History Wrestling / CheerleaderMelissa

* DemotedToExtra: While Alissa Flash was on the losing side of knockout matches from her Impact debut against Sarita, she at least was a constant presence. Eventually she addressed this trope when she felt what should have been her first significant victory, against Cody Deaner, was tainted by interference from the other knockouts, showing her frustration by attacking new comer Ayako Hamada and throwing her down the bleachers. But gradually she showed up less and less until she was released without fan fare.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Raisha Saeed would often direct Awesome Kong to inflict further punishment on the knockouts she had already defeated. After Wrestling/GailKim's final impact match was lost to Kong, Raisha directed her to finish off Gail and her non wrestling sister, at which point the remaining knockouts decided they needed to be stopped.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mary Lee Rose's early days in nCw Femme Fatales largely consisted of interfering in Cheerleader Melissa's matches while refusing to wrestle Melissa herself. Then Mary Lee Rose, wanting more competition, issued an open challenge for the fifth Femme Fatales show. Melissa immediately accepted and then mocked Mary for being too stupid to see it coming. Thankfully for Mary Lee Rose, her manager Madamoiselle Rachelle did everything she could to get the match canceled and pitted Melissa against Yumi Oka instead.

** California Dolls with Chelsea, starting in Wonder Ring STARDOM

She would go on to compete for many promotions around the world, being personally invited to work for Wrestling/AjaKong's ARSION and German Stampede Wrestling. Among her in-ring achievements, she is a Trans-Atlantic Champion, a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/il/shimmer/shimmer-s.html SHIMMER Champion]], the inaugural and 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/apw/apw-fl.html All Pro Wrestling Future Legend Champion]], is a 2x a [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/pwr/pwr-wm.html Pro Wrestling Revolution World Women's Champion]], Pure Wrestling Association Elite Women's Champion, River City Wrestling Champion, RCW Angels Champion, RCW International Champion, RCW Phoenix Champion and an RCW Tag Team Champion [[note]]with Darci Drake[[/note]]. ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' named her #1 on their list of the best female singles wrestlers in 2013.

** California Dolls with Chelsea, staring in Wonder Ring STARDOM

** California Dolls with Chelsea, staring in Wonder Rings STARDOM

* IAmNotLeftHanded: After Melissa's first loss to [=MsChif=] in SHIMMER she demanded a No Holds Barred falls count anywhere match (the rules of [=ChickFight=], of which she is a multi-time winner) and managed to pick up the win. Well, [=MsChif=] was not exactly unfamiliar with that setup but it was clear Melissa had the better game plan. For that matter Melissa managed to beat [=MsChif=] in every single falls count anywhere match they had afterward, except one where pin falls and submissions were irrelevant because the stipulation was last standing and one for th NWA World Women's title at PWR.

** Delivered one at [=ChickFight=] VII to Sweet Saraya that lead to her leaving the arena on a stretcher. Since [=ChickFight=] is no holds barred, falls count anywhere, the referee simply decided to stop the match once Saraya was suspended in the ropes by her neck and could no longer feasibly defend herself, advancing Melissa.(you can get disqualified, but mostly for what you do when the match is not over, so it calling the match saved Saraya)

** Cheerleader Melissa had an altercation with Jazz in the semifinals of [=ChickFight=] V after Jazz went over [=MsChif=]. They seemed to patch up their issues after Melissa beat Jazz in the finals.

** Cheerleader Melissa trained a wrestler in Canada named Tiffany, and the two teamed together as Girls Gone Wrestling. Alissa Flash teamed up with a long established wrestler in Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, who was also named Tiffany. Guess what fans like to call Flash and Mexican Tiffany's tag team? Come on, guess!

* ExactWords: After beating Eden Black for Trans-Atlantic Championship belt, Melissa promised to give a title shot to the winner of [=ChickFight=] VIII. Wesna won, Melissa, hit her with the belt. Wesna fought back though, forcing Melissa to defend it for real.

* FacialMarkings: Alissa Flash had the same ones as Wrestling/SherriMartel.

** Has done dark matches of Wrestling/LuchaUnderground.

* SeriesMascot: Of [=ChickFight=]. Even when she doesn't participate in the tournament(such as the ECWA Super 8 cross event) she promotes them on the road.

* TheArtifact: She still uses the Cheerleader Melissa name despite the fact that she left the cheerleader gimmick behind long ago. She's tried changing her name to just Melissa, and to "'The Future Legend' Melissa" as well (even going so far as to rename APW's "Above The Law Championship" ''"The Future Legend Championship"'' after she won it from one of her trainers, Robert Thompson) , and somehow it never catches on and she goes back to being Cheerleader Melissa. Not even the international attention brought by TNA was completely enough for Alissa Flash to overtake her Cheerleader brand recognition.

* IrrationalHatred: Toward Athena after the end of her second SHIMMER Championship reign. While O-Face was the move that eliminated Melissa from the Four Way, Nicole Matthews and Madison Eagles were just as "guilty". One could argue it was rational to single out Athena for being noticeably smaller than the other two but that would also mean it would be in Melissa's favor to just let Athena try to eliminate the other two or even aid her before invoking the rematch clause. Even more so in hindsight, as Melissa proved very capable of beating Athena one on one but proved she wasn't content to "just" beat Athena.

** Fights with Wesna were something that just tended to happen where Melissa went. It was Annie Social who declared she would never let Melissa win the SHIMMER Championship and simply latched on to Wesna to makes sure she could fulfill that vow.
** Portia Perez was personally offended that Melissa not only refused to let the Canadian Ninjas end her career, but that she had the gall to try and get some pay back against them for trying. True Melissa did "cost" Perez the nCw Femme Fatatles title on Perez's birthday but she and Nicole Matthews had tried to take Melissa out on the same day first. Also, Matthews jumped Melissa while she was celebrating winning her first championship in SHIMMER. Nicole Matthews would be the one to succeed her after her second reign as SHIMMER champion.

* LoserLeavesTown: Not only did Alissa Flash and Darci Drake lose the River City Wrestling tag titles to the Gulf Coast Connection but Flash was banned for 90 days from the promotion due to the loss. This also caused her to be stripped of RCW International Championship, since the champion is supposed to be available for a defense every thirty days.

** Joey Spector regarding the RCW Championship and RCW Tag Team Championships when he was half of San Antonio's Most Unwanted. Also the Gulf Coast Connection (Rudy Russo and AJ Summers)
** Sort of has another East Coast/West Coast one with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, who she has tagged with almost as much as she as wrestled against across the US. They feuded over the RCW Championship when Mercedes dated Joey Spector but then went after the tag belts after Martinez and Spector broke up. Mercedes also went up North to give Melissa some reprieve against the Canadian Ninjas.
** Wrestling/ChristinaVonEerie is another whose faced at least three faces of Anderson, particularly in PWR, where she worked her way up from repeatedly jobbing to Raisha to beating Melissa for the championship, after Melissa had gotten done defending the belt at a Wrestling In Merida event.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Melissa(or Alissa, whatever) took the PWR Women's Championship to Puerto Rico, to defend it under the World Wrestling League's banner and beat the stuffing out of the challenger they provided for her, Wrestling/IvelisseVelez. Melissa pulled up Vélez's shoulders before the three count to beat her up some more but in this time had given Ivelisse time to recover, turn the match around take the belt from Flash. Ivelisse would successfully defend the belt against Cheerleader Melissa one more time(albeit, by disqualification) in California before Melissa won it back in their third title bout.

* YankTheDogsChain: After Allissa Flash beat Joey Spector for the River City Wrestling Championship, the decision was reversed by Commissioner Jeromy Sage because the match had gone thirty seconds longer than the time limit. Flash later won it again in a no time limit, no disqualification match.

* FacialMarkings: Alissa Flash had the same ones as Sherry Martel.

* StunnedSilence: The crowd after witnessing seven years of "[[EveryYearTheyFizzleOut Melissa coming up short in SHIMMER]]", finally beating Madison Eagles for the singles title and losing it after being jumped by Sweet Saraya two days later.

* StunnedSilence: Two days and four defenses into her reign, seeing Melissa tap out and lose the SHIMMER title belt to Sweet Saraya took the air right out of the crowd.

* BigDamnHeroes: Melissa saved her former tag team partner and then SHIMMER champion Wrestling/{{MsChif}} from a beat down by [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong]] and Sara Del Rey at volume 23.

* SeriesMascot: Of [=ChickFight=]. Even when she doesn't participate in the tournament(such as the ECWA Super 8) she promotes them on the road.

* SeriesMascot: Of [=ChickFight=]. Even when she doesn't participate in the tournament she makes appearances to promote it.

** Melissa was often one in Europe. Especially against Eden Black...until Black retired.

* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Raisha Saeed was billed from UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}. Beyond a put on accent and stereotypical insults (calling Gail Kim and ODB "swines") she was a pretty mild case compared to Team Canada or World Elite in TNA...but just as bad in PWR with Hassam. Saeed teamed up with Sheik Mustafa Bashir and Sheik Abdul Bashir to form a trio of evil foreigners in Ring Ka King, though given it was a TNA partnership they fought almost as many foreigners as Indians.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: After Melissa's first loss to [=MsChif=] in SHIMMER she demanded a No Holds Barred falls count anywhere match (the rules of [=ChickFight=], of which she is a multi-time winner) and managed to pick up the win. Well, [=MsChif=] was not exactly unfamiliar with that setup but it was clear Melissa had the better game plan. For that matter Melissa managed to beat [=MsChif=] in every single falls count anywhere match they had afterward, except one where pin falls and submissions were irrelevant because the stipulation was last standing. [=MsChif=] continued to beat Melissa in standard matches, such as when she defended the Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA World Women's title in PWR.

She would go on to compete for many promotions around the world, being personally invited to work for Wrestling/AjaKong's ARSION and German Stampede Wrestling. In 2015, she debuted for Robert Rodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground. Among her in-ring achievements, she is a Trans-Atlantic Champion, a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/il/shimmer/shimmer-s.html SHIMMER Champion]], the inaugural and 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/apw/apw-fl.html All Pro Wrestling Future Legend Champion]], is a 2x a [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/pwr/pwr-wm.html Pro Wrestling Revolution World Women's Champion]], Pure Wrestling Association Elite Women's Champion, River City Wrestling Champion, RCW Angels Champion, RCW International Champion, RCW Phoenix Champion and an RCW Tag Team Champion [[note]]with Darci Drake[[/note]]. ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' named her #1 on their list of the best female singles wrestlers in 2013.

She would go on to compete for many promotions around the world, being personally invited to work for Wrestling/AjaKong's ARSION and German Stampede Wrestling. Among her in-ring achievements, she is a Trans-Atlantic Champion, a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/il/shimmer/shimmer-s.html SHIMMER Champion]], the inaugural and 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/apw/apw-fl.html All Pro Wrestling Future Legend Champion]], is a 2x a [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ca/n/pwr/pwr-wm.html Pro Wrestling Revolution World Women's Champion]], Pure Wrestling Association Elite Women's Champion, River City Wrestling Champion, RCW Angels Champion, RCW International Champion, RCW Phoenix Champion and an RCW Tag Team Champion [[note]]with Darci Drake[[/note]]. ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' named her #1 on their list of the best female singles wrestlers in 2013.