Taylor Wilde

Shantelle Larissa Malawski (born January 26, 1986) is a Canadian professional wrestler.

She is signed with TNA Wrestling, where she performs under the ring name Taylor Wilde.

Malawski made her professional debut in June 2003 at the age of 17 under the name Shantelle Taylor.

In 2004, she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary, Slam Bam, which aired on the Discovery Channel.

In 2005, she won her first women's championship while competing in New Vision Pro Wrestling.

She spent the summer of that year in Monterrey, Mexico working on her lucha libre style.

In December she participated in a three-show tour of South Africa wrestling on a card that featured former World Wrestling Entertainment stars Kevin Nash, Andrew Martin and Scott Steiner.

Also in December, she was invited to a tryout in Buffalo, New York for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Malawski also worked for several independent wrestling promotions including Shimmer Women Athletes, Ring Divas' Battle Angels, Twin Wrestling Entertainment, and Blood Sweat and Ears.

Malawski was under a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contract from 2006 to 2007, but never made it past the developmental system.

On April 16, 2006, Malawski defeated Traci Brooks to become the inaugural Battle Angels Women's Champion.

Malawski also spent time working the Pure Women's Action shows for the Pure Wrestling Association in Southern Ontario.

In May 2006, Malawski signed a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment and was assigned to their developmental territory Deep South Wrestling.

She made her Deep South in-ring debut at the June 27, 2006 TV tapings as simply Shantelle, where she lost against Krissy Vaine.

On September 9, 2006, Malawski defeated Vaine at Deep South Wrestling Grand Park Slam event in Six Flags Over Georgia.

On the October 26, 2006 episode of DSW TV Tapings, Taylor defeated Angel Williams after a distraction from Tracy Taylor and again on the November 2 episode.

In January 2007, Malawski appeared on the SmackDown!/ECW house shows as San-Eye, a masked Japanese wrestler, where she defeated Jamie Noble in an intergender match.

In June 2007, Malawski wrestled in dark matches prior to the SmackDown! television tapings while wearing a mask including a bout where she defeated Jillian Hall.

On the January 18 episode of DSW TV Tapings, Shantelle teamed up with Williams to defeat Taylor and Luscious.

On the January 19 episode of DSW TV Taping, Taylor continued her feud with Williams where she defeated Williams.

On the January 25 episode of DSW TV Tapings, Taylor teamed up with Kofi Kingston to defeat Brian Cage and Williams.

In March 2007, Taylor would gain an ally in Nattie Neidhart where they feud with Williams and Vaine in various tag team and singles matches.

At the DSW Park Slam pay-per-view on March 17, 2007, Taylor teamed up with Neidhart in a winning effort, defeating Vaine and Williams.

On the March 22 episode of DSW TV Tapings, Taylor teamed up with Eric Perez in a winning effort defeating Williams and Cru Jones in a mixed tag-team match.

On the April 12 episode of DSW TV Tapings, Taylor teamed up with Neidhart to defeat Krissy Vaine and Angel Williams to end their feud.

When Florida Championship Wrestling opened in 2007, Taylor was transferred there.

Taylor made her debut for FCW on the June 26 episode of FCW Television, losing to Neidhart in a triple treat match, also involving Krissy Vaine.

On the June 30 episode of FCW Television, Taylor was defeated by Neidhart with Vaine as the special guest referee.

On August 13, 2007 Malawski was released from her developmental contract.

Following the release, she did not return to the independent circuit and was actually done with professional wrestling until TNA contacted her, as she had concentrated on pursuing a college degree instead.

Malawski's tryout match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) was against Raisha Saeed.

In May 2008, Malawski joined TNA and would go on to become a one-time TNA Women's Knockout Champion and also went on to become the inaugural and three-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with her first reign being with her first tag team partner Sarita, her second reign being with her second tag team partner Hamada and her third reign being with her third tag team partner KiLynn King, while also becoming the first wrestler to have held both titles.

In May 2008, Malawski signed a contract with TNA, making her an official member of the TNA roster.

She then appeared on television as a "plant" on the May 29 episode of Impact!.

She responded to the $25,000 challenge from Awesome Kong to any females age 18 or older in the audience, but was not selected to wrestle her.

She reappeared in the audience on the June 5 episode of Impact! to challenge Kong, but once again was not selected to wrestle her.

On June 19, she challenged Kong in the $25,000 challenge.

After departing from TNA in December 2010, Malawski announced her retirement from professional wrestling and wrestled her final match on February 5, 2011 at an independent show.

She returned to wrestling with Impact Wrestling in 2021, however, that same year she went on a hiatus while still being under contract with Impact.

She returned to Impact in 2022.