page_title: Marcela (wrestler)
section_title: Japan (1999–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Marcela (wrestler) / Professional wrestling career / Japan (1999–present)
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 新木場・覆面MANIA MARSELA
context_page_description: María Elena Santamaría Gómez is a Mexican professional wrestler, known mainly for her work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where she works under the ring name Marcela. As Marcela, she is one of the top tecnicas in CMLL. Her daughter is also a professional wrestler, known under the name Skadi, who often teams with her mother. Santamaría has worked for CMLL since the early 1990s and has also wrestled in Japan and on the Mexican independent circuit over the years.
  She is a five-time and current CMLL World Women's Champion, a record in CMLL, a one-time Mexican National Women's Champion, held the District Federal Women's championship for over five years, and won the XMW Women's Championship. During her career she's won several major Lucha de Apuestas, bet matches, winning the masks of La Gata, Rosa Negra, and La Seductora as well as the hair of La Briosa, Tiffany, Dalys la Caribeña and Princesa Blanca
context_section_description: Over the years, CMLL has collaborated with various Japanese wrestling promotions, including sending representatives from their women's division to work for female-only Japanese promotions. Her first major tour of Japan ran from August to September 1999, where she worked for Big Japan Pro-Wrestling (BJW), starting with a victory over Japanese wrestler Andromeda, a male Exótico, on August 2. She'd later return to Japan for an individual BJW match in October and December 1999. She worked a second extended BJW tour from January 2, 2000, to March 31, 2001, where she made multiple tours to Japan. Her most frequent partner during the tour was Chihiro Nakano, although they also found themselves on opposite sides of the ring on some occasions. She returned to BJW in 2010 for their 15th Anniversary Death tour.
  After touring with BJW, Marcela next worked with NEO Women's Pro Wrestling, Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling Project, International Women's * Grand Prix, and JDStar between 2001 and 2010. On May 5, 2011, Marcel traveled to Japan and unsuccessfully challenged La Amapola for the CMLL Women's World Championship on a Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling REINA on the first show of the promotion. In November 2011, Marcela returned, this time as CMLL Women's World Champion, but lost the title to Ayumi Kurihara on a REINA show. Two years later, Marcela returned to Japan, this time wrestling Ray for the CMLL Women's World Championship, but was not successful. Her 2014 return saw Marcela first successfully turn back the challenge of Suryuri on August 30, but lost the championship to Suryuri on December 12, marking the third time she lost the CMLL Women's World Championship in Japan. It would be another five years before Marcela returned to Japan, for a tour that included a successful CMLL Women's Championship defense against Tae Honma on January 27, and against Tsukushi on September 15, 2019.
caption: Marcela in Japan in 2019
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