In a sport where most careers bloom in their late twenties, Ella Envy arrived early, loud, and with a chip on her shoulder. The North Carolina native, born Madison Hardin, turned 19 with a fire in her chest and laced up her boots for the first time just days after Christmas in 2019. By 24, she had already carved her name into the granite walls of the National Wrestling Alliance as a four-time World Women’s Tag Team Champion and a founding member of one of its most polarizing factions: Pretty Empowered.
She didn’t just want to win. She wanted to walk in, flip the table, and build a new one from the ashes.
Building the Brand: Pretty Empowered
The NWA hadn’t seen a team quite like Pretty Empowered. Not just pretty, not just empowered — but dangerous. On March 20, 2022, at the Crockett Cup, Ella and her partner Kenzie Paige debuted under the bright lights, losing to The Hex in their first outing. But it wasn’t about starting with a win — it was about getting on the board, drawing attention, and setting the table for something sinister.
Three months later at Alwayz Ready, Envy and Paige flipped the script. They beat The Hex and walked out as NWA World Women’s Tag Team Champions. The message was clear: Pretty Empowered wasn’t just a name. It was a declaration of war on the status quo.
The rematch came at NWA 74, but this time it was a Street Fight—a setting that matched Envy’s swagger and mean streak. They retained the belts, and in the same breath, Kenzie Paige turned heel, aligning herself fully with Envy. They didn’t smile for the cameras. They scowled and swung chairs instead.
A few months later, the duo expanded their empire. On Pretty Empowered Surge, they introduced Roxy as the third member of the group. Pretty Empowered wasn’t just a tag team anymore. It was a movement with mascara and malice.
Rise, Fall, Repeat
The road through the NWA women’s division wasn’t a straight climb — it was a loop of chaos. On Christmas Eve 2022, Envy and Paige took out The Renegade Twins, halting their momentum just as it began.
But vengeance came in February. After Envy and Roxy lost to The Renegades on NWA Powerrr, the Twins earned a shot at the titles and won them at Nuff Said, pinning Envy and Paige clean. Most teams would spiral. Not Envy. Not Pretty Empowered.
They retooled. Pretty Empowered 2.0, a reboot with Envy and Roxy at the helm, snatched the gold back just weeks later — only to be ambushed by Madi Wrenkowski and Missa Kate, who cashed in a Champion Series shot that same night. Envy went from gold to dust in less than 20 minutes. That’s life in the trenches of modern tag team wrestling — one minute you’re the queenpin, the next you’re tweeting apologies.
Still, Envy didn’t sulk. She recalibrated. On August 8, she beat Missa Kate in singles action, earning another shot — this time with Kylie Paige as her partner. At NWA 75, they delivered. Ella Envy now had her third title reign, each one won under different alliances, but with the same cold-blooded grin.
And then, like all powerhouses eventually do, the cracks appeared.
The Exit from Pretty Empowered
On February 27, 2024, the gold was gone again — this time to The King Bees, the duo of Charity King and Danni Bee. It felt like a passing of the torch, but Envy wasn’t ready to hand anything over. She still had gasoline in the tank and matches in both hands.
The end came officially on June 11. On Powerrr, Envy stood in the ring and announced her departure from Pretty Empowered. No backstage assault. No tearful goodbye. Just a clean break. A rare moment of clarity in a career built on blurred lines.
Was it maturity? Strategy? Or just the realization that if you want to stay relevant in the shifting sands of modern wrestling, sometimes you’ve got to burn your own empire down.
The Ella Envy Effect
At 24, Ella Envy has already held more titles than many wrestlers do in a decade. Her game isn’t about playing nice or being inspirational. It’s about winning, evolving, and doing it all while looking like she walked out of a punk rock boutique with brass knuckles in her clutch.
She was never the fastest or strongest in the ring. But she was often the smartest — the one who knew when to cheat, when to duck, and when to cut ties before the weight of a failing stable dragged her under.
Wrestling has always had its archetypes — the girl next door, the fiery underdog, the stoic veteran. Ella Envy doesn’t fit any of them. She’s the one who breaks mirrors and walks through the shards barefoot, smiling. A little cocky, a little cruel, and never quite where you expect her to be next.
The Future
Where she lands now is anyone’s guess. She’s wrestled under pressure, in titles matches, in factions, and in freefall. She’s got four tag title reigns, a growing fanbase, and the kind of heel instincts you can’t teach — only sharpen through years of real-time betrayal and redemption.
Whether she rides solo or builds a new crew of chaos, don’t bet against her.
Ella Envy doesn’t just want to be pretty.
She wants to be remembered.