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Summer Rae: An Inspiring Story of a Professional Wrestler
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Moinet was born on 28th November 1983. She is an American professional wrestler,
working for WWE under the ring name Summer Rae. She was also a model and former
American football player who played with the Chicago Bliss of the Lingerie
Football League.
Moinet played with the Chicago Bliss of the Lingerie Football League (LFL) from
2008 to 2011. She played as a cornerback and was the team's captain. On June 30,
2011, Moinet played in the LFL All-Star Game at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton,
Ontario, which was her final game in the LFL. She was one of two players in the
game from the Chicago Bliss.
In November 2011, it was reported that Moinet had signed a contract with World
Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and been assigned to the Florida Championship
Wrestling (FCW) developmental territory. Moinet made her television debut on the
December 18 episode of FCW television, appearing in a ringside promo with
Abraham Washington, and the following week she managed Washington during a tag
team match. She also worked as the ring announcer for FCW television show.
Changing her ring name to Summer Rae, she was prevented from interfering in a
match between Seth Rollins and Rae's "new client" Brad Maddox by the debuting
Paige on the March 5 episode of FCW television. On the March 11 episode of FCW,
Rae became the FCW General Manager. On the March 15, episode of FCW television,
Rae decided to deactivate the Queen of FCW crown, leaving Raquel Diaz as the
last champion. Rae made her in-ring debut on April 6 at an FCW live event, where
she lost to Sofia Cortez in an elimination triple threat match, which also
involved Paige.
Rae debuted on the first episode of the sixth season of WWE NXT taped at Full
Sail University, of the new NXT Wrestling, as a ring announcer. Rae made her
in-ring debut for NXT on a live event September 27, Rae teamed up with Audrey
Marie in a winning effort defeating the team of Emma and Paige in a divas
tag-team match. On the January 30 episode of NXT, Rae turned heel by attacking
Paige due to Rae's jealousy of Paige's popularity and success.
 On the 13 February episode of NXT, a vengeful Paige interrupted a scheduled
match to attack Rae, but suffered a shoulder injury in the process, which Rae
exploited later that episode to defeat Paige in her first match to end Paige's
winning streak. Rae then teamed with Audrey Marie against Paige and Sasha Banks;
Marie was pinned when Rae ran away due to Paige . Rae finally faced off against
Paige in a singles match on the May 1 episode of NXT, where Paige emerged
victorious despite Rae's pre-match attack on Paige during her entrance. Summer
Rae faced off in singles competition against former Divas Champion Natalya in a
singles match on the May 15 episode of NXT, where Rae emerged victorious despite
Paige's attempt to distract Rae.
On the June 19 episode of NXT, Rae competed in the NXT Women's Championship
Tournament to crown the inaugural champion and defeated Sasha Banks in the first
round. However, Rae faced off in the semi-finals against Emma on the July 10
episode of NXT, where Rae lost following Emma reversing Rae pinfall attempt.
After the match, Rae attacked Emma before being chased off by Paige.
On the August 7 episode of NXT, Rae and Emma competed in a dance battle to
determine the #1 contender for the NXT Women's Championship, which Emma won.
After the match, Summer attacked Emma making herself the #1 contender. On the
August 14 episode of NXT, Rae unsuccessfully challenged Paige for the NXT
Women's Championship. After the match Emma came out and viciously attacked Rae.
On the August 28 edition of NXT, Rae was defeated by Emma. After the match,
Summer attacked Emma and poured bubble solution into her eyes. Later that night
she encountered Sasha Banks and began telling Sasha to make a statement against
Paige in their upcoming match in 2 weeks. On the September 11 episode of NXT,
Sasha attacked Paige after losing the match. Afterwards, Sasha thanked Summer
for helping her release her inner rage.
On the September 25 edition of NXT, Summer accompanied Sasha to her match
against Bayley, which Sasha won. Summer then declared that her and Sasha would
run the NXT Divas division. Banks and Rae now know as BFFs: Beautiful Fierce
Females faced Paige and Emma on the October 16 episode of NXT, where the BFFs
emerged victorious when Rae pinned Paige.
 Rae made her Raw debut on April 22, 2013 as Fandango's dance partner. Later that
night, Jericho attacked Fandango following a match and proceeded to dance with
Rae. Rae also made her SmackDown debut on April 26, 2013 with Fandango again in
his match with Justin Gabriel. On the May 13 episode of Raw, Rae along with
Fandango faced Chris Jericho and Dancing with the Stars competitor Edyta
Sliwinska in a dance off but Fandango's dance was cut short by an apparent
injury to Rae's ankle. However, Rae later revealed that her tweaked ankle was
merely a distraction to trap Jericho into Fandango's attack.
On the October 25th edition of Smackdown, Summer got into a brawl with diva
Natalya inside the ring during a match between Fandango and The Great Khali.
Summer made her debut match in WWE at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view, where she
teamed up with Fandango to face Natalya and Khali in a winning effort when
Summer rolled up Natalya. Rae made her singles debut the following night on Raw,
where she faced Natalya in a losing effort.
The following week on Raw, Summer and Fandango faced Natalya and Tyson Kidd in a
losing effort. On the November 18th edition of Raw, Summer competed in a divas
musical chairs contest. This would end in a brawl between the cast of Total
Divas and the rest of the divas. It was announced later that night that Rae will
be involved in a 7 on 7 tag team elimination match at Survivor Series. She would
be eliminated fourth by Nikki Bella.
On October 21, 2013, it was announced Rae would be a making her video game debut
in a downloadable content package, as a manager to Fandango and playable Diva in
WWE 2K14.
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Dated 27 November 2013
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