Trenesha Biggers

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Trenesha Biggers
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Ring name(s)	Rhaka Khan (TNA) Black Barbie (WEW) Naomi Banks Panther Claw (Japan) Trenesha Biggers
Billed height	6 ft. 3 in.^[1]
Born	December 25, 1981 (Age 26) Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
Billed from	Isle of Man (TNA)
Trained by	Marty Jannetty Bill DeMott
Debut	September 2005

Trenesha Biggers (born December 25, 1981) is a model and professional wrestler who is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Rhaka Khan.^[2] She was in the final top 25 in the 2005 WWE Diva Search. ^[3]

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Career

Before entering wrestling, Biggers played college basketball. She also played Division I volleyball at Florida State University. She eventually began working as a model and entered the WWE Diva Search, but was eliminated during the top 25. World Wrestling Entertainment later expressed interest in Biggers and signed her to a developmental contract. She was assigned to Deep South Wrestling. Biggers trained with Marty Jannetty for two months prior reporting to Deep South Wrestling.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

[edit] Deep South Wrestling

Biggers debuted in Deep South Wrestling as the valet of The Regulators. Later, she and Angel Williams began a feud with Kristal Marshall, Tracy Taylor, and Michelle McCool. On February 9, 2006, Biggers participated in a bikini contest; however, there was no winner due to an interruption by Palmer Canon. Biggers and Williams later accompanied Canon in a match against Tommy Dreamer, who had McCool, Taylor, Marshall in his corner.

On May 4, 2006, WWE released Biggers from her development contract.

[edit] Japan/Independent Circuit

After WWE released Biggers from her development contract, she began wrestling for Japan's Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX promotion as Panther Claw. She has also worked for Florida's Full Impact Pro and Philadelphia's Women's Extreme Wrestling promotions. In WEW, she worked under the name Black Barbie ^[4]

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

On February 10, 2008, Biggers made her Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut at the Against All Odds 2008 pay-per-view. She distracted Petey Williams during his match against Scott Steiner, helping Steiner to win. ^[2]. On the following edition of iMPACT, Steiner introduced Biggers as Rhaka Khan (the moniker a homage to soul singer Chaka Khan). Since then she has also began to manage Petey Williams in his matches. She made her in-ring debut against LAX and Salinas. Her team would lose after Homicide applied Da Gringo Killa to Petey Williams. At Lockdown, Rhaka participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match which was won by Roxxi Laveaux. At Sacrifice, Rhaka participated in the first ever Knockouts "Make Over Battle Royal" won by Gail Kim.