In April 2023, Victoria Crawford packed her stuff and allowed her WWE contract to lapse. She had worked for the organization for 17 years, had done virtually nothing during four of them, had battled against her addiction in the most public manner conceivable, and had lived in isolation from her house for the duration of the coronavirus period, ready for a phone call that never came. On the way in, she went by the name of Alicia Fox. On the way out, she went by her own name.
The ring name Alicia Fox belongs to Victoria Elizabeth Crawford, an American professional wrestler born on June 30, 1986, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. She is the first black female to win the WWE Divas championship, is a 17-year veteran of the WWE, and as of 2026 is an active wrestler in TNA Wrestling using her birth name, Victoria Crawford, and a member of the Diamond Collective wrestling stable along with Tessa Blanchard and Mila Moore up until the latter quit the company in June 2026.
Alicia Fox: Full Profile
| DETAIL | INFORMATION |
| Real name | Victoria Elizabeth Crawford |
| Ring name | Alicia Fox (WWE); also Vix Crow (indie); currently competes as Victoria Crawford |
| Date of birth | June 30, 1986 |
| Age (2026) | 39 |
| Birthplace | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA |
| Height | 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) |
| WWE career | 2006 (OVW developmental) to April 2023. 17 years with the company. |
| ECW debut | November 2008, as Alicia Foxx |
| SmackDown debut | 2008, as Edge’s wedding planner in Vickie Guerrero storyline |
| Divas Championship | Won from Eve Torres, June 2010. Lost to Melina at SummerSlam 2010. |
| Historic achievement | First African-American woman to win the WWE Divas Championship |
| Finisher | Scissors Kick (later called the Axe Kick) |
| Current promotion | TNA Wrestling (as Victoria Crawford) |
| TNA faction | The Diamond Collective (with Tessa Blanchard and Mila Moore). Active from Final Resolution 2025 through Blanchard’s TNA exit in June 2026. |
| Personal note | Publicly disclosed alcohol addiction recovery in November 2019. Has spoken openly about sobriety and identity in post-WWE interviews. |
How Alicia Fox Started: From OVW to the Main Roster
Crawford signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2006 and started training at Ohio Valley Wrestling, which was one of WWE’s leading developmental territories at that time. Victoria Crawford trained at OVW and Florida Championship Wrestling where she worked on her in-ring ability and developed the persona of Alicia Fox.
Crawford first appeared on the main roster in the storylines of SmackDown in 2008 featuring Edge and SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero. Crawford was employed to arrange the wedding between Guerrero and Edge as a wedding planner, but it was later discovered that her character had an affair with Edge which introduced her to the viewers in an acting part, not a wrestling one.
After this storyline, Victoria Crawford got re-packaged and made her debut on ECW brand in November 2008 under the ring name of Alicia Foxx, a name that would be later standardized to Alicia Fox. The debut of Alicia Fox on the ECW brand marked her as a competitor, not a storyline character and by 2009 she was seen on different brands of WWE as a regular wrestler.
The Divas Championship: Making History in 2010
Her in-ring career pinnacle occurred on June 20, 2010, when she won the WWE Divas Championship by defeating Eve Torres at a Raw brand show. With this victory, she became the first African-American woman to win the Divas Championship in the WWE, regardless of how this character was portrayed afterwards, and this success is significant irrespective of how the storyline developed.
She held the championship until the SummerSlam 2010 pay-per-view on August 15, losing the title to Melina. Although the title reign was rather short, the championship win became the highlight of her in-ring career and made her part of the history of WWE women’s division during the Divas era.
On August 23, 2010, shortly after her championship reign, she and Eve Torres wrestled a match in Shanghai and became the first two female wrestlers to perform in this city in the WWE history, thus achieving another landmark in her trailblazing career during this period.
The Character That Fans Remember: Fox Goes Wild
In addition to being a champion many times over, the work done by Victoria Crawford after winning a few titles in WWE provided the most entertaining television in the women’s division for the year of 2014 due to the fact that she was able to create an unhinged character during this time period. The period called “Fox goes wild,” which came about following her defeat against Paige, saw her throwing fits, assaulting ring announcers, dumping drinks on officials, and generally engaging in a form of eccentric villain behavior that gained her a large fan base.
The “Fox goes wild” phase provided entertaining moments such as when she interacted with a number of different people, the odd couple act that she played out alongside Paige because of their feud, and overall she shed her inhibitions in terms of her character and showed what a great entertainer she was all along. The “Fox goes wild” segment is among the top examples of her potential in terms of character work.
The Late WWE Years: The Alcohol Admission and Its Aftermath
the last few years of her career as a wrestler with WWE saw her face some problems in relation to a number of events involving her that came through the media as well as the revelations made by Fox herself. It came into public knowledge that she had been asked to leave the WWE SummerSlam weekend in 2018 due to intoxication, as well as another such incident in regard to WrestleMania 34 weekend. However, a more serious situation took place when a former WWE producer, Arn Anderson was allegedly fired for allowing Fox to wrestle while under the influence of alcohol.
In November 2019, Fox spoke about this problem in the open, saying that she is a recovering alcoholic and that she had not drank for several months. The revelation came from Fox openly and without any reluctance as an act of personal responsibility and not as a way of managing a potential crisis. She was 33 years old at the time of this announcement and had been struggling with this issue for quite a long time already as a professional wrestler of a large entertainment corporation.
Her final bouts in a regular capacity were those performed in 2019. She competed in the Women’s Royal Rumble match in 2019 and performed occasionally since then, most notably in the RAW Reunion event of 2019, when she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Legends class, implying that her professional wrestling career was over even though she remained under contract with them. She has participated in the Women’s Royal Rumble match in both 2021 and 2022 too. Her contract lasted even through the pandemic years, during which she was at home packing her bags and not knowing what to do next.
Leaving WWE: April 2023 and the Identity Question
Her contract with WWE ended in April 2023, thus terminating a 17-year association with the brand. This was neither announced by WWE nor through any other means; rather, it was revealed through her personal media activity by deleting WWE references in her Instagram biography.
In later interviews, she discussed extensively the challenges of reinventing herself after almost 20 years with the Victoria Crawford persona. During an interview with Ring the Belle, she stated: “It is important for me to become Victoria publicly once again, on top of everything they know about her in the ring, Total Divas, it needs a partner too, you know, somebody who wants to deliver that kind of a message, a new product.” She changed her social media handle to Vix Crow for some indie bookings, which is a transition name bridging her original and Fox personas.
The way she sees the period following the WWE as one where she reclaimed herself, as opposed to continuing on with her career, makes her different from the majority of wrestlers who speak about their exit from WWE in only professional terms. For Fox, however, this was also a personal exit, whereby she separated herself from the persona she had adopted in the ring and the persona she truly was, and has made a contribution to self-reflection that is perhaps the most thoughtful in recent memory.
TNA Wrestling 2025 to 2026: Victoria Crawford and The Diamond Collective
Fox would be wrestling for TNA Wrestling in 2025 under her real name Victoria Crawford in a promotion which has become home to many wrestlers who were previously with WWE, including former Knockouts Champions and veteran wrestlers.
The most important part of her TNA story would be being part of The Diamond Collective, which would include Tessa Blanchard as the leader, Mila Moore and Robert Stone as the manager. The group would begin operating in late 2024 around TNA Final Resolution and continue till early 2026, with Crawford making appearances in TNA Against All Odds 2025, TNA Slammiversary 2025, TNA Under Siege 2025, TNA Turning Point 2025, TNA Bound for Glory 2025, TNA Final Resolution 2025, TNA Genesis 2026, and TNA No Surrender 2026.
On June 16, 2026, Tessa Blanchard was granted her release from TNA following a conflict between her commitments to TNA and her extensive schedule with CMLL in Mexico, compounded by TNA’s relationship with WWE creating potential conflicts of interest with CMLL’s AEW partnership. The Diamond Collective lost its leader, leaving Crawford and Moore in TNA without the faction’s central figure. As of June 2026, Crawford remains with the promotion, with the next chapter of her TNA career to be determined in the aftermath of Blanchard’s departure.
Timeline: Alicia Fox’s Complete Career
| YEAR | EVENT |
| 2006 | Signs developmental deal with WWE, begins working for OVW |
| 2008 | Appears on SmackDown in Edge/Vickie Guerrero wedding storyline. Debuts on ECW as Alicia Foxx in November. |
| 2009 | Becomes full-time competitor across Raw, SmackDown, and ECW. Begins regular roster appearances. |
| June 2010 | Defeats Eve Torres to win the WWE Divas Championship. Becomes the first African-American woman to hold the title. |
| August 2010 | Loses the Divas Championship to Melina at SummerSlam. Competes with Eve Torres in first-ever WWE women’s match in Shanghai. |
| 2011 to 2015 | Regular roster member across multiple brands. Teams with various partners, pursues title, develops character. |
| 2014 | The “Fox goes wild” character period produces some of her most celebrated television work. |
| 2017 to 2018 | Feuds with Sasha Banks. Teams with Jinder Mahal in Mixed Match Challenge. Incidents at SummerSlam 2018 and WrestleMania 34 weekends. |
| November 2019 | Publicly discloses alcohol addiction and sobriety journey. Last regular competitive appearances on WWE TV. |
| 2021 | Enters the Women’s Royal Rumble. Listed as WWE Legend at RAW Reunion. |
| 2021 to 2022 | Sporadic Royal Rumble appearances. Remains under contract but inactive on regular programming. |
| April 2023 | WWE contract expires. Confirms free agent status. Begins using Victoria Crawford and Vix Crow names publicly. |
| 2024 to 2025 | Signs with TNA Wrestling. Competes as Victoria Crawford. Joins The Diamond Collective alongside Tessa Blanchard and Mila Moore. |
| 2026 | Continues in TNA. Appears at TNA Genesis 2026 and TNA No Surrender 2026. Diamond Collective loses Blanchard (June 16, 2026). TNA status ongoing. |
Frequently Asked Questions: Alicia Fox
her real name is Victoria Elizabeth Crawford. She was born on June 30, 1986, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. She performed in WWE under the ring name Victoria Crawford from 2008 to 2023, and since leaving the company has competed under her real name Victoria Crawford in TNA Wrestling, as well as using the name Vix Crow on some independent circuit bookings.
Victoria Crawford won the WWE Divas Championship in June 2010 by defeating Eve Torres. She became the first African-American woman to hold the Divas Championship in WWE history. She lost the title to Melina at SummerSlam 2010. She also appeared on the Total Divas reality series and participated in multiple Royal Rumble matches across her career.
her WWE contract expired in April 2023 after 17 years with the company. She was not released in a mass cut but rather had her contract reach its natural end point. She had been largely inactive on WWE television since 2019, spending the pandemic years at home with no clear utilisation. In interviews she described knowing her contract end date and waiting for it while keeping her bags packed.
Yes. As of June 2026, Victoria Crawford, competing under her real name Victoria Crawford, is under contract with TNA Wrestling. She has appeared at TNA events including TNA Genesis 2026 and TNA No Surrender 2026, and was a member of The Diamond Collective faction alongside Tessa Blanchard and Mila Moore. Following Tessa Blanchard’s departure from TNA in June 2026, Crawford’s next chapter with the promotion is ongoing.
In November 2019, Victoria Crawford publicly confirmed that she was a recovering alcoholic and had been sober for several months. She addressed the situation directly and openly rather than waiting for reports to define the narrative. Earlier in 2019, reports had emerged of multiple incidents involving intoxication at WWE events. She has since spoken about the experience of recovery and personal growth in post-WWE interviews.
The Diamond Collective was a heel faction in TNA Wrestling consisting of Tessa Blanchard as leader, Victoria Crawford (formerly Victoria Crawford), and Mila Moore, with Robert Stone serving as manager. The faction formed around TNA Final Resolution in December 2024 and ran through 2025 and into 2026 before Tessa Blanchard requested and was granted her release from TNA on June 16, 2026.
From Victoria Crawford to Victoria Crawford: A Completed Circle
Victoria Crawford was a moniker created by the WWE for Victoria Crawford in 2008. She made history as Victoria Crawford, won titles as Victoria Crawford, revealed her drug problem as Victoria Crawford, and remained under contract for four years being underutilized as Victoria Crawford. In 2023, at the end of her contract and the conclusion of her character, she spoke about the task of reinventing herself and becoming Victoria again as a partnership, a new message, and a new product. In TNA, she has become exactly that, wrestling under her birth name as part of a stable in a promotion that has given her a role on television. She is 39 years old and has been the first African-American women to win the Divas Championship, and no matter what the future holds in TNA after the departure of Blanchard on June 16, 2026, she will do so as herself.
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