Adora Reed

Adora Reed never wanted to be a wrestler; her passions lay in music. However, at the age of 23, she has already had a wrestling career successful enough to not have to work another day in her life.

Born in Bulgaria on April 23, Adora Reed spent the first 2 and a half years of her life in the country's capital city, Sofia. Tired of living according to communist ideals, her mother Iva, a dancer, and father, Atanas, an athlete and teacher, fled to Montreal, Canada, in search of a better life. Their surname, Redov, was Anglicized to Reed, and Adora Natalia Redova became, simply, Adora Reed.

Adora and was an intelligent child, nicknamed "The little adult" in Bulgarian, in reference to her love for conversation, as well as for her serious attitude and determination to always be right. She quickly picked up French and switched easily between it and her native tongue. Her stay in Montreal was short-lived--6 months--and the small family headed to Toronto, Ontario to settle down. Adora was not pleased to be confronted with yet another language, and she had more than a little difficulty learning English, possibly because she was petulant and unreceptive whenever confronted with a lesson. She sometimes had trouble making friends as a result of the language barrier; she even hid from kindergarten teachers before library sessions because of her distaste for English. The prospect of learning to communicate became less torturous only after Adora met Morgana Ashton (then Evangeline "Gina" Draganova). She was tired of not understanding what people were saying, and, in a matter of weeks, she was speaking English without problems, save a slight accent.

This inundation with language early on greatly affected Adora, leaving her with an above average capacity for language absorption and linguistic comprehension. Throughout school, she preferred English, French, Spanish and arts courses over science, math and technology.

Adora's father, although loving, funny and personable, was extremely disciplined when it came to sports. He expected his daughter to match his enthusiasm and was pleased when she took to swimming. Atanas taught swimming for extra income, and he trained her an 5 days a week for many years with his other students. She had little interest in competing, but her peers regularly dominated prestigious local and national competitions. It was good enough for her that, come regular training days, they still couldn't out-sprint her.

Thanks to her father's thirst for physical challenges, she found herself hanging out in Sully's Gym, a legendary wrestling and boxing school in Toronto, after school. She was disinterested at first, but after witnessing some of the elaborate, high-flying moves executed by wrestlers, she was compelled to try it herself, if even just for shits and giggles. Morgana was also involved in the sport, and the girls often trained together. The experience served as foreshadowing to their future: two lone girls, often ridiculed and belittled by their male peers, with only occasional and not particularly capable other females popping in and out of the ring throughout the years. Adora trained in Tae Kwon Do, reaching a 3rd dan black belt, in order to maintain and increase grace and agility for her wrestling endeavours.

Morgana knew that she wanted to follow through and succeed with wrestling, and while Adora was still in high school, Morgy got her big break in TWW--Totally Wild Wrestling. While being thrilled for her friend's many successes, Adora did not at all have the desire to follow suit. She opted to pace herself with high school and finish with her classmates at age 18, and she eventually foresook athletics in favour of studying music and singing in bands for fun.

After graduation, Adora was accepted to the University of Toronto, where she studied, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese for just under 2 years. She pulled out abruptly when presented with an opportunity to join Xtreme World Wrestling. Morgy was already on the roster, and when an old classmate from high school, Natalia, joined in hopes of taking Adora's place in Morgy's life, Adora jumped in to put her in her place. Thus, Adora's professional career began. Quite honestly, it was a career borne of the petty desire to prove a point to an underling, and the then out of practice 20-year old had no idea that wrestling would consume the next years of her life.