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Nidia Guenard

Nidia Lynnette Guenard (born March 12, 1979) better known as Nidia is an inactive professional wrestler who worked for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). She (along with men's division winner Maven Huffman) won the first season of WWE's first reality television series, Tough Enough, receiving a year-long contract with the company.

Career

WWF/WWE

2001

Nidia won a year's contract with the company after she co-won the first season of Tough Enough -- a show meant both to be a "WWE Superstar" talent search, and a semi-documentary of the difficulties of being a pro wrestler. Guenard made a few appearances on WWF episodes in 2001 before being sent to the Ohio Valley Wrestling promotion, with whom WWE had a talent-development agreement. While in OVW she had a feud with Victoria.

2002-2003

She debuted on the SmackDown brand as Jamie Noble's girlfriend on the June 6th, 2002 episode. She led Noble to the WWE Cruiserweight title by assisting him in a victory over The Hurricane at the King of the Ring. She also feuded with fellow Smackdown! diva Torrie Wilson, leading to many solo and mixed (male&female) tag-team matches with Guenard and Noble against Wilson and various other Cruiserweights including Funaki, Billy Kidman, Rey Mysterio, and Brian Kendrick (as Torrie's partner). Guenard was "blinded" by Tajiri during a match between Tajiri and Noble, after which Tajiri spewed his "black mist" onto her face. Storyline-wise, this encounter resulted in a physical 'injury' to Nidia. In reality, it was done to allow her to be absent long enough to get and recover from breast augmentation surgery, which is a common career move for female WWE performers. After recovering, Nidia started appearing at ringside with sunglasses on, to 'sell' the after effects of her (post-Tajiri attack) 'injuries'. During this time, Noble would throw Nidia in front of various opponents at a match's climax, to both save himself and let him later accuse them of "hitting a woman", etc. Later in this storyline, Rey Mysterio enlightened Nidia that Noble was 'exploiting' her in the aforementioned manner, resulting in Nidia turning against Noble. The two feuded, culminating in a match at No Way Out 2004 in which Noble had to wear a blindfold. True to character, Noble cheated to win: He removed his blindfold during the match.

It was during this period that Guenard's stardom in WWE peaked. The Nidia & Noble characters were intended to be a pair of unethical, ambitious-yet-unrefined hicks -- villains loyal only to each other. Nidia often performed feats of strength and/or acrobatic athleticism, either while helping Noble cheat to win, or as a post-match stunt. In time, though, the two became mildly endearing to many WWE fans -- more rogue, than villain. Guenard's character became increasingly popular, to the point that Nidia eventually got louder crowd reactions than Noble did -- even though her girlfriend/sidekick character's purpose was to help fans connect strongly with Noble.

2004

Nidia was drafted to the Raw Brand in the spring of 2004. She debuted on Raw as a "face", defeating Molly Holly. She then tag-teamed regularly with Stacy Keibler and Victoria against "heels" Trish Stratus, Gail Kim, Molly Holly, and Jazz. Nidia was released from her WWE contract on November 3, 2004 along with several other performers, in a routine purge of talent.

Independent circuit

After being released by WWE, Nidia wrestled in many independent promotions and tours including Kishi's Nu-Wrestling Evolution in Italy and Último Dragón's Toryumon Mexico.

Although WWE management considered rehiring her in mid-2006, those plans fell through. Nidia then decided to hang up her wrestling gear for the foreseeable future.