Rounding out our quartet of former Knockouts who have reinvented themselves time and again is a stalwart of WWE television these days, the first ever WWE Women’s United States Champion, Chelsea Green. After a pair of one-offs with TNA earlier in the year, Green officially signed with the company in 2016, debuting as Laurel Van Ness, feuding with Allie as part of the romantic storyline with Braxton Sutter. When that on-screen wedding went sideways, with Allie and Sutter an item, Van Ness became “The Hot Mess,” appearing a disheveled half-wedding dress, smeared lipstick and makeup on one side of her face, and a generally unhinged demeanor. There are elements of that character in her presentation to this day; namely, her “Hot Mess” entrance music.

In 2018, Green would leave TNA and appear once for Lucha Underground, wrestling as Reklusa in a match against Penta (then known as Pentagon Dark). Though she had previously appeared on WWE television as Daniel Bryan’s therapist, Megan Miller, and competed on the sixth season of “Tough Enough,” Green’s official WWE debut wouldn’t come until 2018 when she parlayed a successful tryout into joining the ranks of NXT. 

While that first WWE run seemed a bit cursed, with a broken wrist in her debut on “NXT” TV, breaking the same wrist on her “SmackDown” debut, and ending in her release (as part of a mass set of cuts) in 2021, her eventual return in 2023 has been nothing short of magic. Starting with a five-second elimination in her surprise Royal Rumble re-debut, Green has become the epitome of “maximizing minutes,” now paired with The Secret Hervice, Alba Fyre and Piper Niven, enjoying a WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship run in addition to the US title success.