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23-558: The current champion is Arez who defeated then-champion Noisy Boy for the title on May 1, 2024. Arez is the 49th overall champion. The first champion was Pantera , who defeated Tony Rivera in Naucalpan, Mexico on July 27, 1997 in the finals of a tournament. It has since been defended throughout Mexico, but primarily in Naucalpan which is the IWRG's "home ground". In November 2007 Negro Casas , who

46-623: A head when the team of Jay and Conti defeated the team of The Bunny and Ford in a street fight on December 31 on Rampage . On March 6, 2022, at Revolution , Conti faced Jade Cargill for the AEW TBS Championship in a losing effort. After months of feuding, on May 29 at Double or Nothing Conti teamed up with Sammy Guevara and Frankie Kazarian in a trios mixed tag team match facing American Top Team's Ethan Page , Paige VanZant and Scorpio Sky , which Conti's team lost. On June 15, at Road Rager , Conti along with Guevara, joined

69-527: A losing effort to Arkángel Divino , Dinastía , El Hijo del Vikingo , and Star Fire . On October 11, 2021, Tormenta and Arez won the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Tay Conti and Sammy Guevara in a four-way match at Triplemanía XXX: Monterrey on April 30, 2022. On March 6, 2024, Arez left AAA. Tay Conti Taynara Melo Guevara (née de Carvalho and formerly Conti ; born June 9, 1995)

92-474: A losing effort. She took part in the inaugural Mae Young Classic , during which she lost to Lacey Evans in the first round of the tournament. Conti appeared on television on the October 11 episode of NXT , interfering in a triple threat match between Nikki Cross , Peyton Royce , and Liv Morgan on behalf of The Undisputed Era ( Adam Cole , Bobby Fish , and Kyle O'Reilly ) to prevent Cross from winning

115-491: A mask, Arez wrestles in an advanced body and face painting inspired by the character Venom . Finn Bálor has in turn taken inspiration from Arez and sometimes uses a similar painting. From 2007 to 2018, Arez mainly wrestled for various independent promotions in Mexico. On June 3, 2018, Arez made his debut for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) at Verano de Escándalo , teaming with Belial, Lady Maravilla , and Ultimo Maldito in

138-739: A regional champion and four-time state champion. In addition, she was a four-time Brazilian runner up. She joined the Brazilian team and participated in the European circuit in Portugal and Germany. In October 2016, Melo was announced as having signed with WWE and reported to the WWE Performance Center . She made her professional wrestling debut as Taynara Conti at WrestleMania Axxess in Orlando, Florida on April 1, 2017, competing against Sarah Bridges in

161-675: A title match for the AEW Women's World Championship , but she was not successful in beating the champion, Hikaru Shida , on the April 21 episode of Dynamite . In September, Conti and Anna Jay began a feud with Penelope Ford and The Bunny in a series of singles and tag matches on Dynamite and Rampage . On November 13, Conti fought again for the AEW Women's World Championship, this time facing defending champion Britt Baker at Full Gear but came up unsuccessful. The TayJay/Bunny & Ford feud came to

184-581: Is a Brazilian professional wrestler and judoka . She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she performs under the ring name Tay Melo ( / ˈ t aɪ / ) and was a member of the Jericho Appreciation Society . She also appears in AEW's Mexican partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where she is a former AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion with real life husband Sammy Guevara . Prior to joining AEW, Melo performed for WWE on

207-416: Is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers . On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend

230-992: The AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship at Triplemanía XXX . For most of the match, La Parka Negra would wrestle in Guevara's place. Melo appears as a main cast member for AEW All Access . In 2017, Melo married fellow judoka Jorge Conti. In November 2021, Melo revealed that she was no longer married, and that the couple had been separated "for a long time". Melo had been in a relationship with fellow professional wrestler Sammy Guevara since January 2022. The couple got engaged in June in Paris and were wed on August 7, 2022, in Orlando . In May 2023, at Double or Nothing , Melo and Guevara revealed they are expecting their first child, and confirmed it on their social media accounts. On November 28, 2023, Melo gave birth to

253-535: The Jericho Appreciation Society , turning heel. On August 12 on Rampage Quake by the Lake under the new ring name Tay Melo, teamed up with Guevara defending the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship against Dante Martin and Skye Blue which they successfully retained. Melo and Guevara then started a feud with Ruby Soho and Ortiz , trading wins during August before defeating them at All Out due to interference from Anna Jay. The feud between Melo and Soho resumed on

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276-663: The NXT brand as Taynara Conti from 2017 to 2020. Taynara Melo de Carvalho was born on June 9, 1995, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . She has a brother and two sisters, one of whom is adopted. Melo grew up in Rio's notorious poverty-stricken and crime-infested favelas . She holds a black belt in judo and a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu . Melo briefly went to law school in Brazil and participated in trials for

299-514: The independent circuit , predominantly for Game Changer Wrestling (GCW). He is best known for his time working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide , where he is a former La Leyenda Azul Blue Demon Champion, a former AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion , and a former AAA World Tag Team Champion . Arez has also wrestled in the United States in MLW and Impact Wrestling through their partnership with AAA. He

322-511: The Brazilian Olympic team at the 2016 Summer Olympics prior to joining WWE. Melo began her athletic career in artistic gymnastics in CR Vasco da Gama , but soon migrated to martial arts . She initially fought for the judo team Brasil vale ouro ("Brazil is worth gold") and later joined Brazilian sports and education NGO Instituto Reação , led by Olympic judoka Flávio Canto . Melo was

345-656: The November 30 episode of Dynamite , leading to a match at Winter Is Coming where Soho defeated Melo. The feud continued with Melo and Jay defeating Soho and Willow Nightingale on the December 28 episode of Dynamite ; Soho and Nightingale however defeated Melo and Jay on the January 11, 2023, episode of Rampage in a street fight. On April 30, 2022, Conti made her AAA debut teaming with Sammy Guevara to defeat Los Vipers , Maravilla and Látigo, and Sexy Star II and Komander to win

368-400: The championship was vacated and would be decided in an eight-man tournament that was the focal point of their May 6, 2013 Caravan de Campeones show. Arez (wrestler) Jonathan Saharawi Barragán González (born October 20, 1991), known under the ring name Arez (often stylized as Arez ), is a Mexican luchador , or professional wrestler. He is currently making appearances on

391-594: The championship, or leaving the company. Details of the initial tournament in July 1997 has not been verified only that Pantera II defeated Tony Rivera in the finals of an eight-man tournament. IWRG stripped Pentagón Black of the championship and started an eight-man, single elimination tournament on October 15, 2007. The final match took place on November 1, 2007 at IWRG's annual El Castillo del Terror tournament. The Middleweight Championship had been inactive since late 2007 until May 1, 2012 when IWRG officially announced that

414-415: The company initially would not grant her a release out of fear she would go to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). On August 4, 2020, Melo appeared on AEW as Tay Conti, participating in the AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw and teaming with Anna Jay . The team, known officially as TayJay, defeated Nyla Rose and Ariane Andrew in the quarterfinals but lost to Ivelisse and Diamante during

437-460: The first round but lost to Lacey Lane in the second round. On April 20, 2020, Conti was released from her WWE contract as a result of budget cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Like all other talent released, she remained under the 90-day no compete clause, which expired on July 23, 2020. Conti later revealed in an interview that she had been unhappy for months at WWE and wanted to be released, but

460-527: The match. This led to a match between Conti and Cross on the November 1 episode of NXT , where Conti lost. On April 8, 2018, Conti performed during the pre-show of WrestleMania 34 , competing in the WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal , becoming the first female Brazilian to compete on the evening of WrestleMania. Later in the year, Conti qualified for the 2018 Mae Young Classic tournament after she defeated Vanessa Borne . She defeated Jessie Elaban in

483-508: The semi-finals. On the August 26 episode of Dynamite , she received a contract from the stable The Dark Order to join them. On September 9, AEW announced that Conti had signed with the company. On the January 13, 2021, episode of Dynamite , Conti competed for the NWA World Women's Championship for the first time, and was defeated by Serena Deeb . In the following weeks, Conti earned

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506-518: Was also part of the stable Los Indystrongtibles along with Belial and Impulso who were very well known and successful on the Mexican independent circuit between 2013 and 2018. The group has not been formally dissolved, but the three have rarely wrestled together since 2018, when Arez has become an increasingly big name in his own right. Arez has since developed a rivalry with Aramís , and they have fought several matches against each other. Instead of wearing

529-543: Was under contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) but worked for IWRG under a talent sharing agreement between IWRG and CMLL, won the title. The talent sharing agreement ended in 2008 but the Middleweight championship was not declared vacant even though Negro Casas was not able to defend it. After four years of inactivity, the title was vacated and put up in a tournament in May 2012 and has been active in IWRG since. As it

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