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My Take
What I respect about Melina is the self-made arc. She trained at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks in 2000, debuted in 2001, and built a name in WWE before continuing on into the NWA. Wrestling rewards reinvention, and juggling roles as performer, model and manager takes a particular kind of resilience. At 163 cm she was never the biggest figure in the ring, yet presence in that world has little to do with height. I am drawn to athletes who carve their own lane and keep showing up long after the spotlight shifts, and she clearly did.
Overview
Melina Nava Perez (born March 9, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE under the ring name Melina. Perez most recently wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In 2000, Perez began training to be a professional wrestler at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks, and made her debut in 2001.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Melina Perez
- Name (Japanese)
- メリーナ・ペレス
- Reading
- めりーな・ぺれす
- Born
- March 9, 1979 (age 47)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Goat
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 163 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / professional wrestler / model / manager
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Hesperia High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://realmelina.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/realmelina/
- Xhttps://x.com/RealMelina
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.