Jade Chung | |
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Jade Chung at the Hardcore Roadtrip show in 2014
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Birth name | Jade Chung |
Born |
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
November 6, 1984
Residence |
San Diego, California, United States Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
Website | Jade Chung on Myspace |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Jade Chung |
Billed height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Billed weight | 120 lb (54 kg) |
Trained by | Rob Fuego Tom Howard |
Debut | 2003 |
Jade Chung (born November 6, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler, manager and model.
Chung has appeared with professional wrestling promotions such as Border City Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, Ring of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Wrestlers she has managed include Frankie Kazarian, Jimmy Rave, Nate Mattson, Conrad Kennedy III, A-1, Scorpio Sky, Mr. Hughes and Shane Douglas.
Born in Guelph, Ontario of Chinese Vietnamese descent, Chung started modeling at the age of 12 as a runway model and appeared in cover stories for several fashion magazines while modeling in Vietnam. In 2002, she won the "Cover Girl" title from the Vietnamese fashion magazine Thoi Moi in 2002 and appeared on the cover of two other Vietnamese fashion magazines the following year. Chung was also one of 500 models selected to represent ImportFest 2003 in Toronto and was a top ten finalist in the 2004 Miss Viet Canada Pageant. She also starred as an extra in Ashanti's "Rain On Me" music video.
A wrestling fan as a child, she often watched the World Wrestling Federation well into high school. Chung was encouraged to enter professional wrestling after meeting Beth Phoenix and Traci Brooks at a local wrestling event and spent her summers training at Rob Fuego’s Toronto-based wrestling school Squared Circle Training. Having some personal friends already in professional wrestling, she later attended local independent shows in hopes of getting hired full-time.