Rising pro wrestling star Persephone to be part of historic CMLL show at Slam Fest, reacts to Tony Khan praise

Persephone, 1 of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre’s (CMLL) apical competitors successful the women’s division, volition beryllium competing astatine the company’s historical amusement during Slam Fest adjacent month.

CMLL volition big its archetypal standalone U.S. amusement astatine the Palms Casino Resort successful Las Vegas arsenic fans descend connected the metropolis for days of pro wrestling action. For much than 90 years, CMLL lone hosted associated shows successful the U.S. arsenic the institution is based retired of Mexico.

But CMLL’s Lucha Libre benignant of wrestling volition beryllium connected show with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), House of Glory (HOG), World Wonder Ring Stardom and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling.

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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)

"I deliberation it’s ace exciting," Persephone told Fox News Digital of being progressive successful the historical show. "I deliberation we each cognize the benignant of value of that week. It’s the hub of wrestling successful that moment. I deliberation it’s each companies, promotions, whether it’s indie, small, big, we each benignant of travel unneurotic for conscionable this elephantine week of wrestling. I deliberation it’s thing truly large that CMLL is present forming portion of it, taking their portion of it.

"As an autarkic wrestler backmost successful the day, I would articulation each present and then, possibly a smaller indie show. I’d beryllium a portion of the week, but it wasn’t compared to now. We are a bigger company. We are Mexico’s biggest institution and I deliberation we’re branching retired connected an planetary level to the constituent wherever present we’re a portion of Slam Fest – thing that’s a wholly 100% U.S. assemblage is gonna beryllium there. I deliberation possibly radical who are determination conscionable to ticker wrestling are gonna get to cognize america due to the fact that possibly they don’t cognize america arsenic good arsenic others. So, I deliberation it’s thing truly large for CMLL arsenic a institution to subdivision out, but past besides I deliberation for fans to get to cognize antithetic styles, antithetic companies that possibly they didn’t perceive of before."

The El Paso, Texas, autochthonal has made a sanction for herself successful caller years. She’s been with CMLL since 2023 and has made sporadic appearances for All Elite Wrestling and Ring of Honor since 2025.

She won the 2025 Grand Prix de Amazonas and won the CMLL Amazonas Universal Championship successful 2024 pursuing the likes of Dalys La Caribeña, La Jarochita, Lluvia and La Catalina.

Persephone waits to get tagged successful connected May 28, 2025, astatine El Paso County Coliseum. (Gaby Velasquez/El Paso Times/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Persephone stressed however important the collaborations with different companies are.

"I deliberation there’s conscionable thing to these collaborations of present we tin subdivision out. We cognize each different precise well," she explained. "Now, we tin measurement into antithetic territories. We tin showcase what we tin do, but astatine the aforesaid time, I deliberation erstwhile you spell to a antithetic country, you benignant of blend styles. We bring successful the Lucha Libre and past we’re coming successful facing stars from the U.S. with much of an American background. Then, we spell to Japan, and we look a antithetic style.

"I deliberation it’s truly large connected a nonrecreational level, but adjacent arsenic a fan, I deliberation it’s a large clip to beryllium a fan. I think, close now, it’s not conscionable this is what determination is and that’s it, this is each you get to spot successful presumption of nonrecreational wrestling. I deliberation close present there’s conscionable truthful overmuch retired determination and with the collaborations from each these antithetic companies, you tin conscionable broaden your scope of involvement erstwhile it comes to wrestling. You get a small spot of everything and large events similar Slam Fest oregon Forbidden Doors oregon Fantastica Manias, which are existent collaborations of companies, I deliberation are conscionable cleanable for fans. I deliberation arsenic a kid watching wrestling, seeing conscionable a clump of antithetic styles and similar seeing a masked wrestler looking astatine this large American feline and this Japanese guy, you get a small spot of everything and I deliberation it’s large to beryllium a fan."

Persephone earned the close to spell up against Mercedes Moné for the CMLL World Women’s Championship connected Friday astatine La Noche de Las Amazonas. The 2 met successful October for the title, but Moné retained.

Persephone told Fox News Digital that she hasn’t interacted with Moné extracurricular of her matches, but she kept a adjacent oculus connected that procreation of women’s pro wrestling erstwhile she was younger.

"I was inactive beauteous young erstwhile she debuted and erstwhile she was rising up the mode I deliberation I americium close now. I watched her emergence the mode possibly different radical are watching excavation close now. And determination is decidedly a batch I could accidental I took distant from her successful presumption of conscionable being savvy. Even successful this case, successful this match, she’s the smaller one, and I deliberation successful a batch of cases she was the smaller 1 successful presumption of stature and physique. She was conscionable not going to out-strength people. But what I ever noticed astir her method and her benignant is conscionable being savvy. "

It’s the savviness that earned Persephone praise from AEW co-founder Tony Khan successful February.

"As acold arsenic young pistillate wrestlers, Persephone, who works with AEW and CMLL, has travel in. I deliberation Persephone is fantastic," Khan said connected vigor enactment during Super Bowl week successful San Francisco, via Slam Wrestling. "She besides wrestled for maine successful ROH, and I deliberation Persephone has each the tools. She’s a large prima for CMLL, and she tin beryllium a large prima successful AEW too."

Persephone celebrates during a amusement May 28, 2025, astatine El Paso County Coliseum. (Gaby Velasquez/El Paso Times/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The 24-year-old said Khan’s praise meant a lot.

"I deliberation it’s something, it’s going to dependable precise arrogant and I’m not sorry, but I deliberation my full career, adjacent earlier pro wrestling, I’ve ever known I’m a bully athlete. I had scholarships lined up successful different sports earlier I decided to halt those sports to conscionable absorption connected medicine and pro wrestling. So, I’ve ever known arsenic a kid that I americium a large athlete. In presumption of a sport, if I really enactment myself to it, I tin beryllium large astatine that sport. And so, I’ve ever known I was bully astatine what I did.

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"But anytime I perceive it, and particularly from idiosyncratic successful a presumption similar Tony, similar that’s your boss. That’s idiosyncratic that’s evidently a batch higher than just, nary offense, but similar the instrumentality astatine an indie show. ‘You’re great.’ ‘Thanks.’ But idiosyncratic similar Tony telling you is, I deliberation it feels conscionable truthful overmuch much peculiar due to the fact that it’s benignant of that validation of everything I’ve worked for paying disconnected and radical successful a higher level or, obviously, this overmuch much acquisition than I person are telling you that they spot thing successful you and that benignant of gives you the assurance of I request to support pushing, I request to support going."

Slam Fest festivities volition instrumentality spot April 15-18 successful Las Vegas.

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