Serena Deeb is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She is well known for her first stint with WWE, appearing on the SmackDown brand and also known for her time with the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, under the ring name Serena. She made appearances for National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) where she is a former NWA Worlds Women's Champion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling. Serena was a six-time Women's Champion, Shimmer Women Athletes and Wrestling New Classic and a one-time WNC Women's Champion.
| Name | Serena Deeb |
| D.O.B | June 29, 1986 |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Weight | 130 lb (59 kg) |
| Occupation | Professional Wrestler |
| Debut | 2005 |
| In-ring name | Mia Mancini, Paige Webb, Serena, Serena Deeb, Serena Mancini |
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Serena Deeb was born on June 29, 1986 in Washington, D.C. suburb of Oakton, Fairfax, Virginia United States. Deeb’s love of wrestling began when she was eleven after watching a World Wrestling Federation show. However, her main passion as a child, from the age of five until she actively pursued wrestling at 18, was soccer. Serena Deeb graduated from Oakton High School in nearby Vienna, Virginia in 2004. Though she began training for wrestling at age 18, she coupled this with an academic career, studying for her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish until graduating in 2008 from Indiana University Southeast. She has a desire to learn more languages, other than Spanish, and also enjoys Arabic, Thai, and Italian food which matches her interest in traveling.
Serena started her wrestling career in the OVW Wrestling School, training from March until November 2005 after relocating on her own money from Virginia to Kentucky to attend the school. She debuted on the November 4 OVW house show. Serena managed to win the Women’s Championship. During 2007, Serena spent many weeks in a variety of tag team matches in an attempt to gain an opportunity at the Women’s Champion and Phoenix too before competing in the Miss OVW Divalympics. In 2009, Serena turned heel for the first time in her career. This was signaled when she appeared on January 14 with The Insurgency.
Serena then began working for Shimmer Women Athletes at Volume 5 where she lost to Amber O’Neal in her debut match after O’Neal used Serena’s tights to keep her down. Also in early 2009, Serena appeared in the fledgling all-female Wrestlicious promotion. In the camp show, Take Down she was known as “Webmistress” Paige Webb and debuted on the second episode of their television show which, while being recorded in early 2009, was not broadcast until March 2010 after she had begun to appear in WWE.
On the May 19, 2009, episode of World Wrestling Entertainment’s ECW on Sci Fi, Serena was seen standing backstage while Finlay was walking to the ring. Though Serena initially denied she signed with WWE, Shimmer promoter Dave Prazak confirmed that a contract had been negotiated on July 1, 2009. Deeb returned to WWE after participating in many independent wrestling competitions as part of the first Mae Young Classic on July 13, 2017, defeating Vanessa Borne in the first round. This was Deeb’s first match since 2015.
Deeb made her All Elite Wrestling (AEW) debut on September 2, 2020, episode of Dynamite, losing to NWA Women’s Champion, Thunder Rosa. She faced Rosa during United Wrestling Network’s Primetime Live event, where Deeb defeated Rosa to become the NWA World Women’s Champion for the first time in her career. Deeb also defeated Rosa on the November 18 edition of AEW Dynamite by retaining her NWA Women’s title. Serena competed in the AEW Women’s World Title Eliminator Tournament, where Deeb lost to Riho in the first round at the American bracket.
Deeb returned to action after a knee injury taking on Red Velvet defending her championship, Deeb defeated Velvet resulting in Deeb retaining her NWA Women’s title. At When Our Shadows Fall, Deeb lost the NWA Women’s title to Kamille. She had a rematch with Shida in the AEW TBS women’s championship tournament which Deeb lost and resulted in Deeb attacking Shida again. Deeb would then start using the nickname “the professor” and hosting a “5 minute rookie challenge” where she dominates her inexperienced adversaries.
Queen of FCW (1 time)
GLCW Ladies Championship (1 time)
NWA France Women’s Championship (1 time)
MCW Women’s Championship (1 time)
NWA World Women’s Championship (1 time)
OVW Women’s Championship (6 times)
Ranked No. 11 in the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Women’s 150 in 2021
Ranked No. 16 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2011
WNC Women’s Championship (1 time)
WNC Women’s Championship League (2013)
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