Shantelle Malawski, better known as TNA Knockout Taylor Wilde, was born in 1986 in Toronto, Canada. She made her debut at the age of 17 and has wrestled in Mexico and South Africa in addition to the Canada and the US. She wrestled for the women's promotion Shimmer and was the first Battle Angles Women's Champion. In 2006, she signed a developmental deal with the WWE and was put in Deep South Wrestling. She wrestled numerous dark matches and wrestled against current TNA Knockout Angeina Love. She was released from her WWE contract in August 2007 and was done with wrestling until TNA contacted her.

She made her debut in TNA as a "fan" who wanted to challenge Awesome Kong for the TNA Knockouts title. She came the closest than all the other competitors and beat Kong's handler Raiesha Saeed to earn another opportunity to face Kong. She defeated Kong for the Knockouts title and beat her in the rematch. After suceesfully defending the title for three months, she lost the belt back Kong on October of 2009.

After feuding with The Beautiful People and Daffney, which resulted in the first ever Knockout Monster's Ball match, she former a tag team with Sarita and they both went after the newly established TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles. They defeated Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky for the titles and defended them sucessfully them for two montsh until they lost the titles to Hamada and Awesome Kong on the first Impact of 2010.