Thunder Rosa is Mexican-born American professional wrestler and she is currently working for AEW where she recently on the AEW Women’s World Championship.
| Real name | Melissa Cervantes |
| Billed height | 5 ft 3 in |
| Billed weight | 119 lb |
| Date of birth | July 22, 1986 |
| Birth place | Tijuana, Mexico |
| Age | 35 |
| Trainer | Dylan Drake, Matt Carlos |
| Ring names | Thunder Rosa, Kobra Moon, Serpiente del Mar, Serpentine |
| Signature moves | Fire Thunder Driver, La Rosa, Inverted DDT, Snake Sleeper, Vertigo, Diving Double Stomp, Complete Shot to Koji Clutch |
| Husband | Brian Cervantes (m. 2006) |
The 35-year-old made her wrestling debut in 2014 in the Supreme Pro Wrestling battle royal in Sacramento. She made her debut in Japan in 2015 for World Wonder Ring Stardom which is the world’s top all-woman wrestling promotion.
She joined the roster at Lucha Underground in the second season. Rosa competed under the ring name Kobra Moon, leader of the Reptile Tribe.
She was nominated for the 2015 Southern Californian Rookie of the Year Award where she finished second.
In 2017, she participated in SHINE Wrestling making her debut in SHINE 46. She teamed with Holidead as team Twisted Sisterz. The Twisted Sisterz won the SHINE Tag Team Championship at SHINE 52 by virtue of winning a four-way tag team elimination match.
They lost the titles at SHINE 56 on January 19,2019 to the team of Rainbow Bright (Gabby Gilbert and Luscious Latasha). They had a couple of rematches to regain the titles at SHINE 57 and 58 but failed to win both.
Rosa made her Ring of Honor debut on its ROH State Of The Art show. She teamed with Kelly Klein. They lost to Sumie Sakai and Tenille Dashwood. Rosa also lost her first singles match at ROH against Dashwood.
After a disappointing run in ROH by her high standards, Rosa debuted in Women of Wrestling (WOW). She was renamed from Kobra Moon to Serpentine in the second season of WOW. Serpentine challenged Tessa Blanchard for the WOW World Championship but failed to win the title.
She spent a couple of years in Tokyo Joshi Pro where she became the International Princess Champion. Rosa became the first gaijin (non-Japanese citizen) titleholder in Tokyo Joshi Pro history.
Rosa relinquished the title after a reign of more than 8 months due to COVID-19 restrictions barring her from traveling to Japan.
She moved to National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in October 2019. She captured the NWA World Women’s Championship after beating Allysin Kay at NWA Hard Times. Rosa became the first Mexican-born wrestler to win the title.
She had her final match on the promotion during the February 25 episode of NWA Powerrr where she defeated Melina.
Rosa made her first appearance on the September 2 episode of Dynamite and she defeated Serena Deeb. She had her first shot at the AEW Women’s World Championship when she faced Hikaru Shida at the second annual ALL OUT. Rosa didn’t win the match though.
On March 17, 2021, episode of Dynamite, Rosa and Britt Baker became the first women to main event Dynamite. Rosa won the match and it was highly acclaimed.
Rosa and Baker produced another match of high quality when they met each other at the Revolution pay-per-view in March this year. This was for Baker’s AEW Women’s World Championship.
Rosa could have won the match but interventions and distractions from Jamie Hayter and Rebel cost her.
Rosa would have another bite at the cherry this week on Dynamite inside a steel cage and finally she went past Britt Baker in a brutal brawl to secure the title.
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