Serena Deeb Serena Deeb ( June 29 , 1986 ) is a retired American professional wrestler . She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment , appearing on the SmackDown brand and also known for her time with the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling . under the ring name Serena . Deeb also made appearances in Ohio Valley Wrestling , where she was a six - time Women ' s Champion , and in Shimmer Women Athletes . Professional wrestling career . Ohio Valley Wrestling . Training and debut ( 2005 – 2006 ) . Deeb started her wrestling career in the OVW Wrestling School , training from March until November 2005 after relocating on her own money from Virginia to Kentucky to attend the school . She debuted on the November 4 OVW house show , teaming with Fuji Cakes in a losing effort against Shelly Martinez and Beth Phoenix . Phoenix and Martinez also defeated her in the beginning of January even with the new tag team partner of Venus ( Rosa Salvage ) . She picked up her maiden victory over Martinez in a singles match in February and then Phoenix the following month . Her misfortune in tag team action continued though , as she and Fuji Cakes lost to Cherry Pie and Roni Jonah . Unhappy with the loss , Deeb changed her partners and teamed with Roadkill and Kasey James for a mixed tag team match with The Untouchables , including Cherry Pie , but lost once more . Later that month , a dark match between her and Phoenix went to a no contest after interference and was changed into a tag match , where Deeb alongside Martinez lost to Phoenix and Maria . Deeb then began to feud with ODB . In early June , Martinez guest refereed a tag team match where she and Daisy Mae defeated ODB and Sosay . At OVW ' s " Six Flags " event , ODB scored a return victory as she and Venus defeated Deeb and Mae . This led to Deeb ' s television debut at the June 21 tapings during OVW ' s first bikini contest . Though she did not participate in the contest , she was nevertheless irked by the manner in which ODB attacked all of the women without provocation and ran out to save them , laying out ODB . She defeated ODB in a singles match at another " Six Flags " show at the end of June but the two continued to feud , exchanging victories in mixed tag team and six - man tag team matches . Eventually , ODB declared herself the inaugural Women ' s Champion after winning a fictitious tournament in Rio De Janeiro . ODB retained the title in an eight - woman Battle Royal on the September 6 television tapings but in a four - way match , Deeb finally managed to win the Women ' s Championship during the main event of the September 13 episode of OVW TV involving ODB , Beth Phoenix and Katie Lea . Women ' s Champion ( 2006 – 2008 ) . When she became champion , Deeb became the target of Beth Phoenix and managed to defend her belt successfully against her once on September 16 ' s house show but lost a televised rematch on October 4 . Serena instantly set her sights on winning back the belt and commandeered an all female six - man tag team victory over Phoenix and her team three days later before interfering in Phoenix ' s title defense , Spearing her to end the match in disqualification just as Phoenix was about to pin ODB . Though she would continue to interfere with Phoenix , Deeb never had the chance to win back the title as Katie ' The Kat ' Lea won the championship in the penultimate round of a gauntlet match Phoenix had to contest , losing on the sixth match while a refreshed Kat only had Deeb to defend against . Deeb tried to contend with The Kat once more for the belt but the match ended in disqualification after interruption by Phoenix and Deeb closed out the year with a no - disqualification three way , with the belt not on the line , to settle the dispute between them which Deeb won . During 2007 , Deeb spent many weeks in a variety of tag team matches in an attempt to gain an opportunity at the Women ' s Champion and Phoenix too before competing in the Miss OVW Divalympics , though ODB would eventually win this competition . Deeb went on an undefeated streak in March and April but this was brought to a halt by Lea in May . On May 11 she and her team lost a 2 / 3 tug of war contest , but beat them in the wrestling tag match immediately afterwards . It would not be until September before she received another shot at the belt . Milena Roucka picked up the victory in this six - way match - up , while Deeb also lost a non - title singles match the following week in an attempt to prove her contendership . After spending the opening months of 2008 on a losing streak , Deeb disappeared in February from the promotion . During her hiatus Deeb got a nose job and breast implants in an attempt to get closer to a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment . Deeb made an unnannounced return in late May when reigning champion Josie issued an open challenge , which Deeb answered to win her second title . At the June 4 TV tapings , Deeb made a speech announcing her intentions to defend the belt at all times , under 24 / 7 rules ; during the speech Josie made her intentions clear by assaulting Deeb . Josie took advantage of the rule in early July when Deeb defended her belt successfully against Reggie , only for Josie to attack her straight afterwards and win the belt under the new ruling . Serena avenged this loss by similarly attacking Josie during a speech and winning the title back . The ruling proved too chaotic – at one point Deeb gave a speech during which Josie and Melody attacked her , almost double - pinning her only for Reggie to come out and pin all three of them to win the belt for a matter of minutes until Deeb speared Reggie and won it back - and by August the 24 / 7 ruling was deactivated after Deeb won the belt back for an unprecedented sixth time . After this Deeb was scripted to take part in a brief story where wrestler Moose sought her affections , eventually winning a right to a date after defeating Lumpy Magoo in late September . After being rebuffed by Deeb on the date , Moose turned sour and tried to interfere in a championship defense against Josie only for Magoo , who was accompanying Deeb , to make sure his interference did not cost her the title . On October 29 , Deeb teamed with Magoo and defeated Moose and Women ' s Championship contender Reggie in a tag team match . On November 12 , Deeb lost the championship to Melody in a four - way match with Josie and Reggie . The Insurgency ( 2009 ) . In 2009 , Serena became a villain for the first time in her career . This was signalled when she appeared on January 14 with The Insurgency ( Ali Akbar , Turcan Celik and Bin Hamin ) to help them win a non - title match against the Southern Tag Team Champions Totally Awesome . With Deeb in their corner , The Insurgency went on a winning streak , though Deeb herself could not emulate this as her title match with Melody on February 25 saw Melody retain the belt via disqualification . On the 500th episode of OVW , she challenged Melody once again , this time in a steel cage match , but failed to win the championship . Shimmer Women Athletes . Early feuds ( 2006 – 2007 ) . On October 22 , 2006 , Deeb began working for Shimmer Women Athletes at " Volume 5 , " where she was defeated by the evil Amber O ' Neal in her debut match after O ' Neal used Deeb ' s tights to keep her down . She gained a victory in a rematch during " Volume 6 " with a roll - up pin . Despite this win , she went on a losing streak in both tag team and singles competition until she reversed Lexie Fyfe ' s Attitude Adjuster into a roll - up during " Volume 10 " . Later at " Volume 14 : Hot Summer Nights " Fyfe defeated Daffney and , after exposing her long - suffering knee injury , proceeded to assault her after the match with Experience tag team partner Malia Hosaka . Daffney ' s friend MsChif and Deeb , having history with Fyfe , came to clear the ring leading to a match - up between Hosaka and Deeb after the others had been chased off . Deeb pinned Hosaka after a spear but her revenge was short lived as The Experience pinned her after a double inverted suplex slam , despite help from Allison Danger . Pursuit of the Shimmer Championship ( 2007 – 2009 ) . On route to the tournament to crown the inaugural Shimmer Champion , Deeb was involved in a car crash and thus could not participate . An interview with her opened " Volume 12 " , where she revealed her desire to challenge the eventual Shimmer Champion having missed out on her tournament opportunity , but still could not maintain a winning streak , falling victim to Rain and later her tag team partner Jetta . After being eliminated from a 20 - woman Battle Royal to determine the Shimmer Championship contender during " Volume 19 " , Deeb pinpointed former champion Sara Del Rey for her next match , but came up short . Following this , " Volume 21 " opened with another interview where Deeb maintained she was championship material and blamed her loss to Del Rey on an injury . Her attempt to demand another match resulted in Del Rey calling her bottom of the barrel and refusing but an impromptu brawl turned into a sanctioned match where Deeb once again put up a strong effort , but lost . The event closed with Deeb talking backstage about how the defeat would not stop her in trying to become champion at which point MsChif , the Shimmer Champion , commended her drive and ambition and offered her a match on the condition of beating Del Rey . At " Volume 22 " Del Rey ' s manager , Larry Sweeney , announced she did not need to face Deeb having beaten her twice already and that Del Rey ' s only goal was to reclaim the Shimmer Championship . After the main event closed , Del Rey hit the ring and attacked MsChif until Deeb appeared to fight in MsChif ' s corner ; the referee quickly declared their impromptu bout another match where , after taking yet another severe beating , Deeb finally managed to defeat Del Rey . After another post - match assault , MsChif came to save Deeb making the event end with the Shimmer Champion raising Deeb ' s hand . Despite a storied build up over the years , including a seldom used video package to hype the main event , Deeb was unsuccessful in her match . Though she failed to win her title match , it seemed her rivalry with Del Rey wasn ' t over . As well as bouncing back over Cat Power , she had a competitive victory over Mercedes Martinez . After her match , Del Rey and Amazing Kong had a Shimmer Tag Team Championship shot against Ashley Lane and Nevaeh , which ended when they started using chairs against the champions . Despite having just wrestled , Martinez assisted Deeb in clearing the ring and keeping Del Rey at bay . Their attempts at " Volume 26 " to form a successful tag team saw them come undone against Del Rey and Kong ' s brutish power . World Wrestling Entertainment . On the May 19 , 2009 episode of World Wrestling Entertainment ' s " ECW on Sci Fi " , Deeb was seen standing backstage while Finlay was walking to the ring . Though Deeb initially denied she signed with WWE , Shimmer promoter Dave Prazak confirmed that a contract had been negotiated on July 1 , 2009 . Queen of FCW ( 2009 – 2010 ) . Serena made her debut on July 15 , 2009 at a Florida Championship Wrestling house show where she teamed with Maria and Angela Fong to win against the team of Natalya , Layla and Alicia Fox in a six Diva Tag match . In her televised debut match , Deeb defeated Layla . Her ring name was soon changed to Serena Mancini and once again to Mia Mancini , portraying the character of a mafia boss ' daughter . On 14 August , Mancini pinned April Lee in a four - way match during the TV taping for FCW ' s fiftieth episode to win a future opportunity to compete against Angela for her Queen of FCW crown . She followed up on September 3 , though it would not air until October 4 , with a win over Angela to become the second Queen of FCW . While defending her crown , Mancini began taking on WWE Diva s from the televised roster , defeating Tiffany , Natalya , Savannah and Gail Kim . Later in September , Mancini was involved in a backstage segment which was unacknowledged by the commentary team where a mysterious man told her to lose her match against Angela , though she would refuse to . At the February 4 , 2010 FCW television tapings , AJ Lee defeated Serena , who incorporated her SmackDown character into the Mancini role , to become the new Queen of FCW . When Matt Martlaro announced that there would be a creation of the FCW Divas Championship , Serena competed in the tournament to determine the inaugural Champion , during which she defeated Aksana and AJ Lee en route to the final where she was defeated by Naomi Night . The Straight Edge Society ( 2010 ) . On the January 22 , 2010 episode of " SmackDown " , Deeb appeared , playing the part of an audience member , before jumping over the crowd barrier to join CM Punk ' s group of straight edge followers ; as part of the initiation , she agreed to have her head shaved bald . In a later podcast interview with wrestling journalist Brady Hicks , Deeb would say of the head shaving : " It was a really unique opportunity . Seeing a woman getting her head shaved was so rare , you don ’ t see it all that often in the history of wrestling . Getting to do it as my debut was really , really cool , and really powerful . I was also very scared about what I was going to look like . There were a lot of uncertainties , but it ended up being really , really great for my career . " One week later , she reappeared with Punk and Luke Gallows , now as a member of villainous group the Straight Edge Society , for their match against D - Generation X for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship . However , Theodore Long changed the title match and instead set up a singles match between Punk and Triple H , during which she and Gallows attacked Triple H , disqualifying Punk in the process . On the July 2 episode of " SmackDown " , Serena unwillingly showed video security footage of her drinking alcohol at a bar as an alibi for Punk ' s whereabouts , raising the ire of The Society ; she was forgiven by Punk the next week , though Gallows showed signs of disapproval . This incident was the first of many signs of trouble within the group , leading to Serena ' s first televised match in WWE on August 20 ( taped August 17 ) . In a match where she and Gallows would be expelled from The Society if they lost , the duo took on Big Show and Kelly Kelly in a mixed tag team match , where Serena used a gutbuster to pin Kelly . On August 20 Deeb was released from her WWE contract , reportedly for not " living out " her straight edge persona in public . Because " SmackDown " was pre - recorded , her release was not revealed immediately , which gave her one last appearance , airing on August 27 as a valet to Punk and Gallows in separate matches . Shimmer Women Athletes return ( 2010 – 2014 ) . On September 11 , 2010 at the " Volume 33 " taping for Shimmer , Deeb made an unannounced return to the promotion , answering Kellie Skater ' s open challenge and defeating her in a singles match . She then had a verbal confrontation with former partner Portia Perez who accused her of selling out by going to WWE which led to a match at " Volume 35 " where Deeb tapped to a crossface after the referee was distracted from seeing Serena ' s rope break . She then rekindled her rivalry with Sara Del Rey , who made a speech criticizing her , leading to Deeb main eventing " Volume 36 " in a Four - on - Four Tag Team Elimination match where Deeb was eliminated second after Tomoka Nakagawa . Other promotions . Due to Shimmer ' s working relationship with Ring of Honor , Deeb began to make occasional appearances for ROH in 2007 as part of February ' s " Fifth Year Festival " , she teamed up with MsChif in a losing effort to the Dangerous Angels ( Danger and Del Rey ) . In the middle of the year she was similarly unsuccessful against Lacey at " United We Stand " and afterwards received a beating from her Age of The Fall partners Rain and Jimmy Jacobs until Haze saved her . She also came out on the losing end of a Shimmer guest match at 2008 ' s " Southern Hostility " in a four corner survival match . She returned to ROH for their year - end internet pay - per - view Final Battle 2010 teaming with long - term rival Del Rey against Daizee Haze and Amazing Kong , winning the match after taking out Kong with a spear to let Del Rey pin Haze . Deeb appeared at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ' s pay - per - view Slammiversary in June 2008 , where she took part in Awesome Kong ' s $ 25 , 000 Fan Challenge in a three - minute squash match , as did fellow OVW and Shimmer wrestler Josie , who signed a contract with the company . In November 2008 at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate show , Deeb wrestled Daffney for the vacant NWA France Women ' s Championship , which she won . After winning the title , Deeb travelled to France to defend the belt under the International Catch Wrestling Alliance the following month . At " Revolution V " in Lille , she defended the belt against three time champion Bella Punk . Despite landing her Spear finisher , Punk ' s accomplice Gangrel turned the lights out in the arena from which Punk took advantage and pinned Deeb after a spike DDT . Deeb accompanied Joe E . Legend in the main event against Gangrel , which the latter won . Deeb found herself back in France during March 2009 for American Wrestling Rampage ' s nine - day tour of France . For most of the events , Deeb wrestled fellow Shimmer wrestler Portia Perez , who was the only other woman on the tour . After two losses , Deeb managed to pick up a victory but would only gain one more from their eight singles matches . On the final night , she teamed up with Scotty The Hotty to gain a third victory over Perez and Chris Masters in a tag team match . Also in early 2009 , Deeb appeared in the fledgling all - female Wrestlicious promotion . In the camp show , " Take Down " she was known as " Webmistress " Paige Webb and debuted on the second episode of their television show which , while being recorded in early 2009 , was not broadcast until March 2010 after she had begun to appear in WWE . In her first singles match she lost to " Ice Princess " Autumn Frost and won her first match on the fifth episode , where she teamed with Charlotte to take on the team of Hope and Faith . In November 2010 , Serena debuted for Women Superstars Uncensored as a villain with a victory over Traci Brooks on WSU ' s first internet pay - per - view ( iPPV ) . Serena followed up by winning a Four Way match over Alicia , Portia Perez and Jana to become number one contender to the WSU Championship . Deeb would target WSU Champion Mercedes Martinez by attacking her after a title defense late that evening and cutting some of Martinez ' s hair . Serena received her title shot in the main event of WSU ' s " 4 Year Anniversary " show where she was defeated by Mercedes . On June 25 , 2011 at " The Uncensored Rumble IV " event Serena defeated Nikki Roxx but was eliminated from the eponymous match by Lexxus , having made it to the final two . In January 2011 , Serena made her first excursion to Japan . While working for Yoshihiro Tajiri ' s promotion Smash , she wrestled Syuri at " Smash . 12 " and won the match . She remained undefeated by beating Makoto on " Smash . 13 " , Kana on " Smash . 17 " , Tomoka Nakagawa on " Smash . 19 " in the first round and Syuri on " Smash . 20 " in the semifinals of a tournament for the Smash Diva Championship . On September 8 , Serena suffered her first loss in Smash , when she was defeated by Kana in the finals of a tournament to crown the first ever Smash Diva Champion . On April 19 , 2011 Deeb wrestled a dark match in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , however she lost to Winter . On March 17 , 2013 , Serena took part of the Knockouts Knockdown PPV that aired on September 6 , 2013 and competed against Mickie James in the last singles match of the event . Serena turned villainous during the match , but she was defeated by James . On October 22 , 2011 , Deeb announced that she was taking an indefinite break from wrestling , following her doctor ' s instructions after suffering a serious concussion . Shine Wrestling ( 2014 ) . Serena made her debut for Shine Wrestling at SHINE 16 on January 24 , 2014 and defeated Santana Garrett in her debut match . Later in the event , Serena turned heel by attacking newly crowned SHINE Champion Ivelisse and later establishing herself as the new leader of Valkyrie , replacing the retired Rain . At SHINE 17 on February 28 , the evil Serena defeated Angelina Love in singles action . She would defeat Mercedes Martinez at SHINE 18 on April 18 , and at the end of the event , she and the rest of Valkyrie attacked Ivelisse after her title match against Saraya Knight . At the following event on May 23 , Serena eliminated Ivelisse and Mia Yim to lead Valkyrie to victory in a ten - woman elimination match . However , Serena failed to capture the SHINE Championship from Ivelisse at SHINE 20 when the match ended in a time - limit draw . Queens of Combat ( 2014 ) . On March 21 , 2014 , Serena appeared for the Queens of Combat promotion as a heel and was defeated by former TNA Knockout Taeler Hendrix in the main event of their first show " . " TNA . Despite her retirement , Deeb made an appearance for TNA Impact Wrestling in an episode aired on the July 29 , 2015 . Deeb wrestled in a mixed tag team match . She teamed with James Storm in a losing effort against Mickie James and Magnus . Personal life . Deeb ' s love of wrestling began when she was 11 after watching a World Wresting Federation show . Despite her love of wrestling , her main passion as a child , from the age of five until she actively pursued wrestling at 18 , was association football . Serena Deeb graduated from Oakton High School , located in Vienna , Virginia , in 2004 . Though she began training wrestling at 18 , she coupled this with an academic career , reading for her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish until graduating in 2008 from Indiana University Southeast . She has a desire to learn more languages than Spanish and also enjoys Arabic , Thai and Italian food which matches her interest in travelling .