Madison Eagles

Madison Eagles
Eagles in April 2011
Birth name	Alexandra Ford
Born	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse(s)	Doug Ryan
Children	3
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Madison Eagles
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	155 lb (70 kg)
Billed from	Sydney, Australia
Trained by	International Wrestling Australia Claudio Castagnoli Mike Quackenbush
Debut	2001

Alexandra Ryan (née Ford), better known by her ring name Madison Eagles, is an Australian professional wrestler. She has wrestled internationally in Australia, the United States, Canada and Japan, and is a former two-time Shimmer Champion. She was ranked by Pro Wrestling Illustrated as the number one female wrestler in the PWI Female 50 in 2011, and became the first woman to win the award and not be signed by World Wrestling Entertainment or Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

At the age of 17, Eagles began her professional wrestling training at International Wrestling Australia (IWA), at their training school in mid-2001.

Eagles would debut soon thereafter as the bodyguard for A.J. Freeley in IWA. Eagles had her first official match in November that year, against Katherine Nixxon. Eagles is a former four-time IWA Women's Champion. In 2003, Eagles traveled to the United States with trainer and owner of IWA, Mark Mercedes. She competed in a try out at Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), a former developmental territory for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In her time in OVW, Eagles trained alongside such wrestlers as Christopher Daniels, Elijah Burke, and Jillian Hall. While in the U.S., Eagles wrestled for Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA), Cleveland All Pro Wrestling (CAPW), and USA Pro. At different points in her career, Eagles trained at the Chikara Wrestle Factory in Philadelphia, the Ring of Honor (ROH) school, and PWA school in Sydney, Australia.