Shelly Martinez Shelly Lenore Martinez ( February 9 , 1980 ) is a Mexican - American professional wrestler and manager best known for her work in World Wrestling Entertainment where she portrayed the vampire - like character Ariel and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Salinas where she acted as valet for the tag team stable Latin American Xchange ( LAX ) . Professional Wrestling Career . Early career . Martinez began working as a model in order to further her professional wrestling career . She also worked as an actress , and after being cast in an independent film about wrestling , she was introduced to a wrestling promoter and trainer . She trained at his school for two and a half years . Martinez first wrestled in Southern California under the ring name Desire , appearing in several independent promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling , Empire Wrestling Federation ( EWF ) and Ultimate Pro Wrestling ( UPW ) , where she worked as the storyline sister of Kyra . While in UPW , she also competed under the name Halloween Barbie . She also had a run in Women ' s Extreme Wrestling , where she played the storyline cousin of Mercedes Martinez . On July 19 , 2002 , Martinez , under the name Desire , teamed with Threat to win the vacant EWF Tag Team Championship in a battle royal . They held the championship for 28 days , before losing it to PHAT ( Eric Matlock and Devon Willis ) on August 16 . In December 2004 , Martinez trained at World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) ' s developmental territory , Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) for a few weeks . World Wrestling Entertainment . Ohio Valley Wrestling ( 2005 - 2007 ) . In April 2005 , Martinez signed a developmental contract with WWE . By July of that year she had begun training and wrestling in their primary developmental territory OVW , using simply " Shelly " as a ring name . Her first role there had her , along with Beth Phoenix , acting as co - manager for Aaron Stevens . As part of her affiliation with Phoenix and Stevens , Shelly had an erotic gimmick , with a relationship between all three being implied . She was involved in a scripted rivalry with Alexis Laree , with Shelly and Phoenix attacking her on several occasions and the pair wrestled her in handicap matches . In her first singles match in OVW Shelly defeated Laree on October 29 . [ 1 ] Shelly and Phoenix also appeared together on the January 27 , 2006 episode of Heat as part of The Heart Throbs ( Romeo Roselli and Antonio Thomas ) " Throb - o - Meter " section , dancing in the ring with the team and teasing a kiss , before being interrupted by Trevor Murdoch . In February 2006 , Shelly began a gimmick of being obsessed with Paul Burchill , who was using a pirate gimmick on SmackDown ! . It began at the television tapings on February 1 , when Burchill had picked her up to perform a piledriver , but instead carried her backstage after looking at her underwear . This obsession provoked a feud with Phoenix , when Shelly attacked Phoenix who was attempting to stop Shelly from attacking Cherry during a match between Burchill and Deuce Shade . As part of the feud , Shelly and Phoenix competed against each other in several matches , including a street fight at the television tapings on April 19 . On the May 6 , 2006 episode of Velocity , Shelly appeared as Burchill ' s valet for his match against Road Warrior Animal , and was referred to as his " buxom wench " . Returning to OVW , she became involved in Seth Skyfire ' s ongoing feud with Mike " The Miz " Mizanin and Roni Jonah . Upon her debut on the ECW brand in mid - 2006 , Martinez began using the ring name Ariel in OVW as well . In November 2006 , Ariel unsuccessfully challenged Beth Phoenix for the OVW Women ' s Championship . Her final appearance in OVW came on January 25 , 2007 , when she and Jon Bolen defeated Stevens and Phoenix . ECW ( 2006 - 2007 ) . In mid - 2006 , Martinez joined the ECW brand as Ariel , a tarot reading fortune teller . Originally , Martinez was to be part of a ' vampire ' faction with Gangrel and Kevin Thorn ; however , the faction did not materialize on television . Instead , Ariel and Thorn began appearing in vignettes together , and on July 25 , Fertig made his in - ring debut with Ariel acting as his valet . Ariel then increased her ringside presence during Thorn ' s matches , often interfering in his matches , and Thorn began a scripted feud with Balls Mahoney . In order to counteract Ariel ' s interference , Mahoney began bringing in Francine as an equalizer . Ariel made her ECW in - ring debut against Francine on September 26 in an " Extreme Catfight " , which ended as a no contest due to interference from both Thorn and Mahoney , The two teams feuded until early October , until Francine was released by WWE . During a match between Thorn and CM Punk , Kelly Kelly interfered in order to help Punk . As a result , Punk won the match , and Ariel and Thorn attacked Kelly after the match . At the December to Dismember pay - per - view , Thorn and Ariel defeated Kelly and Kelly ' s on - screen boyfriend Mike Knox in a mixed tag team match , after Knox walked out on Kelly . The next week on ECW , Ariel lost to Kelly in a singles match , when Kelly utilized a roll - up for the victory . On February 6 , 2007 , Ariel and Thorn joined Elijah Burke , Matt Striker , and Marcus Cor Von in forming the New Breed stable . Ariel began accompanying the New Breed to the ring during their matches , and appeared at WrestleMania 23 , managing the New Breed during their match against the ECW Originals . Shortly afterward , Burke announced a match between Thorn and CM Punk , after Punk had betrayed the New Breed , but Thorn lost . After the match , Thorn quit the New Breed , as none of the other members interfered during the match to help him . A few weeks later , on May 18 , Martinez was released from her WWE contract . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . At the Bound for Glory pay - per - view in October 2007 , Martinez participated in a Knockout Gauntlet battle royal to crown the first TNA Knockout Champion , but the match was won by Gail Kim . Shortly afterward , a masked member of The Latin American Xchange ( LAX ) began interfering in LAX ' s matches to help them gain victories and attacking The Rock ' n Rave Infection ' s valet , Christy Hemme . At the Final Resolution pay - per - view in January 2008 , the mystery masked wrestler was unveiled as Martinez after attacking Hemme again . On the following episode of Impact ! , Homicide and Hernandez gave her the name " Salinas " . Salinas then began accompanying Homicide and Hernandez to the ring as their valet . She made her in - ring debut for TNA in a singles against Awesome Kong , and was quickly defeated . She then began competing more frequently in matches , including intergender tag team matches alongside Homicide and Hernandez . Salinas participated at Lockdown in the first ever " Queen of the Cage " match , which was won by Roxxi Laveaux . After a Knockouts " Makeover Battle Royal " was announced for the Sacrifice pay - per - view , where one Knockout would get their head shaved , Salinas competed in a match to gain immunity from the head shaving on the May 8 episode of Impact ! , but was unsuccessful . At Sacrifice , the " Makeover Battle Royal " was won by Gail Kim , and Roxxi Laveaux had her head shaved . The same night , Salinas and Hector Guerrero were in the corner of LAX as they won the TNA World Tag Team Championship . As part of LAX ' s feud with Beer Money , Inc . , Salinas wrestled their manager Jackie Moore on Impact ! in June 2008 , but lost by submission . She participated in a gauntlet battle royal match for the number one contendership to the TNA Women ' s Knockout Championship , but was unsuccessful , and a few weeks later lost a three - on - one handicap match to Awesome Kong and The Beautiful People ( Velvet Sky and Angelina Love ) . After Beer Money , Inc . won the TNA World Tag Team Championship from LAX , the two teams began feuding , and at No Surrender in September , Salinas was attacked off camera by their manager Jackie Moore . This storyline was put in place as a way to take Martinez off television , as she had quit TNA to film an Italian thriller movie . Other Promotions . Martinez has since wrestled under her real name for the Perros del Mal promotion in Mexico . Martinez is part of both World Independent Ladies Division and World Wrestling Fan Xperience in the Philippines . Martinez has also appeared as a valet for Dragon Gate USA . Beginning in 2010 , Martinez began appearing for Championship Wrestling From Hollywood . She defeated Lucky O ' Shea in her debut match for the promotion in August 2010 . In 2013 , Martinez was briefly associated with Todd Chandler , who competed as Blake " 30th Century " Fox before he was unmasked by Ricky Mandel . On August 3 , Martinez turned into a villainess by delivering a low blow to Chandler and becoming Mandel ' s in - ring girlfriend .