Shawna Elizabeth

Shawna Elizabeth Broyles is an American retired professional wrestler, manager and valet, known by her ring name Vyper. She performed primarily for Coastal Championship Wrestling, a Florida-based promotion which showcases students from Jimmy Snuka's Body Slam University and The Dudley Boyz' Team 3D Academy, and managed several former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestlers on the Southeastern United States independent circuit. She was also a model for a variety of magazines.
Career
Shawna Elizabeth was born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She often watched televised wrestling matches with her grandfather and eventually became interested in professional wrestling as a child. Among her favorite wrestlers growing up were Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, The Undertaker, Bret "the Hitman" Hart and "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels. It was while following the series of matches between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit that she considered a career in professional wrestling. and she began calling up promotions in her area. After her first meeting with a local promoter, he agreed to use her on his next show. Much of her early experience was spent working as a ring girl and as part of the ring crew.
Around 2002, Elizabeth was modeling in a local fashion show with another wrestler, "Showtime" JB Cool. It was Cool that gave Elizabeth her initial training, prior to making her debut. Her in-ring debut was a battle royal but she later had her first wrestling match against Angel. She used various ringnames during her early career, most often Shawna or CJ Vyper, prior to using Vyper as her regular ringname. The name originated from a childhood nickname Elizabeth's mother used for her.
During the next three years, she spent time in both the Florida and California "indy circuit" as well as balancing a modeling career. She modeled for a number of magazines including Axis Magazine, Bayou Vixen Magazine, Fitness Model Magazine, FHM, Hellions Magazine, Hollywood Model Magazine, Indy Circuit Pulse, Model Vanity Magazine, Naked Paper 7, Piledriver Magazine, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Real Gainz Fitness Magazine, VBlazin Magazine, Wrestling Time Magazine and Zoo Weekly.
In 2007, Elizabeth became a regular manager and valet in Coastal Championship Wrestling, a promotion based in Coral Springs, Florida which featured students from Snuka's Body Slam University and Team 3D's wrestling school, Team 3D Academy. At one point, she worked for numerous independent promotions including FPWA Wrestling, Division-1 Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Dynasty and Larry Goodman's UXW Pro Wrestling but left to concentrate on her career in CCW.
In February 2008, she was profiled in the "Open Mic" Section of Fighting Spirit Magazine and appeared as that month's centerfold. She also posed as the official model for Princess Peach in Official Nintendo Magazine.
Elizabeth was present at Coastal Championship Wrestling's first supercard of the year, Valentine Vengeance, in February 2009. She was managing her wrestler then a participant in the battle royal. That same month, she was nominated by a fan-based Yahoo fan club Indy Divas as the "2008 Indy Personality of the Year" along with Alicia, Irresistible Danielle, Amy Lee, Camron Star and Becky Bayless. Elizabeth was also named "Babe of the Day" by Ign.com and "Miss March 2009" by WUWonline.com, "Girl of the Month" for Wrestlezone.com in May and "Babe of the Bay" by Pro Wrestling Digest in August 2009. In June, Elizabeth appeared against her former trainer Jimmy Snuka in his match with the Cash Money Brothers against Vito DeNucci, Mikhail Ivanoff and the American Taliban in an 8-man tag team match on Summer Smackdown. Following this, Elizabeth continued her managerial role in CCW until retiring in 2011 to focus on photography.

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