Melina Perez

Wwe Diva Melina Perez's Profile

Melina Perez (born March 9, 1979) better known simply as Melina Perez, is a Mexican-American professional wrestler and manager, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its RAW brand.

Wwe Diva Melina Perez Wrestling Career

Melina Perez is known for her ring entrance, which is a display of melina perez's flexibility. Standing beside the ring, melina lifts perez's right leg onto the apron, then lifts melina perez's left leg, performing the splits, and then melina perez bends her upper body under the bottom rope. Michael Cole and Tazz were quick to label this "the greatest ring entrance in the history of sports entertainment." Melina Perez would go on to add a high-pitched scream during matches when cheering on perez's team, which has been labeled the "primal scream."

Melina Perez was born in Los Angeles, California. Prior to Perez's career in pro wrestling , Melina perez was a fashion model. In 2001, after talking to Mike Henderson, Melina Perez decided to become a professional and enrolled in Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks to train. Melina's pro-wrestling debut came in 2002 on a tour of the independent wrestling scene. Melina Perez joined a number of California-based promotions, such as the Empire Wrestling Federation (EWF) and the now-defunct CRUSH All-Women's promotion, in which perez first worked with Mickie James. While working as Kyra in various Southern California Indy promotions, Melina Perez received a WWE developmental contract in December 2003. Melina Perez then appeared on WWE's reality program Tough Enough 3.

Perez debuted in the WWE farm territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in March 2004 when Matt Cappotelli (kayfabe) brought Melina Perez in as a way to taunt her ex-boyfriend Johnny Nitro. Melina however betrayed Cappotelli and quickly aligned herself with Nitro. Soon after, Nitro teamed with fellow superstar Joey Matthews, later known as Joey Mercury. On November 10, 2004, the trio now known as MNM ( with Melina Perez) won the OVW Southern Tag Team Titles.

On the April 14, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, Melina Perez, along with her tag team of Mercury and Nitro debuted as MNM. The team interrupted the first ever "Carlito's Cabana" on which one half of the-then WWE Tag Team Champions Rey Mysterio was a guest. Melina Perez insulted Mysterio and had Mercury and Nitro attack him, leading to MNM's ring debut being a match for the Tag Team Titles on the next weeks edition of SmackDown!. Melina Perez would lead her men to victory over Mysterio and his tag team partner Eddie Guerrero to begin MNM's first title reign.

While managing the tag-team titles Melina perez would feud with and attack many of the Divas within WWE at this time, proclaiming herself to be "the most dominant diva in WWE". Melina Perez's first WWE match was a victory against Michelle McCool on an episode of SmackDown!. Melina Perez's first pay-per-view match, also a victory, was a Bra and Panties match against Torrie Wilson at the Great American Bash.

Wwe Diva Melina Perez's Personal Life

Perez has been dating John Hennigan, better known as Johnny Nitro, since early 2004. They lived together in Louisville, Kentucky for some time and recently moved back to California, where they live together.

Perez speaks both English and Spanish fluently. She has one sibling, a brother.

Outside of the wrestling business, Melina and her boyfriend Johnny Nitro are great friends with Mick Foley.