Monday, September 14, 2009

Who is Melina Nava Perez?

Who is Melina Nava Perez[6]? The world knows her as Melina, she is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling on its SmackDown brand.

On March 9th, 1979 a diva was born. Her name was Melina Nava Perez and she was ready to take on the world. Melina started out her career as a model when she won a Miss California beauty contest and also modeled athletic wear for Nike.Soon the wrestling bug bit her and she decided to become a professional wrestler in 2000. Melina started training at the School of Hard Knocks, owned by Jesse Hernandez.She made her pro debut in April 2002.She started to wrestle at some California wrestling promotions such as EWF and CRUSH under the ring names Kyra and Melanie Little Deer.She soon auditioned for WWE's Tough Enough where the winner will be signed to a contract with WWE. Melina was eliminated in the final cut for the first episode. After she was eliminated from the competition former WWE superstar Al Snow pulled her aside and encouraged her to keep on pursuing her dream as a wrestler.
Even though she was eliminated form the Tough Enough competition WWE still signed her to a developmental contract in 2004 and therefore our beautiful Melina debuted in then WWE developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling in March 2004.Melina's debuts angle was as real-life boyfriend John Hennigan's ex girlfriend.The Storyline had Melina debut to taunt John Hennigan along with Matt Cappotelli.However Melina turned on Cappotelli and aligned herself with John Hennigan who had then changed his name to Johnny Nitro.Soon after all of this Melina and Nitro teamed up with Joey Matthews (Joey Mercury) and therefore MNM was born.Together Melina led MNM to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.It as also in OVW that Melina along with Nitro and Steve Adkins came up with her famous split entrance.While in OVW, Melina had made several appearences in the WWE.For example, on a Thanksgiving episode of SmackDown! in 2003, she dressed up as a Native American and was shown serving food and drinks.Melina made her first Raw appearance on November 29, 2004 when Randy Orton was the guest General Manager and hosted a diva lingerie fashion show.She made another Raw appearance in December, participating in a limbo contest when Chris Jericho was General Manager for the night.

MNM made their offcial WWE debut on the April 14,2005 editon of SmackDown! interupting Carlitos Cabana.During their debut they beat up Rey Mysterio and claimed that they will be the next Tag Team Champions.They soon faced the current Campions Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio and defeated them to mark their first reign as WWE Tag Team Champions.Over the next few months Melina's charactor became more egotistical and claimed herself to be "The Most Dominant Diva in the WWE".Soon after this claim she started to feud with Michelle McCool which ultimatly led to Melina's first match against McCool in which she won and McCool got injured.After a few more matches for Melina and even a title shot for the Womens Championship at Survivor Series, which she lost, and a few more title reigns for MNM it was time to say goodbye.MNM broke up at Judgement Day 2006 after MNM lost their titles to Paul London and Brian Kendrick.Nitro and Melina attacked Mercury blaming the lost on him.Melina also lost to rival Jillian Hall that night.Melina and Nitro confronted SmackDown! GM Teddy Long about the rough night which led to Melina slapping him and getting herself and Nitro kayfabe fired from the smackdown brand.

After a few weeks from getting fired from the SmackDown! brand Melina and Nitro made their RAW debut against John Cena which they lost.After about a year on the RAW brand Melina went solo and made history by defeating rival Mickie James and becoming the only former Tough Enough contestant to be WWE Womens Champion.Melina soon retained her title against James in the first ever Womens Falls Count Anywhere match in WWE history.Since then Melina is now a 3-time Womens champion and has feuded with the likes of Ashley Massaro, Trish Stratus, Candice Michelle, Mickie James, and most recently Beth Phoenix.We are sure that Melina is just getting started in her quest to being the greatest diva in WWE and i am sure it won't stop anytime soon.So get Ready and strap on your seatbelt cuz with Melina nothing is predictible and we are sure it is gonna be a bumpy ride.

After becoming interested in wrestling, Melina joined the independent professional wrestling circuit before ultimately joining WWE in 2004. Initially, she was a manager for the tag team of MNM. She managed them to three reigns as WWE Tag Team Champions,[7] as well as former boyfriend and MNM member Johnny Nitro to two reigns as WWE Intercontinental Champion.[8][9] Melina made her WWE singles debut in 2005, and is a three-time WWE Women's Champion, winning the belt twice in 2007 and once in 2009.[10]


Perez began her career as a model. She won a Miss California beauty contest and also modeled athletic wear for Nike.[9] She decided to become a professional wrestler after talking to Empire Wrestling Federation (EWF) superstar Mike Henderson in 2000.[3][11] Perez started training at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks in San Bernardino, California and made her professional debut in April 2002.[5][12] Many EWF officials stated that she had the most natural ability of any woman who came through their school.[13] In late 2002 Perez auditioned for World Wrestling Entertainment's reality show Tough Enough III, making it through to the final twenty-one before being eliminated from the competition in the final cut of the first episode.[1][13][14][15] After she was eliminated from the contest, trainer Al Snow pulled Perez aside and encouraged her to keep trying to pursue her dream as a wrestler.[16]


Perez debuted in WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in March 2004, being placed in an angle as John Hennigan's ex-girlfriend. The storyline had Matt Cappotelli introduce her to the ring as a way to taunt Hennigan.[2] Melina, however, turned on Cappotelli and aligned herself with Hennigan, who later changed his ring name to Johnny Nitro.[2] Soon after, Melina and Nitro began teaming with Joey Matthews, later known as Joey Mercury.[2] The trio became known as MNM and on November 10, Melina managed Mercury and Nitro to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.[17] During her time in OVW, Melina, Nitro, and Steven Adkins came up with Melina's trademark split ring entrance.[18]

Melina made her first Raw appearance on November 29, 2004, when Randy Orton was the guest General Manager and hosted a diva lingerie fashion show.[19] She made another Raw appearance in December, participating in a limbo contest when Chris Jericho was General Manager for the night.[20]

MNM made their debut in WWE as a villainous tag team on the April 14, 2005, edition of SmackDown!.[21] The team interrupted the first ever Carlito's Cabana interview segment, where one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, Rey Mysterio, was a guest.[21] Melina insulted Mysterio and had Mercury and Nitro attack him, leading to MNM's in-ring debut the next week on SmackDown! in a title match. The team was booked to win the match against Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero, starting their first WWE Tag Team Title reign.[22][23]

While managing the Tag Team Champions, Melina's character was developed to be more egotistical as she declared herself "the most-dominant Diva in WWE."[1] She made her official WWE in-ring debut on June 30 against Michelle McCool and had her first pay-per-view match (a Bra and Panties match) at The Great American Bash against Torrie Wilson, winning both matches.[24][25] Also at The Great American Bash, MNM dropped their championship to the Legion of Doom, prompting a new storyline where Melina hired Jillian Hall, a "fixer", to assist them.[25][26] MNM regained the title on October 28 in a Fatal Four-Way tag team match.[27] On the Eddie Guerrero Tribute Show Melina won an interpromotional Divas battle royal by eliminating Women's Champion Trish Stratus.[28] The next week, MNM kayfabe kidnapped Stratus and Melina challenged her to a match for the Women's Championship.[29] The two fought at Survivor Series, with Melina losing to Stratus after interference from Mickie James.[30]

During this time, MNM was booked to defend their title against Rey Mysterio and the World Heavyweight Champion Batista. Melina was placed in an angle with her trying to make Batista call off the match by visiting him in his locker room and attempting to seduce him. The storyline had the two engage in sexual acts, after which he simply thanked her for the "warm-up" before leaving to take part in the match, where he and Mysterio defeated MNM for the title.[31] The storyline played over to the next episode of SmackDown! when, before MNM invoked their rematch clause, Melina held a press conference in the ring where she claimed that Batista had sexually harassed her. During the tag team match, Mark Henry aided MNM in winning back the WWE Tag Team Championship.[32] The angle with Henry continued into the next year. On the first SmackDown! of 2006, Melina announced that Henry was her personal protection against Batista. He accompanied her and aided the other members of MNM in matches against Batista and Mysterio.[33]

At Judgment Day on May 21, 2006, MNM were booked to lose their Tag Team Championship to Paul London and Brian Kendrick.[34] After the match, Melina and Nitro, as part of the storyline, attacked Mercury, blaming him for the loss.[34] Later that night, Melina lost a singles match against Jillian Hall and after slapping General Manager Theodore Long in anger, she and Nitro were kayfabe fired from the SmackDown! brand.[35] 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.[36] Melina and Nitro made their way to Raw on May 29, with Nitro losing to WWE Champion John Cena.[37][38] The following week, Melina faked a sprained ankle, allowing Nitro to roll-up Charlie Haas for his first Raw victory.[39] Melina continued to manage Nitro during his successful hunt for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, while being involved in another storyline with Trish Stratus.[40][41] The angle turned into a tag team feud when Carlito joined forces with Stratus to take on Melina and Nitro.[42] At Saturday Night's Main Event on July 15, Melina and Nitro lost to Carlito and Stratus in a mixed tag team match.[43]

After Melina's arrival on Raw, Mick Foley began to mention her in promos, playing on their real friendship mentioned in his WWE.com columns, and they soon formed an on-screen friendship.[44][45] At SummerSlam, Melina was involved in Foley's "I Quit" match against Ric Flair when Flair threatened to hit her with a barbed wire baseball bat, causing Foley to quit the match to save her.[46] The next night on Raw, the storyline had Vince McMahon order Foley to join the Kiss My Ass club. Foley did not care about saving his own career, but joined after Vince threatened Melina's job.[47] After begging Foley not to go through with it, Foley "joined the club" to save Melina's job, only to have her suddenly turn on him by delivering a low blow and kayfabe firing him at the behest of McMahon.[47] This storyline was concocted by Foley to refresh the idea of the Kiss My Ass club.[47][48][49] It was also around this time that Melina added another characteristic to her gimmick: screaming loudly at ringside while managing or in tag team action, which became known as the "primal scream."[50]


On January 29, 2007, Melina became the number one contender for the WWE Women's Championship, and introduced her finisher from the independent circuit, the Kyrapractor, to WWE under the new name California Dream.[51] On February 5, Melina lost a title match against Mickie James.[52] The following week on Raw, Melina pinned James in a mixed tag team match and then challenged James again for the title.[53] On February 19, as part of her first major singles push, Melina successfully pinned James to win the WWE Women's Championship. This made Melina the first woman of Mexican heritage to win the WWE Women's Championship. She then retained the title in a rematch during the first ever Women's Falls Count Anywhere match in WWE history.[54][55]


In March, Melina was placed in an angle where she became jealous of SmackDown! Diva Ashley Massaro,
who was receiving attention because of her appearance in Playboy.[56] The angle had Melina claim in her blogs that no Playboy cover models were capable of fighting her.[57] This resulted in scheduled matches against former Playboy cover girls Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle, with both women losing to Melina.[58][59] The storyline came to a close at WrestleMania 23, where Melina pinned Ashley in a Lumberjill match to retain her Women's Championship.[60] After WrestleMania, Melina organized a photo op with the Women's Title belt in the ring but was interrupted by Mickie James, resulting in another storyline feud between the two Divas.[61] On April 24, at a house show in Paris, France, Melina lost the Women's Championship in a Triple Threat match to James when James pinned Victoria, but on the orders of Jonathan Coachman she was entitled to a rematch on the same night, where she pinned James by putting her hands on the ropes to regain the title and become a two-time WWE Women's Champion.[62]


On May 7, Melina was defeated in a tag team match when she was pinned by Candice Michelle.[63] Melina was scripted to lose to Candice in various tag team matches, as well as in non-title bouts over the next few weeks.[64][65][66] At Vengeance, Melina dropped the Women's Championship to Candice and failed to recapture the title at The Great American Bash.[67][68]

Melina, along with then-ally Beth Phoenix, defeated Maria and Ashley at WrestleMania XXIV.[69] After Phoenix lost the Women's Championship to Mickie James, she began a feud with Phoenix after Perez accidentally hit Phoenix with her boot in a lumberjill match against James.[70] The following week on Raw, Phoenix walked out on Melina during a tag match against James and Maria when Melina accidentally bumped Phoenix off the apron. Melina was then attacked by Phoenix during a backstage segment following the match, leading to her turning face for the first time in her WWE career.[71] At One Night Stand, Melina competed in a losing effort against Phoenix in the first ever Women's "I Quit" match.[72] On June 23, 2008, Perez injured her heel after falling from the turnbuckles during a tag team match with Mickie James against Natalya and Victoria.[73]

Perez made her in-ring return, ahead of schedule, at the November 13 Florida Championship Wrestling television taping, teaming with Gabe Tuft to defeat Jack Gabriel and Alicia Fox in a mixed tag team match.[74] Perez returned to WWE television on the November 24 edition of Raw as a face, teaming with former rivals Mickie James and Candice Michelle to defeat Phoenix, Jillian Hall, and Katie Lea Burchill, when Perez pinned Burchill. [75] She then made her in-ring singles return against Jillian the following week, and defeated her with her new The Last Call finisher. After the match however, Melina had stated her intentions to take the WWE Women's Championship away from Beth Phoenix.[76]

On December 29, 2008, Melina won a six-woman battle royal, to become the number one contender to the Women's Championship. After the match, Melina and Phoenix engaged in a confrontation over a fan of Phoenix's named Rosa Mendes, who had pushed Melina.[77] On January 25, 2009, Melina won her third WWE Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble by defeating Phoenix.[78] She would successfully defend her title against Phoenix numerous times over the course of the next few months.


On the April 13 episode of Raw, Melina was drafted to SmackDown in the 2009 WWE Draft making the WWE Women's Championship exclusive to the SmackDown brand. Melina then made her in-ring debut on SmackDown one month later, teaming with Gail Kim to defeat Michelle McCool and Alicia Fox. After McCool was named the new #1 Contender for the Women's Championship, they began a rivalry.[79] Melina lost the Championship to McCool at The Bash on June 28, after an interference from Fox. Melina received a rematch on July 26 at Night of Champions, but failed to recapture the Championship.

Perez is of Mexican heritage.[4] She is also bilingual, as she can speak both English and Spanish fluently.[4]


She was in a long term relationship with John Hennigan, whom she managed on-screen.[9][37] The two met during their auditions for Tough Enough III.[80] Eventually they broke up, and Perez was then in a short-term relationship wrestler Dave Batista. Batista claims that the duo began their relationship after his divorce from his wife.[81][82] Unlike some of her fellow Divas, Perez has been outspoken about her disinterest in posing for Playboy magazine.[83]



On April 13, 2008, she appeared in an episode of Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp along with Mickie James, Layla, and Kelly Kelly.

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