Chavela Romero

Isabela "Chabela" Romero Rangel (September 11, 1936 – April 19, 1985) was a Mexican professional wrestler. She was one of the first Mexican women to become a professional wrestler when women became a regular fixture in the early 1950s. During her career, she won the Mexican National Women's Championship three times, and both the UWA World Women's Championship and the Japanese All Pacific Championship once.

Professional wrestling career Women's wrestling in Mexico prior to the 1950s was almost non-existent, with no known matches taking place from 1945 on and very few prior to that. In the early 1950s, Jack O'Brien began training female wrestlers, including Isabela Romero, in his gym in León, Guanajuato. She would work under the ring name Chabela Romero alongside other O'Brien trainees such as Irma González, La Enfermera, La Dama Enmascarada, and Rosita Williams.

Romero won her first Mexican National Women's Championship at some point in the late 1950s, 1958 at the latest. Due to minimal written documentation from the time period, it is uncertain as to who Romero won the championship from, nor who she lost it to. Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre Mexican National Women's Championship (3 times) Universal Wrestling Association UWA World Women's Championship (1 time)

Luchas de Apuestas record

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964) (original title: Las luchadoras contra la momia) as herself She-Wolves of the Ring (1965) (original title: Las lobas del ring ) as herself