Line #75 Wrestling/SarahStock


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3	Sarah Stock (born March 4, 1979) is a Canadian kick boxer turned professional wrestler turned trainer for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Trained by Phil Lafon, Dan Kroffat, Diluvio Negro #1, Eddie Watts and José Luis Feliciano, Stock began her professional wrestling career in Winnipeg, Manitoba's Top Rope Championship Wrestling promotion and moved back and forth across the country, working for various enterprises, facing both male and female wrestlers. She then moved to Monterrey Mexico to hone her craft on a different independent circuit, starting by turning one of her ring names, Dark Angel, [[MaskedLuchador into a gimmick]] in LLF and gaining the attention of Wrestling/{{AAA}}. Dark Angel would be offered regular work with Triple A after losing her mask but wound up jumping to their main rival Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, where her best known work was done. She is also known for her time in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, where, under the ring name Sarita, she became a two-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, holding the title once with both Wrestling/TaylorWilde and [[Wrestling/TheaTrinidad Rosita]]. She has also worked in Japan for [=JDStar=] and its SpiritualSuccessor Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM, where she was the Wonder of Stardom Champion.
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5	Stock has also been a Can-Am Wrestling Women's Champion, an LLF Juvenil Champion, a Nuevo León State Women's Champion, a Federación Internacional de Lucha Libre Women's Champion and a Beauty Slammers Champion.
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7	As of March 2023, Stock has signed onto Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as a member of its coaching team.
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9	!!"Dark Angel Tropes":
10	* AdaptationalVillainy: On the talk show ''Curva Directa'' where she antagonized the host La Pao and attempted forceful entries onto his set after the episode where he had her kicked out, leading Pao to hire Princesa Sugey as a bodyguard.
11	* AmazonianBeauty: Dark Angel won CMLL's annual body building competition six years in a row and then won again in 2014 after missing a year. She's not especially large by wrestler standards but has some very well sculpted [[http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/01/SARAHBB.jpg arms and abs]]. It's an image she openly cultivated when she lost her mask, saying it was important that people looked at her, then they could decide if they liked her wrestling style after she had their attention.
12	* AnimalMotifs: Griffins early on in her career.
13	* ArchEnemy: La Caza Canadienses Princesa Sugehit until her animosity was overshadowed by La Amapola's, whom successfully kept Dark Angel from winning any title belts in CMLL but lost her mask in the process, giving Dark Angel the honor of being the first luchadora to win a mask in Arena Mexico.
14	* BashBrothers: Taylor Wilde and Rosita during her reigns as a Knockout Tag Team Champion, otherwise her number one ally is Marcela. Also Johnny Wiseguy, Lady Apache, Luna Mágica, Anarquia, Hotstuff Hernandez, Goya Kong, Estrellita and Io Shirai.
15	* BoringButPractical: She's [[HiddenDepths so associated]] with complex lucha libre takeovers and holds, with her kickboxing background, that she caught April Hunter off guard with simple knife edge chops and a running shoulder block in WXW. She almost beat Wrestling/DaizeeHaze with an Oklahoma Stampede driver in SHIMMER, which is easier to counter than her usual holds. Taylor Wilde wasn't ready to counter a back head crash and shoulder breaker in TNA. Everyone in STARDOM was surprised when she brought TheGiant Alpha Female low with a basic guillotine choke.
16	* TheBully: The losing streak Sarita and Wilde went on after losing the Knockout Tag Team titles apparently lead her to decide it would be a good investment of hers and Taylor Wilde's time to bully Wrestling/{{Daffney\|Unger}} on TNA's BShow Xplosion. Then she decided it would be fun to bully that "loser" Taylor too. Oh, and the WWC women when she popped up there. It resulted in her being taken down by Wrestling/BlackRose after screwing her out of a match.
17	* CombinationAttack: Springboard dropkick an opponent into a waiting Taylor for a Wilde Ride.
18	* CoolMask: Griffin wore one as part of her entrance. Dark Angel wore one when she first appeared on the Mexican independent circuit, which she lost in what became a famous wager match against Princesa Sugehit in LLF. Sarita wore one in Mexican America, which returned as entrance attire for Dark Angel's Planet run.
19	* CultureClash: A Canadian born "Mexican" who wrestles in the US with a pretty Japanese style. She's billed from "Winnipeg via Mexico City".
20	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder:
21	** She betrayed her former tag partner Taylor Wilde because they lost the Tag Team Titles and betrayed her [[VillainTeamUp alliance]] with Wrestling/MadisonRayne because she wanted the Knockout Championship.
22	** She and "cousin" Rosita once ditched Mexican America because they couldn't pay off a repo man to keep their low rider, though [[DownplayedTrope the stable still kept together for a short while after that]].
23	* DanceBattler: A quasi example. Since her TNA FaceHeelTurn she loves to salsa dance during matches. In Maritime Beauty Slammers she would dance to bait her opponents into ill advised approaches.
24	* DefeatMeansRespect: Dark Angel came to see Princesa Sugehit as a WorthyOpponent after Sugehit took her mask and Sugehit, for her part, gradually became less antagonistic towards Stock during their time in CMLL.
25	* DemotedToExtra: She seemed to be getting ''promoted'' when AAA called her up from the {{B Show}}s in 2004 but it turned out they didn't have much use for her as a wrestler, mostly having her carry signs.
26	* {{Determinator}}: She didn't stop working when she suffered from facial paralysis. She just put on a(nother) mask.
27	* DisproportionateReward: There were not many women wrestlers in Canada during her rookie year, let alone Alberta, leading to her being awarded Can-Am Wrestling's Women's title on her debut in the promotion, though she would soon enough have to fight off Charlotte Webb to keep it, and keep doing so in Hybrid Wrestling Coalition since they didn't have a lot of female competitors either.
28	* DistaffCounterpart
29	** Before unmasking, Dark Angel was one to ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}''.
30	** Her trio in CMLL is one to the Montreal based International Championship Wrestling promotion's "Sexy Team".
31	* EvilForeigner: In NGX, TNA and WWC, though in the latter two she was an evil Mexican rather than an evil Canadian. Subverted in LLF, where she tagged with Christie Ricci, who attempted to be an evil foreigner but gave up on fighting against the tide and embraced Mexico with Stock, and in CMLL, where she started out evil but wasn't any good at it, and was still working with Mexicans while she was.
32	* FinalBattle: Even though they were both tecnicas when CMLL's 82nd anniversary arrived, Sarita's rivalry with Sugehit never really died. They were given one last match at the show, after both were interviewed on how they got there from the enterprises of Monterrey.
33	* FinishingMove: Double chicken wing neck scissors, leg feed spinning mule kick, tiger bomb, La Reinera(standing spinning double toed arm trapped back breaker until then more associated with luchadores like Shocker)
34	* FightingYourFriend: STARDOM got the honor of billing Dark Angel's last match in Japan, in what happened to be a shot for the World Of Stardom against former Planet leader Io Shirai. Stock knew Shirai better than Shirai knew Stock, and thus out wrestled Shirai for most of the match, but a timely kick to head lead to Dark Angel crumbling.
35	* ForceAndFinesse: She was the finesse half when tagging with Johnny Wiseguy, Phil Lafon, Christie Ricci, Amapola and Goya Kong, and the force half when tagging with Princesa Sugehit, Io Shira(every other member of Planet really), Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne and Rosita. Amapola tried to be as fancy as Dark Angel, but couldn't, but at the same time was said by commentary to be the stronger woman. Sugehit tried to rely on power as much as Dark Angel but was held back on that front by her short stature...but [=LuFisto=] was [[PintSizedPowerhouse not]]. Marcela, Estrellita(after bulking up) and Taylor Wilde(even before bulking up) were also about even with her in both categories.
36	* HonoraryTrueCompanion: After participating in Fuka's retirement show in 2010, Dark Angel was to wrestle at one more show on April 3rd at Shinkiba First Ring before leaving for USA but ended up wrestling an extra day there on the 5th under the Estrella★Japan banner, where she was awarded the Sky High of Arsion belt, after participating in a battle royal and beating Princesa Sugehit in a singles match, even though Arsion had been defunct before Dark Angel ever made it to Japan and no promotions recognized its titles anymore.
37	* HotBlooded: So she might not be of Latin ancestry but Amapola would learn Dark Angel's temper could easily become a match for her own after a series of questionable calls kept the belt around Amapola's waist during their CMLL world title feud. Dark Angel was also the member of Planet most vocal and passionate about crushing their opposition.
38	* IHaveManyNames: Started as Sarah Stone, picking up Dark Angel, Sarah Swayze, Natasha Graves, Sweet Sarah, Sarah Griffin, Sara la Canadiense and Sarita along the way.
39	* ImmigrantPatriotism: Most of the foreigners in LLF ended up embracing Mexican, or at least Monterrey culture, but few if any did so to the degree of Dark Angel. She continued on with most of the regional mannerism well after moving back to Canada, and everywhere else she wrestled for that matter.
40	* InkSuitActor: In the horror comic book ''Dark Legacy'', based on her pre CMLL appearances in Monterrey(yes there is an English version).
41	* InternationalShowdownByProxy: Besides Sugehit, there was also Dark Angel and [=LuFisto=] against Simply Luscious & Persephone billed as Canada vs Estados Unidos, among others.
42	* ItsPersonal: She debuted in CMLL pared alongside La Amapola, but after losing four matches in a row she decided [[BeingEvilSucks she wasn't cut out for being a ruda]] and [[HeelFaceTurn went back to her tecnica roots]]. What's more, Angel's first CMLL victory was alongside her former arch foe Sugehit ''against'' Amapola. La Amapola felt betrayed and was never able to move past it.
43	* {{Jobber}}: Served as one in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Ohio Valley Wrestling, making her an underdog when she debuted in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} despite the warning of Allison Danger, in a tournament to crown the first singles champion no less. She also served as one in her initial TNA appearances but these were dark matches that were ignored when she made her televised debut.
44	* {{Leitmotif}}
45	** A remix of "I'm Everything" in TNA.
46	** Either "5150" or "Stand up", both by F.I.L.T.H.E.E. / Brickman Raw as part of Mexican America.
47	* LesserOfTwoEvils: The "evil" versus Portuguese Princess Ariel, India Sioux and Marcela in Nuevo Generation Xtrema but the lesser compared to Polly Star and La Nazi.
48	* LightningBruiser: Cmllgaceta.wordpress has actually given stats to luchadores, giving Dark Angel 80% in fuerza, 100% for both velocidad and agilidad, suggesting she's more "lightning" than "bruiser" but her spinning Reinera rack has won her countless submissions. She has a surprising amount of lifting and hauling strength but it doesn't carry over to her striking power. Her punches still shouldn't be slept on, as The Haze can attest.
49	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Yuhi was slow to rise after failing to take the Wonder Of from Dark Angel at ''STARDOM Golden Age'' but still tried to kick her while she was strutting past. Angel responded by stomping on Yuhi's legs and then...[[PetTheDog patting her on the back]].
50	* MistakenForForeigner: Has been mistaken for Mexican a few times, even by people who should really know better like Portia Perez.
51	* OneSteveLimit: Dark Angel and American Angel in LLF and NGX. They were both unmasked as Sarah Stock and Wrestling/SaraDelRey, which got on Dave Prazak's nerves when the SHIMMER crowd started an unspecific {{c\|rowdchant}}hant and Danger revealed she had bet money on Sara(h) winning the singles title tournament.
52	* OverlyLongName: Her doble palancha con tijera a la cabeza, a grounded double chicken wing with a leg hooked on the head, tabla marina con medio cangrejo invertido, which is basically a standing a single leg trap surfboard to a face down opponent, ammare doble a los brazos con torsion al cuello, which is a standing double over hook neck crank, and her enganche al brazo seguido de toque de espaldas, which is an arm drag floated over twice into a double chicken wing pinning combination. Apparently Dark Angel could think up moves more easily than witty names.
53	* PowerStable
54	** Was affiliated with Los Un-Mexicans in NGX during 2006 and 7.
55	** Was one of the main members of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Mexican America]].
56	** Planet in Wonder Ring STARDOM with Arisa Hoshiki, Mayu Iwatani, Natsumi Showzuki and Io Shirai.
57	* PowerTrio: El Sexy Team with Goya Kong and Estrellita.
58	* PutOnABus: Out of TNA when her contract expired.
59	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Wore long pants-like tights when teaming with Taylor Wilde as a {{face}}, but around the time of her heel turn she began sporting the hot trunks she's more accustomed to wearing on the indies, while Wilde stuck with the longer tights.
60	* ShowWithInAShow: ''Fitness Con Dark Angel'', which CMLL archived on youtube.
61	* SignatureMove
62	** A double toed Argentine backbreaker drop called La Arkangelina and Variente De La Shadina(forcing the opponent to kneel in a double chicken wing against her legs). Also a belly to belly suplex, head scissors takedown, La Tapatía, float over DDT, Tope con hilo, tope con giro, shoulder lock, wheelbarrow victory roll, spring board arm drag, turnbuckle climbing arm drag, arm+leg trap suplex, Fujiwara armbar, and la de a caballo. Yes, you have to be ready for them all if Dark Angel could [[ConfusionFu conceivably]] be in position for any of them.
63	** In LLF and Shimmer she experimented with combining the figure four leg lock and figure four stump puller into pinning combinations that doubled as submission holds, as well as many variations of the STF.
64	* SpicyLatina: Her gimmick in TNA due to her billing as Rosita's [[UnrelatedBrothers cousin]] and [[{{Crossover}} by extension]], WWC.
65	* SpiritedCompetitor: She wasn't a fan of pro wrestling and actually developed an aversion to it when she dated a fan but decided to try it out when she realized it offered more bookings than kick boxing. Mexico was to be a spring board to Japan but she ended up enjoying life there even before she picked up much Spanish, and with the the collapse of [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo]] and GAEA she had little financial incentive to wrestle anywhere but CMLL. Still, she made frequent departures for the sake of learning more styles and testing herself against interesting opponents. One example was meeting Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart in Japan and agreeing to meet her for a best of five series in Canada to test her speed and see if she could tire Neidhart out. Stock had a tendency to talk trash but would freely acknowledge the qualities of her adversaries and hold few grudges.
66	* {{Stripperiffic}}: During her volume 18 rematch with Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa in SHIMMER, [=ClickWrestle=] commentary was that they had never seen such a distracting outfit on a wrestler who ''doesn't'' [[TheVamp rely on seduction]](this was before Sarita's salsa dancing). She just as often wrestles mostly covered and in fact had in most of her previous SHIMMER matches but started cutting back at volume 12.
67	* StudentAndMasterTeam: Phil Lafon joined her in the Can-Am Wrestling Federation when she faced Samantha Slides, who tended to seconded by Mad Man Martin and Massive Damage.
68	* SweetTooth: Dark Angel has a weakness for donuts, but she suppresses it when training for body building competitions.
69	* SympathyForTheDevil: Some of it was TearsOfJoy at having further cemented her own legacy but having gone through losing a mask herself, Stock did feel sorry for Amapola having to be the first luchadora to lose hers in Arena Mexico. Amapola [[DontYouDarePityMe wasn't having it though]] and stormed off, later getting punished by CMLL for this exceptionally [[SoreLoser poor sportsmanship]].
70	* TagTeam: On the Mexican independent circuit, Sexy Girls with Christie Ricci, a precursor to Stock's Sexy Team trio in CMLL
71	* TakeThat
72	** {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. Stock hasn't been shy to speak her mind on what AAA was lacking after she jumped to CMLL but whatever state they're in you can be sure she will have compliments for the luchadoras on its roster. She's a big fan of Cynthia Moreno, Martha Villalobos, Faby Apache and Diabolica, to name a few.
73	** During an episode of TNA Impact she stole a fan's purse and began choking Taylor Wilde with it, leading Wrestling/{{Tazz}} to exclaim [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson some people]] had been fired for such actions.
74	* TheLancer: While Io Shirai was the leader of Planet and the main target of [=Trouble2Maker=], Dark Angel was the veteran of the group and Act Yasukawa's initial failure to defeat her lead to Dark Angel becoming Planet's first champion, freeing up Shirai to take down Alpha Female of Kimura Monster Gun and win the World Of Stardom. Angel's Wonder of signifying best in the promotion, Shirai's signifying best in the world.
75	* TheRival
76	** Early on in Canada, she was known for wrestling Kyle Kruze in Main Stream Wrestling and defeated him in a "Kiss My Ass" match and even took him on in bra and panties match. She also had a long running feud with Samatha Slides.
77	** Wrestling/{{Angel\|inaLove}} Williams, as well as the latter's Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople stablemate Wrestling/VelvetSky were enemies in the USA but Dark Angel teamed with Talia Madison in LLF.
78	** In Mexico she had several confrontations with Las Ladies de Polanco Princesa Blanca and Princesa Sugehit, who were also affiliated with Raven Hiroka in a trio known as Las Zorras. Hiroka would also antagonize Stock alongside Mima Shimoda as "La 5000% Guapa" but sometimes tagged with Stock in Japan.
79	** La Comandante and Zeuxis, the women of CMLL's Comando Caribeño stable.
80	** Tiffany was one of the few opponents Dark Angel faced in AAA after losing her mask and a rivalry would form later, especially after Estrellita left Tiffany and Los IndependientesInvasores to join El Sexy Team.
81	** Even after Sugehit stopped trying to cut Dark Angel up with broken bottles she went out of her way to beat Angel in wrestling matches. Even when Sugehit was teaming with Dark Angel in the ring she tried to beat her at everything else, which included studying in a futile attempt to end Dark Angel's winning streak in bodybuilding. Marcela was similar competitive but an even more {{friendly\|rival}} fashion.
82	* TheVamp: {{Subverted\|Trope}} when Wrestling/EricYoung was one half of the TNA Knockout Champions. Sarita and Rosita tried to seduce him but he only had eyes for his [[SeductionProofMarriage partner]], [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]].
83	* TheWorfBarrage
84	** Her version of Shadina, various figure fours and leg hook holds rarely ever beat anyone. Dark Angle has more success with her comparatively simpler head scissor chicken wing combo.
85	** Is she applying La Reinera? If it's during her TNA run and it's 2010 or later, it's going [[BadassDecay to fail spectacularly]].
86	* TheWorfEffect: On the last Impact of 2010 she beat two baby faces, Velvet Sky and Angelina Love, in two back to back encounters, a clean win a match and a fight where Love got the jump on her. So big things for Sarita in 2011? No, Sarita's first singles match of the year was to put over the powerhouse [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Winter]] in ''her'' first singles match.
87	* TheatricsOfPain: In 2005, she had the privilege of wrestling in Japan, and the misfortune of personally learning why Mariko Yoshida was called the best woman's wrestler in the country. If there was anything effective about Lacey Wrestling/{{Von Erich\|Family}}'s TNA debut, it was Sarita's reaction to the family claw.
88	* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Made the actual motion to Grappler #3 during a Pro Wrestling Revolution mixed tag match after a series of tag outs between him, Cheerleader Melissa and her own partner Pistolero.
89	* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: Signed a six week exclusive contract with LLF at the end of 2004 then used her off time to train in the CMLL gym in preparation for her move from Monterrey to Mexico City when said contract ran out. Also got further training from El Satánico Dr. No(which might explain her {{rud\|o}}a debut in CMLL) and studied Olympic wrestling.
90	* TooManyBelts: One of her black sets has two belts across her waste and three belts across her torso.
91	* TookALevelInBadass: She started out as the valet of Johnny Wiseguy in the Maritime area promotions such as Real Action Wrestling but eventually became his tag team partner
92	* TournamentArc
93	** Dark Angel won AULL's Copa Internacional Femenil in 2007
94	** Sarita and Taylor Wilde won a tournament on the 20th of September in 2009 to become TNA's first Knockout Tag Team Title Holders.
95	* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Her body suits tend to have a maple leaf around her stomach and Dark Angel did wear the actual Canadian flag, usually on top of black, during her masked run.
96	* WhatHeSaid: During their partnership, Sarita and Taylor Wilde had a habit during their interviews of Sarita firing off some lines in Spanish and Taylor going "What she said." In the ''exact'' same time period, Sarita's future Mexican America teammate Hernandez was doing the same thing with his tag team partner at the time, Matt Morgan. Nobody ever mentioned on-air that both duos were doing the exact same thing, presumably to avoid drawing attention to it.

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