The Five to Watch 2010: Britani Knight
Welcome to The Five to Watch 2010! Diva Dirt is always on the look-out for bright, young talent breaking into the scene in women’s wrestling. Always with a finger on the pulse of up and coming talent, over the next week, we will bring to you the five talents we that we feel could be breakout stars in the future. Meet the Class of 2010…
BRITANI KNIGHT
Who is she?
At the age of 18 years old, Britani Knight is the best female grappler in Europe. Hailing from Norwich and the legendary Knight Wrestling Dynasty (including father “Rowdy” Ricky Knight, mother Sweet Saraya and brothers Zebra Kid & Zak Zodiac), Britani has already chalked up five years of experience around the halls of the UK and more recently mainland Europe. Trained out of the Knight family-run WAW Training Academy, Britani has cut her teeth wrestling for promotions such as WAW, HEW, Premier Promotions, RDW, Pro-Wrestling EVE, All Star Wrestling, NWF (Norway), BCC (Belgium), GSW (Germany), DPW (Denmark) amongst others.
Her story so far…
It’s hard to look at the composed and talented Britani Knight in 2010 and reconcile the fact that she only just turned 18 years old over the summer. Of course, as noted, it’s five years since the fresh-faced Britani made her debut as one half of the popular tag team “The Norfolk Dolls” with friend Melodi. When ‘Dolls’ partner Melodi retired, Britani found herself thrust into the singles ranks, where she has excelled ever since. Early matches with both her mother Saraya and generation rival Jetta helped her gain experience in this transitional period, but it was in 2009 that the pieces started to fall into place that turned the young Miss Knight into a bonafide star in her own right. A vicious turn on her mother allowed Britani to step out of her family’s long shadow and establish herself as the de-facto undisputed British Ladies Champion by capturing consecutive singles titles in HEW, WAW, RDW & RQW.
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Not only technically sound, Britani can be eye-wateringly physical when needs be (a trait that has clearly been passed down from mother to daughter). In fact, Britani showed that side to her game when she and her mother brawled to a venue-wide no-contest with the ladies of London Inc. at Premier Promotions in February which resulted in promoter John Freemantle issuing legitimate three month suspensions for all four girls due to the utter carnage. The inevitable rematch three months later saw Britani and her mother add the Premier Women’s Tag Titles to their trophy case in a stellar (and thankfully less violent) bout. Although she’s recently dropped two of her singles titles back to her mother, there is little doubt that Britani remains the standard bearer of European women’s wrestling in 2010 and stole the show at Pro-Wrestling EVE’s debut show in May against one of the only other women who could even dare lay claim to that title, Blue Nikita.
Why we chose her…
Britani Knight is, quite simply, a prodigy – and an ever-improving one at that. Not since Rebecca Knox several years back has Europe seen a female wrestler who quite simply ‘got’ all aspects of the wrestling game as well as Britani does at her age. The heel persona that she has cultivated since her turn on her mother continues to add new wrinkles all the time, and her charisma fills any hall in which she works. At EVE in May, the main event of the first half of the taping between Britani Knight & Blue Nikita was the consensus match of the night, and should introduce Britani to a new international audience. Already internationally travelled across Europe, a jump across the pond may be in sight for Britani in 2011 now that she’s turned 18. Already singled out by SHIMMER ring announcer Joey Eastman as an “awesome talent” as he pimped the debut EVE DVD from the ring at SHIMMER earlier this month, this writer is also aware of at least a couple of potential offers for a transatlantic debut in the coming year. As for TNA & WWE…? Well, let’s just say that they’re not unaware of her. Big things await Britani Knight, sooner or later. Of that we can be certain.
– Words by Stew Allen.
mojodoom
September 21, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Wesna is such a badass…I like Britani too.
Ayzali
September 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Being that I lived in the UK I’m very aware of Brit! She’s an amazing talent and she had the ability to start so young. How can she not acheive only more with time. I’m sure she’ll secure a spot soon if that’s what the lass desires.
Ayzali
September 21, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I’ve never seen her work with Wesna thanks for posting that for sure!
ecwroh
September 21, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I gotta say that i really enjoy this write-up. It was very informative and got me familiarize with Britani Knight. I mean i have heard of her but did not know much about her. Also, thanks for the great match. Always good to see Wesna.
DevvyLuuLovesYou
September 21, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Woah, She is Very Talented and VERY pretty. Glad to know she’s around now, never heard of her before this. I’ll watch out for her.
RockinRed45Mvs
September 22, 2010 at 12:02 am
Wow! She sounds and looks awesome. Hope she eventually comes to the US so that she can work with mainstream promotions.
EVEwrestling
September 22, 2010 at 12:15 am
Shameless plug alert but Britani main events the first Pro-Wrestling:EVE DVD against Blue Nikita (available at http://www.EVEwrestling.com for £9.99 (about $15) with FREE worldwide shipping) which Britani herself claims to be her best match in a contest that pretty much puts to shame any women’s match on WWE or TNA right now. Britani also main events the next Pro-Wrestling:EVE show on Oct 16 in Suffolk, England. See http://www.EVEwrestling.com for details. Normal service will now resume :-)
madslam2009
September 22, 2010 at 12:48 am
She looks good especially for someone so young. I wonder what she could do in the Knockouts Divison. *hint hint TNA hint hint*
LucasM
September 22, 2010 at 2:19 am
First i wanna ask,someone knows the name of Britani’s theme song?
OMG!!She’s so cute,and is a good wrestler!She was so cute with the crowd,when i saw her entrance,i knew i wold love her!( I love the female wrestles who are cute:))
I hope she goes to WWE or TNA,so we can watch her every week! lol
jet
September 22, 2010 at 2:35 am
Please, don’t talk about TNA. She should stay comfortable with WWE (although, they’re horrible with women especially with the treatment from Johnny Ace). Besides, TNA barely focus with half of the knockouts they have on the roster, but they’re climbing back again. I hope so, especially the upcoming feud between Sarita and Angelina Love coming very soon.
Angelsaur21
September 22, 2010 at 4:57 am
she is GORGEOUS and amazing in the ring. :D
dafalcon
September 22, 2010 at 5:06 am
This is a great selection. Britani is a legit talent with a great pedigree and tons of experience relative to her age. I would love to see her in SHIMMER next year. If you’re the best in Europe at 18, you have to come to US or Japan to continue to grow.
karl
September 22, 2010 at 5:17 am
@LucasM-Her theme song is Linkin park-Faint
wildsnorlax
September 22, 2010 at 7:26 am
To bad Wesna retired :( she’ll be missed.
Stew
September 22, 2010 at 7:47 am
Regarding her theme music on that Wesna match, as pointed out, it’s “Feint” by Linkin Park… however, that’s not her regular theme music. In fact, that’s her mother’s theme (Sweet Saraya) that appears to have been used here for reasons best known to the Norwegian Wrestling Federation (NWF)
Britani’s theme is currently “Let’s Get Outta Here” by Madina Lake. Before her heel turn, she used “Born For This” by Paramore… which was a pretty fitting title, considering.
GSP
September 22, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Iwish her good luck for her career. She’s only 18 yo and she’s already more skilled than the entire NXT 3 roster.
Team Laycoolness!!!
September 22, 2010 at 7:53 pm
I’m pretty sure her current theme tune is ‘everytime we touch’ by Cascada
But anyways Britani Knight is my favourite wrestler that isn’t in WWE or TNA she is naturally gorgeous, friendly and one heck of a spitfire!
I had the pleasure of seeing her live at ProWrestling-EVE’s 1st show in Sudbury Suffolk (my current city) you can also see me in the youtube videos there on the front row in the corner haha taking notes for a write up I done, and I can’t wait to see her in action on October 16th at the 2nd show…
I’m also keeping my fingers crossed I can convince her and the other girls to hit the town with me afterwards haha XD
Stew
September 23, 2010 at 2:14 am
@Team Laycoolness!!!, I can absolutely 100% guarantee that she hasn’t used Cascada in the last 18 months. That used to be The Norfolk Dolls theme, which Britani kept after she went solo. After a while it became Paramore, then that changed to Madina Lake when she thought that Paramore wasn’t “heelish” enough for her new persona.
Team Laycoolness!!!
September 23, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Your right @Stew I just had to ask her and she confirmed…
“For pro-wrestling:EVE its Avosetta – of our lives but my usual is Madina lake – lets get outta here”
XD
hittheropes
September 27, 2010 at 2:12 am
Wrestling since 13, five years pro already, wow. Nice.