Laura Phoenix Laura Lynn Loner - Rutkowski ( July 4 , 1980 ) better known as Laura Phoenix is an independent wrestling manager who has worked for various promotions . She begin her wrestling career in 2000 by working for Great Lakes Wrestling and NWA Great Lakes . She has managed in many promotions including NWA Great Lakes and ThunderZone Wrestling . She was also a co - owner of ThunderZone Wrestling along with Steven Blade and Michael Antonio Ice . Career History . Early career . Laura has been a fan of wrestling for quite some time and in 1998 while she was living in Pittsburgh , PA attending the University of Pittsburgh a friend of hers introduced her to the independents , most namely NWA - East . She attended regularly and helped promote their shows and started working behind the scenes . In 1999 Laura moved to Michigan and started discovering the plethora of local promotions in and around the Detroit area . 2000 - 2002 . At age 19 , while attending a Great Lakes Wrestling show in Westland , MI , she took the opportunity to talk to some of the people that were involved with a show and asked how she could help to be apart of the show . That was when she was introduced to " Machine Gun " Mike Kelly who was the promoter and owner of GLW . Starting late June 2000 Laura became backstage help , DJ and eventually became GLW ' s ring announcer . She was doing the same basic work for NWA Great Lakes , and during this time she started to get a real taste for what the business was really like . She was also brought into ThunderZone Wrestling as their regular ring announcer . { C } { C In 2001 , Laura decided she wanted to be more and began training at TZW ' s school and only in a few months she became the manager / valet of Steven Blade and Michael Antonio Ice making her debut at the " Workers For Merkers " show and continued to do show through 2002 . 2003 - 2004 . Laura took personal time away from the business after moving back to PA and she and Steven welcomed their daughter Jasolyn into the world on October 2 , 2003 . Shortly after that Laura and Steven started working again while being a part of Trash Talking Radio . 2005 - 2010 . Laura and Steven moved back to Michigan and began to once again work in several different promotions in the Detroit Metro Area , most notably was Laura ' s time as ring announcer for XICW . Laura and Steven also joined the ranks of the MWO where they joined their friend " Pretty Boy Redneck " Levi Blue , at first as enemies and then as stable mates created the PBA , Pretty Badd Ass . Laura lead the two to action in tag and singles competition . After a while PBA eventually split and Laura once again turned her attention back to Steven and his singles run for the World Title . In 2007 , Steven and Laura quickly set their sights to the top of the heap and moreso to Jason " The Basher " Clouse , where the two took Feud of the Year and included highlights from a MWO show where Steven and Laura gloating that Jason didn ' t have the guts to face him only to have Basher pop out of giant box that was wrapped up like a late birthday present for Laura and Basher hitting the Basher Smasher on Phoenix . With that though came in a young lady that was kind of a protege of Laura ' s by the name of Minx , Minx eventually started causing problems between Phoenix and Blade to the point where the Laura walked away from Blade for greener pastures . However Minx continued to be thorn in her side which culminated in a match between the two women at WrestleRama in 2008 in which if Laura lost she ' d have to leave MWO but if she won Minx would be forced to keep away from Blade for good . Laura won with the help of the referee , Jayde . Shortly following that Laura watched as Steve became the number one contender for the MWO World Title . The games than began as Laura sided with the champ at the time Jeff Clouse , but this proved only to be a ruse as when it came time for the two men to meet , Laura turned on Clouse and helped Blade become the Champ . Shortly afterwards , Steven suffered a knee injury during successful title defense and this put Laura in the forefront leading to Blade ' s next challenger Dustin Divine leading to SummerSmash 2008 . Blade lost his title and injured himself even more . Shortly after this Laura found herself in a weird alliance with Revolution X which were at the forefront of helping Blade but this quickly ended when Blade went out on injury . At a Pro Wrestling Live , Laura stood infront of the fans to tell the truth only to be threatened by the members of Rev X and only to be saved by the very people that hated her . Laura then turned to the commentary table , but in a weird moment the battle between Rev X and MWO spilled to the outside , Laura took to the ring for protection from the action only to be speared by the Edgecutioner and taken out of action for several months . After several months had passed Laura returned to the MWO , not as a manager but this time as the Legal Counsel for the MWO Board of the Directors and the governing body . And shockingly made calls down the middle for the most part . In late 2009 , Laura left her position and rejoined Steven along with Kurt Kaoss to form the Phoenix Project . Early 2010 saw the appearance of a new creation Lara Lynn as she managed the Halfton Hillbillies ( Kuzin Kurt and Big Chuck Wagon ) in CIW , leading them to tag titles . Shortly after Laura took some time off to welcome her son into the world on October . 4th . Then in November Lara Lynn returned next to Kurt and Chuck in Jackson . 2011 . 2011 saw the return of the Phoenix Project to MWO until late that year , but Laura had different plans in mind . 2012 . To be continued . . . Personal life . Laura is originally from Williamsport , PA where her family still lives . She married Steve Rutkowski on May 5 , 2004 . She ' s has two children with him Jasolyn ( Oct . 2 , 2003 ) and Evan ( Oct . 4 , 2010 ) .