Elizabeth Copeland

Elizabeth Beth Kocianski Copeland is an American professional wrestler better known by her ring name Beth Phoenix She is best known for her time with WWE where she is a former WWE Divas Champion and a threetime WWE Womens Champion Beth had a successful amateur wrestling career in high school before being trained by the All Knighters After her debut in May 2001 she wrestled for numerous independent promotions and was the inaugural GLORY Champion She also appeared at the inaugural Shimmer shows In 2004 she began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW and signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment WWE in October 2005 She first debuted on WWEs Raw brand in May 2006 but suffered a legitimate broken jaw the following month As a result she had numerous surgeries and returned to OVW for further training While there she twice won the OVW Womens Championship although her second reign is not officially recognized She returned to the Raw brand in July 2007 and was heavily pushed dominating the other WWE Divas and gaining the nickname The Glamazon She won her first WWE Womens Championship at the No Mercy payperview in October and held it for six months She then developed an onscreen relationship with Santino Marella dubbed Glamarella and won the Womens Championship for a second time in August 2008 although she lost it in January 2009 In January 2010 at the Royal Rumble she became the second woman in history to enter the Royal Rumble match and went on to win the Womens Championship for the third time in April holding it for a month In October 2011 Phoenix won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time and lost it in April 2012