Former Knockouts Tag Team Champion Rosita has won this year’s Inspirational Wrestler of the Year award from Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine.
TNA President Dixie Carter posted a picture of Rosita with the award and congratulated her. Dixie wrote:
Congrats to Rosita, who won Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Inspirational Wrestler Of The Year! Rosita w/ award: twitter.com/TNADixie/statu…
— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) December 19, 2011
Rosita — real name Thea Trinidad — debuted for TNA in January at the tender age of 20, and has gone on to find success as one half of the Knockouts Tag Team Champions with on-screen cousin, Sarita.
2011 also marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and as has been well documented, Rosita’s father, Michael Trinidad, was one of the victims of that tragedy. Rosita has often cited that her father — an amateur wrestler — was her inspiration to get into wrestling.
Rosita achieving her dream of hitting the big time in wrestling in 2011, 10th anniversary of her father’s death, is pretty inspirational. Congratulations to her!
