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Melina Nava Perez [2] (born March 9, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE under the ring name Melina. Perez most recently wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In 2000, Perez began training to be a professional wrestler at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks, and made her debut in ...
Later that night, Melina lost a singles match against Jillian Hall and after slapping General manager Theodore Long in anger, she and Nitro were fired from the SmackDown! brand in storyline. [38] [39] Off-screen, Nitro and Mercury did not get along, and WWE management decided to split the tag team and send Nitro and Melina to the Raw brand. [40]
Your kindness and compassion means the world to us," the pro wrestling company wrote on X. Melina Perez 45, was born in Los Angeles and got into the pro wrestling world in 2001.
After the match, Lay-Cool attacked Melina, stating they had defeated everyone on the SmackDown brand while champions and decided to go after the Raw Divas. On the 900th episode of Raw, LayCool challenged Melina to a title unification match at Night of Champions. Melina accepted under one condition, their match would be a lumberjill match.
Melina Perez tried out for Tough Enough III and made it to the final 25, but was cut from the competition. [5] During the tryouts she met John Hennigan, and they began a romantic relationship. Perez eventually received a WWE contract and worked as Melina on the Smackdown (WWE brand) and Raw (WWE brand) shows.
The word "Divas" in the championship's name refers to the pseudonym WWE Diva, which WWE used to refer to its female wrestlers. The creation of the championship was announced on June 6, 2008, by then SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero as a counterpart to the Raw brand's WWE Women's Championship. [1]
Melina (Melina Perez) 1979– 2004–2022 ... National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling. Toronto: ECW Press, 2007.
During her reigns with the WWE Women's Championship, the title was known as the Raw Women's Championship. During her reigns with the Women's World Championship, the title was known as the SmackDown Women's Championship. Bliss was the first wrestler to have won both titles. Melina: WWE Women's Championship (original version, 3 times)