Piper Niven

Kimberly Benson (born 6 May 1991) is a Scottish professional wrestler.

She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Piper Niven.

Niven is a former one-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion.

Benson began her career on the UK independent circuit under the ring name Viper, also performing in Japan for World Wonder Ring Stardom.

Kimberly Benson was born on 6 May 1991, in Kilbirnie, Scotland.

Before turning into a wrestler, she kept her love for professional wrestling as a secret due to being worried that her female friends thought she was "weird" as they believed that was only a sport for men.

It wasn't until she was 15, and when her oldest nephew began to watch wrestling, that Benson's passion was rekindled and she was open about enjoying wrestling.

She was introduced to this sport at a training school near her Ayrshire home and, according to her, she debuted at age 16 one year after beginning her training; making accounts with her age, this was in 2007.

About her training, she said: "I got beat up, totally beat up. I remember lying in bed the next day, being so sore and in absolute agony, but I just loved it, I had to go back."

Viper debuted for Insane Championship Wrestling at Tramspotting on 17 February 2013.

She became the inaugural ICW Women's Champion at Fear & Loathing VIII in a tournament final victory over Kay Lee Ray and Nikki Storm in November 2015.

She was part of the special program of ITV World of Sport Wrestling celebrated on New Year's Eve 2016, and until April of that year, she was programmed to appear on a revival of the series.

However, a month later before filming was set to begin, the project was postponed indefinitely.

After participating in the 2017 Mae Young Classic, she was signed to a contract by WWE in 2019.

From 2021 to 2022 she performed as Doudrop before reverting to her current ring name.

She is a former one-time Artist of Stardom Champion, two-time ICW Women's Champion, one-time SWA World Champion, and two-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

In 2017, Benson worked in Japan as Viper for the company World Wonder Ring Stardom.

On 7 January of that year, at the event Stardom New Years Stars 2017 – Tag 2, she was part of the team "Oedo Tai" with Kagetsu and Kyoko Kimura as a replacement for Hana Kimura who was injured, where she tried to help the team to retain the Artist of Stardom Championship against "Queen's Quest" a team integrated by HZK, Io Shirai and Momo Watanabe, in which they were defeated and they lost the title.

On 13 August, she joined Queen's Quest along with Shirai and HZK to face the team "Team Jungle" integrated by Hiroyo Matsumoto, Jungle Kyona and Kaori Yoneyama in a match for the Artist of Stardom Championship at the event Midsummer Champions 2017, in which they achieved to win the title and Viper crown herself champion.

On 16 September, Viper participated at the event 5★Star Grand Prix 2017 of Stardom, where she draw with Mayu Iwatani both with 10 points.

In 2017, WWE contacted Benson, asking her to participate in the women's tournament, Mae Young Classic.

The event took place in 2017 and was an all-women tournament.

Benson asked World of Sport Wrestling to release her from her contract to participate in the competition.

She competed as Piper Niven since the name she was using was Viper and that was already the nickname of a WWE star inside the company (Randy Orton), deciding to choose that name because she played bagpipes as a child, and Niven is her dad's first name.

She defeated Santana Garrett in the first round and Serena Deeb in the round two, before being defeated by Toni Storm in the quarterfinals.

She regained the title in 2018 on an episode of ICW Fight Club before losing the title after 283 days to Kay Lee Ray in the inaugural Queen of Insanity match.

Along with Queen's Quest, managed to defend and retain the Artistic Championship three times before they left it vacant on 15 April 2018 after a draft executed by Stardom, ending their reign with 245.

One month before that same year, on 28 March, she faced Toni Storm at the Stardom Dream Slam in Tokyo event in a match for her SWA World Championship, in which the ICW Women's Championship of Viper was also in the line, where she defeated Storm to capture the title, emerging victorious with both championships.

Benson's last match in independent circuit was at Scottish Wrestling Alliance Lion's Den in November 2019.

She competed against ICW's men roster for a shot at the ICW World Heavyweight Championship in the 2019 Square Go!

match which included the likes of Jeff Jarrett, Wolfgang, Andy Wild, Leyton Buzzard, Kez Evans, BT Gunn, Grado, Jackie Polo, Mark Coffey, Joe Hendry, Kenny Williams and others.

Defended and retained the championship twice before losing it in a match against Utami Hayashishita at the Stardom 8th Anniversary event held on 14 January 2019, in which she also put her EVE International Championship at stake, where she was defeated and lost both titles, ending her reign with the SWA Championship in 292 days and with the EVE Championship in 92 days.

In early 2019, a rumour started spreading in which it was said and expected that Viper signed with WWE, which came out to be true when she appeared and debuted on 27 March episode of NXT UK that year, where, under the ring name Piper Niven, she confronted Rhea Ripley.

Niven had her first televised match with WWE after being signed on a special program entitled WWE Worlds Collide on 24 April, which consisted on various matches that involved wrestlers from all the brands; Raw, SmackDown, NXT, 205 Live and NXT UK, this last one was the brand that she belonged to and represented, defeating Zelina Vega of SmackDown.

On 19 June episode of NXT UK, Niven competed in a battle royal to determine who would have a future opportunity to face the NXT UK Women's Champion Toni Storm.

In the match, Niven was eliminated by Xia Brookside.

On 12 January 2020 at the NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II event, Niven competed in a triple threat match against Storm and Kay Lee Ray for the NXT UK Women's Championship, where Niven was defeated and pinned by Kay Lee.

Niven returned to NXT UK television on 24 September of that year, where she challenged Kay Lee Ray in a match for the NXT UK Women's Championship, where she was defeated.

On 19 November, Niven challenged Ray in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the NXT UK Women's Championship.

Niven was again defeated by Kay Lee due to an interference made by Jinny.