1. Tenille Averil Dashwood was born on 1 March 1989 and is an Australian professional wrestler and travel influencer.
63 Facts About Tenille Dashwood
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Tenille Dashwood is best known for her tenure in WWE, under the ring name Emma.
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Tenille Dashwood is known for her time in Ring of Honor and Impact Wrestling, where she performed under her real name.
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In 2008, Tenille Dashwood went to Canada to train at the Storm Wrestling Academy.
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Tenille Dashwood wrestled in Australia and North America on the independent circuit for promotions like Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling and Shimmer Women Athletes under the ring name Tenille Tayla.
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Tenille Dashwood is a former Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion.
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Tenille Dashwood was born and raised in Boronia, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.
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Tenille Dashwood has an older brother named Jake, who introduced her to professional wrestling.
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Tenille Dashwood cites Stone Cold Steve Austin, Trish Stratus and Lita as her inspirations in wrestling.
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Tenille Dashwood met Dustin Rhodes in 1997 and, at the age of 13 in 2002, she met Stratus at WWE Global Warning Tour: Melbourne.
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Tenille Dashwood was introduced to wrestling by her older brother, Jake, when she was about eight years old.
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Tenille Dashwood involved herself in the Australian wrestling scene, and did some training from the ages of 13 to 15.
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In 2005, Tenille Dashwood made some appearances for the Australian wrestling promotion Pro Wrestling Australia under the ring name Valentine.
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In early 2011, Tenille Dashwood returned to Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy for further training, during which she became one of the ten trainees featured on the World of Hurt reality television show.
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Tenille Dashwood returned to Australia by September 2008 and wrestled there until February 2009 for promotions such as Wrestlerock and PWA Queensland.
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At Volume 25, Tenille Dashwood defeated Jetta of the International Home Wrecking Crew, but was attacked by the Crew after the match.
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At Volume 26, Tenille Dashwood lost to Rain, another member of the Crew.
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Tenille Dashwood teamed with McKay again at Volume 36, when they unsuccessfully challenged Portia Perez and Nicole Matthews for the Shimmer Tag Team Championship.
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Tenille Dashwood made her debut for the Canadian wrestling promotion Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling on 22 May 2009 under her real name.
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At 19 March 2010 ECCW event, Tenille Dashwood defeated Veronika Vice to re-capture the ECCW Women's Championship.
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Tenille Dashwood then made successful title defences against Vice, Nicole Matthews, and Lylah Lodge in singles matches, as well as against Matthews and KC Spinelli in a three-way match.
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Tenille Dashwood lost the title to Matthews in a tables match on 26 October, and went on to lose a title rematch to Matthews in December 2010.
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On 9 July 2011, at a Melbourne City Wrestling event, Tenille Dashwood had her last match in Australia before heading to WWE, and was defeated by Shazza McKenzie.
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In March 2011, Shimmer announced that Tenille Dashwood had signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment.
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In July 2011, Tenille Dashwood decided to undergo surgery for her shoulder, which had caused her problems throughout her career.
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In June 2012, Tenille Dashwood relocated to Tampa, Florida, and eventually reported to WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling.
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Tenille Dashwood's appearance made her the first Australian woman to debut on WWE television.
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Tenille Dashwood teamed with Charlotte Flair and Nia Jax against Brooke, Sasha Banks, and Bayley in a losing effort.
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On 29 October 2017, WWE announced that Tenille Dashwood had officially been released from her WWE contract.
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In November 2017, several independent promotions announced they had signed Tenille Dashwood to perform at their shows, beginning in February 2018.
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Tenille Dashwood announced after her surgery her wrestling comeback for independent promotions for the end of July 2019.
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Tenille debut in ROH and on 9 February 2018, Dashwood debuted in Ring of Honor, at its Honor Reigns Supreme show.
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Tenille Dashwood was introduced as the newest member of ROH's Women of Honor division, and, the 16th and final entrant in ROH's tournament to crown the first Women of Honor Champion.
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Later that night, Tenille Dashwood teamed with Mandy Leon, defeating Kelly Klein and Stacy Shadows.
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Tenille Dashwood defeated Brandi Rhodes in the second round at the ROH 16th Anniversary Show.
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On Death Before Dishonor XVI, Tenille Dashwood unsuccessfully challenged Sakai for the Women of Honor Championship.
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Backstage, after the match, Tenille Dashwood was attacked and injured, the attacker's identity remained unknown.
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The background of the injury storyline was that Tenille Dashwood needed time to recover from a full body flare up of an autoimmune disease and a dislocation, torn labrum and fracture of her shoulder, for which a surgery was needed.
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On 29 July 2019, Impact Wrestling announced on Twitter that Tenille Dashwood had signed with the company.
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Tenille Dashwood won the following matches against Kiera Hogan and Madison Rayne and challenged Valkyrie for the Knockouts Championship.
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Tenille Dashwood won a rematch against Valkyrie later in 2020, but was attacked by her after the match.
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At Bound for Glory, Tenille Dashwood competed in the 20-wrestler Intergender Call Your Shot Gauntlet match, which was won by Rhino.
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Tenille Dashwood received the title opportunity against Deonna Purrazzo at Rebellion, which Dashwood lost due to interference by Kimber Lee.
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Tenille Dashwood began feuding with Jordynne Grace and Rachael Ellering after inviting Ellering to join her as co-host of the All About Me talk show segment and Ellering bringing Grace with her, which Tenille Dashwood did not take lightly.
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Two days later, at Slammiversary, Tenille Dashwood teamed with Brian Myers to compete against Matt Cardona and the returning Chelsea Green in a mixed tag team match, which Tenille Dashwood and Myers lost.
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Tenille Dashwood would be unable to compete at the event and was replaced by her Influence teammate Madison Rayne, who failed to win the title.
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Tenille Dashwood returned to action in December and Influence began feuding with The IInspiration over the Knockouts World Tag Team Championship, defeating them for the titles at Sacrifice on 5 March 2022.
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On 28 October 2022 episode of SmackDown, Tenille Dashwood made her surprise return to WWE as a face for the first time in nearly 5 years, under her former ring name Emma, accepting Ronda Rousey's open challenge for the SmackDown Women's Championship, where she failed to win the title.
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Tenille Dashwood was eliminated by Dakota Kai from Damage CTRL after Brooke was eliminated.
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In December 2023, Emma, going as Tenille Dashwood stated in an Instagram post that she was unsure if she'd ever return to in-ring competition.
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Tenille Dashwood regularly appeared in the WWE web series The JBL and Cole Show, until its cancellation in June 2015.
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In September 2015, Dashwood began a cooking show on YouTube entitled Taste of Tenille, which ran till 2016 and at times featured other wrestlers cooking with her.
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Tenille Dashwood made her in-game debut in WWE 2K15 as a DLC character and appears in WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17 and WWE 2K18.
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On 30 June 2014, Tenille Dashwood was arrested in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Tenille Dashwood arrived backstage, but did not appear on the episode of Raw that aired live that night.
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The journalists Bryan Alvarez and Sean Ross Sapp talked with loss-prevention managers at Walmart who, after looking into the case, confirmed that Tenille Dashwood did pay for her purchase, except for the one improperly scanned item.
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Tenille Dashwood was ordered by the court to perform one day of community service and an online course, after which the charge was dismissed.
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WWE initially released Tenille Dashwood, but reversed their decision within just a few hours, once the announcement of her release sparked a large online backlash from WWE fans.
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Tenille Dashwood revealed in August 2018 that she has fought the autoimmune disease psoriasis since she was fourteen years old.
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Tenille Dashwood explained that her greatest fear growing up with the condition was that she could not achieve her dream of becoming a professional wrestler.
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On 4 August 2022, Tenille Dashwood revealed that she is dating Michael Rallis, who is best known by his ring name Riddick Moss.
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On 6 September 2024 Tenille Dashwood announced that she is expecting her first child with Rallis in 2025.
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On March 4,2025, Tenille Dashwood gave birth to their first son.