Rayo De Oro

Rayo De Oro

Born on July 21st, 1988 in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico Joel Rosario Ballesca was born into a poor family. At a very young age, Joel began training in a small school to learn the art of Lucha Libre. As she grew up in her teen years, she would attend house shows and eventually participated in those house shows. At the age of 20, Joel Ballesca finally signed her first official contract with Antonio Peña Promotions, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Throughout her career, Joel participated in various promotions such as AAA, CMLL, Lucha Underground, PWG and now currently apart of CWL.

## **Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2008-2019)**

Joel Ballesca, otherwise known in AAA as herself. To begin her career she participated in several feuds with Vanilla, Mari Apache and most notably Faby Apache. In her first few years, she would mostly participate in monthly house shows and live event due to the situation that she had to support her family due to the lowvincome wages in Mexico. Every chance she had, she'd perform in the house shows or live events she competed in, usually losing. However, in 2013 is when she rose to fame in the women's division as she claimed her first title, defeating long time rival, Faby Apache for the Reina de Reina Championship. in mid 2014 she would drop the title down to Taya Valkyrie in a brutal steel cage match. After losing the title, Joel took on the Persona as La Maravillosa, dawning a mask as she became a technico (Otherwise know as 'Face'). In her time as La Maravillosa she participated in mixed-gender matches, eventually winning the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championships with El Rayo Dorado. The team of La Maravillosa and El Rayo Dorado were known as Los Luchadores De El Dorado. The team competed every week and held the titles a total of 5 times. During their tenure La Maravillosa rebranded herself as she's currently known as Rayo De Oro. Later in her career in 2017, Taya Valkyrie vacated the Reina de Reinas Championship and Rayo De Oro entered herself in an 8-Women Battle Royal, winning the title last eliminating Faby Apache. Month into her reign, Rayo dropped the title to Sexy Star and then reclaimed the title after it was vacated once more before dropping the title once more to Lady Shani. In early 2018, she entered into a feud with Gretery after he defeated her partner El Rayo Dorado time and time again in two Lucha de Apuestas matches causing El Rayo Dorado to lose his mask and hair. Rayo insisted Gretery put more on the line than his mask; but his career. Gretery agreed, however she would have to put both her Mask and hair on the line and she ultimately agreed. In a grueling iron man match, she lost both her mask and hair as he lost to Gretery in the last minutes as Gretery pinned her to break the tie. Later in 2018, Rayo was later written of AAA television as her contract came to an end.

## **Time in Lucha Underground (2015-2017)**

Rayo De Oro made her debut in in the second season of Lucha Underground often shown teaming with her tag team partner El Rayo Dorado with their AAA World Mixed Titles. Rayo wasn't show much on television due to her living situation, however later in season 2 she won the Lucha Underground Trios Championship along with El Rayo Dorado and Brazo De Plata. Her biggest achievement was becoming Gift of the Gods Champion after defeating friend Sexy Star. However, she would drop the title back down to Sexy Star.

## **CMLL (2016-2018)**

Rayo signed a part time contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre due to her being heavily involved with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Rayo most participated as backstage personnel often times being manager to Ultimo Guerrero. Her biggest match with CMLL was competing in a 5-Star rated match against Mistico, when she took a bump that caused a minor injury. After returning from her injury she once again began to tag along side El Rayo Dorado in mixed tag team matches. After her run with El Rayo Dorado, she mainly participated in live shows until her contract came to an end.

## **PWG (2018)**

Rayo De Oro made several appearances at Pro Wrestling Guerrilla dawning her new mask and persona. She would put on countless matches with her long time friend Guerrero de Plata and teaming with the Lucha Bros Pentagon Jr and Rey Fenix. However, in her short time at PWG, she was loved with the fans until she ultimately decided to return full time with Lucha Libre AAA World Wide.

## **CWL (2020-Present)**

Rayo De Oro made her official CWL debut on the developmental brand, Genesis against Piper and ultimately defeating her on convincing fashion. The week after she defeated Kali Kaplan, showing the CWL she was an up and coming star on the developmental brand of CWL. At the first ever Genesis Pay-Per-View, One More Fight, Rayo De Oro participated in a 8-Women Ladder match to determine the No. 1 contender for the Queen of Genesis championship. After taking several bumps from the top of the ladder Rayo asserted herself as the true No. 1 Contender. The following week, Rayo De Oro teamed with former champion Sheila against the current and former Queen of Genesis Champion, Hannah Star and Jessie Anderson, LCDT. The match ended with LCDT taking the victory after pinning their longtime rival Sheila. Sheila vowed to be in Rayo De Oro's corner to stop the chaos LCDT had been causing. In her first title match, with the help of Sheila, Rayo De Oro captured her first title under CWL as the new Queen of Genesis.

After defending her title once in a winning efforts against Liza Horror, Rayo would lose the following week to Toksyn giving her a shot at her Queen of Gensis title. However on that same night, Natalia also earned an opportunity to face Rayo and Toksyn for a shot at the Queen of Genesis title. No matter the result, Rayo would tie the longest reign as Queen of Genesis title at 28 days which would be a tie alongside former Queen of Genesis Champion, Toxicette. On Gensis 19, Rayo would lose the title to Natalia. After losing the title, Rayo would announce her withdrawal from wrestling to pursue her dream of making a family with her husband El Rayo Dorado. After the events of Genesis 19, Rayo would retire the persona of Rayo De Oro and reveal her real name and announced her break from wrestling.

## ***Lucha de Apuestas Record***

 La Maravillosa (Mask)

**Notable Accomplishments**

* AAA Reina De Reinas Champion x3
* AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion x5
* Lucha Fighter of the Year *Women's* (2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017)
* Gift of the Gods Champion
* Queen of Genesis Champion

**Signature Moves**

* Last Shot (Golden Strike)
* Rocket Kick (From El Dorado)
* Backflip Kick
* Revolution Knee

**Finishers**

* Omega Driver (Oro's Spike)
* Flip DDT (Trip to El Dorado)
* 450 Splash
* Phoenix Splash