Mia Yim
Stephanie Hym Bell (born April 16, 1989) is a Korean-American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Mia Yim. She was previously known as Reckoning as part of the faction Retribution.
She has appeared in WWE’s Mae Young Classic in 2017 and 2018 and has previously worked for national promotions such as Ring of Honor (ROH), and independent promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Shimmer Women Athletes, and Shine Wrestling. In Shine, she has previously held both the Shine Championship and the Shine Tag Team Championship (with Leva Bates). In addition, she has wrestled in Japan for Reina Joshi Puroresu. She also performed in Impact Wrestling undeIn April 2015, TNA began airing vignettes promoting The Dollhouse (Yim and Marti Bell)’s debut, in which Yim’s ring name was changed to Jade.[58] Jade and Bell debuted on the TKO: Night of Knockouts edition of Impact Wrestling on April 24, where Jade lost to Laura Dennis by disqualification after the two attacked referee Brian Stiffler as well as ring announcer Christy Hemme, establishing themselves as heels in the process.[59] Later that night, Jade and Marti helped Taryn Terrell retain her TNA Women’s Knockout Championship against Awesome Kong, with Terrell joining The Dollhouse in the process.[60] The Dollhouse wrestled their first match as a team on the May 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, where they defeated Awesome Kong and Gail Kim in a 3–on–2 handicap match.[61] Jade and Bell would regularly interfere in Terrell’s championship matches and ensure the win for her. At Slammiversary XIII, The Dollhouse lost to Awesome Kong and Brooke in another 3–on–2 handicap match.[62] On the July 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, Terrell lost the championship to Brooke, after Gail Kim returned and attacked Jade, causing a distraction.[63] On the Turning Point special episode of Impact Wrestling on August 19, Jade and Bell competed in a 2-on-1 handicap six sides of steel cage match against Gail Kim, which Kim would win.[64]
On the September 23 episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade unsuccessfully challenged Gail Kim for the TNA Women’s Knockout Championship.[65] On February 23, 2016, during the Lockdown special episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade scored the pinfall over Kim in a six–Knockout Lethal Lockdown match,[66] as a result, Jade received another shot at Kim’s TNA Women’s Knockout Championship, two weeks later, but failed to win the title.[67][68]
TNA Knockouts Champion (2016–2017)
On April 5, Jade defeated Kim and Madison Rayne in a three–way match to win the TNA Knockouts Championship for the first time.[69][70] On the same day, during the tapings for Knockouts Knockdown 4, Jade went on to defeat Leva Bates and the gauntlet match, with lastly eliminating Madison Rayne, to become the new “Queen of the Knockouts”.[71] In her first title defense, on the April 12 episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade defeated Madison Rayne to retain her championship.[72]
In late April, Jade started a feud with Knockouts Commissioner Maria which led to her first face turn since signing with the company. Few weeks later, she was attacked by the debuting Sienna after she refused to lay down for Maria. On the May 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade successfully defended her title against Kim by DQ after Sienna attacked them. Jade was then scheduled to face Maria’s bodyguard Sienna at Slammiversary with the title on the line. On the May 31 episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade teamed up with her former rival Kim to defeat Sienna and Allie in a tag-team match. At Slammiversary, Jade would lose the Knockouts Championship to Sienna after Marti Bell hit Jade in the back with a baton in a triple threat match that also featured Kim, ending her reign at 87 days.[73]
On August 25, 2016, at Turning Point Jade competed in a Five–way match against the champion Sienna, Marti Bell, Madison Rayne and Allie for the TNA Knockouts Championship, which was won by Allie.[74] At Bound for Glory, Jade defeated Sienna. On the December 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, Jade lost to Rosemary in a “Six Sides of Steel” cage match for the vacated TNA Knockouts Championship.[75] In mid–January 2017, the feud between Rosemary and Jade re–emerged[76] and this led to a Monster’s ball match, where Rosemary defeated Jade to retain her championship. Jade received a rematch against Rosemary on the March 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, in a Last Knockout Standing match, which she lost. This was Jade’s last match in TNA, and it was officially announced earlier in the week that she was not signed to a new contract and confirming her departure from the company.[77]r the ring name Jade,[4] where she is a one-time TNA Knockouts Champion. In 2016, she was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women.[7]
