page_title: Ana Rocha
section_title: Independent circuit
hierarchical_section_title: Ana Rocha / Career / Independent circuit
caption_attribution_description: Ana Rocha (Ariel) at Wrestlejam 5, October 2008
context_page_description: Ana Otero is a Portuguese-American professional wrestler and manager known by her ring name "The Portuguese Princess" Ariel, who has competed in Northeastern independent promotions including Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South and the National Wrestling Alliance.
context_section_description: During the next two years, she won championship titles in numerous promotions, including winning a battle royal to become JWA Women's champion on October 26, 2002 and defeating Alicia and Tara Charisma in a three-way match to become the first Women's Champion for South Coast Championship Wrestling on March 28, 2003. Shortly after this victory, she started making appearances for Ring of Honor as a manager of the Christopher Street Connection (Buff E and Mace), a role which she held until the summer of 2004 when the trio was released from the company.
  Briefly feuding with Mercedes Martínez and the heel stable La Família in Connecticut Championship Wrestling in late 2003, she competed in a number of east coast promotions throughout the next year including Jersey All Pro Wrestling, USA Pro, and UWA, where she and Talia defeated Ref Hanson and Lady Lee to win the UWA Tag Team titles on July 18, 2004.
  In 2004 Rocha, under a mask and the ring name Arianna, made her debut for Mexican promotion Lucha Libre Femenil, where she feuded with Nikki Roxx over the LLF Juvenil Championship. On October 28, 2004, Roxx defeated Arianna in a hair vs. mask match to claim her opponent's mask and end the feud.
  Appearing at "CyberCade 2004" for the CyberSpace Wrestling Federation, she lost to April Hunter in a four-way match with Trinity and Traci Brooks in a match for the CWF Women's Championship in Wayne, New Jersey on August 28, 2004. Having faced both in previous singles matches, Rocha teamed with rival Mercedes Martínez to defeat April Hunter and Sumie Sakai in a tag team match for Defiant Pro Wrestling at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Fall River, Massachusetts on August 29, 2004. The event, "A Fight Worth Fighting", was to raise funds to provide treatment for children with cancer, and which featured Mick Foley and several leading independent wrestlers in the New England area.
  In late 2004, she entered a mild losing streak after being defeated by Cindy Rogers at the Connecticut Championship Wrestling supercard CCW Metamorphosis on September 26.  During this encounter, Cindy Rogers was wearing spandex tights.  Later that year, she  lost a three-way match with Hailey Skye and Violet Flame for New England Championship Wrestling on December 11, 2004.
caption: Otero, as Ariel, at WrestleJam 5 in 2008
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