33 Facts About Madison Rayne

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Madison Rayne is best known for her time with Impact Wrestling, where she was the record-breaking three-time Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion.

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Madison Rayne joined the all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes in 2007, where she was one half of the first-ever Shimmer Tag Team Champions, along with Nevaeh.

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Madison Rayne has competed in Ring of Honor and took part in WWE's 2018 Mae Young Classic.

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Madison Rayne grew up in West Lafayette, Ohio, with her two older brothers.

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Madison Rayne ran track and was a member of the drama club.

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Madison Rayne later saw a poster for a local promotion, contacted the promoter, and began training soon after.

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Madison Rayne left college to pursue a full-time wrestling career, having had a 4.0 GPA at the time of leaving.

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Madison Rayne debuted in the third episode of Takedown, teaming with Lacey Von Erich and winning by disqualification against the team of Draculetta and White Magic.

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Madison Rayne made her debut for Family Wrestling Entertainment at the FWE Fallout pay-per-view, where she was defeated by Tara with Christy Hemme as the special guest referee.

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On September 22,2012, Madison Rayne made her debut for Northeast Wrestling, teaming up with Rosita to defeat The Beautiful People in a tag team match.

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Madison Rayne made her debut for National Wrestling Superstars on December 12,2012, at the NWS Jingle Brawl, where she, along with Danny Demanto, accompanied Nikki Addams where Addams competed against Nikki Richardson.

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Later that night, Madison Rayne teamed up with Demanto in a losing effort to Chris D'Andrea and Rosita in a mixed tag team match.

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At No Surrender, Madison Rayne replaced Love, who had been released from her contract due to work visa issues prior to the event, and teamed up with Sky in the tournament finals, where they were defeated by the team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde.

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At Slammiversary VIII Madison Rayne retained her title against Roxxi in another Title vs Career match.

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At the No Surrender pay-per-view, Madison Rayne was defeated by Velvet Sky in a singles match.

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In 2011, Madison Rayne would start a rivalry with Mickie James over the Knockouts Championship, and would successfully defend the title against her at Genesis, and at Against All Odds in a Last Knockout Standing match, both times after interference from Tara.

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However, during the storyling, Tara began claiming that Madison Rayne had gone too far in her brutality towards James, but was forced to follow her orders due to being under exclusive contract with Madison Rayne and not with TNA.

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Later that same night, Madison Rayne interfered in the main event between Gail Kim and Mickie James, costing James the Knockouts Championship.

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Madison Rayne lost the title back to Tessmacher on the following episode of Impact Wrestling in a match refereed by the debuting Taryn Terrell.

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On March 17,2013, Madison Rayne made an appearance at TNA's Knockouts Knockdown pay-per-view to congratulate and crown her former tag team partner Gail Kim, who was named "Queen of the Knockouts".

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Madison Rayne received her title opportunity on the following week's episode of Impact Wrestling but was unsuccessful in winning the championship from Havok.

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Madison Rayne started competing individually after winning a match against Velvet Sky for a title shot against Gail Kim.

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Madison Rayne participated in a three-way match against Gail Kim and Jade for the TNA Knockouts Championship, which was won by Jade.

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On September 8,2016, Madison Rayne was announced as a new member of TNA's creative team, replacing Christy Hemme, who left TNA earlier in April 2016.

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On October 13,2017, it was announced that Madison Rayne would be attending tryouts at the WWE Performance Center.

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Madison Rayne debuted at the Survival of the Fittest event in Oklahoma City in singles competition against Deonna Purrazzo.

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On January 10,2018, Madison Rayne was announced to compete in the Women of Honor Championship tournament.

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Madison Rayne was defeated by Mandy Leon in a first-round match that was uploaded on February 21,2018.

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Madison Rayne was eliminated in the first round after losing to Mercedes Martinez.

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On March 1,2019, one day after her release from ROH, Madison Rayne signed a multi-year contract to return to Impact Wrestling.

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Madison Rayne made her final appearance on Hard to Kill proper, presenting the Knockouts Tag Team Championship belts to Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz alongside former championship partner Gail Kim.

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Madison Rayne wrestled her final match on the August 11,2022 episode of Impact against Mia Yim, in a losing effort, ending her third tenure with the company.

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All Elite Wrestling announced in August 2022 that Madison Rayne had signed as a coach for the promotion's women's division.