Shelly Martinez(I)
- Actress
Mexican-American actress, model and retired professional wrestler and valet who worked from 2000 to 2017. She started in the southern California scene as Desire, winning the EWF (Empire Wrestling Federation) Tag Team Championship with Threat in a tag team battle royal at the EWF's July 19, 2002 event, making her the first and only woman to hold the title. They lost the titles to PHAT (Devon Willis and Eric Matlock) 28 days later. She signed a deal with WWE in 2005 and was assigned to their developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling. In 2006, she was brought up to the main roster as part of the ECW revival as Ariel, the valet for vampire wrestler Kevin Thorn (Kevin Fertig). They were heels as part of the stable the New Breed, with CM Punk, Matt Striker (Matthew Kaye) and Marquis Cor Von (Monty Brown). Martinez was released from her contract on May 18, 2007, over an altercation with Dave Bautista. She had a run in TNA as Salinas of the Latin American Exchange, with Homicide (Nelson Erazo) and Hernandez (Shawn Hernandez). They feuded with Christy Hemme and her team the Rock N Rave Infection (Jimmy Rave (James Guffey) and Lance Rock (Lance Archer)). She left in 2008, after being attacked in the storyline by Jacqueline (Jacqueline Moore) as part of the feud between LAX and Beer Money Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode (Bobby Roode)), as she had quit TNA to star in an Italian thriller. She retired in 2017.
She has also wrestled under the names Halloween Barbie, Cle-Ho-Patra, Vampira and Siren.
She has been billed from both Chino, California and from "The Jewel of the Nile" as Cle-Ho-Patra in the defunct adult-oriented Women's Extreme Wrestling.
She has also wrestled under the names Halloween Barbie, Cle-Ho-Patra, Vampira and Siren.
She has been billed from both Chino, California and from "The Jewel of the Nile" as Cle-Ho-Patra in the defunct adult-oriented Women's Extreme Wrestling.
