Mary Beth Bentley (born May 30, 1969), better known by her ring name Lexie Fyfe, is an

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. She has wrestled in various independent wrestling promotions, most notably for

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. She is a one-time

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. She also appeared on ''

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'' as the "fake

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Early life

Bentley was born in

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where she spent most of her life, attending

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.Seegers, Sandy
"Enjoying life inside ropes: Pro wrestling has provided Denville native rich experience"
, ''

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'', August 27, 2008. Accessed August 28, 2008. "A co-worker, Brandi Wine, asked Fyfe, a native of Denville, if she'd like to train with her and become a professional wrestler. Soon, Fyfe, known as MaryBeth Bentley during her days at Morris Knolls High School, was in the ring." She spent a couple of years in

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and

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when she was very young. Bentley went to

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and now resides in

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after a couple of years in

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Career

While working in billing at

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, Bentley met co-worker Brandi Wine who asked if she had an interest in training to become a wrestler. Brandi was valeting at the time for the "Beastmaster" Rick Link and Tim Blaze. She introduced Lexie to some local promoters who were looking for female wrestlers.

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, who runs a wrestling school in

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, talked her into coming early to one of the next shows. She got in the ring with a couple of the wrestlers and learned some simple moves. She started training at Ken's school right after that in April 1995. She stayed at Spence's school for a little over a year while learning the basic techniques of wrestling. Feeling that she needed to become more versatile and learn different styles, she left Spence's school. Then she had met

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on a show and he invited her down to their training place. In fact, she was thinking about leaving wrestling because she didn't feel that she was progressing in the ring. She learned so much there especially about the psychology of a wrestling match. Also, she had the chance to learn valuable skills from the "unpredictable"

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, who has trained stars including as

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and

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. She visited his school at least six times on various trips to the New York area. In 2001, Fyfe wrestled for New-Wave Championship Wrestling. She lost out to

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for the vacant NWCW Women's Championship. In 2005, Lexie joined

as a heel and defeated Christie Ricci on the promotion's first show. She later began teaming with

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after they attacked

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; following Lee's victory over Malia on Volume 3. On Volume 4 Hosaka and Fyfe defeated Lee and Cindy Rogers in a tag team match. On Volume 5 they became an official team under the name The Experience. Since then they had a winning streak which was broken by

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and

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on Volume 12. They then started another winning streak which was broken this time by

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in the final of a six-team Gauntlet Match on Volume 21. After missing Volume 23 The Experience came back as part of the Volume 24 as they defeated the team of Rayna Von Tosh and

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. On April 21, 2008, Lexie worked as a

imposter on ''

'', where she defeated "

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" before being destroyed by Umaga. In early 2010 Fyfe took a hiatus from professional wrestling due to her pregnancy and subsequent childbirth. When

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was established on July 20, 2012, Lexie began her stint as a babyface authority figure for the promotion. On October 27, 2012, Fyfe made a return appearance to SHIMMER as a villain at Volume 50; taking part in a ten-woman elimination tag team match that saw her,

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, and

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defeated by MsChif,

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, and Cheerleader Melissa.

Championships and accomplishments

*In Your Face Wrestling **IYFW Women's Championship (1 time) *

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( 1 time) *North Atlantic Championship Wrestling **NACW Women's Championship (1 time) *

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** PGWA Women's Championship (1 time) *Pro Wrestling Entertainment **PWE Women's Championship (1 time) *

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**Ranked No. 31 of the best 50 female singles wrestlers in the ''

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'' in 2008. *

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** SCW Women's Championship (1 time) *X Jam Wrestling **XJAM Women's Championship (1 time)

References

External links

Online World of Wrestling profile
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