 Wolf in 2017, before her first title defense atShin-Kiba 1st Ring | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kris Hernandez (1984-08-12)August 12, 1984 (age 41)[4] Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[4] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Blood Rayne[1] Crazy Wolf Gaki Ōkami[2] Kris Wolf Shadow[3] |
| Billed height | 1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)[4] |
| Billed weight | 51 kg (112 lb)[4] |
| Trained by | Fuka Kakimoto[5] Nanae Takahashi[5] Io Shirai[5] |
| Debut | August 10, 2014[4] |
| Retired | April 26, 2019 |
Kris Hernandez[6] (born August 12, 1984) is an American retiredprofessional wrestler, best known by thering nameKris Wolf.[4] She wrestled forWorld Wonder Ring Stardom inJapan, where she is a formerHigh Speed Champion, as well as a founding member of theOedo Tai stable. She has also wrestled forRing of Honor, Alternative Wrestling Show (AWS),Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) and Pro Wrestling: EVE. On February 6, 2019, Hernandez announced on her YouTube channel that she would be performing her final tour with Stardom in the upcoming weeks, and retiring due to concussion issues throughout her career.
Originally working as a freelance photographer inSan Francisco, California, Hernandez wanted to become a wrestler after living a year and a half in Japan and seeing a Stardom match onYouTube. She was trained byFuka Kakimoto,Io Shirai andNanae Takahashi, and debuted on August 10, 2014, in a three-way match with Reo Hazuki and Koguma.
On August 10, 2014, Wolf had her debut match forWorld Wonder Ring Stardom in a losing effort againstKoguma andReo Hazuki in athree-way match.[citation needed] At Mask Fiesta 2014 on October 26, Wolf, performing under the nameShadow, teamed up with Mystique in a loss toShinba andStar Fire.[3][7] At Mask Fiesta 2015 on October 25, 2015, Wolf, under thering nameCrazy Wolf, teamed up with Datura in a loss to Lucky Blanca andSantana Wonder.[8][9] She won her first title, theHigh Speed Championship, by defeatingMayu Iwatani andKagetsu in a three-way match on February 23, 2017.[10] She lost the title toShanna on July 16.[11] On December 2, Wolf won the Alternative Wrestling Show (AWS) Women's World Championship, defeatingNicole Savoy.[12]
Wolf left World Wonder Ring Stardom on March 25, 2018.[13]
After leaving Stardom, Wolf competed regularly for independent promotions in the U.K., Ireland, mainland Europe and North America.
On February 6, 2019, she announced her retirement from wrestling due to severe concussion issues throughout her career, and announced she would do a final tour in the upcoming future.[14] She had her final match on April 26, 2019.[15]
Hernandez has a YouTube account, where she uploads infrequently. She also streams infrequently on Twitch.
Hernandez appeared in the documentary series "The Wrestlers", which was originally broadcast onViceland in 2019.
Hernandez is originally fromChicago, Illinois, and is of Filipino descent. She spent most of her childhood and teenage years in New Jersey, where she and her sister were raised by her mother. After moving out at the age of 18, she eventually settled in San Francisco, California.[16] She relocated toTokyo, Japan, where she lived for six years, after the breakup of a long term relationship; she originally visited Japan just as a retreat and fell in love with the country after spending twenty days cycling through the Japanese countryside.[17] She worked as an English teacher in Tokyo for a year and a half, until somebody suggested that she should consider doingjoshi puroresu after she was having second thoughts about her career; this led her to finding a Stardom match on YouTube and signing up to train at the promotion.[17]
On August 1, 2018, Hernandez announced that she had created a Patreon account.[18] She uploads new content to her Patreon account on a regular basis.
In January 2019, Hernandez, in-character as Kris Wolf, announced her marriage to her partner.[19]
Hernandez currently lives with her partner inOslo, Norway.
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