The lore of the Backslide Girlz begins when Shay Kassidy (with her bear Barnaby), Kingsley and Everett Connors meet with their executive, David Streamer. They decided on the name because they won a match with a backslide. Their backslide becomes almost inescapable and how they win most of their matches.
The Backslide Girls become known for their entrances as much as their wrestling. Their entrances are to different songs and many times with back up dancers. Their most memorable entrance was at Tag Race 2025, which took place during Australian Pride. Shay, Kingsley and Connors came out with shirtless male backup dances to “It’s Raining Men.”
Some of their other memorable entrances were when they came out in camo gear with Kingsley singing “I Will Survive” for a title defense, Shay took the lead on “Believe” as the raucous PWA crowd joined in, Shay and Everett coming out to Miley Cirus’ “Party in the USA” dressed as cowboys, with cowboy back up dancers, even Barnaby had a cowboy hat on.
Since The Backslide Girlz have parted ways, Shay still keeps up the incredible entrances, and Kingsley is immensely talented, so she sings her own song to the ring.
The Backslide Girlz are obviously entertaining, but they also had a lot of success in the ring. However, in the beginning days, this was marred by David Streamer and the fact that he wanted to control everything. This finally came to an end when Kingsley defeated Streamer in an I Quit Match. The Backslide Girlz competed in many promotions across Australia and even became the inaugural OPW Women’s Tag Team Champions when they defeated PPK (Nikki Van Blair and Frankie B). Most of their notoriety comes from what they accomplished at PWA, when the lights were the brightest.
One of the biggest matches in PWA for the Backslide Girlz were their first big win at Night at the Mounties 5, when Shay and Kingsley defeated North Shore Wrestling, Sam Osborne and Will Keidis. NSW is one of the most dominate factions in wrestling and to beat them proved that the Backslide Girlz were real contenders for the title. At the Black Label Tag Race, you could just feel it in the air, as soon as their entrance started that it was going to be the Backslide Girlz night, and it was, as Everett and Shay defeated Aaron Jake and Bel Pierce to capture the PWA Tag Team Championships. They defended the titles against Backman and Ricky South of The Regime, and The Velocities before falling to the North Shore Wrestling team of Sam and Jack Osborne.
My favorite match was their match against the Velocities. This was a match against one of the best tag teams in the world and would prove that they were not just fun entrances and dance moves, but they were great wrestlers as well. Everett and Shay absolutely fired the crowd up with their entrance. The Velocities have wrestled almost everywhere in the world and I don’t think they have ever seen anything like the Backslide Girlz.
The Velocities start the match full speed ahead and attack and isolate Everett. Jude London gets the crowd on their side for the moment as he sings “Hey Jude” while having Everett in a submission. Everett hits a double sliced bread and Shay comes in on fire. Barnaby goes for the bear splash off the top rope, but Paris De Silva gets his feet up, and Barnaby goes flying across the ring, which makes Shay really mad. Shay kicks out of a brainbuster and Paris put Barnaby on Shay and goes for a dive, but they both move. Barnaby hits a bear splash and Everett hits a corkscrew splash, but Jude breaks up the pin. The fans chant “This is Awesome” because it is. Shay catches Paris in a handspring and Everett gives him a stunner, which sets up for the best move in wrestling, The Backslide, and the Backslide Girlz get the win.
This match had everything you want, the crowd singing along to an entrance and a submission, The Velocities doing moves at speeds only the Velocities can do, a stuffed bear hitting a splash off the top rope, Everett Connors doing moves you do not expect from him and Shay Kassidy showing that she is well on her way to becoming one of the best wrestlers in Australia.
In their final appearance at PWA as The Backslide Girlz, Everett Connors and Shay Kassidy, take on their long time rivals, North Shore Wrestling, of Sam and Jack Osborne. The PWA crowd seems so fun and they are always behind the Backslide Girlz. NSW has a size advantage and attack Shay as the bell rings. Everett comes in and takes on both members of NSW. He flies around and outside the ring, and he and Shay hit a double back slide, but don’t get the win.
The PWA Champion, Charli Evans, comes to the ring, but gets a double superkick from the Backslide Girlz. Shay gets another backslide pin, but Charli grabs ref Rachel. Charli gets sent to the back, but NSW gets the advantage with spears and forces Everett to tap out. This starts the North Shore Wrestling dominance in PWA and marks the end of the Backslide Girls in PWA.
This, however will not be the end of Shay Kassidy, Everett Connors and Kingsley, as they go their separate ways. Everett would head back home for a little bit and have a few more matches at the promotion where he made a name for himself, St. Louis Anarchy. One of the matches he even gathered up some of his hometown friends and took on familiar visitors in North Shore Wrestling. In his final match he teamed with Buddy Shepherd to take on the Submission Squad of Evan Gelistico and Pierre Abernathy in a very emotional match.
Kingsley and Shay are still thriving and becoming even bigger superstars in different parts of the world. Kingsley has invaded Canada and is singing her way to the ring while collecting fans and maybe some haters. Shay is still in Australia and wrestling for PWA and many other companies. She still has her big entrances and has been showing what she could do on her own. They do still occasionally cross paths and team up.
Kingsley and Shay still team up on occasion, when Shay makes it to North America. They faced Amira and Leah Sparks at one of C4’s biggest events of the year, “Fighting Back”. They also took on Jody Threat and Layla Wilde at Unified Championship Wrestling. Both being in Canada. While Kingsley and Shay were in the United States for Bayley’s Lodestone seminars, they ended up being a surprise team at Athena’s “Who Runs the World 4.” They faced another surprise team of AEW star Kris Statlander and current TNA star Shayna Baszler. This was my favorite match of the show, as it really showed The Backslide Girlz ability to mix comedy with great wrestling. They also really brought out the fun in their opponents, who are typically pretty stoic.
After these matches, many of the top female wrestlers in North America have spoken about wanting to face The Backslide Girlz, so hopefully we will see them team up some more against top stars. Personally, I think with word getting around about how great they are and with all three major companies looking for female tag teams, it is a very good possibility that we can see this incredibly entertaining team on TV.
