10 Most Unprofessional Wrestlers Ever
6. Ivelisse
Ivelisse was a solid wrestler, whose stuff looked believable, and had every opportunity - too many opportunities - to star or at least gain steady work in pro wrestling.
Through the institutional misogyny and apathy within women's wrestling, a worker like Ivelisse should have been sought after when the scene was finally taken with a degree of seriousness. The talent pool was shallow since, for years, the market leader treated women's wrestling as a hyper-sexualised piss break. Ivelisse had developed nicely enough in the few years before WWE was pestered into giving a toss. All she had to do was be professional.
She didn't; her inability to take accountability for the various disputes in which she found herself poisoned her name.
She received another chance when AEW's women's division was ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. The imported joshi initiative couldn't happen, and AEW - amid an injury crisis - was left with a fleet of green wrestlers, many of whom were not TV-ready. Tony Khan reached out to Ivelisse. She was, at least, relatively experienced.
Ivelisse responded by sitting bored, breaking any sense of realism, when Thunder Rosa tried to apply a hold during their infamous September 16, 2020 Dynamite watch.
As a parent, there are few things worse than when your child shuts down and refuses to cooperate. You can't do anything. They're not hungry, over-tired, or anything: just impossible.
Ivelisse treated the match like the opposite of a grown-up professional would: she literally acted like an infant.