Bellatrix have accused Saraya of verbally and physically abusing them for no apparent reason.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair was initially just above her elbows when NXT started up. It has since grown out to below her waist.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Her in ring style features none of the usual WaifFu you get from a diva that isn't an AmazonianBeauty or BrawnHilda. She was trained by her parents who both wrestle like traditional British heels, so her usual strategy is just straight up beating people up.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: With [[Wrestling/AJLee AJ]], given that AJ seems to like calling her "my sweet little crumpet." Paige has played into it, too, saying things like, "I still love you!" and "We belong together! ...In that ring!" (See also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURXVvXu-6Q her entire speech in this video.]]) Their [[FriendlyEnemy "frenemies"]] phase was full of FoeYay, given how many insincere interactions they had. Their match at ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' had a hell of a lot of this, mostly on Paige's part - slowly crawling up AJ's prone body and staying in that pose for a bit longer than necessary, hugging and kissing AJ (on the cheek) after beating her...

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Britani Knight had white-blonde extensions in around 2011-ish. Paige resumed this habit starting with putting blue in her hair around the time of ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' week in 2015, which lasted for at least a bit over a year.

* MulticoloredHair: Britani dyed a few strands on the left blonde. At [=WrestleMania=] 31 she added blue into her hair. Before [=WrestleMania=] 32 she went for white.

* [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me "Saraya"]]: Paige is never called by her real name on ''Series/TotalDivas''.

* BareYourMidriff: She's wrestled almost exclusively in a two piece since coming to America.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: Her submission finisher, the Paige Tap Out[=/=]Scorpion Cross Lock. It looks awesome and when she locks it in, her opponent is going to have a hard time getting out of it. It edges into impracticality because it's a difficult move to lock in and can be easily countered, leaving Paige open to attack whilst she tries to set the move up.

** Priscilla Kelly got to national television first, as a part of ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings''' US SpinOff, but Britani Knight was in the wrestling business before the reality show, Kelly waiting for it to end before wrestling. Knight's gimmick and behavior didn't get ''really'' similar until Knight became Paige in NXT, but people who only knew Kelly through wrestling assumed she got ''everything'' from Paige. The similarities between the two are [[EraSpecificPersonality disjointed]]; Indy!Britani Knight was a "Gypsy Soul" due to the fact her family were roaming travelers who settled in England, Paige was an antisocial technical-brawler in NXT, then Paige used her sexuality as a weapon on Raw and Smackdown. The antisocial technical-brawling Kelly gets from Knight, the sexual curiosity towards Wrestling/BigELangston and harassment of AJ are what Knight gets from Kelly, the black hair(which is {{dye|ingforyourart}}d in Knight's case but before ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' aired), pale skin and gypsy identity are coincidental but enough to ensure the two would have been compared even if they didn't borrow from each other.