Mariah May

May in July 2023

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Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom

**Mariah May Mead** (born August 4, 1998) is an English professional wrestler better known by the ring name **Mariah May**. She is best known for her work to World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom), where she was a member of Club Venus.

Apart from being a model, she also worked in the British and American independent circuit working for promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro) and Progress Wrestling (Progress).

## Professional wrestling career

### Early career (2018–2022)

Before officially stepping into the ring, Mariah began her career as a ring announcer, where she would perform on multiple shows over the course of 2018.

On February 2, 2019, she would make her professional wrestling in-ring debut facing WWE's NXT UK Nina Samuels. While initially unsuccessful in her efforts, the two would have a series of matches crossing over multiple promotions. Their third and final match, ta seeing May defeating Samuels. After only a brief few matches, in June 2019, Mariah would be selected to attend and partake in a 3-day WWE tryout at the brand new United Kingdom's WWE Performance Center, where she received coaching from many industry veterans such as William Regal and Sarah Stock.

### World Wonder Ring Stardom (2022–present)

On December 29, at Dream Queendom, May would make her debut in Japan accompanying Mina Shirakawa to the ring, alongside the returning Xia Brookside. Mina and Unagi Sayaka representing Cosmic Angels took on Donna Del Mondo's Thekla and Mai Sakurai. Following the match, Shirakawa would both verbally and physically confront Sayaka before turning on her, citing Unagi's selfishness and for not being around her when Mina nedded her the most. She then announced the formation of her own faction known as the Club Venus. featuring May, Shirakawa and Brookside.

In a match against Super Strong Stardom Big Machine at New Blood Premium, with Mina Shirakawa in her corner, Mariah would debut the newest member of Club Venus, a masked alter ego by the name of Sexy Dynamite Princess, and come out on top in singles competition. The following night on 26 March, Mariah would enter the Cinderella Tournament 2023, picking up a win against Rina. Her time in the tournament would ultimately come to and end in the second round via an over-the-tope-rope elimination from Mai Sakurai.

In addition to competing at All Star Grand Queendom, as a last-minute addition to the English language broadcast of the event, Mariah would join the commentary team and provide her insight for the duration of the show.

Following Mariah and Mina Shirakawa's victory over Ami Sourei and MIRAI at Korakuen Hall, the two Club Venus members issued a challenge to The New Eras for the Goddess of Stardom Championship. Uniting under the name of Rose Gold, Mariah and Mina would receive this championship match at Sunshine 2023. Proving successful in their endeavor, they would bring championship gold back to Club Venus becoming the 28th Goddess of Stardom Champions, also marking Mariah's first championship in Stardom.

Outlasting 18 other opponents in a last chance Rumble match, alongside Hanan, Mariah would qualify to participate in the 5 Star Grand Prix 2023, where she competed as part of the Blue Stars block. On 30 September, she would face her fellow last chance Rumble winner Hanan in her final match of the tournament, which would coincide with and double as May's farewell match from Stardom.

## Other media

Outside of professional wrestling, Mariah is also a professional model and has worked with UK fashion brands such as Misspap, Miss Bardot.

On January 16, 2017 Mariah launched her YouTube channel featuring a look into her world of wrestling, fashion, gaming, and fitness. She later launched her own Twitch channel where she live streams, chats, and plays games with her community known as House May.

In October 2021, Mariah joined the cast of ITV2’s wrestling comedy series Deep Heat taking on the role of Roxy. The six-part sitcom premiered on March 28, 2022. She would take to Canada in July 2022 where she would model at Calgary's Cowboys Music Festival 2022 as well as for Freddy by Livify Clothing. Later that month she would be casting as the role of "First Smiler" in the Faithful Films production Granny DJ.

## Championships and accomplishments

* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Ranked No. 95 of the top 250 female singles wrestlers in the *PWI Women's 250* in 2023
* **World Wonder Ring Stardom**
	+ Goddess of Stardom Championship (1 time) – with Mina Shirakawa