10 Things you need to know about Sasha Banks

9: Her first ring name

Sasha started off in Chaotic Wrestling

Sasha started her wrestling training in 2008 at Chaotic Wrestling in her native Massachusetts. Chaotic Wrestling has also had other WWE Superstars like John Cena and Kofi Kingston pass through its ranks. As the only woman in the class, she learned to wrestle by facing male opponents.

At the time, she wrestled under the ring-name Mercedes KV which is a play on her real name Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado. She settled on the name Sasha Banks soon after joining the WWE Performance Center and is an amalgamation of two different names she’d come up with.