Kayla McKnight

Kayla McKnight (born April 10, 1963) is an American professional wrestling valet. She is most known for being the mother of The Reprobate.

Birth and adolescence
McKnight was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to Jeanie Morgan, a waitress, and Robert McKnight I, a bus driver. She was raised in a lower-middle class household with four brothers. She attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, where she was one of the top students in her class. Her father died when she was 10 years old, which sent her spiraling in to a depression.

Teen years and pregnancy
By 12, she had dropped out of school, and was already drinking heavily. She had developed an addiction to crack cocaine at 13, right before she found out that she was pregnant. She considered abortion, but decided to have the child due to her strong religious beliefs. On Halloween day, October 31, 1976, her son Robert was born. She gave him up for adoption and out of emotional distress, refused to ever allow him to contact her. Raised by foster parents, Robert was told that his mother had died of AIDS shortly after giving birth to him.

Adult life
At the age of 21, Kayla came over her addictions and became sober. She moved to New York to pursue a modeling career under an alias, hoping that her son would never find her. He never looked, and as he became a famous professional wrestler under the alias of The Reprobate, she would watch him on television and would fight the urge to track him down just to tell him that she was proud of him. When The Reprobate won the GWF World Interbrand Championship, she decided that one day, she would reunite with him.

In wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * Vertigo Driver (DDT) - PWA


 * Nicknames
 * "The Redux" (PWA, 2010)


 * Entrance themes
 * "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails (PWA)