Sasha Banks

In August 2016, Sasha Banks married Sarath Ton, a fellow wrestler, who works for WWE as a costume designer.

She is the first cousin of well-known rapper, Snoop Dogg; music producer, Daz Dillinger; and singers and songwriters, Brandy Norwood and Ray J.

Sasha Banks was born as Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado on 26 January 1992, in Fairfield, California, in the United States. Not much is known about her family, but she has a disabled brother, who suffers from autism, for whom she and her family spent a lot of time travelling in order to find schools and hospitals. Banks later stated that she was like a second mother to her brother.

She later settled in Boston, Massachusetts, and she did her schooling online. She was a huge fan of Eddie Guerrero. She grew up watching 'All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling', a show, which she was very enthusiastic about. She had a strong desire to train from the early age of ten. However, her mother disliked wresting, and didn't want her to take up wrestling as a career.

In the year 2008, she began her training at Chaotic Wrestling, an independent American wrestling promotion, based in Woburn in Massachusetts.

Her debut match, under the ring name Mercedes KV, took place on 1 October 2010. It was an intergender tag team match, where she teamed with Nikki Roxx against Alexxis Nevaeh and Danny E. Her debut singles match was on 22 October where she lost to her opponent Danny E.

She achieved her first victory on 7 January 2011 in a tag team match after she and Roxx defeated Alexxis and Mistress Belmont. Throughout the rest of the year, she competed in several singles matches. On 2 December, 2011, she defeated Alexxis in a 'I Quit' Match, to win the Chaotic Women's Championship.

Throughout the next year, she successfully defended her title from many such as Luscious Latasha, Nikki Roxx, Alexxis Nevaeh, and Mistress Belmont. On 1 June 2012, she defeated Alexxis, Barbie and Mistress Belmont in a fatal four-way match to retain the championship following which she became the longest reigning Chaotic Wrestling Women's Champion in history, beating the previous record of Alexxis which was 182 days.

After her reign of 260 days, the championship was declared vacant on August 18, as she signed a contract with the WWE.

With her new ring name Sasha Banks, she made her debut in WWE NXT. Her first match was against Paige, in which she lost.

Despite being one of the youngest wrestlers of WWE, Sasha Banks has made several achievements and accomplishments. The titles she has won include the 'Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship' once, ‘NXT Women's Championship’ once, and ‘WWE Raw Women's Championship’ three times.

In 2016, she was ranked at No. 2 in the list of top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI (Pro Wrestling Illustrated) Female 50.