| Ivelisse Milagro Vélez | |||
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| Ring Names | Sofia Cortez | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | ||
| Weight | 115 lb (52 kg) | ||
| Born | September 21, 1987 (36) | ||
| Ponce, Puerto Rico | |||
| Died | |||
| Resides | Tampa, Florida | ||
| Billed | San Juan, Puerto Rico | ||
| Trained by | Carlos Colón, Sr. Quique Cruz Savio Vega Steve "Boz" Boniak | ||
| Debut | July 4, 2012 | ||
| Retired | August 11, 2012 | ||
Ivelisse Milagro Vélez is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. In 2011, Vélez appeared on WWE Tough Enough, a reality show produced by WWE. She didn't win, but the promotion signed her to a developmental contract. Between 2011 and 2012 Vélez worked under the ring name Sofia Cortez in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling as well as NXT.
Career[]
WWE[]
NXT (2012)[]
WWE went on to re-brand FCW into NXT. Cortez's NXT television debut took place on the July 4 episode of NXT, taped at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, where she defeated Paige. On the July 25 episode of NXT, Cortez defeated WWE main roster Diva Natalya by count-out, but suffered a post-match attack from Natalya. In August 2012, Vélez announced that she had been released from her WWE contract. Her final match saw her lose to Tamina Snuka, taped before her release.
During a May 2015 podcast with Vince Russo, Vélez alluded that her reporting Bill DeMott to the offices as a highly probable reason for her being released from WWE, and that she was one of the first to report DeMott for mistreatment.
Other media[]
Vélez appeared on an episode of Spike's Tattoo Nightmares.