Ana Rocha
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Ana Rocha is an Portuguese
Portugal
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-American
United States
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 professional wrestler and manager known by her ring name
Ring name
A ring name is a stage name used by a professional wrestler, martial artist, or boxer. While some ring names may have a fictitious first name and surname, others may simply be a nickname, such as The Undertaker.-Wrestling:...

 "The Portuguese Princess" Ariel, who has competed in Northeastern independent promotions including Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...

, IWA Mid-South and the National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

.

Early life and career

Born in São Miguel
São Miguel
-Brazil:* São Miguel, Brazil, Rio Grande do Norte* Barra de São Miguel, Alagoas, a municipality in the State of Alagoas* Barra de São Miguel, Paraíba, a municipality in the State of Paraíba* São Miguel do Aleixo, a municipality in the State of Sergipe...

, Azores
Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

, Rocha immigrated with her family to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in 1996, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, located south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and about east of Fall River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 95,072, making it the sixth-largest city in Massachusetts...

. An avid wrestling fan during the late 1990s, she and her brother began training for a career in professional wrestling at the Top Rope Academym studying under Brickhouse Baker, Scott Ashworth, and José Pérez. In January 2001, she and her brother began training at Yankee Pro Wrestling's wrestling school in Sunshine Plaza
Sunshine Plaza
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. Several month later, while still only a junior in New Bedford High School
New Bedford High School
New Bedford High School is a public high school located at 230 Hathaway Boulevard in the West End of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The school has approximately 3,200 students, and is one of the largest schools in the state...

, Rocha made her professional debut in South Coast Championship Wrestling on May 12, 2001.

Originally appearing as a valet for "Heavenly" Johnny Angel, she was attacked by his opponent Adam Booker during their match on May 12, 2001, this being her first appearance in the promotion. After several weeks, during which time Johnny Angel had become the SCCW Heavyweight Champion, she would team with him in a mixed tag team match against Adam Booker and former champion Dr. Heresy, in which Booker pinned Ariel to win the title. The following night, she herself eventually made her own wrestling debut defeating Amanda Storm on July 21, and, although she sustained slight injury during the match, she soon began regularly competing on the independent circuit teaming with such wrestlers as The Blue Meanie, defeating Steve Corino
Steve Corino
Steven Eugene "Steve" Corino is a Canadian professional wrestler, who currently works for Pro Wrestling Zero1, Ring of Honor and numerous other independent promotions. Corino is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion and ECW World Heavyweight Champion.-Early years :Corino began wrestling in 1994...

 and Gino Giovanni. By the end of the year, she had defeated The Crazy Mexican for the Women's Heavyweight title in Stars & Stripes Championship Wrestling on December 29, 2001.

Independent circuit

During the next two years, she won championship titles in numerous promotions, including winning a battle royal to become JWA Women's champion on October 26, 2002 and defeating Alicia and Tara Charisma in a three way match to become the first Women's Champion for South Coast Championship Wrestling on March 28, 2003. Shortly after this victory, she started making appearances for Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...

 as a manager of the Christopher Street Connection
Christopher Street Connection
The Christopher Street Connection are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Buff E and Mace Mendoza. They primarily compete in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic independent promotions, most notably, World-1 South, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Ring of Honor and Frank Goodman's United States...

 (Buff E & Mace), a role which she held until the summer of 2004 when the trio was released from the company.

Briefly feuding with Mercedes Martínez
Mercedes Martinez
Mercedes Martinez is a American professional wrestler, currently performing for Shimmer Women Athletes, as well as numerous independent promotions including World Xtreme Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored, and Full Impact Pro....

 and the heel stable La Família
La Familia (professional wrestling)
La Familia was a villainous alliance in the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment that existed from the end of 2007 until the middle of 2009. The group consisted Edge, Vickie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Curt Hawkins, Zack Ryder and Bam Neely...

 in Connecticut Championship Wrestling in late 2003, she competed in a number of east coast promotions throughout the next year including Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion based in New Jersey.-1997:Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion that was founded by "Fat" Frank Iadeavia on April 19, 1997. This promotion was born out of a dream of "Fat" Frank. He wanted to take the promotion...

, USA Pro, and UWA, where she and Talia defeated Ref Hanson and Lady Lee to win the UWA Tag Team titles on July 18, 2004.

In 2004 Rocha, under a mask and the ring name Arianna, made her debut for Mexican promotion Lucha Libre Femenil, where she feuded with Nikki Roxx
Nicole Raczynski
Nicole Raczynski is an American professional wrestler, best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi...

 over the LLF Juvenil Championship. On October 28, 2004, Roxx defeated Arianna in a hair vs. mask match to claim her opponent's mask and end the feud.

Appearing at "CyberCade 2004" for the Cyberspace Wrestling Federation, she lost to April Hunter
April Hunter
April Hunter is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and fitness and glamour model. She has appeared in many publications, from MuscleMag International to Playboy Magazine and even has her own comic book series, Code Red by Pickle Press.-World Championship Wrestling :In...

 in a four-way match with Trinity
Stephanie Finochio
Stephanie Finochio is an American stuntwoman and retired professional wrestler and valet better known by her ring name Trinity...

 and Traci Brooks
Tracy Brookshaw
Tracy Brookshaw is a Canadian professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and professional wrestling referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she has spent most of her career.-Early life:Brookshaw grew up on a...

 in a match for the CWF Women's Championship in Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne is a Township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than from midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 54,069....

 on August 28, 2004. Having faced both in previous singles matches, Rocha teamed with rival Mercedes Martínez to defeat April Hunter and Sumie Sakai
Sumie Sakai
born November 11, 1971) is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. She currently resides in the United States, appearing with professional wrestling promotions in the northeastern United States such as Women's Extreme Wrestling and Chikara....

 in a tag team match for Defiant Pro Wrestling at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, and west of New Bedford and south of Taunton. The city's population was 88,857 during the 2010 census, making it the tenth largest city in...

 on August 29, 2004. The event, "A Fight Worth Fighting", was to raise funds to provide treatment for children with cancer, and which featured Mick Foley
Mick Foley
Michael Francis "Mick" Foley, Sr. is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, author, comedian, actor, voice actor and former color commentator. He has worked for many wrestling promotions, including WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA. He is often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend", a nickname he...

 and several leading independent wrestlers in the New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...

 area.

In late 2004, she entered a mild losing streak after being defeated by Cindy Rogers
Cindy Rogers
Cindy Rogers is a retired American professional wrestler. She is known for performing on the independent circuit for World Xtreme Wrestling and Shimmer Women Athletes, among others.-Professional wrestling career:...

 at the Connecticut Championship Wrestling supercard
SuperCard
SuperCard is a high-level development environment that runs on Macintosh computers, under OS 8 and 9, and OS X. It is inspired by HyperCard, but includes a richer language, a full GUI toolkit, and native color .The programming language used by SuperCard is called SuperTalk, and is largely based on...

 CCW Metamorphosis on September 26 and later lost a three way match with Hailey Skye and Violet Flame for New England Championship Wrestling
New England Championship Wrestling
New England Championship Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion based in the Northeastern United States and has promoted events since 2000...

 on December 11, 2004.

Assault Championship Wrestling (2005)

Throughout the year, appearing in several events for Assault Championship Wrestling
Assault Championship Wrestling
Assault Championship Wrestling was an American independent wrestling promotion based in Connecticut and promoted by Jason Knight, a retired wrestler and manager, during the early 2000s...

, Rocha became involved in a three way feud with Mercedes Martinez and April Hunter which later involved Riptide who defeated all three in a "Battle of the Babes" match at the DPW supercard Full Circle: Zero Tolerance. Rocha, Martinez and Riptide united against the Ultimate Males, defeating them at an intergender match at the supercard November Pain: Balance of Power; following their victory however, the feud resumed after Rocha was attacked by both Martinez and Riptide. Rocha rebounded by defeating Martinez and Riptide in tag team matches with Jim Nastic and Trinity although she later lost a three way match with Martinez against Riptide at the supercard Chains Unbound and was defeated in a singles match by Martinez at the supercard Evil Intent: Blood For Blood.

Although Rocha found some success teaming with Abunai at the supercard Psychotic Breakdown to defeat Nikki Roxx and D.C. Dillinger in a mixed tag team match, she eventually turned on Spider after briefly joining her in her feud against La Familia.

IWA Mid-South (2005)

At NECW Snowbrawl, Rocha Won the IWA Mid-South Women's Championship after defeating longtime rivals Mercedes Martinez and Hayley Skye in a Triple Threat match on January 15, 2005. Traveling to IWA Mid-South, she began defending her title in IWA Mid-South before being defeated by Daizee Haze
Daizee Haze
Daizee Haze is an American professional wrestler. Whilst wrestling for many companies Daizee Haze is also the head trainer for the Shimmer Women Athletes promotion.-Training and Gateway Championship Wrestling:...

 in a match with Cheerleader Melissa, Mickie Knuckles
Mickie Knuckles
Mickie Lee Knuckles is an American professional wrestler who has worked for a number of major independent promotions, including Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South, Chikara and Combat Zone Wrestling. She also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the name Moose...

, Sara Del Rey
Sara Del Rey
Sara Amato is an American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name, Sara Del Rey. She is a mainstay for Chikara and Shimmer Women Athletes. She has also appeared for many other independent promotions in the United States, including Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South, All Pro Wrestling, as...

 and MsChif
MsChif
Rachel Collins is an American professional wrestler who is better known by her ring name MsChif. She has been wrestling since 2001 and in that time has worked for several independent promotions across the United States, with guest matches in England and Japan...

 on February 12, 2005.

During the next year, she scored victories over Lacey
Lacey (wrestler)
Lacey is an American former professional wrestler, most known for working with numerous promotions throughout Northern America career such as Ring of Honor, Shimmer, IWA-Mid South, Full Impact Pro, and NWA Midwest. She has also wrestled for Chikara, ChickFight, and was part of Wrestling Society X...

, Hailey Hatred and April Hunter defeating her at Ballpark Brawl IV on April 15, 2005. However, she was less successful teaming with Demonica while in the PWF and later resulting a feud between the two with Rocha defeating her former tag team partner on September 15. The following month, after defeating Rain at an event for Shimmer Women Athletes
SHIMMER Women Athletes
Shimmer Women Athletes is an American, Chicago based female independent professional wrestling promotion which held its first event on November 6, 2005...

, she was later defeated by Cheerleader Melissa & Tiana Ringer
Tiana Ringer
Tiana Ringer is an inactive American professional wrestler who has competed in North American promotions in Ontario and the North Central United States and has appeared in Blood, Sweat & Ears and Shimmer Women Athletes during the early 2000s....

 in a tag team match with Shantelle Taylor on November 6, 2005.

Return to New England (2006-2010)

In 2006, Rocha began competing for the National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

 (NWA) returning to the New England area wrestling for NWA Cyberspace
NWA Shockwave
NWA Shockwave was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded by Billy Firehawk in Staten Island, New York in 2001, and later relocated to Wayne, New Jersey...

 as well as making regular appearances in Connecticut Championship Wrestling and New England Championship Wrestling (NECW) defending the PWF Mayhem Women's title as well as feuding with Mercedes Martinez and Nikki Roxx. In 2008, she turned heel in NECW/WWW, hiring Brendan Michael Thomas as her "agent".

While in Shimmer Women Athletes, she faced Lexie Fyfe
Lexie Fyfe
Mary Beth Bentley , is an American professional wrestler. She has wrestled in various independent wrestling promotions, most notably for Shimmer Women Athletes and has had tryouts for both WWE and WCW.-Early life:...

 and Malia Hosaka
Malia Hosaka
Malia Hosaka is an American professional wrestler. She is a former NWA World Women's Champion.-Career:Malia Hosaka was trained by Killer Kowalski at the wrestling training camp run by Misty Blue Simmes...

 tag team matches with Josie and later with Cindy Rogers in a 6-Woman tag team match against Fyfe, Hosaka and Amazing Kong
Kia Stevens
Kia Michelle Stevens , better known by her ring names Amazing Kong, Awesome Kong and Kharma. She is signed with WWE, but has been inactive since May 2011 due to pregnancy...

 in May 2006. After missing Volume 23 she came back as part of the Volume 24 in a Tag Team Match with Nikki Roxx losing to the International Home Wrecking Crew. On May 3 she took part in a Fatal 4-Way match along with Cat Power
Catherine Power
Catherine Power is a Canadian wrestler, better known by her ring names, Cat Power and Haley Rogers. She has worked for the promotions Blood Sweat and Ears, Border City Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Xtreme, Shimmer Women Athletes, and Women's Extreme Wrestling.-Training and debut:Power decided to become...

, Rachel Summerlyn and Kellie Skater which was eventually won by Cat Power. Later in the night she teamed once again with Nikki Roxx and scored a pinfall against The Experience. As part of Volume 27 she lost a re-match to Cat Power, but she was able to score a pinfall over Malia Hosaka as part fo Volume 28's opening match.

On April 10, 2010 Ariel teamed up with Nikki Roxx to defeat the team of Melanie Cruise and Annie Social
Annie Social
Annie Social, is an American professional wrestler who regularly performs for Shimmer Women Athletes and Women Superstars Uncensored . She currently manages Melanie Cruise in Shimmer.-Beginning:...

.

Jersey All Pro Wrestling (2009-present)

Ariel debuted for Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion based in New Jersey.-1997:Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion that was founded by "Fat" Frank Iadeavia on April 19, 1997. This promotion was born out of a dream of "Fat" Frank. He wanted to take the promotion...

 at Female Revolution in January 2009, but was defeated by Raisha Saeed. After missing the second show A Queen is Crowned, she returned in a loss to Allison Danger. She got her first win over Fate at the fourth show Back Where it all Began. They are now scheduled for a rematch on the fifth show.

NCW Femmes Fatales (2010)

Ariel will make her Canadian debut for NCW Femmes Fatales on February 6 against Kalamity who won the opportunity to face Ariel in a Fatal 4 Way Elimination Match on the first show also involving Mary Lee Rose, Roxxie Cotton and Anna Minouska.

Personal Life

It was stated at the October 1st Shimmer tapings that Ariel is engaged to be married.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
    • Ariel–Go–Round (Diving somersault seated senton)
    • Dariel (Arm trap cutter
      Cutter (professional wrestling)
      In professional wrestling, a cutter is a common term that refers to the three-quarter facelock bulldog maneuver. The move is also described as an inverted neckbreaker, though it is not one, it only bears an inverted style to it...

      )

  • Signature moves
    • Diving crossbody
    • Falling powerslam
    • Hurricanrana, sometimes to an oncoming opponent
    • Multiple suplex
      Suplex
      A suplex is an offensive move used in professional sport wrestling . The move consists of one wrestler picking up his or her opponent off the ground and then using a large portion of his or her own body weight to drive the opponent down on the mat. Nearly all suplexes have the attacker going down...

       variations
      • Cradle
      • Northern lights
      • Vertical
    • Neckbreaker
      Neckbreaker
      In professional wrestling a neckbreaker is any throw or slam that focuses its attack on the opponent’s neck. One type of neckbreaker involves the wrestler slamming an opponent's neck against a part of the wrestler's body, usually the knee, head or shoulder...

    • Scoop slam
    • Sidewalk slam
    • Snapmare followed by a baseball slide to the face or back
    • Spinebuster
    • Springboard bulldog
    • Tornado DDT

  • With Josie
    • Finishing moves
      • Spinebuster (Ariel) / Diving neckbreaker (Josie) combination
    • Signature moves
      • Double back elbow
      • Double clothesline
      • Double hip toss

Championships and accomplishments

  • Ace Wrestling
  • AW Women's Championship (1 time)

  • Border City Wrestling
    Border City Wrestling
    Border City Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion once based in Windsor, Ontario. It was the base promotion for several Total Nonstop Action Wrestling wrestlers, including all of the former Team Canada, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley. Many BCW employees were trained by Scott...

  • BCW Women's Championship (1 time)

  • Defiant Divas Wrestling
  • DDW Women's championship (2 times)

  • Defiant Pro Wrestling
  • DPW Women's Championship (1 time, current)

  • GLORY Wrestling
  • Glory Women's Championship (1 time)

  • JWA-United Wrestling
  • JWA Women's Championship (1 time)

  • NWA Midwest
    National Wrestling Alliance
    The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

     / Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
    Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
    Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Louisville, Kentucky.- History :...

  • NWA Midwest
    NWA Midwest Women's Championship
    The NWA Midwest Women's Championship is the title for female wrestlers in the NWA Midwest professional wrestling promotion. The title began in 2004. For the first half of 2005, the title was merged with the IWA Mid-South Women's Championship and known as the NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's...

    /IWA Mid-South Women's Championship
    IWA Mid-South Women's Championship
    The IWA Mid-South Women's Championship was the title for female wrestlers in the Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South professional wrestling promotion. The title began on May 30, 2004 in a one night tournament titled "Volcano Girls" at the National Guard Armory in Hammond, Indiana...

     (1 time)

  • NWA North Jersey
    National Wrestling Alliance
    The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

  • NWA North Jersey Women's Championship (1 time)
  • NWA North Jersey Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tara Charisma

  • New England Championship Wrestling
    New England Championship Wrestling
    New England Championship Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion based in the Northeastern United States and has promoted events since 2000...

  • World Women's Wrestling Championship (1 time))

  • Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling
  • PCW Women's Championship (1 time)

  • Premier Wrestling Federation
  • PWF Mayhem Women's Championship (1 time)

  • South Coast Championship Wrestling
  • SCCW Women's Championship (1 time)

  • Stars and Stripes Championship Wrestling
  • SSCW Women's Championship (1 time)

  • Universal Wrestling Association
  • UWA Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Talia
    Velvet Sky
    Jamie Szantyr is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Velvet Sky. She is a former TNA Women's Knockout Champion and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with her former Beautiful People partners Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich...


Lucha de Apuesta record

Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Mask Nikki Roxx
Nicole Raczynski
Nicole Raczynski is an American professional wrestler, best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi...

 
Arianna Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

, Nuevo León
Nuevo León
Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

, Mexico
Mexico
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Hair vs. mask match

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