BLAIR DAVENPORT

Beatrice St. Clere Priestley is a 26-year-old professional wrestler from England. She is currently signed with WWE and performs on the company’s SmackDown brand under the ring name, Blair Davenport.

Priestley’s Early Wrestling Career

Priestly began training at New Zealand Wide Pro Wrestling’s developmental facility. She made her in-ring debut for the company when she was only 16 years old and used the ring name, Amy St. Clere. For the next four years, she also wrestled for Impact Pro Wrestling as Beatrice Priestley and for the Hughes Academy as Tammy Leigh. Priestley then moved to London England to further her career and trained in Progress Wrestling’s developmental program, ‘The Projo.’

On March 13 2016, she made her debut for Progress Wrestling and was defeated by Elizabeth. In December that year, Priestley participated in the tournament to crown the first ever Progress Women’s Champion. She lost to the eventual winner, Toni Storm. Throughout 2017 and 2018, Priestley competed in six-man tag team matches and even feuded with Millie McKenzie.

From 2017 to 2021, Bea Priestley wrestled for various promotions including What Culture Pro Wrestling / Defiant Wrestling, World Wonder Ring Stardom, World of Sport, All Elite Wrestling, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. She won the WCPW/Defiant Women’s Championship twice and also won the World of Sport Wrestling Champion one tie.

Priestley Signs With WWE

In June 2021, it was reported that Bea Priestley signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). A vignette aired promoting her arrival to NXT UK and revealed her ring name would be Blair Davenport. She then went on to win several matches against competitors including Xia Brookside, Nina Samuels, and Emilia McKenzie.

Blair Davenport then had the opportunity to challenge Meiko Satomura for the NXT UK Women’s Championship. On the January 6th 2022 episode of NXT UK, Davenport wrestled Satomura but was unsuccessful in capturing the title. This marked her first loss in NXT UK. Davenport made her in-ring debut for the NXT brand on the August 23rd 2022 episode of NXT 2.0. She had her first win over Indi Hartwell, and was then confronted by the NXT Women’s Champion Mandy Rose and the NXT UK Women’s Champion Meiko Satomura. As a result, this made the way for a triple threat match to unify both the NXT UK Women’s Championship and the NXT Women’s Championship at the Worlds Collide pay-per-view on September 4th. Davenport lost when she was pinned by Rose.

On the May 30th 2023 episode of NXT, Davenport was revealed to be the attacker that left many of the women’s division on the shelf. She made her in-ring return, where she defeated Dani Palmer the following week. At NXT Deadline, Davenport won the women’s Iron Survivor Challenge to earn an NXT Women’s Championship match against Lyra Valkyria at NXT: New Year’s Evil. Davenport failed to win the title to Valkyria. On March 5th at NXT: Roadblock, Davenport was defeated by Fallon Henley, after a returning Sol Ruca cost her a match. On the April 2nd episode of NXT, Davenport was defeated by Ruca.

Blair Davenport Drafted to SmackDown

Two weeks later, Davenport knocked Ruca off the top rope, costing her a match against Lola Vice. Later that night backstage, NXT General Manager Ava scheduled a match between the two for Spring Breakin’ in a Beach Brawl match, where Davenport lost in her final match for NXT. At Night 2 of the 2024 WWE Draft, Davenport was promoted to the SmackDown brand.