Team Shooting Star Press Selects with their 6th pick from the Women's Category, Velvet Sky!!
Jamie Szantyr (born June 2, 1981)
[4] is an American
professional wrestler currently working for
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name
Velvet Sky. She also works outside of TNA as
Talia Madison.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
When
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced the creation of their women's division in 2007, Szantyr, using her Talia Madison ring name, was announced as one of the ten wrestlers in a 10-woman
Gauntlet match to crown the first
TNA Women's World Champion at
Bound for Glory pay-per-view.
[11] Before the show she made non-wrestling appearances on the October 5 episode of
TNA Today[12] and the October 11
Impact!, standing at ringside for the debut match of
Awesome Kong along with the other gauntlet match participants. In the weeks following the gauntlet match, her ring name was changed to Velvet Sky.
The Beautiful People
At the December
Turning Point pay-per-view, Sky and
Angelina Love were paired together and dubbed "Velvet Love Entertainment",
[13] later renamed to "The Beautiful People". After defeating
O.D.B. and
Roxxi Laveaux early in the show, Love and Sky assisted
Gail Kim in her match against
Awesome Kong.
[13] They assisted Kim again after another match against Kong on the December 6 edition of
Impact! and at
Final Resolution pay-per-view, helping to stop a brawl post match.
[14]
On the March 13 edition of
Impact!, Sky and Love attacked Roxxi Laveaux and later that night Gail Kim, thus becoming
villains for the first time in TNA. At
Lockdown, Sky participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match, which was won by Laveaux. Sky participated in the Make Over Battle Royal-Ladder Match at
Sacrifice, which was won by Gail Kim. The two later added another factor to their gimmicks, placing brown paper bags over opponents heads. On July 17 episode of
Impact!, Sky won a
Knockouts Battle Royal for number one contendership to the Women's Knockout Championship, but lost the title match the next week as well as two more title matches immediately following to then champion
Taylor Wilde.
The Beautiful People began associating with
Cute Kip, who become known as their
"fashionist". At
Bound For Glory 2008, The Beautiful People and Cute Kip were defeated by ODB,
Rhaka Khan, and
Rhino.
