Sasha Banks Quick Facts
Mercedes
Kaestner-Varnado, famous by her ring name Sasha Banks, is an American
professional wrestler. She was born in 1992, in Fairfield, California. Her
height is about 1.65m. Her partner is Sarath Ton. Her net worth is about $0.5
million.
Sasha
was interested in wrestling from her childhood. She was also interested in “All
Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling”, which she grew up watching. She started her
training in 2008 at Chaotic Wrestling, based in Woburn, Massachusetts. She got
her first winning in a tag team match in January 2011. In December 2011, she
won her first title “The Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship”, after winning
from Alexxis Nevaeh.
She is currently signed with the World
Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). She along with Charlotte Flair has become the
first women in the history to win the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for “Feud
of the Year”. When she was signed with WWE in August 2012, then she adopted her
ring name Sasha Banks. She has won the “NXT Women's Championship” for once “WWE
Raw Women's Championship” for three times, and “NXT Year-End Award for Match of
the Year” in 2015. In “WWE 2K17” she also appeared as a playable character in
the Professional Wrestling Video game.
Childhood & Early Life
Mercedes
Kaestner-Varnado was born popular by her ring name “Sasha Banks” on January 26,
1992, in Fairfield, California, in the United States. Her brother is disable,
who is suffer from autism. For her brother she and her family travelled to find
hospitals and schools. Banks also mentioned that she was like a second mother
for her brother.
She
later moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and she started online schooling. She was
a big fan of “Eddie Guerrero”. She raised watching “All Japan Women's
Pro-Wrestling”. She had a wish to train from her childhood. However, her mother
did not like wresting, and she also did not want that her daughter to start
wrestling as a career. In 2008, she started training at Chaotic Wrestling, an
independent American wrestling promotion, based in Woburn in Massachusetts.
Career
She
made her debut match on October 1, 2010, under the ring name Mercedes KV. She
made her debut in singles match on October 22, 2010 where she was defeated by
her opponent Danny E.
She won
her first match on 7 January 2011 in a tag team match. Throughout the rest of
the year, she wrestled in several singles matches. She defeated Alexxis in a “I
Quit” Match on 2.
She
made her debut in WWE NXT with her new ring name Sasha Banks. She wrestled her
first match against Paige, in which she was defeated.
She
beat Charlotte Flair in a Fatal four-way match in February 2015, winning the
NXT Women's Championship. When rematch was held, Sasha defeated Charlotte again
and retained her championship. The whole year, she defended her title against many
others wrestlers. In July, she and Charlotte had a rematch again, in which
Banks won again retaining her title.
She
remained champion for 192 days till August and lost her Championship to Bayley.
Another rematch was held in September, where Banks lost to Bayley.
In
2016 she made her debut in WWE against Charlotte to win the WWE Women's
Championship for the first time. 27 days, Charlotte won title again from Sasha
Banks.
Sasha
Banks was a part of Raw's women's team for Survivor Series in November 2016.
Banks won from Charlotte in a Falls Count Anywhere match and won the Raw
Women's Championship once again.
In
2016, she got number 2 ranking in the list of top 50 female wrestlers in the
PWI (Pro Wrestling Illustrated) Female 50.
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Personal Life
Sasha
Banks married Sarath Ton V in August 2016, a wrestler, who works as a costume
designer for WWE.
She is
also the first cousin of famous music producer, Daz Dillinger, rapper, Snoop
Dogg and singers and songwriters, Brandy Norwood and Ray J.
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