Taylor Wilde exemplifies the TNA Knockout -- solid wrestler, good look and unique.

This 5-4 blonde beauty not only brings her wrestling talent each and every match inside the six-sided structure but also her flare for fashion.

Wilde designs her outfits, and her salute to the crowd, as she appears on the rampway, ties into her fashion statements.

``I am Canadian, through and through,'' she said. ``Although I do have a lot of American friends and I did live in the states a while, the salute had nothing to do with America at first.''

Wilde explains.

``Really, how the salute started. I design all my clothes; I design all my wrestling gear,'' she said. ``The first outfit I designed was a pin-up sailor's outfit. So I was looking for a sailor's hat, and when I found one, I thought it would look really cute, if I saluted everybody. It kinda stuck.

``Now everyone does it with me. It was the first time I actually developed something gimmicky, and the crowd responded to it. It was very me, natural. It later became an ode to the troops overseas, but it is attributed to fashion.''

So much in wrestling is trial and error. Talent doesn't know what will work or won't until they initiate it before a live crowd. House shows, indies, TV tapings -- anywhere, any place with an audience.

``It's terrifying to try out things,'' Wilde said. ``To me, it's got to feel natural to you. It's funny that you have to do trial and error to what is natural to you. Whatever is the most natural is what the crowd plays to. How you hold yourself and what you do is what they get behind because they can see it's true you. So the salute felt good. I thought, `I'm going to do it out there,' and I was confident.''

Wilde is a fast moving, aerial athlete -- at her best when the action is lucha libre-esque. So when Daffney attacked her, Wilde was challenged in more ways than one. The style was very physical, hardcore.

``It's not something that I could think too much about because I would get anxious,'' Wilde said. ``It was just going out there and doing it. I'm really glad I did. I surprised myself. I went outside the box and learned more, and I think I'm more confident of a wrestler because of it.''

Wilde beat Daffney in the first Knockout's Monster's Ball match at TNA's PPV Sacrifice in May.

``That [style of match] was so far removed from anything I've ever done [indies, WWE, TNA],'' she said. ``There was a side of me -- not scared -- but intimidated. It really drove me, though. It was a new challenge.''

Wilde then teamed with another hardcore wrestler Abyss to defeat Daffney and the even more hardcore Raven with Dr. Stevie in a Monster's Ball mixed tag match at TNA's PPV Slammiversary in June.

``I would be more ready for it now, if they asked me to do it again,'' she said. ``If somebody was thrown into a lucha libre match, they would be like, `No, oh no.' They would be terrified.

``You throw me into a lucha libre match, I'm like, `Cool. This is my thing.' Hardcore just wasn't my thing, but now that I've done it, I'm not so intimidated by it.

``Even though it was something foreign to me, it re-ignited that passion to conquer it.''

Wilde, 23, continues to conquer stages of her career. She debuted in 2003 in her homeland Canada. She has been primarily good, a fan favorite in her young journey.

That's her.

``I think I was bred to be a babyface,'' she said. ``I'm just naturally liked. I'm happy-go-lucky. I see the humor in everything, but I'm kind of a &^%$ about it.

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