Wrestler of the Day - 9/18: Ivelisse Velez!

Heading into my fourth “Wrestler of the Day” post with a little badassery, if you will. Of course, you can’t do a post like this without women’s wrestling, right? Well, here’s the first female who’s going to take the prize for today.

    

Today’s “Wrestler of the Day is the “Baddest Bitch in the Building” (I had to, I just had to.), Ivelisse Velez! Some of you may remember her as Sofia Cortez in the FCW/NXT development territory for WWE. Shockingly (and sadly), she got released from the WWE before she could even get on the main roster, which is a huge loss on their part, but we digress… Now, she currently wrestles on American independent circuit and in Latin America (more specifically Mexico and her native Puerto Rico), where she has held numerous women’s titles: including the Shine, PWR, FEW and WWL championships. She is also well-known for performing in Lucha Underground (where she got her “baddest bitch” moniker from), and is a former (and inaugural) Trios Tag Team Champion with Angelico and Son of Havoc.

What’s crazy to me is that these idiots (cough WWE & TNA cough) let her go! She has that star quality that is needed on these top tier promotions. Nonetheless, she continues to put on amazing matches wherever she goes. But, hey, maybe these top promotions will come to their senses down the road…

Here's Ivelisse taking on Mia Yim, for the WAR Ecuador promotion.