Hello guys, welcome back to Amolipi channel, where you can learn more interesting information about
your favorite actors and athletes. In today's video, let's take a look at the career and some
interesting facts about WWE star Sasha Banks. One of the best professional woman wrestlers in
the world right now is, without any doubt, Sasha Banks. She was born Mercedes Justine
Kaestner-Varnado on January 26, 1992, in Fairfield, California, United States.
She is currently signed to WWE as a member of the SmackDown brand under the ring name Sasha Banks.
Not much is known about Bank's family, apart from the fact that
she has a brother who suffers from autism. Sasha and her family spent
a lot of time traveling in order to find schools and hospitals for her brother.
Her family settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where she began her professional wrestling
career. She went to school online and grew up watching All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW).
On August 4, 2016, Kaestner-Varnado married Cambodian-American retired professional wrestler
Sarath Ton. The two met while they were both wrestling on the independent circuit.
Ton, who is widely known by his ring name Mikaze, now works as a costume designer for WWE.
Banks previously wrestled on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling,
where she won the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. She signed with WWE in 2012
and was assigned to the NXT brand. She was promoted to WWE's main roster in 2015.
Her match against Bayley at NXT TakeOver: Respect in October 2015 was the first women's match to
ever headline a NXT TakeOver, the first iron woman match in WWE history, and the longest
women's match in WWE history at the time with a length of 30 minutes. Their match was voted by Pro
Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) as Match of the Year, with Banks also being voted as Woman of the Year.
Banks went on to hold the Raw Women's Championship five times.
In 2016, she and Charlotte Flair became the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event,
the first women to compete in a Hell in a Cell match, and the first women to win the PWI award
for Feud of the Year. In 2019, she won the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
with her former tag team partner, Bayley, at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. In 2020,
she won the SmackDown Women's Championship at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view,
thus becoming the third-ever WWE Women's Grand Slam Champion and the fourth WWE
Women's Triple Crown Winner. That year, she was named Wrestler of the Year by Sports Illustrated.
At WrestleMania 37, Banks and opponent Bianca Belair became the first Black women to jointly
headline a WrestleMania. She was the third most tweeted about female athlete in 2021.
As of 2022, Sasha Banks' net worth is estimated to be around $5 million.
When you ask Sasha Banks about the wrestler who inspired her to get into wrestling in
the first place, or her favorite wrestler of all time, she will state Eddie Guerrero every time.
Banks’ admiration for Guerrero is clear, since she regularly uses the Frog Splash in the ring.
She also paid homage to Guerrero more than once during her career. On a sadder note,
Sasha Banks attended the Eddie Guerrero memorial episode of Raw in 2005.
Unfortunately, she was not aware of his death until she arrived at the event
The wrestler made her acting debut in the second season of the Disney+ series
The Mandalorian, where she portrays Koska Reeves, a Mandalorian who serves under Bo-Katan Kryze
as a member of the Nite Owls. While this has little to do with
Sasha Banks’ talent as a female wrestler, she does have a famous cousin, Snoop Dogg.
Funnily enough, Snoop Dogg also got an induction into the WWE’s Hall of Fame.
Sasha proudly calls herself an Asian pop-culture nerd. She loves her anime, which includes
popular series Sailor Moon. She also loves Korean music, especially Rain and G-Dragon.
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