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Fittingly, the 'E launched a playlist with some of her best moments on the wake of the release of Fighting with My Family.


  • SHIMMER Volume 43: After being relentlessly abused by her bitch of a mother, Britani Knight finally snaps when Sweet Saraya declares that 'you ain't no kid of mine' because she lost a match, and after attacking Saraya back, she angrily shouts that Saraya isn't her mother now either.
    • The two engaged in a massively heated pull-apart brawl that required not only referees and ring attendants, but also several AAW male wrestlers, to restrain them, and it took five minutes to accomplish this by dragging them out of the building one after the other. This led to a no-disqualification grudge match between mother and daughter on Volume 44, which daughter won. What makes this all even more awesome is that shortly after this, a WWE contract was signed and Paige would eventually hit the scene on FCW. The intense nature of the dissolution of the Knight Dynasty could be touted as a proper transition between the more or less happy-go-lucky Britani Knight and the dark and mysterious Screaming Warrior that the Paige character became.
    • It says a lot about how good Paige and her mother are that before the match, Britani Knight was booed as a heel who made everyone's lives hard but couldn't even win- and as soon as Saraya turned up and started berating her, the crowd was instantly on Britani's side.
  • She's the first NXT Women's Champion. That counts for something. The title match itself (against Emma) was highly praised by dirtsheets and fans alike, and her defense of the title at NXT ArRival (NXT's first broadcast live event), again against Emma, was even better.
  • In her debut match on Raw, she won the Divas Championship from A.J. Lee. This makes her only the second Diva (after Gail Kim) to win a women's title on her debut match, and a handful of superstars that got a title on their debut match (putting her in a club with the likes of Christian, Carlito and The Big Show). If that isn't a Moment of Awesome, then we don't know what is.
    • Meaning that, for a brief time, until she was stripped of the NXT title, she was the first NXT rookie to win an official WWE title whilst remaining part of NXT, and the first NXT rookie to simultaneously hold titles in NXT & the main WWE roster. She's also the first WWE wrestler who was born in the 90's to hold an official WWE title, and the youngest Divas champion in history at 21 years old.
    • Something else which may get overlooked; out of all those folks who won titles in their debut match on the main roster, Paige is the only one who did it directly off her first offensive move.
    • Better still, virtually everyone in the arena knew who she was, being the notoriously smarky post-Wrestlemania crowd. Her arrival and victory got one of the biggest reactions of the night. It was so awesome Paige couldn't even believe it.
  • Paige puts on pretty solid matches with lesser used Divas (like Alicia Fox and Aksana), and she both makes the Divas look good and win her matches.
  • Defending her title in a damn good match at Extreme Rules 2014 against Tamina Snuka.
  • Her match against Naomi (accompanied by Naomi's fellow Funkadactyl Cameron) on the 6/17/2014 episode of Main Event. Even though Paige lost, the fight was better than many recent Diva matches and Paige got in some good moments, including how she and Naomi mirrored each other perfectly at some points. For example, they knocked each other to the ground at the same time and then flipped up to their feet in opposite directions, in perfect synch, garnering applause from the crowd. After the match, she quickly and effectively beat Cameron down for being a Jerkass and interrupting her handshake with Naomi, then high-fived Naomi for the match they'd put on.
  • Paige's match with Naomi at Money in the Bank 2014 was even better than their aforementioned Main Event match.
  • After losing to A.J. Lee at Battleground 2014, Paige teams up with her against Natalya and Emma, wins, and then beats the crap out of AJ when the latter least expects it. A good part of the awesomeness comes from the expectation that heel Paige will get to reverse the Badass Decay she has suffered since debuting on the main roster as a face; in other words, She's Back!
  • Paige taking the Divas title back from A.J. Lee at SummerSlam 2014 — and on her birthday, no less! — in a match that included awesome moments for Paige like throwing AJ face-first into a barricade and later finishing her off with the return of her Ram-Paige DDT. Both moves looked like they killed AJ dead.
  • Paige's match with Natalya on the the August 22nd SmackDown! deserves to be mentioned. Yeah, so Paige lost, but only because A.J. Lee interfered. Otherwise, it was probably the most dominant and aggressive showing from Paige on the main roster yet.
  • Paige is widely credited by fans for making Total Divas genuinely hilarious.
  • In the June 1st 2015 RAW title match against Nikki Bella, Paige busts out a Ram-Paige off the top rope. The only way Nikki was able to continue on after that and win the match was that — well, she technically wasn't able to. She had to roll out of the ring to revive Twin Magic with Brie to avoid losing her title.
  • Paige's title match with Nikki Bella at Money in the Bank 2015, which featured a good number of impressive bumps and went just over ten minutes in what has been thus far the best (main roster) Divas's PPV match of the year. The crowd being totally behind Paige and giving great reactions the entire match didn't hurt.
  • In a way, being handpicked for the Stone Cold Podcast as its fourth interviewee. Mainly because the first three names were Vince McMahon, Triple H, Paul Heyman. So you've got the owner of WWE, one of WWE's heirs-presumptive and an iconic wrestler in his own right, the ECW visionary and quite possibly the greatest manager of all time...and a 22-year-old girl from Norwich, England, who literally hadn't even been born yet when the other three were making their bones in this industry.
  • Her totally unexpected lambasting of the current Divas on the most recent RAW. YMMV, of course, but the fact that a) she actually manages to sound frustrated rather than conceited and b) did what is essentially a successful heel turn without attacking anyone and still get cheers speaks volumes.
  • November 20, 2017. She's baaaaaack...
  • 24 hours after announcing her retirement on RAW, she is announced as the new Smackdown Live general manager by Shane McMahon.
  • July 24th, 2018: After getting tired of being abused by James Ellsworth for weeks. She's got two words for him. The fans answer "SUCK IT!" but Paige has another set of two words that come to her mind, which were "YOU'RE...FIRED!"
  • April 16th, 2019: A few months after having been relieved of her position as General Manager (due to the McMahons taking full control of both shows) and a week after saying she had a surprise tag team for the newly crowned Women's Tag Team Champions the IIconics, Paige returns as the manager of the team of Asuka and a debuting Kairi Sane.
  • Dynamite Grand Slam 2022: Saraya! Is! All Elite!
  • AEW All In 2023: In her home country, with her family in attendance, Saraya wins her first World championship in nearly 9 years.

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