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| Tiana Ringer | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 3, 1985 South Palm Beach, Florida, United States [1] |
| Spouse | Brian MacKenzie (m. 2024) |
| Website | Tiana Ringer at MySpace |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Tiana Ringer Tianna Taylor |
| Billed height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) [1] |
| Billed weight | 127 lb (58 kg) [1] |
| Trained by | Rob Etcheverria |
| Debut | 2004 [1] |
| Retired | 2007 |
Tiana Elise MacKenzie ( née Ringer; born September 3, 1985) is an American physical therapist and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in SHIMMER Women Athletes under the ring name Tiana Ringer.
Ringer began her professional wrestling career in 2004 in Canada's independent circuit. During her rookie year, she was featured in the Discovery Channel television documentary Slam Bam [3] and subsequently rose to prominence during her feud with Shantelle Taylor. Ringer wrestled for various wrestling promotions throughout North America during the mid-2000s: All Pro Wrestling, Border City Wrestling, BSE Pro, ChickFight, Great Canadian Wrestling, Northern Championship Wrestling, and Ring of Honor. In September 2006, she toured Mexico with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling participating in an interpromotional event between TNA and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide.
Growing up in South Palm Beach, Florida, Ringer began watching World Championship Wrestling professional wrestling with her older brothers during the early 1990s and later became a fan of Chris Jericho. While in high school, Ringer became involved in girl's varsity rugby as well as amateur wrestling winning four gold medals and qualifying for Provincials during her two-year career. Although leaving the wrestling team prior to graduation choosing to focus on her dancing career, she studied Muay Thai after leaving high school.
During this time, she became associated with several independent wrestlers while working as a hostess for a local restaurant and was eventually introduced to one of these wrestlers, Rob "El Fuego" Etcheverria by his fiancé, who was a client of her mother, a professional trainer. Moving to Toronto, Ontario in early 2003, she began training under Etcheverria at Squared Circle and later continued to train occasionally with Scott D'Amore and Tyson Dux in Windsor before making her professional debut in June 2004. [4]
That same year she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary Slam Bam which aired on the Discovery Channel. [3]
After a year in Etcheverria's Squared Circle promotion, Ringer also competed in several Ontario-based independent promotions including New Vision Pro Wrestling defeating Rossana, 21st Century Fox and fellow Squared Circle Training graduate Shantelle Taylor in a 4-way elimination match to win the NVPW Women's Championship in late-2004. On January 21, 2005, Ringer and Taylor faced each other at Border City Wrestling's Doug Chevalier Memorial Show in Oldcastle, Ontario. [5] On July 10, 2005, Ringer took part in the debut show for Blood, Sweat & Ears, held at the Nashville North Nightclub in Norval, Ontario. She and J.P. Morcado beat Shantelle and "Completely" Cody Steele in an intergender tag team match, Morcado pinning Shantelle with a powerbomb. [6]
After losing the NVPW title to Taylor in mid-2005, Ringer joined SHIMMER Women Athletes later that year where she quickly became involved in a feud with Shantelle Taylor losing to her on the company's debut event Volume 1 on November 6, 2005 [7] although she would defeat Taylor & Ariel in a tag team match with Cheerleader Melissa on Volume 2 which was taped later that same night. [8]
Their feud would continue during the next year as Ringer faced Taylor in several single matches all over the North American independent circuit [9] [10] including in the Ontario-based BSE Pro. On February 12, 2006, Ringer took part in the tapings of SHIMMER's Volumes 3 and 4 where she was defeated by Cindy Rogers, in a three-way match with Amber O'Neal, and Allison Danger, in a singles match, respectively.
Appearing on several events for Blood Sweat & Ears during the next two months, Ringer would lose to Shantelle Taylor in a 3-way match with Danyah Rays on February 26 and on March 19 she teamed with Rays losing to Shantelle Taylor & Traci Brooks. On March 30, 2006, she made her Ring of Honor debut in a "SHIMMER Showcase" dark match at Dragon Gate Challenge where she and Lacey defeated Taylor and Allison Danger in a tag team match. [11]
On May 7. 2006, Ringer returned to Blood Sweat & Ears defeating Taylor and Traci Brooks in a tag team match with Gail Kim as her partner, [12] and Taylor and Ariel with Cheerleader Melissa as her partner later that same night. She spent the rest of the summer competing in various independent promotions in Ontario including Great Canadian Wrestling, Motor City Wrestling and the Pure Wrestling Association.
In September 2006 Ringer participated in All Pro Wrestling's ChickFight tournament and lost to KAORU via rear naked choke knockout in the opening rounds in San Francisco, California on September 2. The following night, she lost to Hailey Hatred in a four-way match with Allison Danger and MsChif.
After defeating Tracy Brooks at a Blood Sweat and Ears event on September 10, Ringer made her wrestling debut in Mexico on September 17, when she wrestled at an interpromotional event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide at the Arena Cuatro Caminos de Nuevo Laredo where she teamed up with Traci Brooks to defeat Estrellita and Tiffany. [13]
On October 22, 2006, Ringer picked up her first one-on-one SHIMMER victory when she defeated "Country Girl" Lorelei Lee on Volume 7. On Volume 8, taped later that same night, she was defeated by Daizee Haze, [14] before losing to Kelly Couture on October 29 at a Blood Sweat and Ears event.
Ringer was named 2006 Female Wrestler of the Year by Ontario Independent Wrestling as well as ranked #32 of the top 50 female wrestlers on the independent circuit by WrestlingClothesline.com. [15]
On January 20, 2007, Ringer participated in a Siren Battle Royal at a Sin City Wrestling event in Tecumseh, Ontario. She eliminated Hailey Rogers to win the match, which also involved Jamie D, Amy Victory and Deanna Conda.
After losing to April Hunter at a Pro Wrestling Xtreme event in St. Thomas, Ontario on January 27, [16] she would also face Deanna Conda and Jaime D on February 18 in a 3-way match which ended in a no contest after Sinn and Hellvis interfered and attacked all three competitors. During the next several weeks she would face Cherry Bomb and Hailey Rogers in singles matches before teaming with Danyah Rays and Traci Brooks in a losing effort against Kelly Couture, Gail Kim and Bang Bang Pete in Timmins, Ontario on March 17.
On April 7, 2007, Ringer traveled back to Berwyn, Illinois to take part in SHIMMER's tapings of Volumes 9 and 10. On Volume 9 she was defeated by Nikki Roxx before defeating "The Jezebel" Eden Black on Volume 10. [17] [18] [19] Later that month, she would also team with Danyah Rays losing to Cherry Bomb and Krystal Banks when she was pinned by Banks at a Canadian Wrestling Revolution show in Vaughan, Ontario on April 29.
After missing several shows due to the death of her grandfather in early 2007, she announced on her website that she would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from professional wrestling on June 25 in order to attend York University to complete her final year and receive her Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. Tiana has plans to continue studying physiotherapy and complete a two-year Masters program commencing September 2008. [20] She subsequently earned a Masters of Science (Applied) in Physical Therapy from McGill University.
After over a four-year hiatus from professional wrestling, Ringer made her return on October 8, 2011, facing Mercedes Martinez in a losing effort at an NCW Femmes Fatales event in Montreal, Quebec. [21]
On October 2, 2016, Ringer teamed with RJ City to beat Chris Mordetzky and Lisa Marie Varon at "Global Showdown", an interpromotional show held by Destiny World Wrestling and Global Force Wrestling at the Don Kolov Arena in Mississauga, Ontario. The following year, Ringer took part in another interpromotion show for Blue Water Championship Wrestling and Xtreme Bombshells of Wrestling. She joined Chris Masters in defeating Cody Hawk and Shawna Reed at BWCW/XBW Slam Jam 2017 in Port Huron, Michigan.
Her last appearance was a brief stint for Hawaiian-based Unify Championship Entertainment. On February 23, 2019, Ringer made her debut on the UCE Ascendant pay-per-view at the Aloha Tower Marketplace where she defeated Shania Sky. Her second and final show was a September 6, 2019 television taping for UCW Unify at the FilCom Center in Waipahu, Hawaii teaming with UCW Wrestling Kaimana's Women's Champion The Radiant Rain to defeat UOB. On November 21, 2019, Ringer participated in an 8-person intergender elimination match at Bar Wrestling 48: A Series of Elimination Events in Baldwin Park, California. She teamed with Kylie Rae, Miranda Alize and Ruby Raze to defeat Jervis Cottonbelly, Joey Ryan, Kikutaro and Super Panda; all four men were eliminated by the female wrestlers.
Ringer began working in the health and physical fitness field after graduation. She was employed as a physiotherapist for Catalyst Santé (Nov. 2012-Dec. 2013), the Galea Clinic (May 2014-Jul. 2015), LiveActive Physiotherapy (Nov. 2014-Jan. 2020) and as a physical therapist for SportsFit Physical Therapy (Jun. 2020-Oct. 2021). In September 2021, Ringer started her own physical therapy clinic in Huntington Beach, California. According to the company's website, Ringer Physical Therapy's clientele includes "A-list actors, NHL & AHL hockey athletes, CFL and NCAA football athletes, dancers, national and Olympic-level gymnasts and weightlifters, WWE professional wrestlers, corporate leaders, and health focused individuals". [22] She has been a guest on several radio shows and podcasts including, most notably, the Health Hub, [23] Out Comes the Sun, [24] and Yoga with Jake. [25]
On April 21, 2024, Ringer married Brian MacKenzie in a private ceremony. [2]