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Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado (born January 26, 1992) is an American professional wrestler and actress currently signed to WWE as a member of the SmackDown brand under the ring name Sasha Banks, where she is the current SmackDown Women's Champion in her first reign.
She previously wrestled on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling (CW), where she once held the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. She signed with WWE in 2012 and was assigned to the NXT brand. Her match against Bayley at NXT TakeOver: Respect on October 7, 2015, was the first women's match to ever headline a NXT TakeOver, the first Iron Woman match in WWE history, and the longest women's match in WWE history at the time with a length of 30 minutes. Their match was voted by Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) as the Match of the Year, with Banks also being voted as the Woman of the Year, while their match at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in August 2015 won the NXT Year-End Award for Match of the Year. In 2020, she was named the top black wrestler in the world in a newly-published list entitled "BW 500", further recognized by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
She was promoted to WWE's main roster in July 2015, going on to hold the Raw Women's Championship five times. In 2016, she and Charlotte Flair became the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event and the first to compete in a Hell in a Cell match (both at Hell in a Cell in October 2016), the first women to main event Raw in a women's match since 2004 and the first women to win the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for Feud of the Year. In February 2019, she won the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with her former tag team partner, Bayley (then known as The Boss 'n' Hug Connection), at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view.
Career Honours WWE Raw Womens Champion 2020 Smackdown Women | WWE SmackDown Womens Champion 2020 Smackdown Women | WWE Womens Tag Team Champion 2020 Smackdown Women | WWE Womens Tag Team Champion 2019 Smackdown Women | WWE Raw Womens Champion 2017 Smackdown Women | WWE Raw Womens Champion 2016 Smackdown Women | WWE Raw Womens Champion 2016 Smackdown Women | WWE Raw Womens Champion 2016 Smackdown Women |
NXT Womens Champion 2015 Smackdown Women |
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