Elizabeth Copeland (née Kociański; born November 24, 1980), better known as Beth Phoenix, is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a former WWE Divas Champion and a three-time WWE Women's Champion.
Kociański had a successful amateur wrestling career in high school, winning several tournaments before being trained for professional wrestling by the All-Knighters. After her debut in May 2001, she wrestled for numerous independent promotions. She also appeared at the inaugural Shimmer Women Athletes shows. In 2004, she began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and signed a developmental contract with WWE in October 2005. She debuted on WWE's Raw brand in May 2006 but suffered a legitimate broken jaw the following month. As a result, she had numerous surgeries and returned to OVW for further training. While there, she won the OVW Women's Championship twice, although her second reign is not officially recognized by OVW.
She returned to the Raw brand in July 2007, and was heavily pushed, dominating the other WWE Divas and gaining the nickname, "The Glamazon". She won her first WWE Women's Championship at the No Mercy pay-per-view in October, and held it for six months. She then developed an on-screen relationship with Santino Marella, dubbed "Glamarella", and won the Women's Championship for a second time in August 2008, holding it until January 2009. In January 2010, at the Royal Rumble, she became the second woman in the history of the event to enter the men's Royal Rumble match, and went on to win the Women's Championship for the third time in April, holding it for a month. In October 2011, Phoenix won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time and lost it in April 2012. Phoenix retired and left WWE in October 2012 due to creative frustrations with the treatment of women in WWE, and to focus on her family life with boyfriend and later husband Adam Copeland, famous in WWE as Edge, with whom she subsequently had two daughters.
In 2017, Phoenix returned to WWE upon being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the 2017 class; her induction made her the fastest woman to be inducted after her retirement and the youngest inductee in history at age 36. After receiving the Frank Gotch Award for her philanthropic work in 2015, she became she also became the first woman to be inducted in the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, a hall of fame dedicated to professional wrestlers with an amateur background, in 2019. Phoenix had wrestled on a part-time basis from 2018 to 2023, most notably at WrestleMania 35; she also took part in the first-ever women's Royal Rumble match in 2018, making her the first wrestler to have participated in both the men's and women's matches. From May 2019 to December 2021, she was a full-time commentator on NXT.
Lees meer...24 november 1980 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 328e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 45 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op maandag 24 november 2025, 184 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op dinsdag 24 november 2026, in 180 dagen. Je hebt 16.620 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 398.894 uur, of ongeveer 23.933.698 minuten, of ongeveer 1.436.021.880 seconden.
Date: 24 November 1980
By R.W. APPLE Jr. Special to The New York Times
R. APPLE
Threat of armed Soviet intervention in Poland has receded, but Western diplomats and analysts doubt it has disappeared; Soviet policy-makers voice concern in their talks with Westerners, but they say they hope and believe that Polish Government is in control; controlled press's opposition to independent trade unions in Poland discussed (M)
Date: 25 November 1980
Harry Vologna is convicted of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property for receiving $23,000 from Allstate Insurance Co for fraudulent claim; Bronx, NYC, District Atty Mario Merola says 12 others have been indicted in fraud, which allegedly cost company total of $330,000 (S)
Date: 25 November 1980
By TONY SCHWARTZ
Tony SCHWARTZ
Date: 25 November 1980
Roy Lee Franklin, father of Georgia prison inmate Raymond Lee Franklin, pleads guilty to charge of attempting to extort $15,000 from Charles Postell, Albany Herald editor, in return for favorable testimony in criminal case against Postell; Franklin's son Raymond Lee and Carl Isaacs, both inmates, still face conspiracy charges in extortion case; FBI, with assistance from Postell, foiled extortion attempt, which led to dismissal of charges against Postell (S)
Date: 25 November 1980
Date: 24 November 1980
Date: 25 November 1980
Special to the New York Times