Alexis Kaufman (born August 9, 1991) is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Alexa Bliss. In 2013, Bliss signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to their Performance Center and developmental brand NXT. She made her main roster debut on the SmackDown brand in 2016, later becoming a two-time SmackDown Women's Champion and the first woman to hold the title twice.

Bliss was transferred to the Raw brand in 2017 and would go on to become a three-time Raw Women's Champion, with her initial reign making her the first woman to win both the Raw and SmackDown Women's titles. She and Nikki Cross are also the first two-time Women's Tag Team Champions in WWE history, making Bliss the second Women's Triple Crown Champion. In 2018, she won both the second women's Money in the Bank ladder match and first women's Elimination Chamber match.

Professional wrestling style and persona

Bliss began her career using a fairy gimmick where she would wear a cheerleading uniform and blow glitter during her entrance. In hindsight, she has spoken negatively about her early characterization, noting that it was "a very unrelatable character it was just basically Tinkerbell in a wrestling ring" and blaming her inexperience for creating it. Also, the glitter would stick to her and her opponents and would be hard to remove, resulting in it being banned by WWE. Due to this, she altered her gimmick to that of a cruel, calculating, unhinged, bullying heel, taking inspiration from the comic book character Harley Quinn in personality and appearance. This gimmick led to her breakthrough into the main event scene and turned her into one of the biggest female stars within WWE. Furthermore, Bliss is known to sport ring gear inspired by pop culture icons, such as Iron Man, The Riddler, and Freddy Krueger, among others.

As her primary finisher, Bliss uses a barani flip from the top rope dubbed Twisted Bliss, which originates from her background in gymnastics and was initially called the Sparkle Splash. As an alternate finisher, she also employs a snap DDT known as Twisted DDT. During her storyline with "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt, she started to apply the former's finishing move Sister Abigail, a swinging reverse STO.

Other media

Bliss is a playable character in WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20.

On July 24, 2017, it was announced that Bliss would be joining the seventh season of Total Divas. She is also a recurring guest on Xavier Woods' YouTube channel UpUpDownDown, where she goes by the nickname Miss Bliss. In November 2019, she defeated Cesaro, Rusev, and The Miz in the finals of a Brawlhalla tournament to win Cesaro's UpUpDownDown Championship, but she immediately lost the title to Tyler Breeze in Saturday Night Slam Masters.

In early 2020, Bliss appeared in the music video for a song by Bowling for Soup, having previously cited them as her favorite band.

On June 23, 2020, Bliss confirmed her long rumored WWE podcast, which is titled Uncool with Alexa Bliss and debuted on September 22, 2020.

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