Jazz

Carlene Denise Moore-Begnaud (born August 27, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring name Jazz.

She is best known for her time at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where she was a two-time WWF/WWE Women's Champion.

She has also competed for the National Wrestling Alliance, where she held the NWA World Women's Championship for over 900 days.

She is also known for her tenure in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and Impact Wrestling, where she retired from in-ring competition.

After dropping out of college, Begnaud was approached about starting a career as a professional wrestler and joined a wrestling school in Louisiana.

She was originally inspired to be a wrestler when she saw Jacqueline Moore perform.

Begnaud trained with Rod Price for six to eight months, and she later made her professional wrestling debut in a match against Moore.

Using the name Jazzmine, she later joined Extreme Championship Wrestling as a part of an alliance called the Impact Players, which included wrestlers such as Jason Knight, Lance Storm, and Justin Credible.

She later began a feud with Jason and defeated him at Heat Wave in 1999.

She appeared on an intermittent basis before leaving the company before ECW was shut down due to bankruptcy.

In late 2001, the World Wrestling Federation expressed interest in Begnaud, and she was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling for six months to train.

Under the new ring name Jazz, she signed a two-year contract with WWF.

She made her debut in the company as a villain on the Survivor Series pay-per-view during a Six-Pack Challenge match for the WWF Women's Championship, which had been vacated by Chyna after her departure from the company.

Ultimately, Trish Stratus was the winner for the match and the championship.

Following her debut in the company, Jazz began her first rivalry with then-Women's Champion Trish Stratus as on the January 14, episode of Raw, Jazz received a push as she defeated Jacqueline to become the number one contender to Stratus' Women's title.

Jazz received her championship match against Trish at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, where she was unsuccessful in capturing the title, however, on the February 4, 2002 episode of Raw, Jazz defeated Stratus to win the Women's Championship for the first time.

On March 17, at WrestleMania X8, Jazz successfully defended her title against Lita and Trish Stratus in a triple–threat match.

On May 6, 2002, the World Wrestling Federation was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment, subsequently renaming the title to the WWE Women's Championship, as a result, Jazz became the last woman to hold the Women's title under the WWF banner and the first to hold it under the WWE banner.

On the April 29, episode of Raw, Jazz challenged Bubba Ray Dudley for the Hardcore Championship, although didn't win the championship, she successfully helped Stevie Richards to capture it.

On the May 6, episode of Raw, Jazz was helped by Richards to retain her title against Trish Stratus, after knocking her with a superkick, after the match, Bubba Ray attacked both Steven and Jazz to try regain his title although multiple superstars started competing for it changing simultaneously from holders like Raven, Justin Credible, Crash, Trish Stratus and finally regained to Richard after being helped by Jazz, however, due to a torn ACL in her knee, Jazz dropped her title to Stratus in a hardcore-Rules match the following week on the May 13, episode of Raw.

Post-match, she was attacked by both Bubba Ray and Stratus as he performed an aided superbomb through a table on her.

Jazz made her return on the January 27, 2003 episode of Raw, viciously attacking Trish Stratus after a Chicago Street Fight for Victoria's Women's Championship, in which Stratus was defeated.

She made her return in–ring action on the February 10 episode of Raw, defeating Molly Holly in a singles match.

Jazz involved herself in the feud between Stratus and Victoria upon her return.

She immediately took out Stratus and dominated in matches against Molly Holly and Jacqueline.

She competed in a triple threat match for the Women's Championship at WrestleMania XIX against Stratus and Victoria, but Stratus walked away with the title.

During this time, she took on the managerial services of Theodore Long, which led to another Women's Championship reign after defeating Stratus at Backlash.

She had another successful title defence at Judgment Day in a Fatal Four-Way Match involving Stratus, Victoria and Jacqueline.

However, she lost the title in a battle royal to Gail Kim on June 30.

During the match, Jazz had sustained a chipped and dislocated shoulder and needed several weeks to rehabilitate.

She returned from injury in early 2004, but was used sparingly.

Later that year, she became manager and valet for her real-life husband Rodney Mack.

She was released from WWE in November 2004 due to the creative department's lack of ideas for her character.

From January 16, 2005, she started working on the independent circuit and appeared at the unofficial ECW reunion show, Hardcore Homecoming.

In late 2005, Jazz and Rodney Mack opened Dirtysouth Championship Wrestling, an independent promotion based in Louisiana.

Jazz also performed in Women's Extreme Wrestling, where she won the company's World Heavyweight Championship in May 2005 in a Fatal Four M'enage Quatro match against Angel Orsini, Mercedes Martinez, and Simply Luscious when the previous champion, Tai "Killer Weed", was forced to relinquish the title due to an injury.

While still WEW champion, on June 24, 2005, Jazz defeated April Hunter to win the NWA Cyberspace Women's Championship.

In 2006, Jazz and Mack renamed DCW to Downsouth Championship Wrestling.

Soon after the promotion's name change, Jazz won her promotion's Louisiana State Championship.

Later that month on June 24, she participated in ChickFight V and debuted in All Pro Wrestling.