Karina Hernandez
Born in 1994 in El Paso, Texas.
My husband now, he is also a wrestler. It was one of those things that, he started with one company, and then for whatever reason, they ousted him out. So he's like, you know what? No. Screw this. We're going to do our own. So I'm like, okay. But you're going to be the face of the company. I'm like, okay. You put me wherever. Honestly, like, I got nothing else going right now. This sounds like fun. Let's do it.
So when we, we started, as soon as the first picture went out, he started getting messages everywhere. Hey, what's this? What are you guys doing? Where are you? Where are you gonna start training? And he's like, crap, we don't have anything. Like we, we don't have anywhere to train. We have no ring, we have nothing. It's just a name and a brand. He threw it out there and it and it took off running. So we like to call ourselves the misfits, the pirates. Because we took everybody that nobody wanted. We got guys from out of town that wanted to do it, but everywhere else they would get turned down. And they would come to us and we're like, yeah, dude, come down. Come train.
And our first, our first ring him and my father-in-law built it. So the first ring that we made was made from, you can call it scrap metal. And stuff that we started getting from, from the house. Stuff that was laying around. We bought extra material, and we built the ring. We bought the boards, we bought the mats. Everything. The ropes. We had to figure out how to manufacture the ropes because it's like, cable is expensive. And I mean, starting from zero, we really didn't have sponsors that you can say. We didn't have money coming in from, other than the guys paying, let's say, their rent or their dues to come in and train. It was twenty bucks that we were charging the guys just to train in front of my house. Because we were in the front yard. So that's where we were all training. So you can imagine the guys at eight, nine at night and the whole neighborhood, like you could hear the ring just echo through the street.
I mean, it was crazy. It was insane. But it's, it was, it was really satisfying seeing all these guys that you could see that nobody wanted at first come in and and feel welcomed here. Like, hey, you know what, dude? We have an open door. Come on down. We'll train. We'll figure it out. If this is not your thing, pos, thank you for coming. Come another day or come support. If this is your thing, well we’ll stick it through. And that's how we started. Like we started with literally scrap metal. And with a band of misfits and pirates that just wouldn't fit in elsewhere. And they fit in here. And that's the reason why we started it. Because it's like, I don't fit in anywhere, I’m, I’m a make a place that fit, that fits me and everybody else. That's how we started.