Women’s Wrestling Wednesday is here! First up is TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion Masha Slamovich.
Ann Khozine is a Russian-American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Masha Slamovich. She is currently signed to TNA where she is a two-time and current TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion with Killer Kelly.
Born in Russia, she has a dual U.S. and Russian citizenship.
Masha Slamovich has been a wrestler for nearly 10 years, she began training as a professional wrestler at age 16, training under Johnny Rodz.
Moving forward to 2016, Khozine made her in-ring debut in Japan, wrestling on an independent women’s professional wrestling show named Reina under the ring name Skinripper.
Masha went on to wrestle under many different brands until her debut with TNA in 2019, such as Pro Wrestling Wave, Game Changer Wrestling, World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana, Expect The Unexpected Wrestling and Russian Independent Wrestling Federation.
Slamovich made her first appearance for Impact Wrestling during the 14 June 2019 episode. In the first half of 2022, she went on a win streak where she defeated various wrestlers as well as contracted Knockouts such as Alisha and Havok. On the May 11 episode of TNA Impact, Slamovich pinned Killer Kelly in a match while trapped in the latter’s Killer Clutch submission.
This then went on to become an ongoing feud until ‘Against all odds’. On June 9, at Against All Odds, Slamovich defeated Kelly in a dog collar match. Slamovich turned face and joined forces with Kelly on June 22 episode of Impact. On July 15, at Slammiversary, Masha Slamovich and Kelly who are now known as MK Ultra, defeated The Coven for the Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship. They would hold the titles until January 13, 2024, at Hard To Kill, when they lost the titles to Havok and Rosemary, However retained them a month later and are still the current tag team champs.
Masha Slamovich has won many titles & accolades in her career, including…
· Ranked no.27 of the 30 best Pro Wrestlers Under 30 in 2023 for ESPN.
· GCW World Championship x 1
· JCW World Championship x 1 (Current)
· Knockouts Tag Team of the Year (with Killer Kelly) 2023
· TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championships x 2 (with Killer Kelly)
· Ranked No. 15 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2023.
· Plus so many more!
One of my favourite matches of Masha, was her match against Killer Kelly in the dog collar match at ‘Against All Odds’.
If you want to watch it, here is the link! https://youtu.be/HwEp-MQxzZo?si=2pEZE2eUYQgKY8AJ…
Fun fact for you.. In 2021, she earned a degree in Criminal Justice.
Masha is a very good all-around wrestler, I am sure she will go far in TNA & continue to grow as a wrestler.
