Dori Elizabeth Prange (born January 9, 1991) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Ruby Riott and is one-third and the leader of the Riott Squad.
Under the ring name Heidi Lovelace, she has worked on the independent circuit for promotions such as Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), IWA Mid-South, and World Wonder Ring Stardom.
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Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2010-2016)
In 2012, Prange began training with Billy Roc at his School of Roc. Lovelace made her debut for JCW, at the Arena Chicks at the Gathering! event, where she defeated C.J. Lane. Lovelace made her debut for Shimmer competing in Volume 51, where she teamed up with December in a losing effort to Pink Flash Kira and Sweet Cherrie in a tag-team match.
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2012-2013)
On May 16, 2012, Prange received a tryout in Ohio Valley Wrestling against Taeler Hendrix, which she failed to win. Prange made her debut for the promotion under the ring name Heidi Lovelace on the May 23 episode of OVW episode 666, where she lost to C.J Lane. On the June 6 episode of OVW episode 668, Lovelace was defeated by Epiphany in a dark match. Lovelace made her television debut on the June 27 episode of OVW episode 671, where she competed in a fatal-four way match, which was won by Hendrix. On the July 11 episode of OVW episode 673, Lovelace competed in dark match losing to Jessie Belle Smothers.
On September 1 at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Lovelace defeated Hendrix in a no disqualifications match, earning a future championship match against her. Lovelace defeated Hendrix for OVW Women's Championship on September 15 during a live event in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. After winning the Women's Championship, Lovelace had victories over several divas: Jessie Belle Smoothers on September 19 at OVW episode 683, Epiphany on September 26 at OVW episode 684 and Scarlett Bordeaux on October 3 at OVW episode 685. However, on October 6 at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Lovelace lost to Josette Bynum in a non-title match, which meant that Bynum would receive a championship match in the future. On November 3 at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Lovelace successfully defended her championship against Josette Bynum and Taeler Hendrix in a three-way match, after she pinned Hendrix. On the November 14 episode of OVW episode 691, Lovelace dropped the Women's Championship to Taryn Terrell after the special guest referee Taeler Hendrix cost her the match. On the December 8 edition of OVW episode 694, Heidi lost to Jessie Belle Smothers in a number one contenders match. Since January 2013, Taeler Hendrix was receiving gifts from a secret admirer which she thought was either Dylan Bostic or Ryan Howe. The conclusion of that story ended on the April 27 episode of OVW when Heidi announced that it was her sending the gifts to Hendrix because she cares about her. On the May 4 episode of OVW, Lovelace tried to express her feeling to Hendrix but ended up alone with Hendrix confused. On the May 31 episode of OVW, Lovelace (after being told by Taeler Hendrix that Trina has something against the two of them) confronted Trina and challenged her to a match for the Women's Title on the Saturday Night Special, which Trina accepted. The following day at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Trina reversed Lovelace's attempt of a hurricanrana into a powerbomb to retain her title.
Shine Wrestling (2012-2014)
On August 17, 2012 it was announced that Prange would make her debut at the Shine Wrestling event called Shine 2 under her ring name Heidi Lovelace. At the event, Lovelace faced fellow OVW wrestlers Sojournor Bolt and Taeler Hendrix in a three-way match, which was won by Bolt. On November 16, at Shine 5, Lovelace was defeated by Sassy Stephie in a singles match. On February 22, 2013 at Shine 7, Lovelace was defeated by Brittney Savage. On May 24, Lovelace teamed with Luscious Latasha and Solo Darling to take on Sojournor Bolt, Sassy Stephie and Jessie Belle in a six-women tag team match, in which her team lost. Lovelace's losing streak continued at Shine 15 when she was defeated by Mercedes Martinez in singles action.
During 'Shine 16' on January 24, 2014, her losing streak ended after being confirmed as the newest member of the "All Star Squad" (ASS) faction run by Daffney, after forming a tag team with fellow ASS member Solo Darling called "The Buddy System" and defeated S-N-S Express (Sassy Stephie and Jessie Belle Smothers).
Chikara (2013-2016)
On May 18, 2013, Lovelace made her debut for Chikara, when she and Saturyne entered the 2013 Tag World Grand Prix. They were, however, eliminated in their first round match by Arik Cannon and Darin Corbin. On December 6, 2014, in the pre-show of the Tomorrow Never Dies iPPV, Lovelace defeated Missile Assault Ant in the finals of a tournament to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup. She defended her Young Lions Cup multiple times in 2015, remaining undefeated in the year.
Also in 2015, Heidi took part in the "Challenge of the Immortals" tournament, which was a season-long double round-robin event. She was drafted to Dasher Hatfield's team, christened "Dasher's Dugout", which also included Dasher's fellow Throwbacks teammate "Mr. Touchdown" Mark Angelosetti, and then Chikara Grand Championship holder, Icarus. Their team led in points for much of the tournament, before ultimately forfeiting their points due to it being revealed that "Mr. Touchdown" had been cheating late in the tournament, by giving Dasher a secretly "loaded" elbow pad. Even so, Dasher and Heidi took part in the season-closing "Tourneo Cibernetico" 16-man match together.
On Saturday, March 19, 2016 she received a title shot at the Chikara Grand Championship against fellow female wrestler Princess Kimber Lee in Gibsonville, North Carolina at the Mid-Atlantic Sportatorium. Kimber retained after escaping the Chikara Special submission and then locking on a bow and arrow style submission that contorted Heidi to the point she had to tap (she had suffered neck damage due to the double-digit German suplexes she sustained over the course of the match).
Beyond Wrestling (2014-2015)
She made her first appearance at St. Louis Sleeper Cell on February 9, 2014. After losing to Brian Fury at When Satan Rules His World on April 26, 2015, she unexpectedly turned heel at Beyond Wrestling The Real Thing on May 31 by superkicking Kimber Lee after Chris Dickinson had interfered in Kimber Lee's match with Shynron, thus joining Team Pazuzu. In a video posted to Beyond Wrestling's YouTube channel, she explained that her motivation was perceived favoritism shown by the promotion to Kimber Lee.
World Wonder Ring Stardom (2015)
On January 11, 2015, Lovelace made her Japanese debut for the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, teaming with Act Yasukawa in a tag team match, where they defeated Hudson Envy and Kris Wolf. On January 18, Lovelace, Yasukawa and Dragonita were forced to join the villainous Monster-gun stable, after being defeated by Envy, Wolf and the stable's leader Kyoko Kimura in a six-woman tag team match. Following the addition of the new members, Monster-gun was renamed Oedo Tai. On February 8, Lovelace, Dragonita and Envy unsuccessfully challenged Heisei-gun (Io Shirai, Mayu Iwatani and Takumi Iroha) for the Artist of Stardom Championship.
WWE
NXT (2016-2017)
On December 15, 2016, it was reported that Prange had signed with WWE and reported to the WWE Performance Center. She made her in-ring debut on January 13 at an NXT live event, losing to Daria Berenato. Going by the ring name Ruby Riot, she made her television debut on the March 22 episode of NXT, attacking Nikki Cross and the rest of SAni+Y, alongside Tye Dillinger, No Way Jose and Roderick Strong, which led to a match between the two teams at NXT TakeOver: Orlando, on April 1, where Riot's team lost. In her first singles match, which aired on the April 12 episode of NXT, Riot defeated Kimberly Frankele with Nikki Cross attempting to distract her. The following week, Cross called out Riot and a brawl ensured. William Regal booked the two in a match, which again lead to a brawl that had to be split up. On the May 3 episode of NXT, Riot participated in a #1 contender's battle royal for Asuka's NXT Women's Championship and made it to the final three before Asuka attacked her, Cross, and Ember Moon, resulting in a no contest. A fatal four-way match between all four women for the championship was later scheduled at NXT TakeOver: Chicago, but Moon was later taken out of the match due to a legitimate injury. Riot would go on to lose the match at the event after Asuka pinned both her and Cross simultaneously. On the October 18 episode of NXT, Riot competed against Ember Moon and Sonya Deville in a triple threat qualifying match for a title opportunity at NXT TakeOver: WarGames, but was unsuccessful as the match was won by Moon. She later competed twice against Sonya Deville on NXT, with Ruby winning the first one on November 22 but losing the second one on December 7 in a No Holds Barred, which turned out to be her last match on NXT after already being on the main roster.
SmackDown (2017-present)
On the November 21, 2017 episode of SmackDown, Riott made her main roster debut along with Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan as heels, attacking both Becky Lynch and Naomi. On the same night, they interrupted a match between SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and Natalya, and proceeded to attack both of them. The following week on SmackDown, Riott (now with an additional 'T' added to her last name) alongside Morgan and Logan, now known as The Riott Squad made their in-ring main roster debut, defeating Charlotte Flair, Natalya and Naomi in a six-woman tag team match, with Riott pinning Flair. The group then suffered their first loss, against Flair and a returning Naomi, whom they had injured in prior weeks. On the 2 January edition of SmackDown, Riott announced that she and her stable would be entering the first ever women's Royal Rumble match, before being attacked by Charlotte Flair, Naomi and a returning Becky Lynch. On the January 9, 2018 episode of SmackDown, Riott was defeated by Lynch. On the January 16th episode of Smackdown, The Riott Squad defeated Becky Lynch, Naomi and Charlotte Flair with Liv Morgan pinning Naomi.
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Other media
Riot made her WWE video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K18, featured as downloadable content.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- As Heidi Lovelace
- Frog splash
- Heidi-Can-Rana (Hurricanrana driver)
- Heidi Ho (Tornado DDT transitioned into a snap suplex)
- Shining wizard
- As Ruby Riott/Riot
- We Riot (Diving senton)
- Riot Kick (Wind-up overhead kick)
- As Heidi Lovelace
- Signature moves
- Diving double knee drop
- Ruby-Can-Rana (Diving hurricanrana)
- Enzuigiri, usually following a superkick
- The Love Lock (Body scissors, transitioned into a Fujiwara armbar)
- Wrestlers managed
- Taryn Terrell
- Nicknames
- "The Sparkplug of the Squared Circle"
- "Punk Rock Ragdoll/Princess"
- Entrance music
- "Black Sheep" by Metric
- "The Road Ahead" by Kenny Wootton and Harley Wootton
- "We Riot" by CFO$ (NXT / WWE)
Championships and accomplishments
- Absolute Intense Wrestling
- AIW Women's Championship (1 time)
- All American Wrestling
- AAW Heritage Championship (1 time)
- Alpha-1 Wrestling
- A1 Alpha Male Championship (1 time)
- Channel Islands World Wrestling
- World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Chikara
- Young Lions Cup XI (1 time)
- Ohio Valley Wrestling
- OVW Women's Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Ranked No. 20 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2016
- Revolution Championship Wrestling
- RCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Shimmer Women Athletes
- Shimmer Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Evie
References
External links
- Ruby Riott on Twitter
- Ruby Riott on Instagram
- Ruby Riott on WWE.com
- Online World Of Wrestling profile
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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