CMLL women's champion Persephone has been the 'breakout star of the year,' AEW's Thunder Rosa says

Persephone has been a rising endowment successful pro wrestling implicit the 2 years arsenic she’s go the reigning Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) satellite women’s champion arsenic good arsenic the Universal Amazons champion and the victor of the 2025 Grand Prix de Amazonas.

Persephone’s endowment has exceeded the ropes of a CMLL ring.

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Persephone celebrates with tag squad spouse Thunder Rosa during a amusement connected May 28, 2025, astatine El Paso County Coliseum. (Gaby Velasquez/ El Paso Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

She’s been utilized connected All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Maple Leaf Wrestling and Ring of Honor conscionable to sanction a fewer promotions. She’s besides made an content connected AEW prima Thunder Rosa.

Rosa told Fox News Digital she believed Persephone has breached out.

"I deliberation she's 1 of those talents that – she stake connected herself a agelong clip ago. She was a luchadora. She had a mask. She mislaid her disguise and she's been moving very, precise hard to marque that accidental for herself," Rosa said. "And I deliberation that she has recovered her time. And it's been this year, I deliberation she's been the breakout prima of the twelvemonth I volition say. I deliberation erstwhile she started coming past twelvemonth and doing immoderate of the shows, radical started seeing however talented she was."

Rosa said she’s seen Persephone’s maturation arsenic a wrestler firsthand and has the quality to marque fans cheer for her adjacent though she’s presented arsenic a heel.

Persephone defeated Tessa Blanchard astatine CMLL's amusement successful Las Vegas connected April 16, 2026. (Fox News Digital)

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"I mean, I've seen her turn since 2020 successful the autarkic country and present erstwhile I spell to Mexico City and they emotion her careless if she's a bottommost oregon not, they similar emotion her implicit there," Rosa added. "And now, however she's been capable to modulation into American style, it's besides precise absorbing to spot due to the fact that erstwhile you spot this transition, maine going into Mexico and trying to modulation into Lucha Libre and her, though she was calved here, successful America and she's binational, having the information that she has to modulation into American benignant of wrestling is ever very, precise bully to see.

"But she's precise astute and she knows what she's doing. So, I'm truly arrogant of her."

Thunder Rosa battles Deonna Purrazzo during AEW Collision connected June 15, 2024, astatine the Covelli Centre successful Youngstown, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Persephone precocious showcased her pro wrestling prowess successful AEW’s Survival of the Fittest lucifer for the TBS Championship. Tessa Blanchard besides challenged her for the CMLL Women’s Championship, which she accepted this week.