Jade Cargill (born June 3, 1992) is an American
professional wrestler
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. She is signed to
All Elite Wrestling
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AEW is owned by Shahid Khan and his son Tony, w ...
(AEW), where she is the inaugural and current
AEW TBS Champion
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. Her ongoing reign is the longest reign of any AEW championship at + days.
Early life
Cargill was born in
Gifford, Florida
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She attended
Sebastian River High School
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Campus
Situated on of land, Sebastian River High S ...
and
Vero Beach High School
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The campus of VBHS encompasses approximately , w ...
, helping her teams to two basketball district championships. Cargill is a
Jacksonville University
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graduate with a social science degree, where she played basketball, and was named to Atlantic Sun Preseason First Team in her senior year. She also has a certified master's in child psychology.
Professional wrestling career
In April 2019, Cargill attended a
WWE
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tryout at the
WWE Performance Center
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.
Subsequently, she began training at
A. R. Fox
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's WWA4 Academy. Taking advice from
Mark Henry
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, who Cargill described as her "mentor," she went to train at
Heath Miller
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and Richard Borger's Face 2 Face Wrestling School.
She then trained at Nightmare Factory under
Q. T. Marshall
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and
Dustin Rhodes
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.
Sonjay Dutt
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and
Bryan Danielson
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started coaching her when they arrived in
All Elite Wrestling
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AEW is owned by Shahid Khan and his son Tony, w ...
(AEW) in 2021, at the request of AEW founder and owner
Tony Khan
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.
Cargill made her professional wrestling debut with AEW on the November 11, 2020, episode of ''
Dynamite
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'', interrupting
Cody Rhodes
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, and teasing the arrival of
Shaquille O'Neal
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. The next day, Tony Khan announced that Cargill had signed a multi-year contract with AEW. She would work with Cody Rhodes and his wife
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Surname:
* Albrecht Brandi (1914–1966), German U-boat commander in World War II
* Cesare Brandi (1906–1988), Italian art historian
* Ernst Brandi (1875–1937), German ...
, leading to a
tag team match
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pitting the Rhodes against herself and Shaq. However, Brandi was replaced by
Red Velvet. On the March 3, 2021, episode of ''Dynamite'', Cargill and O'Neal defeated Cody and Velvet, marking the first match of Cargill's wrestling career.
On the March 17 episode of ''Dynamite'', Cargill wrestled in her first singles match, defeating Dani Jordyn. Despite
Matt Hardy
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With his real life brother Jeff, Hardy gained notoriety in WWF's tag team ...
offering his
manager
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Management includes the activities ...
ial services to Cargill, he was shunned in favor of
Mark Sterling
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Professional wrestling career
Rattelle wa ...
, which was announced on the May 28 episode of ''Dynamite''.
In October 2021, it was announced that she would participate in the
AEW TBS Championship tournament to determine the inaugural champion, and would be one of four women to receive a first round
bye. Cargill went on to defeat
Red Velvet in the quarterfinals on November 24 and
Thunder Rosa
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in the semifinals on December 29. In the finals, which took place on January 5, 2022, she defeated
Ruby Soho to become the inaugural AEW TBS Champion.
Two weeks later, in what were her first title defenses, she would retain against
Anna Jay and
Julia Hart
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on episodes of ''
Rampage''.
Throughout the early part of 2022, at various AEW events, Jade would continue her undefeated streak and retain her title against numerous opponents, most notably
The Bunny,
Tay Conti
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,
Willow Nightingale
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, and
Leila Grey
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Professional ...
. In mid-April, she formed her own
stable
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called "
The Baddies", which consisted of her,
Kiera Hogan
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and Red Velvet. On May 29 at
Double or Nothing
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,
Stokely Hathaway
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became her new manager and a few weeks later in late-June, Grey became part of the stable, replacing an injured Velvet. Around the same time, Cargill entered her first
feud
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with the debuting
Athena
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. The two eventually faced off in a title match at
All Out on September 4, where Jade
squashed Athena in a match that lasted less than five minutes. After fending off other contenders such as
Madison Rayne
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and
Diamante
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Diamante may also refer to:
Places
Argentina
* Diamante, Entre Ríos, a ''municipio'' in Diamante Department
* Diamante ...
, she began a feud with
Nyla Rose
Nyla Rose (born August 3, 1982) is an American professional wrestler and actress signed to All Elite Wrestling, where she is a former AEW Women's World Champion. She also starred in the 2016 Canadian television series '' The Switch''.
Rose beca ...
, who stole her TBS championship belt. The feud between the two lasted nearly two months and culminated at
Full Gear on November 19, where Cargill defeated Rose to retain her title.
On January 5, 2023, Cargill reached the one-year mark as TBS Champion. The following week on January 13, she became the longest-reigning champion in AEW's history at 373 days, breaking
Hikaru Shida
is a Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, actress, and model, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is a former and the longest-reigning AEW Women's World Champion. On February 25, 2021, she became the longest reign ...
's 372-day record with the
AEW Women's World Championship.
Personal life
Cargill is of
Jamaican descent. She has a daughter named Bailey Quinn with her partner, former
Cincinnati Reds
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second baseman
Brandon Phillips
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. Cargill has credited late female wrestler
Chyna
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She first rose to prominence in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1997, where s ...
and ''
X-Men
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'' character
Storm
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as her inspirations.
In March 2023, Phillips and Cargill were announced as owners of the
Texas Smoke, the fourth franchise of
Women's Professional Fastpitch
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The league is unrelated to the ...
(WPF), based in
Austin, Texas
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.
Filmography
Television
Championships and accomplishments
![JC TBS Champion (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/JC_TBS_Champion_%28cropped%29.jpg)
*
All Elite Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. It is considered the second largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind WWE.
AEW is owned by Shahid Khan and his son Tony, w ...
**
AEW TBS Championship (
1 time, current)
**
TBS Championship Tournament (2022)
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**
Dynamite Award (1 time)
*** Breakout Star – Female (
2022
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)
* ''
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
** Ranked No. 5 of the top 150 female wrestlers in the ''
PWI Women's 150
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'' in 2022
**
Rookie of the Year (2021)
* ''
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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Founded in print in 1982 by Dave Meltzer, the ''Wrestling Observer'' website merged with Bryan Alvarez's ''Figure Four We ...
''
**
Rookie of the Year (2021)
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
African-American female models
African-American female professional wrestlers
All Elite Wrestling personnel
AEW TBS Champions
American exercise instructors
American female professional wrestlers
American sportspeople of Jamaican descent
American women's basketball players
Basketball players from Florida
Cosplayers
Female models from Florida
Jacksonville University alumni
People from Vero Beach, Florida
Professional wrestlers from Florida
Sportspeople from Florida
Jacksonville Dolphins women's basketball players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
21st-century female professional wrestlers