| Zelina Vega | |
|---|---|
 Vega after returning to SmackDown in 2023. | |
| Birth name | Thea Megan Trinidad |
| Born | December 27, 1990 (age 32) Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Resides | Tampa, Florida |
| Partner | Ricochet (engaged) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Divina Fly Queen Zelina Rosita Thea Trinidad Zelina Vega |
| Billed height | 5 ft 1 in (1.54 m) |
| Billed weight | 99 lb (45 kg) |
| Billed from | Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Trained by | Javi-Air Azrieal Arturo Beristain Tony Salazar WWE Performance Center |
| Debut | February 20, 2010 |
Thea Megan Trinidad (born December 27, 1990), better known by her ring name, Zelina Vega, is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent. She is currently signed to WWE performing on the Friday Night SmackDown brand where she is a former one-time WWE Goddess Champion.
Trinidad is a former one-time WWE Divas Champion as well as a former one-time WWE Divas Tag Team Champion alongside her partner, Trista.
Trinidad is also known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Rosita, where she was a one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Sarita, and for various independent promotions under her real name. Trinidad after a few previous stints with the company would re-sign with WWE in 2023.
Early life[]
Thea Megan Trinidad was born in the Queens borough of New York City on December 27, 1990, and is of Puerto Rican descent. She grew up watching professional wrestling with her father Michael and younger brother Timothy, and was inspired by Rey Mysterio and Lita. Her parents divorced when she and her brother were young, though they remained friends. She practiced swimming and baseball at school. When she was 10 years old, her father was killed in the September 11 attacks; he had worked as a telecom analyst for Cantor Fitzgerald at the World Trade Center, and was on the 103rd floor of the North Tower when it collapsed.
Her mother, Monique Ferrer, approached StoryCorps with the story of how she and her husband had met and what she experienced on the day of the attacks with his death, which StoryCorps used to create a short cartoon titled Always a Family as a way of honoring his memory. She has said it was because of her father that made her enter the wrestling business. She was featured in an NBC special, titled Children of 9/11, on September 5, 2011. Growing up, she also worked as a counselor on a camp for children that had lost parents on 9/11 and also participated in charitable causes such as Habitat for Humanity with Tuesday's Children after Hurricane Katrina.
Professional wrestling career[]
Early career[]
At the age of 17, Trinidad began training under Javi-Air, Azrieal, and T. J. Perkins. Trinidad made her professional wrestling debut with the ring name Divina Fly for National Wrestling Superstars (NWS) on February 20, 2010, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where she competed against Brittney Savage in a losing effort. On the August 21 NWS event, Fly competed against Niya in a losing effort. On October 1 at an NWS event, Trinidad, now under the ring name Snookie Fly, teamed up with Judas Young and Mike Dennis in a losing effort to Brittney Savage and Team Supreme (Corvis Fear and Nicky Oceans) in a mixed-tag-team match.
On February 20, 2010, she made her debut for Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU), under the ring name Divina Fly in a losing effort against Brittney Savage. On June 26, 2010, Divina Fly and Niya, collectively known as The Fly Girls, competed for the WSU Tag Team Championships but lost to the reigning champions, Cindy Rogers and Jana. On September 11, 2010, Divina Fly won a match against newcomer Candy Cartwright with a Fly Cutter.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2011–2013)[]
After being discovered by Tommy Dreamer, Trinidad wrestled in a tryout dark match at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) Impact! television tapings on January 11, 2011, losing to Angelina Love. On January 27 it was reported that Trinidad had signed a contract with the promotion. On the February 10 episode of Impact!, Trinidad, under the ring name Rosita debuted as the storyline cousin of Sarita in an eight-woman tag team match, where the two of them teamed with Madison Rayne and Tara and defeated Angelina Love, Mickie James, Velvet Sky and Winter, when Rosita pinned Sky.
In February 2011, Rosita and Sarita defeated Angelina Love and Velvet Sky to earn a shot at Love's and Winter's TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship. On March 13 at Victory Road, Rosita and Sarita defeated Love and Winter to win the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, with Sarita proclaiming that their victory would start a Mexican takeover of TNA. On the following episode of Impact!, the alliance of Rosita, Sarita and Hernandez was named Mexican America. The three of them were then defeated in a six-person street fight by Love, Winter and Matt Morgan. On March 24, the three were joined by Anarquia. In the following weeks Rosita and Sarita successfully defended the Knockouts Tag Team Championship first against The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) and then against Madison Rayne and Tara. They made their third successful defense on the June 16 episode of Impact Wrestling, defeating Velvet Sky and Ms. Tessmacher, following outside interference from ODB. Rosita and Sarita lost the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship to Ms. Tessmacher and Tara on July 12 at the tapings of the July 21 episode of Impact Wrestling. They received a rematch on August 7 at Hardcore Justice, but were defeated by Tessmacher and Tara. On the March 22, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, Rosita and Sarita again failed to recapture the Knockouts Tag Team Championship, when they were defeated by Eric Young and ODB.
On April 19 episode of TNA Impact, Rosita and Sarita teamed up with Madison Rayne and Gail Kim in a losing effort to Brooke Tessmacher, Tara, Velvet Sky and Mickie James. Rosita and Sarita were given another title opportunity on April 15 at Lockdown, but were once again defeated by Eric Young and ODB, this time in a steel cage match. Afterwards, both Rosita and Sarita went inactive from TNA, while Anarquia left the promotion and Hernandez turned face, effectively ending Mexican America. After months of inactivity, it was reported on January 9, 2013, that Trinidad's contract with TNA had expired and she had parted ways with the promotion.
Independent circuit (2011–2017)[]
In late August 2011, Rosita traveled to Mexico to attend an event held by the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion, for which Sarita regularly works under the ring name Dark Angel. During Rosita's stay in Mexico, she was trained by CMLL trainers, Arturo Beristain and Tony Salazar, and was eventually offered a contract with the promotion, which she, however, could not sign due to TNA's working relationship with rival promotion AAA. Just days later, Rosita appeared on AAA's television program, Sin Límite, promoting a storyline, where wrestlers from TNA were invading the promotion.
On May 14, 2011, Rosita made her in-ring debut for Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) at the Meltdown pay-per-view, losing to fellow knockout Winter with Christy Hemme as the special guest referee. Rosita and Winter had three rematches, first on August 20 at Empire City Showdown, the second on November 15 at Fallout and the third on December 17 at Haastility; all were won by Winter. Rosita made her return to the promotion on March 24, 2012, at the Welcome to the Rumble pay-per-view, where she unsuccessfully challenged Maria Kanellis for FWE Women's Championship in a three-way match, after Winter pinned her to become the new champion.
On May 6, 2015, Global Force Wrestling (GFW) announced Trinidad as part of their roster. She debuted for the promotion on June 12, 2015, where she defeated Lei'D Tapa at the first show of the GFW Grand Slam Tour in Jackson, Tennessee. On August 20, 2015, her profile was removed from GFW website.
On July 17, 2015, Trinidad made her debut in Ring of Honor (ROH), managing Austin Aries. On September 2, 2016, she joined Shine Wrestling, debuting on Shine 37, which she ended up defeating Stormie Lee. On September 20, 2016, she made her debut in World Wonder Ring Stardom, defeating Kris Wolf.
WWE (2016–present)[]
On March 4, 2013, Trinidad took part in a tryout for WWE. She made several brief appearances in the promotion in 2014, including as one of Adam Rose's "rosebuds", and lost a match against NXT Women's Champion Asuka on the October 26, 2016, episode of NXT. She signed a contract not too long after and made her debut at NXT London Takeover against Billie Kay. In January 2017, she was called up to the main roster on Smackdown.
Other media[]
Trinidad appeared in the 2012 film Dorothy and the Witches of Oz. She appeared in the documentary Children of 9/11, and on the first and twentieth anniversaries of the September 11 Memorial Ceremony, she participated in the reading of victim names. She portrayed professional wrestler AJ Lee in the sports drama film Fighting with My Family. She has said that Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) inspired her to act in films.
Trinidad appears as a non-playable manager in WWE 2K19 and then as a playable character in WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K23.
Trinidad also features in Street Fighter 6 as an in-game commentator.
Personal life[]
She resides in Tampa, Florida. On the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Trinidad spoke about her father who died as a result of the terrorist attack in an out-of-character interview on TNA's No Surrender pay-per-view. She appeared at the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and honored her father as she read out his name. She was accompanied by another woman, who lost her loved one, Phillip Miller that day.
Trinidad is currently dating WWE wrestler Trevor Mann. The two confirmed their relationship in July 2023. On December 25, 2023 the couple announced that they were engaged with Mann having proposed to Trinidad on Christmas morning. Trinidad was in a relationship with Daniel Solow aka Austin Aries for several years prior to her signing in 2016. She was in a relationship with Hall of Famer Ciaran O'Donnell from late 2016 into late 2017 after the two met while she was at NXT. She also dated Austin Jenkins briefly in 2018.
Trinidad is a big fan of anime, comics, and video games. She was a former Twitch streamer and is an active cosplayer. Some of her wrestling gear include some of her favorite games and anime such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken, Dragonball Z, Demon Slayer, Naruto, and Inuyasha.
Trinidad's closest friends in the business are Chris Scobille, Steffanie Newell, Trista Anderson, Kylie Anderson, Natalie Osman, Will Ospreay, Austin Watson, and Trevor Mann.
In wrestling[]
- Finishing moves
- Jumping cutter
- Code Red (Somersault senton)
- Moonsault
- Signature moves
- 619 – adopted from Rey Mysterio
- Dragon sleeper
- Hurricanrana
- Bicycle kick
- Jumping DDT
- Jumping snapmare – adopted from Trista
- Lungblower
- Octopus hold
- Running double knees in the corner – adopted from Andrade
- Shining wizard – adopted from Nixon Newell
- Tope Suicida
- Tornado DDT
- Nicknames
- "La Muneca" (WWE)
- "The Puerto Rican Nightmare" (WWE)
- "The Queen of Timetus Mortem"
- Entrance themes
- "Making a Difference" by CFO$ (2017–2021)
- "The Doll" by Def Rebel (2022–present)
Championships and accomplishments[]
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Sarita
- WWE
- WWE Divas Championship (1 time)
- WWE Divas Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Trista
- WWE Goddess Championship (1 time)
- Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2017) – CHAOS vs. Timetus Mortem - War Games (Invasion 2017)
- Slammy Award for Faction of the Year (2017) – Timetus Mortem