Gisele Shaw Reflects On Wrestling For WOW, Competing Under A Mask

In 2018 and 2019, Gisele Shaw performed for WOW: Women of Wrestling under the name Azteca and then Reyna Reyes. 

Shaw was part of the WOW Tag Team Title Tournament and challenged for the WOW Championship in season two. As Azteca, Shaw performed with a mask that covered the top half of her face. 

Speaking to Fightful’s Joel Pearl, Shaw was asked what it was like performing with the mask on. 

“I’ve always wrestled without a mask and at the time, they needed someone who could do the lucha stuff, not that I was lucha, but they were like, ‘you can do high flying stuff, here’s a mask.’ It was really cool and then the producers were like, ‘Why are you under a mask?’ ‘That’s what they needed.’ ‘Cool, next season, we’re going to take the mask off.’ Really cool experience, loved it, however, it is very hard to wrestle under a mask because your vision is obstructed, and your breathing is affected as well. I love to wrestle without the mask,” she said. 

Asked if she has kept with the return of WOW, Shaw said, “I haven’t. I see it on my social media here and there. I want the best for them and every person should be supportive of women’s wrestling and they are trying to do something positive. I wish them the best.”

The new season of WOW premiered in September in syndication on CBS-affiliated networks. 

Shaw is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling and has been dubbed the “Quintessential Diva.” You can find her comments regarding the term “diva” by clicking here. 

Fans can watch the full interview with Shaw in the video above.