Sweet Saraya
Sweet Saraya, also known as Saraya Jade Bevis, is an English professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She is best known for her time with WWE under the ring name Paige.
Wrestler
October 19, 1971
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Saraya Knight, also known as Sweet Saraya, is a retired British professional wrestler who gained prominence in the independent wrestling scene. She is best known for training her daughter, Paige, who later became a major WWE star. Throughout her career, Saraya competed in various wrestling companies, such as Frontier Wrestling Alliance, Shimmer Women Athletes, and German Stampede Wrestling, and held several championships, including the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship and the World Association of Women’s Wrestling Championship.
Before her wrestling career, Saraya worked as a chef at a holiday camp in Norfolk and later as a nightclub bouncer, where she utilized her wrestling skills to maintain order. She has expressed her enjoyment of the job and the freedom it provided.
In 2023, her daughter, Saraya Jade Bevis, known as Paige, is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and performs under her real name. She holds the title of AEW Women’s World Champion in her first reign and is considered one of WWE’s most popular wrestlers before joining AEW.
Sweet Saraya’s other notable accomplishments include founding Bellatrix Female Warriors, a British independent women’s wrestling promotion, winning the Herts & Essex Wrestling Women’s Championship multiple times, being ranked as the third-best female singles wrestler by Pro Wrestling Illustrated in 2013, reviving her all-female promotion WAWW in 2011, and training numerous wrestlers, including her daughter Paige, in the wrestling industry.