WWE: Everything you need to know about Mercedes Martinez
New reports are emerging that Mercedes Martinez is WWE’s latest signee. For those unfamiliar with the indie veteran, here is everything you need to know before she debuts.
Inside sources have confirmed to SoCalUncensored (the website, not the AEW Tag Team Champions) that Mercedes Martinez has signed with the WWE. This has yet to be confirmed by WWE or Martinez, but those familiar with Martinez’s work on the independent circuit are already excited at the prospect of The Latin Sensation tangling with Superstars in a WWE ring full time.
If there’s a chance that you are reading this and you have no clue who Mercedes Martinez is, then now’s the perfect time to get acquainted with the in-ring general before she makes her presence known on WWE TV.
Mercedes Martinez has been wrestling ever since first being trained by Jason Knight (a former ECW World Television Champion) back in 2000. Originally, she had aspirations to be a basketball player, but after sustaining a career ending injury in college, “wrestling just came at the right time,” so she told the Boston Herald in 2004.
From then on, Martinez traveled the globe to wrestle everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I mean everywhere. You’d be hard pressed to find a wrestling promotion that does not have her footprint stamped into its ring mat.
Martinez has competed everywhere from Combat Zone Wrestling, to Ring of Honor, to World Xtreme Wrestling, to Shimmer, to SHINE, etc. You name it and she’s probably been there. More recently, she even made an appearance in AEW during the Buy-In pre-show for their All Out Pay-Per-View.
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But by far, the biggest spotlight that the 39-year old Connecticut native had shined down on her yet was when she first competed for WWE in both 2017 and 2018’s Mae Young Classic tournament. She made it to the semi-finals in 2017 before being beaten by Shayna Baszler, then the quarterfinals in 2018 before losing to Meiko Satomura. She’s also made sporadic appearances in NXT.
What’s most remarkable about Mercedes Martinez is that despite never signing to a mainstream promotion full time until 20 years into her career, she’s always found immense success in her career. Not only has she won gold and put on in-ring masterpieces everywhere she’s been, she’s even set a few records along the way.
Currently, alongside Tessa Blanchard, she holds the record for wrestling the longest women’s singles match in wrestling history at 75 minutes. And she even landed on Sports Illustrated’s rated, being named one of the top 10 women’s wrestlers in the world in 2019.
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For all of the amazing things that she has done just on the independent wrestling scene over the course of the last 20 years, just imagine what she can get done for WWE now that she’s there full time. If the reports are true, then Martinez in WWE is something to be very excited about.