Nikki Cross

Nicola Glencross (born 21 April 1989) is a Scottish professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under the ring name Nikki Cross, performing on their developmental territory NXT.
Cross previously wrestled on the independent circuit under the ring name Nikki Storm, most notably for Insane Championship Wrestling, Pro-Wrestling: EVE, and Shimmer Women Athletes.

Nicola Glencross was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She began watching professional wrestling at 10 years old.

Cross graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Bachelor of Arts in history. She is also a qualified fitness instructor and personal trainer.

Independent circuit (2008–2015)

Cross began training at Scottish Wrestling Alliance and made her debut for the promotion in September 2008 under the ring name Nikki Storm. She then began working on the English independent circuit, and became a mainstay for promotions such as Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW), where she debuted in February 2010, and Pro-Wrestling: EVE, where she held the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship three times. In 2013, she toured Japan with JWP Joshi Puroresu, and made appearances for World Wonder Ring Stardom in Summer 2015. In October 2013, Cross began wrestling for American all-female promotions Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling and Women Superstars Uncensored. She has also wrestled for Global Force Wrestling (GFW), Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), World Wide Wrestling League (W3L), Queens of Combat, and World Xtreme Wrestling.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2014)

Cross competed in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)'s British Boot Camp 2, which began airing in October 2014, however she failed to win.

WWE

NXT (2016–present)

Cross received a tryout with WWE at London on the autumn of 2015, and in April 2016, she was announced as one of ten signees that had begun training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. She debuted for WWE NXT on April 22 during a live event. In August, it was announced via a Facebook live video that she would be competing under the new ring name Nikki Cross. Under the ring name Nikki Glencross, she made her first televised appearance and in–ring debut on the August 17 episode of NXT, where she competed in a six-woman tag team match along with Carmella, and Liv Morgan, in which they defeated Daria Berenato, Mandy Rose, and Alexa Bliss.

On the October 12 episode of NXT, Cross returned as a heel while she was introduced as part of the debuting stable, SAnitY, along with Alexander Wolfe, Eric Young, and Sawyer Fulton, she and Young would accompany Fulton and Wolfe for their winning effort against Bobby Roode and Tye Dillinger in the first round of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. One week later, Cross scored her first televised singles victory over Danielle Kamela. However, the decision was reversed when Cross continued to attack Kamela after the match.

Cross performing a swinging fisherman's neckbreaker on LuFisto

• Finishing moves
  • As Nikki Cross
    • Swinging fisherman's neckbreaker
  • As Nikki Storm
    • Eye of the Storm (Double underhook crossface)
    • Hail Storm (Diving headbutt)
    • Perfect Storm (Samoan driver)
• Signature moves
  • Tornado DDT
  • Swinging fisherman's neckbreaker
  • Whiplash neckbreaker, sometimes to an opponent draped on the top turnbuckle
• Wrestlers managed
  • SAnitY (Eric Young, Big Damo O'Connor / Killian Dain, Alexander Wolfe and Sawyer Fulton)
• Nicknames
  • "The Best in the Galaxy"
  • "The White Chocolate Cheesecake of Sports Entertainment"
• Entrance themes
  • "Larger than Life" by Backstreet Boys (Independent circuit)
  • "Controlled Chaos" by CFO$ (NXT; October 12, 2016–present; used as a member of SAnitY)

• "Nikki Storm". Preston City Wrestling. Retrieved August 13, 2016. 
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• "Millennium". iTunes. Retrieved August 14, 2016. 
• "WWE: Controlled Chaos (SAnitY) - Single". iTunes. Retrieved October 18, 2016. 

• Pro-Wrestling: EVE
  • Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship (3 times)
• World Wide Wrestling League
  • W3L Women's Championship (1 time)