Elizabeth Kocianski Copeland known professionally as Beth Phoenix is an American professional wrestling commentator and professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE and performs as a color commentator on the NXT brand. As a wrestler, she is a former WWE Divas Champion, a three-time WWE Women's Champion, and the youngest person to ever be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Beth Phoenix is best famous as a three-time WWE women's champion and the youngest wrestler to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. She is also famous for being the wife widely recognized fellow WWE Hall of Famer Edge (Adam Copeland).
Beth Phoenix was born as Elizabeth Kociański Copeland in Elmira, New York, US on November 24, 1980, and raised by Polish parents. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is White. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Sagittarius. When she was eleven years old, she fell in love with professional wrestling and looked up to Bret Hart, Sgt. Slaughter, Owen Hart, and Ted DiBiase as her favorite wrestlers.
She has a brother however his name and her parent's name are still not revealed. Kociański attended Notre Dame High School in Elmira, where she played tennis and ran track. At the same time, she also started wrestling. While doing wrestling, Kociański also worked as a waitress at a local restaurant known to Elmira natives as Lights Bakery and Coffee Shop. Kociański is a graduate from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and Public Relations.
As of 2020, Beth Phoenix's net worth is reported to be $4 million. Her average salary is still not revealed. She primarily earned from her professional wrestling career as a former first-class female wrestler in WWE. She is now earning as a full-time commentator another big wrestling platform, NXT. Furthermore, She also earned by appearing in several advertisements for magazines, swimsuits and bikini brands. Details about her cars, houses and other properties are currently under review.
Phoenix began her amateur wrestling on the Notre Dame High School scholastic wrestling team during the late 1990s. After graduating from high school in 1998, she enrolled in both a professional wrestling school and Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Kociański had a successful amateur wrestling career in high school, before being trained by the All Knights. She debuted professional wrestling in May 2001 and wrestled for numerous independent promotions. She also appeared at the inaugural Shimmer Women Athletes shows. In 2004, she began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and signed a developmental contract with WWE in October 2005. She debuted on WWE's Raw brand in May 2006 but suffered a legitimate broken jaw the following month. As a result, she had numerous surgeries and returned to OVW for further training. While there, she won the OVW Women's Championship twice.
She returned to the Raw brand in July 2007, and was heavily pushed, dominating the other WWE Divas and gaining the nickname, "The Glamazon". She won her first WWE Women's Championship at the No Mercy pay-per-view in October and held it for six months. She won the Women's Championship for a second time in August 2008, holding it until January 2009. In January 2010, at the Royal Rumble, went on to win the Women's Championship for the third time in April, holding it for a month. In October 2011, Phoenix won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time and lost it in April 2012. Phoenix retired and left WWE in October 2012 due to creative frustrations with the treatment of women in WWE, and to focus on her family life with her boyfriend and later husband Adam Copeland, famous in WWE as Edge.
In 2017, Phoenix returned to WWE upon being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the 2017 class, also becoming a part-time color commentator for the company. she became the youngest inductee in history at age 36. In 2019, she also became the first woman to be inducted in the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, a hall of fame dedicated to professional wrestlers with an amateur background. Phoenix has occasionally wrestled since her return, notably at WrestleMania 35; she also took part in the first-ever women's Royal Rumble match in 2018, making her the first wrestler to have participated in both the men's and women's matches. In May 2019, she has promoted a full-time color commentator on NXT.
Beth is a married woman. In 2001 she was married to Joey Carolan, known by the ring name Joey Knight, but they divorced in 2010. Later, she began a relationship with Adam Copeland, known in WWE as Edge, and on December 12, 2013, their daughter Lyric Rose Copeland was born. Their second daughter named Ruby Ever Copeland was born on May 31, 2016. The couple married on October 30, 2016. The couple is living happily in Asheville, N.C.
The WWE former three-time Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix is 39 years and has a tall height of 5 ft 7 in (170 cm). Beth has a very muscular and athletic body structure that weighs 150 lb (68 kg)Similarly, she has beautiful blonde hair and piercing hazel eyes color. Further details on her body measurements, bra size, shoe size, and dress size are under review. She has a straight sexual orientation.