History Wrestling / IvelisseVelez

Despite her elimination, she impressed WWE officials and was signed to developmental contract in 2011. She competed in WWE's FCW revival and NXT as Sofia Cortez. However she was abruptly released in mid-2012 for supposed "attitude problems"[[note]]later revealed to have been refusing head trainer Wrestling/{{Bill DeMott}}'s advances - this came to light after the [=DeMott=] bullying scandal broke in the spring of 2015[[/note]]. Still, enjoying the boost in fame from her time in WWE, she remained a regular fixture on the independents and trained with Franco Lozano for a possible debut in mixed martial arts before briefly returning to national scene by way of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Gut Check competition (being passed over in favour of Wrestling/LeiDTapa) and ''One Night Only'' shows. Ivelisse did not stop winning titles either, having the Pro Wrestling Revolution Women's title, SHINE title belt, Family Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship belt and the Women's Title of Chilean enterprise Wrestling Superstar to her name. Vélez's third stint on national TV started with her debut for Creator/RobertRodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, which distinguished itself from immediate television competitors by regularly showcasing inter gender matches. She would highlight this by winning its trios title with two male partners. She'd also win the World Wrestling League Diosas Title back in Puerto Rico, SHINE's Tag Team Titles with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and medals Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's Tag Team Cup with Diamante.

* JailBait: "Sexy Juliette" made her pro debut at age fifteen. Then again, her gimmick was hunting the wicked...

* {{Tweener}}: What she and Diamante at least started out as in All Elite Wrestling. Diamante has lots of good life lessons to teach people, but she [[IDidWhatIHadToDo also]] has a "win at all costs" philosophy, and Velez is even less facey. Still, they were the defacto faces in the match with the Nightmare Sisters just because Brandi Rhodes was so obnoxious, before going on to disrespect the AEW staff and cut the championship medal award ceremony short.

* LatinoIsBrown: Averted when she was in WWE. The company gave her the Latin-sounding name 'Sofia Cortez', billed her from Puerto Rico and gave her reggaeton entrance music. This was in spite of her having fair skin and blonde hair. What's more is that Ivelisse ''wanted'' to dye her hair brown[[note]]As she felt blonde hair didn't fit her Anti-Diva Army gimmick[[/note]] but the company insisted she remain blonde.

* {{Tweener}}: What she and Diamante at least started out as in All Elite Wrestling. Diamante has lots of good life lessons to teach people, but she [[IDidWhatIHadToDo also]] has a "win at all costs" philosophy, and Velez is even less facey. Still, they were the defacto faces in the match with the Nightmare Sisters just because Brandi Rhodes was so obnoxious, before going on to disrespect the AEW staff and cut the title belt award ceremony short.

Despite her elimination, she impressed WWE officials and was signed to developmental contract in 2011. She competed in WWE's FCW revival and NXT as Sofia Cortez. However she was abruptly released in mid-2012 for supposed "attitude problems"[[note]]later revealed to have been refusing head trainer Wrestling/{{Bill DeMott}}'s advances - this came to light after the [=DeMott=] bullying scandal broke in the spring of 2015[[/note]]. Still, enjoying the boost in fame from her time in WWE, she remained a regular fixture on the independents and trained with Franco Lozano for a possible debut in mixed martial arts before briefly returning to national scene by way of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Gut Check competition (being passed over in favour of Wrestling/LeiDTapa) and ''One Night Only'' shows. Ivelisse did not stop winning titles either, having the Pro Wrestling Revolution Women's title, SHINE title belt, Family Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship belt and the Women's Title of Chilean enterprise Wrestling Superstar to her name. Vélez's third stint on national TV started with her debut for Creator/RobertRodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, which distinguished itself from immediate television competitors by regularly showcasing inter gender matches. She would highlight this by winning its trios title with two male partners. She'd also win the World Wrestling League Diosas Title back in Puerto Rico, SHINE's Tag Team Titles with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's TagTeam Title belts with Diamante.

** She and Diamante were "randomly" chosen to partner with one another in All Elite Wrestling's women's tag team title tournament after their bought to challenge Hikaru Shida. The two of them went on to win the whole thing, mostly because every other team was also "random", only two others were made up of anyone with any real familiarity, the "Swole Family" being the only established team in the whole bracket and both members of said family having found better partners for each other years ago.

* TournamentArc: Her team outlasted two others[[note]]Big Ryck, Killshot & The Mack+Cage, King Cuerno & Texano Jr.[[/note]] in the three way elimination match that was the final of Lucha Underground's Trios Title Tournament.

Despite her elimination, she impressed WWE officials and was signed to developmental contract in 2011. She competed in WWE's FCW revival and NXT as Sofia Cortez. However she was abruptly released in mid-2012 for supposed "attitude problems"[[note]]later revealed to have been refusing head trainer Wrestling/{{Bill DeMott}}'s advances - this came to light after the [=DeMott=] bullying scandal broke in the spring of 2015[[/note]]. Still, enjoying the boost in fame from her time in WWE, she remained a regular fixture on the independents and trained with Franco Lozano for a possible debut in mixed martial arts before briefly returning to national scene by way of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Gut Check competition (being passed over in favour of Wrestling/LeiDTapa) and ''One Night Only'' shows. Ivelisse did not stop winning titles either, having the Pro Wrestling Revolution Women's title, SHINE title belt, Family Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship belt and the Women's Title of Chilean enterprise Wrestling Superstar to her name. Vélez's third stint on national TV started with her debut for Creator/RobertRodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, which distinguished itself from immediate television competitors by regularly showcasing inter gender matches. She would highlight this by winning its trios title with two male partners. She'd also win the World Wrestling League Diosas Title back in Puerto Rico, SHINE's Tag Team Titles with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's TagTeam Title belts with Diamate.

* {{Tweener}}: What she and Diamante at least started out as in All Elite Wrestling. Diamante has lots of good life lessons to teach people, but she [[DoAsISayAndNotAsIDo also]] has a "win at all costs" philosophy, and Velez is even less facey. Still, they were the defacto faces in the match with the Nightmare Sisters just because Brandi Rhodes was so obnoxious, before going on to disrespect the AEW staff and cut the title belt award ceremony short.

Despite her elimination, she impressed WWE officials and was signed to developmental contract in 2011. She competed in WWE's FCW revival and NXT as Sofia Cortez. However she was abruptly released in mid-2012 for supposed "attitude problems"[[note]]later revealed to have been refusing head trainer Wrestling/{{Bill DeMott}}'s advances - this came to light after the [=DeMott=] bullying scandal broke in the spring of 2015[[/note]]. Still, enjoying the boost in fame from her time in WWE, she remained a regular fixture on the independents and trained with Franco Lozano for a possible debut in mixed martial arts before briefly returning to national scene by way of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Gut Check competition (being passed over in favour of Wrestling/LeiDTapa) and ''One Night Only'' shows. Ivelisse did not stop winning titles either, having the Pro Wrestling Revolution Women's title, SHINE title belt, Family Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship belt and the Women's Title of Chilean enterprise Wrestling Superstar to her name. Vélez's third stint on national TV started with her debut for Creator/RobertRodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, which distinguished itself from immediate television competitors by regularly showcasing inter gender matches. She would highlight this by winning its trios title with two male partners. She'd also win the World Wrestling League Diosas Title back in Puerto Rico and SHINE's Tag Team Titles with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez.

* RivalsTeamUp: La Rosa Negra was oddly kind to Vélez when she came to the states, making light of Vélez's previous efforts against her. As it turned out, the heels of SHINE tended to beat La Rosa worse than Vélez ever did, to the point Ivelisse [[SympathyForTheHero stepped in]] when Taylor Made was trying to cave Negra's skull in with brass knuckles. Another incident with Legendary convinced Vélez to form Las Sicarias with Negra, to mentor Amanda Rodriguez, and for their collective protection. Mercedes Martinez returned at ''SHINE 36'' to put Vélez "on notice" but ended up joining Las Sicarias herself after seeing [=VALkyrie=] attack Negra and Rodriguez.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Her relations with XO Lishus. Velez enjoyed cheerleading, sure, but not enough to wear such a [[PomPomGirl uniform]] to the ring, much less wrestle in it. Velez is fairly acrobatic, but she isn't nearly as flippy as Lishus and doesn't dance. She also doesn't ram the faces of her opponents [[AssKicksYou into her ass]]. On the antagonistic side, this is dynamic concerning her conflicts with Barbie Boy.

* VillainousValor: {{Downplayed|Trope}}: She tried to retreat from Diamante several times during her debut on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's TNT show, but she was pretty lazy about it. Everytime Diamante showed the slightest interest in pursuing Ivelisse, which was everytime, Iveliesse stood still and let her catch up.

* WomanScorned: Velez's boyfriend Jeremiah Crane entered the Temple [[ThisIsGonnaSuck against her wishes]] and was quickly seduced by his ex girlfriend and Velez's enemy Catrina. Pursuing a hopeless romance, he brokeup with Velez for Catrina and then [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown beat Velez with a hammer]] after a hard fought victory over Catrina. As a result Velez assaulted him during a Grave Consequences match, which unlike a mundane promotion usually results in ''death'' for the loser. Also unlike even other rare feds which"kill" wrestlers like Urban Wrestling Federation or such, [[DeathIsCheap death is also cheap]] in the Lucha Underground Temple. Still, Crane CameBackWrong, basically making Velez's revenge as lasting as possible.

* VillainousVallor: {{Downplayed|Trope}}: She tried to retreat from Diamante several times during her debut on Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's TNT show, but she was pretty lazy about it. Everytime Diamante showed the slightest interest in pursuing Ivelisse, which was everytime, Iveliesse stood still and let her catch up.

** In Lucha Underground she took on XO Lishus as a TagTeam partner outside of her trio with The Son of Havoc and Angelico to take on old rival Wrestling/JoeyRyan and Jack Evans, who nobody likes. This ended up extending to Ryan himself, who was disturbed by Evans's refusal to release a submission hold even after Liscus passed out. Velez and Ryan reconcilled over their continued frustrations with Evans in the Temple and ended up forming a new trio with Lishus to go after the belts after Evans was dealt with.

* GirlinessUpgrade: Ivelisse ''has'' gotten more feminine since her stint in WWE's FCW revival and NXT, in her own way. She has gotten more fashionable in regards to ring gear, warmups and street clothes, nott in what was on late 2000s runways or "glamorous" accessories. She has gotten more comfortable wrestling other women, but her style is largely unchanged. She will wear more face makeup, but still pass on being airbrushed for photoshoots. She does more with her hair, just not what she was told to.

** The Son Of Havoc and Ivelisse Velez had a lot of trouble wrestling trios matches with a handicap while Angelico was injured, so they made the unwise decision of having [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo]] substitute for him. While Mundo on his own was okay, he brought along girlfriend Taya Valkyrie, who didn't support the trio in anyway that might directly benefit Velez and quickly becmae an active hindrance as Catrina helped sow discord. Not just with Taya but also with Velez's own boyfriend Jeremiah Crane. After which, Ivelisse put trios on hold and went [[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet straight to the instigator]] herself.

* ShamefulStrip: [[NiceJobFixingItVillain The moment]] Juliette interrupted una lucha de prendas between La Bella Carmen and Black Rose in una the moment Génesis decided helping Black Rose was okay if it meant [[EnemyMine taking The Huntress down a peg.]] Génesis was too slow to stop Juilette and Carmen from ripping off most of her clothing however.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her effort to help Mia Yim with Valifornia resulted in [=SoCal=] Val hiring Andrea [[TheBrute as an enforcer]]. Vélez had been banned from SHINE when Andrea physically arrived so [=SoCal=] Val sicked Andrea on Solo Darling and Luscious Latasha instead. However, SHINE management ended up [[TheChessmaster intentionally setting]] Las Sicarias against the Valifornia-Valkyrie merger, which eventually ended up with Las Sicarias destabilizing it, defusing it's [=C4=] successor, and Vélez delivering the kick that put Andrea out of SHINE.

* WomanScorned: Velez's boyfriend Jeremiah Crane entered the Temple [[ThisIsGonnaSuck against her wishes]] and was quickly seduced by his ex girlfriend and Velez's enemy Catrina. Pursuing a hopeless romance he brokeup with Velez for Catrina and then [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown beat Velez with a hammer]] after a hard fought victory over Catrina. As a result Velez assaulted him during a Grave Consequences match, which unlike a mundane promotion usually results in ''death'' for the loser. Also unlike a mundane Urban Wrestling Federation or such [[DeathIsCheap death is also cheap]] in the Lucha Underground Temple but Crane CameBackWrong, basically making Velez's revenge as lasting as possible.

** She had faced La Amazona, Black Rose, La Morena and Sweet Nancy almost exclusively in the Caribbean scene until 2012 when they ''all'' showed up in the continental USA. Around the time she was leaving WWE, ironically enough.

** The Son Of Havoc and Ivelisse Velez had a lot of trouble wrestling trios matches with a handicap while Angelico was injured, so they made the unwise decision of having [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo]] substitute for him. While Mundo on his own was okay, he brought along girlfriend Taya Valkyrie, who didn't support the trio in anyway that might directly benefit Velez and quickly becmae an active hindrance as Catrina helped sow discord. Not just with Taya but also with Velez's own boyfriend Jeremiah Crane. After which, Ivelisse put trios on hold and went [[ThrowingDownTheGuntlet straight to the instigator]] herself.

** On wrestling shows she tends to be very serious, if sometimes [[ChewingTheScenery over the top]], driven, vindictive, sometimes despotic and often serves as TheOnlySaneMan. On twitter and facebook she allows her more playful, goofier side to poke out. When Amber Gertner mistook Las Sicarias for Sangrias, Velez's response was bug eyes, followed by a desire to drink one.

* HiddenDepths: Exposed by Wrestling/JimRoss, who made an offhand comment about Sofia Cortez having a beautiful voice on NXT. Fan requests lead to her uploading some cover verses on Youtube.

* {{Heel}}: She reportedly prefers it and usually was when she started out, especially in Puerto Rico. But she has a very exciting lucha libre style, and a lot of fire - which means she'll inevitably end up turning {{Face}} wherever she goes, including Puerto Rico post WWL.

** Since establishing a presence in Mexico, Taya Valkyrie and Sexy Star, being purely hostile with the latter. Taya is Ivelisse's [[WithFriendsLikeThese nominal stablemate]] but rarely shows her any respect and often neglects to stick up for her or come to Vélez's aid. These both carried over into USA via Lucha Underground. Particularly with Valkyrie when [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison her boyfriend]] substitued for Angelico as Velez and Son Of Havoc's partner and she refused to do anything to help the team win if involved directly helping Velez.

* RivalsTeamUp: La Rosa Negra was oddly kind to Vélez when she came to the states, making light of Vélez's previous efforts against her. As it turned out, the heels of SHINE tended to beat La Rosa worse than Vélez ever did, to the point Ivelisse [[SympathyForTheHero stepped in]] when Taylor Made was trying to cave Negra's skull in with brass knuckles. Another incident with Legendary convinced Vélez to form Las Sicarias with Negra, to mentor Amanda Rodriguez, and for their collective protection. Mercedes Martinez returned at SHINE 36 to put Vélez "on notice" but ended up joining Las Sicarias herself after seeing [=VALkyrie=] attack Negra and Rodriguez.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Showed up for her SHINE 9 match against [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] with tape around her ribs, suggesting she was injured from her SHINE 8 encounter where she took Wrestling/AngelinaLove's botox injection, Wrestling/ChristinaVonEerie's 138, a [=SkyYim=] and an Amazing Press. Those who watched TNA knew Ivelisse was just fine but Jazz fell for it and as a result, ended up choked out with Ivelisse's bandages.

** In Lucha Underground she took on XO Lishus as a TagTeam partner outside of her trio with The Son of Havoc and Angelico to take on old rival Wrestling/JoeyRyan and Jack Evans, who nobody likes. This ended up extending to Ryan himself, who was disturbed by Evans's refusal to release a submission hold even after Liscus passed out.

* EnemyMine: The third time Valkyrie jumped Ivelisse, old enemies [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]], The Lucha Sisters, Tracy Taylor and Kellie Skater helped her. [[CurbstompBattle Not much]] but Ivelisse would aid most of them against Valkyrie later. Ivelisse was also the first out of the locker room when Valkyrie ambushed Havok during her departure for TNA.

** Since establishing a presence in Mexico, Taya Valkyrie and Sexy Star, being purely hostile with the latter. Taya is Ivelisse's [[WithFriendsLikeThese nominal stablemate]] but rarely shows her any respect and often neglects to stick up for her or come to Vélez's aid. These both carried over into USA via Lucha Underground.

* InTheHood: It did more than look nice, it also makes it easier to shut out the yapping of her partners when they get too annoying, such as Allysin Kay and Taylor Made.

* TookALevelInBadass: The WWN has been pretty good for the Vélez brand image and you can see her steady progression in SHINE. When the promotion's title was being established, she was knocked off in the first round of the contender's tournament by [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], giving Valkyrie its first loss against the woman who was more or less the reason they got together in the first place. As champion, one of her first defenses was against Jazz, and she did it clean where before she failed despite trickery. Also, when encountering Nevaeh earlier in her career, the general (and correct) assumption was that half of SHIMMER's first tag team champions was going to win. When Nevaeh challenged for the SHINE title belt by contrast, the general attitude was that Vélez's victory being pretty much guaranteed (which was not ''quite'' correct but point stands).

** Valkyrie's first target was [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong]], with Wrestling/MsChif, Mia Yim, Nikki Roxx, Su Yung, a [[GlassJawReferee referee]], [[TheLongList and]] [[TacticalWithdrawal almost]] Santana Garrett as collateral damage. In turn, Ivelisse was the first victim of the SHINE roster members who acted in retaliation.

* {{Heel}}: She reportedly prefers it and usually was when she started out. But she has a very exciting lucha libre style, and a lot of fire - which means she'll inevitably end up turning {{Face}} wherever she goes.

** Originally "appeared" on Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} volume 24 as a {{jobber}} who did not even have the dignity of getting beat in a Sparkle match, instead being an uncredited punching bag in Wesna Busic and Melanie Cruise's video packages. Then she made a proper debut on Volume 62 and beat [[Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee Kimber Lee]].

** Originally "appeared" on Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} volume 24 as a {{jobber}} who did not even have the dignity of getting beat in a Sparkle match, instead being an uncredited punching bag in Wesna Busic and Melanie Cruise's video packages. Then she made a proper debut on Volume 62 and beat Kimber Lee.

Ivelisse Milagro Vélez is a professional wrestler in North America, originating from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She trained under, Quique Cruz, Carlos Colon and Savio Vega in Puerto Rico, before working her way up the Chicago indies under the name Juliette The Huntress. Juliette would then wrestle for Colon's World Wrestling Council and Vega's International Wrestling Association in Puerto Rico, up until she joined New Wrestling Star and aided its wrestlers, along with those from New Empire, in an invasion of WWC. Later she won the Pro Championship Wrestling Women's title and Vanguard Wrestling All-Star Alliance Women's title in the continental United States.

!!!"LIST ALARM! Them Tropes In Town!":

* OpposedMentors: Solo Darling, a student of Ivelisse's, joined the first stable in SHINE to rival Valkyrie, the All-Star Squad lead by one of Solo's other teachers, Wrestling/{{Daffney|Unger}}.

Despite her elimination, she impressed WWE officials and was signed to developmental contract in 2011. She competed in WWE's FCW revival and NXT as Sofia Cortez. However she was abruptly released in mid-2012 for supposed "attitude problems"[[note]]later revealed to have been refusing head trainer [[Wrestling/HughMorrus Bill DeMott]]'s advances - this came to light after the [=DeMott=] bullying scandal broke in the spring of 2015[[/note]]. Still, enjoying the boost in fame from her time in WWE, she remained a regular fixture on the independents and trained with Franco Lozano for a possible debut in mixed martial arts before briefly returning to national scene by way of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Gut Check competition (being passed over in favour of Wrestling/LeiDTapa) and ''One Night Only'' shows. Ivelisse did not stop winning titles either, having the Pro Wrestling Revolution Women's title, SHINE title belt, Family Wrestling Entertainment Women's Championship belt and the Women's Title of Chilean enterprise Wrestling Superstar to her name. Vélez's third stint on national TV started with her debut for Creator/RobertRodriguez's Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, which distinguished itself from immediate television competitors by regularly showcasing inter gender matches. She would highlight this by winning its trios title with two male partners. She'd also win the World Wrestling League Diosas Title back in Puerto Rico and SHINE's Tag Team Titles with Wrestling/MercedesMartinez.