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Madison Eagles
Eagles in April 2011
Birth name	Alex Ford
Born	Sydney, Australia
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Madison Eagles
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	155 lb (70 kg)
Billed from	Sydney, Australia
Trained by	IWA Training School
Debut	November 2001

Alex Ford, better known by her ring name Madison Eagles, is an Australian professional wrestler. She has wrestled internationally, in Australia, the United States, Canada and Japan, and held titles such as the Shimmer Championship, which she retained for 539 days, the second longest title reign in the title's history.

Professional wrestling career

Early years and training

At the age of 17, Eagles began her professional wrestling training at International Wrestling Australia (IWA), at their training school in mid-2001.

Eagles would debut soon thereafter as the bodyguard for AJ Freely in IWA. Eagles had her first official match in November that year, against Katherine Nixxon. Eagles is a former four-time IWA Women's Champion. In 2003, Eagles traveled to the United States with trainer and owner of IWA, Mark Mercedes. She competed in a try out at Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), a former developmental territory for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In her time in OVW, Eagles trained alongside such wrestlers as Christopher Daniels, Elijah Burke, and Jillian Hall. While in the U.S., Eagles wrestled for Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA), Cleveland All Pro Wrestling (CAPW), and USA Pro. At different points in her career, Eagles trained at the Chikara Wrestle Factory in Philadelphia, the Ring of Honor (ROH) school, and PWA school in Sydney, Australia.

2007-2011: Various promotions

In 2007, Eagles and her husband Ryan Eagles founded Pro Wrestling Alliance Elite (which later became Pro Wrestling Alliance Australia) and an all-women’s wrestling promotion, Pro Wrestling Women's Alliance (PWWA). She has held the PWWA Championship.

From 2008 to 2011, Eagles wrestled in several other wrestling promotions, including the American promotions Ring of Honor, Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling and New England Championship Wrestling. She has also wrestled in Canada for NCW Femmes Fatales, and in Japan for the Joshi 4 Hope event.

2008-2011: Shimmer

Eagles started wrestling for the American all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes in October 2008, where she made her debut at Volume 21 together with Jessie McKay as the Pink Ladies; they participated in a gauntlet match to crown the first Shimmer Tag Team Champions but were the first team eliminated. Eagles' first singles match in Shimmer saw her lose to Sara Del Rey on Volume 23.

At Volume 30, Eagles defeated Cheerleader Melissa to become number one contender for the Shimmer Championship, and went on to defeat champion MsChif to capture the title on 11 April 2010 at Volume 31. Eagles went on to rack up successful title defenses against several wrestlers including Cheerleader Melissa, Ayumi Kurihara, Eagles' protege and former tag partner Jessie McKay, Mercedes Martinez, and Ayako Hamada. On 2 October 2011 at Volume 44, Eagles faced Cheerleader Melissa in a title rematch in Eagles' tenth defense; Melissa defeated Eagles to end Eagles' reign at 539 days.

After the Shimmer tapings, Eagles wrestled a match that same month in October 2011 and suffered a career-threatening knee injury from a bad landing after jumping off the ropes. Eagles was later awarded the top spot in Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine's ranking of the top 50 female wrestlers in 2011, despite Eagles not wrestling for the largest American wrestling promotions such as World Wrestling Entertainment or Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

2013-present

In January 2013, Eagles returned to the ring after being absent due to injury and delivering her third child. Three months later she returned to Shimmer in New Jersey against her protégé and former tag partner, Jessie McKay. Later that year she participated in the Shine series and the PWA championship. In 2014, Eagles again wrestled in Japan at World Wonder Ring Stardom.

Personal life

Ford is married to fellow professional wrestler Ryan Eagles (real name Doug Ryan), and has three children. Her brother-in-law is also a professional wrestler by the ring name of Robbie Eagles.