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SARAYA JADE: I grew up in Norwich, England.
I grew up with a family called the Bevises.
But most wrestling fans know us as the Knights.
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ANNOUNCER: It's a warm welcome to the WAW Performance Center.
It's our Saturday Night Supershow.
[chatter]
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SARAYA JADE: Dad's the one who got us into wrestling
in the first place.
He was a bouncer back in the day.
They used to call him Paddy the Bat.
And he was-- went to prison and did time and did-- you know,
he was just one of those lunatics.
And then my uncle Jimmy, he was, like, you should try wrestling.
And this was the 80s.
He was like, sure.
[cheering]
WOMAN ANNOUNCER: The king of hardcore, rowdy Ricky Knight!
And the gentleman, Jimmy Ocean.
He met my mom at a--
she was a chef at this holiday camps in England, which is
like a glorified trailer park.
JULIA BEVIS: Within six weeks, he'd asked me to marry him,
and I'd moved to Norwich.
And that was 32 years ago.
I was his manager, and I was Sweet Saraya.
[cheering]
SARAYA JADE: WAW is World Association of Wrestling.
And my dad founded the company in 1984.
You know, they started popping out babies, me and Zak.
But there was also my brother Roy, my brother, Asa,
and my sister Nikki from my dad's previous marriage
that were all wrestlers.
It's definitely a family business.
So my first bump was technically as a fetus.
I'm very proud of it.
I've been in wrestling my entire life, even
while inside my mother's womb.
I didn't find out I was pregnant with Saraya
until I was seven months pregnant.
I got thrown out the ring into the crowd.
Not even just inside the ring, no.
Like, 12 feet in the air onto someone to the ground.
And then I had her eight months.
And they tried from seven to eight
to stop her coming because she wanted to come out.
She was a lovely, lovely child.
She was the baby of the family, and everybody doted on her.
Very mischievous.
Would not take no [bleep] off no one.
Not me, not her dad.
Good stuff.
I remember getting called into her primary school,
and they said to me, we think there's something
wrong with your daughter.
She doesn't mix with other kids.
And?
She probably finds them stupid.
SARAYA JADE: Having wrestling parents growing up
was definitely very different in England.
I mean, I would get bullied for that in school for a while
until they realized that I could kick their ass.
Me and Saraya were very close growing up.
We were like twins.
She was my best friend.
When the rest of the family were on the road,
Saraya was someone that was always there.
JULIA BEVIS: They were inseparable.
They argued like cat and dog.
ZAK ZODIAC: My mom and dad's house, the doors have still got
stab marks in the doors where we used to chase
each other around with knives.
These marks that you see are knife marks and scissor marks.
This is where Zak--
and this is a punch--
where Zak was trying to kill Raya.
Zak's door is very similar, probably
bigger holes because Raya got the bigger knife.
Growing up was difficult. Mom and dad were right at the top
of the tree in the UK scene.
They were wrestling 28 days a month because if they didn't
work, they wouldn't get paid.
[chatter]
JULIA BEVIS: The entertainment business is a very
tough business to grow up in.
And that's what we are.
We're entertainers.
So they lived the traveler lifestyle on the road.
That's why we're classed as travelers and gypsies.
SARAYA JADE: Growing up in a wrestling family,
everyone assumed I wanted to be in wrestling.
But wrestling actually terrified me because I grew up with it
my whole life.
It just-- it scared me.
And seeing the injuries--
I mean, my mom was blinded for six months
because she got drop kicked in the eye.
It terrified me.
If she gets another knock to the head,
then she might lose sight forever.
And I don't want that to happen.
I believe that because everything in our life
was about professional wrestling,
it actually took her the other way.
She didn't care for it.
She wasn't interested in it.
JULIA BEVIS: These books, this was--
this was the first project that we'd done it together.
But this was all about Siberian Huskies,
because obviously Raya didn't want to be a wrestler.
She wanted to-- she wanted to be a vet.
That lasted until I was about 13.
And then my dad was short on a girl one day.
Her playground, really, was the wrestling rink.
So even though she never got taught a move,
she knew the moves because she didn't know anything else.
ANNOUNCER: The youngest female wrestler
in British wrestling today.
Will you welcome Grizzly!
[cheering]
ZAK ZODIAC: She was terrified.
She was just like, no, I can't do this.
I don't want to be in front of the audience, you know?
I'm only used to getting in the ring with Zak.
And I've only ever worked with him,
and him throwing me around.
And Dad just looked at me and went, well, we can solve that.
Will you welcome the Pink Lady.
[cheering]
ZAK ZODIAC: So at 14, I was under a pink "Power Ranger"
outfit wrestling my sister on her debut match
just to make her feel comfortable.
[applause]
Oh, there she says, that's cool.
[cheering]
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[chanting]
SARAYA JADE: The adrenaline that you
get from the three people that were in the crowd that night,
they made me feel a million bucks.
And I just-- I absolutely loved it.
[cheering]
ZAK ZODIAC: That's the thing that she
fell in love with instantly.
She'd come back, and she was extremely overwhelmed.
She was very excited.
And she was just saying, like, this is what I was born to do.
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