Bonnie Maxon

Infobox Wrestler
name=Rain


names=Rain
Ms. Payton Banks (TNA)
Payton Banks (TNA)
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weight=convert|137|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
birth_date=birth date and age|year=1981|month=9|day=10
death_date=
birth_place=Saint Paul, Minnesota
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trainer=Eddie Sharkey
Horace the Psychopath
debut=2000|

Bonnie Maxon (born September 10 1981) is an American professional wrestler best known by her ring name Rain or as Payton Banks in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Career

She started working for a local promotion in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later after gaining the experience of a wrestler she started working for various promotions in the midwest, such as IWA Mid-South, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), NWA Midwest, Ring of Honor, SHIMMER, and Women Extreme Wrestling under the ring name Rain.

She frequently teams up with her tag team partner Lacey to form The Minnesota Home-Wrecking Crew (a play on the name of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew).

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007-2008)

She appeared as a "plant" on the October 18 2007 edition of TNA Impact! holding up a huge white sign with black letters reading off "President of Robert Roode FanClub". She continued to appear in the crowd with pro-Roode signs for the following two weeks. She was officially referenced to on the November 1st edition of "iMPACT!" by TNA announcers, where she also had a staredown with Roode's former valet Traci Brooks, then known as simply Ms. Brooks. In the aftermath of a match on an edition of TNA Impact, after Ms. Brooks and Robert Roode defeated Chris Harris and Gail Kim, Brooks was about to leave the ring when she attacked and started a cat fight with Bonnie. Following this, she was seen from far distances all around the Impact! zone. She was referred as Ms. Brooks' stalker by TNA commentators Don West and Mike Tenay.

She appeared on the January 10, 2008 edition of TNA Impact! and attacked Traci Brooks. Following this, Robert Roode announced that she had been replaced by Bonnie, under the new name (Ms.) Payton Banks. This resulted into a feud with Traci, that led to a match at Against All Odds where Traci came out on top. Their rivalry was far from over though, culminating into vicious brawling anytime they run into each other.At Destination X, Banks was part of the Stand By Your Man Strap Match, where she was in the corner of Robert Roode and Brooks was in the corner of Booker T. The match stipulation dictated that the loser of the match would have their valet whipped with a strap. Booker T lost the match, and Banks whipped Brooks with the leather strap until Brooks was saved by Booker's wife, Sharmell.

At Lockdown, Booker T and Sharmell defeated Roode and Banks in a mixed tag team match when Sharmell pinned Banks with a roll-up. After the match Roode verbally abused Banks in the ring. Roode then prepared to hit her, but didn't and instead left her alone in the ring.

After her program with Robert Roode ended, she was no longer needed and left TNA on good terms.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**"Rain Drop" (Falling reverse DDT)
**"Acid Rain" (Bridging straight jacket electric chair drop)
**Fisherman driver
**Reverse STF
**Neckbreaker
**Double knee backbreaker

*Wrestlers managed
**Robert Roode
**Jimmy Jacobs
**Tyler Black

*Entrance themes
**"Celebrity Skin" by Hole (ROH / SHIMMER)
**"Red Eye Fly" by Ouija Radio (SHIMMER)
**"No More Fears" by Dale Oliver (TNA)

Championships and accomplishments

*French Lake Wrestling Association
**FLWA Women's Championship (1 time)
*Midwest Intensity Wrestling
**MIW Women's Championship (1 time)

Personal life

She is currently in school and works a full-time job but still finds time to take part in wrestling independent shows. By her own admittance on her Yahoo Groups site, Rain says she is a vegetarian. She's also quite the dog lover as both her Yahoo Group and MySpace page feature pictures of her Doberman Pincher, Jordan and a new puppy named Collin which is a Pug she recently adopted. In the past, Maxon also had three ferrets named Que, Tye, and Butthead.

According to the movie Unscarred, Maxon is the ex-girlfriend of retired wrestler Nick Mondo.

When not wrestling, she enjoys hanging out with friends and eating out at her favorite restaurants. In keeping with her vegetarianism, she recommended one of her favorite restaurants, Babani's, a Kurdish restaurant in St. Paul, to one of her fans on her site.

In 2007, she (along with Lacey, O.D.B., SoCal Val, Daffney, and other female indy wrestlers) joined the website "Wrestling Vixxxens".

References

External links

*" [http://grapplelist.b1.jcink.com./index.php?showtopic=102 Grapple List: Rain Profile]
*" [http://myspace.com/radiant_rain Official Myspace]
*" [http://www.glorywrestling.com/gg/Rain/R.asp G.L.O.R.Y. Biography]
*" [http://visuex.com/shimmer/modules.php?name=Roster&file=bios/Rain SHIMMER Profile]
*" [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/r/rain.html Online World Of Wrestling Profile]