Taylor Jones

Jones in 2020

Taylor Jones (born April 20th 1994), is a professional wrestler currently signed to CWL where she performs on the Vindication brand.

## Early Career

Jones began training with the Dropkixx Wrestling Academy in May 2007 and then later under the Total Aggression Wrestling (TAW) Academy in July 2009, before making her debut 2 years later for TAW.

Over the next 6 years, Jones would wrestle for numerous wrestling promotions in Scotland and Germany, such as Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) and Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), as well as a few matches in Japan for wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom.

## CWL

In 2017, Jones signed with the Created Wrestlers League (CWL) and debuted in Week 6, defeating Viper.

### Early CWL

Jones would be eliminated by Viper the next week in a #1 Contenders 8-Woman Battle Royal for the Women's Championship and then faced the team of Carolyn Hale and Dre Wilson on the pre-show of Shadowbanned in a losing effort with tag partner Masca Malandra.

Jones defeated Dre Wilson in a singles match 2 weeks later to qualify for the Women's Ladder match at Gold in the Bank, which Viper would go on to win.

### Feud with Yuri York and Dre Wilson

At American Cakeday, Yuri York issued an open challenge in response to her recent losing streak, which Jones accepted and won; this prompted Dre Wilson to attempt to take Yuri York under her wing, despite York being a friend of Jones, only to also be defeated by Jones on Week 21.

Jones was then drafted to Nemesis along with Dre Wilson, whom managed to get Jones booked in a handicap match against herself and Yuri York for Midsummer Mayhem; Yuri York betrayed Jones and pinned her in the match, making Dre Wilson the #1 Contender to the Nemesis Women's Championship. Following this, Jones took a brief hiatus from CWL, returning in Week 32, as the manager of Nemesis Women's Champion Dre Wilson; Dre Wilson lost a non-title match to Andrea Hudson, and afterwards Jones betrayed Wilson to reveal that she had never been her ally.

### Feud with Annie Thunder and Nemesis Women's Champion

Jones then attempted to become #1 Contender to Wilson's Nemesis Women's Championship, but was defeated in a Triple Threat #1 Contenders match between herself, Andrea Hudson and Annie Thunder, with Annie Thunder pinning Jones.

Taylor Jones then went on to defeat The Witch Doctor in Week 36 before, a week later, challenging the new Nemesis Women's Champion Annie Thunder to a championship match at Battle Lines, to which Annie Thunder did not respond. Taylor Jones then defeated former enemy Dre Wilson in Week 38, prompting the then general manager Grigore Bogard to name Taylor Jones as #1 Contender for Battle Lines himself.

At Battle Lines, Taylor Jones defeated Annie Thunder for the Nemesis Women's Championship, making this her first ever championship in her career, with the match being voted as the best match of that month by the CWL fans.

### Feud with Alex Steel and Injury

After Jones successfully defended her new Nemesis Women's Championship on the pre-show at A.M.A, she was attacked by her then ally Alex Steel, whom delivered a Cradle Piledriver to Jones on top of the Nemesis Women's Championship and established herself as a heel in the process.

Afterwards, Jones was challenged to a Champion vs. Champion non-title match at Supremacy by the then Vindication Women's Champion Davina Rose, which Jones, despite having her physical health called into question, accepted and won. However, later that night, in the venue's parking lot, Jones was again assaulted by Alex Steel and was hospitalised with a grade 2 concussion and several broken bones.

Faced with the options of either defending the Nemesis Women's Championship whilst injured or being stripped of the championship due to being unable to defend it, Jones defended the Nemesis Women's Championship against Alex Steel in a losing effort on Week 52 on Nemesis. After the match, Alex Steel attempted to continue attacking Taylor Jones, only to be stopped by Annie Thunder, whom established herself as a babyface in the process; however, in spite of this, Taylor Jones would still be out for over 2 months.

### Return to Vindication and Feud with Julie Storm and Sarah LeBlanc

On week 62, Taylor Jones returned under the Vindication brand in a losing effort to Luna Morales, beginning a short losing streak, during which Taylor Jones lost three consecutive matches; during this time, she began dating Vindication Heavyweight Champion Nightmare. This losing streak came to an end on Week 68 of Vindication, when Jones defeated Evelynn Diamond in a singles match, however, she was then attacked by a masked figure after the match with a Singapore cane.

On week 69, it was announced that Julie Storm was the masked figure and Jones promptly defeated her in a singles match. However, after the match, Storm asserted that she was not the masked figure whom attacked Jones in an interview, citing a lack of motive, as herself and Jones had never interacted in the past. Jones and Storm would be forcibly paired up in a tag team tournament designed to set up a match to crown the inaugural Openweight Championship, losing in the first round to the team of Annie Thunder and Davina Rose. Following this, Jones and Storm argued backstage on Vindication the next week, immediately after which, Jones was attacked by the masked attacker, seemingly proving Storm's defence. After Storm was attacked by the masked attacker on Week 78, Jones challenged said masked attacker to a match at Global Warning, which she won and afterwards unmasked the attacker to reveal Julie Storm.

After some confusion, a second attacker assaulted Taylor Jones wearing the same attire as Storm to reveal that they had been working together the whole time to trick Jones. This second attacker was later named as Sarah LeBlanc, whom formed an alliance with Storm and defeated the team of Jones and Scout Mackenzie on 83 of Vindication. Jones then challenged and organised a singles match between herself and LeBlanc at Midsummer Mayhem, which Jones won.

### Feud with Tifanie Quinn

After her feud with LeBlanc ended, Tifanie Quinn challenged Jones to a match but received no reply or acknowledgement, driving her to continuously harass Jones on Twitter, specifically bringing up a match from Week 66 of Vindication, in which Quinn pinned Jones during a tag team match. On Week 88, Tifanie Quinn won a multi-woman elimination match, also featuring Jones, to become #1 Contender to the Vindication Women's Championship, after which Jones blocked Quinn on Twitter, and Quinn would go on to lose in a triple threat match for the championship also involving Annie Thunder and Evie Rush.

Quinn would then blame Jones for her loss, claiming to have wanted to be friends with Jones but that the rejection had gotten to her and threatened revenge, which she followed up on with an attack on Jones on Week 93. Jones admitted to being childish and unblocked Quinn, but still had the Board of Directors set up a match between the two at Karmageddon, which Jones won.

### Championship Endeavours

Jones would go on to challenge Scout Mackenzie for the CWL Openweight Championship at Battle Lines 2, but would lose to Olivia Mistral on Week 98. Despite this loss, Scout Mackenzie accepted Jones' challenge for Battle Lines due to her decisive victory over Mistral not long prior. At Battle Lines 2, Scout Mackenzie retained over Taylor Jones in the CWL Openweight Championship Match.

Following this loss, Taylor Jones would face Olivia Mistral in a Supremacy Cup Qualifying Match in a losing effort on Week 101. On Week 113, Taylor Jones once again lost to Scout Mackenzie, meaning Mackenzie would get a singles CWL Openweight Championship match at Jailbreak and Jones was entered into a Chamber Match at Jailbreak for the Vindication Women's Championship. Jones lost a battle royal on Week 114, but then won the Women’s Championship Chamber at Jailbreak to become Vindication Women's Champion.

### Vindication Women's Champion

After winning the Vindication Women's Championship, Taylor Jones entered a feud with former Vindication Women's Champion Kathryn Love, during which, Love turned heel and Taylor Jones defended the Vindication Women's Championship successfully against Love in a singles match at EndGame 2.

After EndGame 2, Jones defeated Sonya Evans in a singles match on the first Vindication of Season 3. Davina Rose, now Valencia, would win a 4-Way Vindication Women’s #1 Contenders' Match on the Vindication Supershow 3.3, earning her a match against Jones for Shadow War.

Meanwhile, Jones had undertaken a masked apprentice going by the name Ilene Macey, though afterwards, Jones lost a match to Andrea, despite Jones having Macey has her manager, and Jones would also lose the CWL Vindication Women's Championship to Valencia at Shadow War.

### Injury and Return

After losing the Vindication Women's Championship, Jones lost a match against Ilene Macey on episode 3.10 and was then attacked backstage off-camera, resulting in a near 7-month hiatus. During this hiatus, on episode 3.22, Ilene Macey seemingly was attacked by Tifanie Quinn and was not seen again afterwards. Jones returned at Supremacy 3 in the Battle for Supremacy match, entering at number 26 and eliminating Amber Arcade before Jones was eliminated by Scout Mackenzie.

Jones then defeated Sarah LeBlanc on Vindication episode 3.41, after that, Jones defeated Yuri York on episode 3.42 to qualify for the CWL Openweight Championship #1 Contenders' Chamber Match at Jailbreak. In the Chamber Match at Jailbreak, Jones entered last and eliminated Amber Arcade with a Diving Rotating Body Splash off the top of the Chamber Pod, then Jones eliminated Quinn Edwards with a standing Shooting Star Press before Jones was eliminated last by Marilyn Benson after an Arcs End.

### Heel Turn and Feud with Tifanie Quinn

In Season 4, Jones was defeated by Roxx on Vindication 4.2, then on episode 4.5, Jones interrupted Tifanie Quinn post-victory and revealed that Tifanie Quinn was the true identity of Ilene Macey all along and that she was the one who injured Jones in Season 3. Jones accused Quinn of having someone dress up as Ilene Macey so that Quinn could attack them on-camera and disguise the fact that she was Ilene Macey all long. Quinn confirmed that this was true, but responded that she had changed personally since this incident and apologised, Jones however did not accept the apology and attacked Quinn.

On episode 4.6, Jones issued a challenge to Tifanie Quinn, which Quinn responded to on episode 4.7 by declining this challenge. On episode 4.7, Jones revealed that Quinn and herself would be in Gold in the Bank qualifying matches, seeking to obtain a match this way, but Jones and Quinn both lost their qualifying matches on episode 4.10.

On episode 4.13, Jones explained that not having this match has made her desperate for this, and the following week, Tifanie Quinn defeated Alexandra Marie only to discover her locker had been broken into and Quinn was promptly attacked by someone wearing the Ilene Macey outfit. On episode 4.15, the person disguised as Ilene Macey said that a contract for a sanctioned match had been placed in Quinn's possession and threatened her to agree to the contract or ringside staff would be hurt.

At Zero Hour, Quinn confronted the person diguised as Ilene Macey, agreed to the match and unmasked her, revealing that it was allegedly the unidentified person whom dressed as Ilene Macey previously when Quinn had attacked her on episode 3.22, before Quinn was attacked from behind by Taylor Jones.

On episode 4.17, Jones alleged that she had formed an agreement with the person Quinn attacked on episode 3.22 to take revenge, with Jones dressing up as Ilene Macey to attack Quinn and the other person dressing up as Ilene Macey to issue the challenge. Jones also confirmed that the contract that Quinn agreed to at Zero Hour was for a match against Jones at Merry Mayhem. The identity of this other person has not been identified, so this story is uncorroborated and no charges have been made against Jones.

On episode 4.18, Jones defeated Alexandra Marie and later in the show, Quinn confirmed that she would be facing Jones at Merry Mayhem, seemingly less relunctant than previously.

Currently, Taylor Jones vs Tifanie Quinn is set to take place at Merry Mayhem.

## Notable Achievements

### CWL

* Nemesis Women's Champion (1 time)
* Vindication Women's Champion (1 time)
* CWL Match of the Month (Month 8) vs. Annie Thunder at Battle Lines

## In Wrestling

**Finishing moves**

* And Justice For All (Fireman's Carry Overhead Kick) (2020 - Present)

* Sticks and Jones Will Break Your Bones/Sticks and Jones (Springboard Shooting Star Press) (2012 - 2020)
* 450 Splash (2017 - 2020)

**Signature moves**

* Air Jones (Springboard Clothesline) (2020 - Present)

* Reverse Frankensteiner (2012 - 2020)
* Wrist Lock Springboard Frankensteiner (2015 - 2020)
* Snapmare into Spinning Roundhouse Kick (2018 - 2020)
* Dream Eater (Snapmare Driver) (2018 - 2020)

**Nicknames**

* Thug Jones

**Wrestlers managed**

* Dre Wilson
* Marilyn Benson

**Entrance themes**

* "Fight" by All Good Things (Instrumental) (2012 - 2018)
* "In This Moment" by Highway Saints (CWL) (2018 - 2020)
* "Extinction" by Jayde Garrow (CWL) (2020 - Present)