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Marina Shafir

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Born
1988 (36 years old)

Birth Place
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Soroca, Moldova

Position
Wrestler

Status
Active

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Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Weight
145 lb (66 kg; 10.4 st)

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Team
ROH Womens

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All Elite Wrestling Womens

League
ROH

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					Invicta FC 13 Cyborg vs Van Duin	09 Jul 15

Description

Marina Shafir (Romanian: Marina Șafir; born 14 April 1988) is a Moldovan professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She formerly competed for Invicta Fighting Championships in the women's featherweight division. Shafir is best known for her time in WWE, where she was the first and to date only Moldovan to ever compete for that promotion.
Shafir moved from Moldova to the United States when she was five years old. Her father, a mechanic, and her mother, a teacher, settled in New York along with Marina and her two older brothers. Shafir began training judo when she was six years old and started competing at a high level in the sport when she was 12. However, she stopped competing in judo in her late teens.
Shafir began her mixed martial career at an amateur level in 2012. In a two-year spell, she was unbeaten, winning all five of her matches by submission (four by armbar and one by arm-triangle choke). She turned professional in early 2014.
Shafir's first professional fight was against Chandra Engel on April 12, 2014, where she won by submission in the first round. Later that year, Shafir suffered her first-ever loss in a first-round defeat to Amanda Bell. The following year, she signed with Invicta Fighting Championships. Her first match in the Invicta promotion was against Amber Leibrock on July 9, 2015, which was Leibrock's first professional fight. Shafir was defeated in the first round.
Shafir is a close friend of Ronda Rousey, who trained with her at Glendale Fighting Club, and had a similar background in judo. They lived together for a number of years in Venice, California, along with Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke.
In December 2015, Shafir got engaged to professional wrestler Christopher Lindsey, better known as Roderick Strong. In 2017, Shafir gave birth to their first child. The two were married on November 7, 2018.
Shafir is Jewish.