In a business built on bright lights and backflips, Priscilla Zuniga—better known as Diamante—doesn’t enter the ring to twirl or dazzle. She shows up to fight. With a Cuban snarl and South Florida grit, she’s spent over 15 years grinding her knuckles into the canvas of independent wrestling, creating a career stitched not in stardom but in sweat and stubbornness.
Diamante isn’t a manufactured sensation. She’s a lifer. And in 2024, still pushing, still scrapping, she’s become the kind of story wrestling doesn’t tell enough: the story of the worker.
From Angel Rose to Adrenaline
Before the national TV lights, Zuniga was a teenage hellraiser named Angel Rose, working shows for Independent Championship Wrestling in Miami—bars, flea markets, and bingo halls, where the crowd smelled of beer and desperation. She wasn’t a prodigy. She was a product of punishment. Over time, she collected ICW titles like poker chips—four reigns as women’s champ, plus stints holding the Hard Knocks and even the company’s top belt, the ICW Championship. That one was usually reserved for the guys. She took it anyway.
While others looked to New York or Los Angeles, she made Florida her proving ground—bleeding through promotions like RONIN, SHINE, and IGNITE. For years, she was wrestling’s best-kept secret, booked on the strength of reputation, not retweets.
In 2017, a brief cameo on NXT saw her fed to Asuka in a squash match that lasted about as long as a deep breath. She was never meant to win. She was meant to make the other woman look like a killer—and she did, professionally. But behind the scenes, she was already being scouted.
Impact, Injuries, and LAX Bloodlines
The call came in 2017 from Impact Wrestling, and with it came a rebranding—Diamante was born. Thrust into the legendary Latin American Xchange alongside Homicide, Ortiz, Santana, and Konnan, she was the street-level bruiser of the group. Her in-ring debut was short-lived—eliminated in a gauntlet match by Brandi Rhodes—but her presence clicked. She wasn’t just there to fill out a faction. She was part of the muscle.
Then her knee gave out. Torn ACL. Surgery. A long, cruel calendar year of rehab and rust. When she returned, the momentum was gone. Her release came quietly in early 2019, and that might have been the end of the road for someone less stubborn.
Instead, she hit the indies again like a bat to a windshield.
Adrenaline and the Tag Revival
If Impact slammed the door, Women of Wrestling cracked a window. Rechristened as Adrenaline, she joined WOW and formed a tag team with Fire (Kiera Hogan, who was already her partner in life). Together, they won the WOW Tag Team titles in 2019—a bright moment under studio lights that too often overlooked talents like theirs.
It was the beginning of a resurgence.
AEW: Deadly Draws and Grit-Polished Gold
AEW brought her in on a whisper. A debut loss on Dark in early 2020, far from the fanfare reserved for ex-WWE names. But true to form, Diamante didn’t need flash. She needed time.
Her breakout came during the 2020 AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup, where she and Ivelisse—another tough-as-nails veteran—bulldozed their way through the tournament. No flash. Just fists. They beat Brandi Rhodes and Allie in the finals and claimed the gold-plated recognition the hard way.
There were no balloons. No pyro. Just two women in jeans and attitude holding a trophy like it was their last meal.
That tournament win remains one of AEW’s earliest and best underdog stories. A team with no hype. No corporate backing. Just experience and edge.
Ring of Honor: The Resurgence
When Tony Khan revived Ring of Honor, it felt tailor-made for Diamante. She debuted in April 2023 with a loss to Skye Blue—but again, the story wasn’t in the result. It was in what followed.
Wins over Teal Piper. Over Trish Adora. Evened a feud with Leila Grey. These were scraps, not showcases—but that’s where Diamante has always thrived. There was a title match against Athena, the ROH Women’s World Champion. Diamante lost, but the match reminded everyone watching: this woman doesn’t show up to play.
Then came the inaugural ROH Women’s World TV Title tournament. She choked out Kiera Hogan—ironic, given their real-life relationship—and advanced. In the next round, Billie Starkz stopped her cold. But the point had been made. Even when she loses, Diamante moves the needle.
The Life Outside the Ring
Away from the ropes, Zuniga has lived a quietly revolutionary life. Openly gay, Cuban-American, and vocally proud of both, she’s a rare voice in a business that still has closets with padlocks. Her long-term relationship with Kiera Hogan—public and unashamed—wasn’t just personal, it was political, and long overdue in a business where queerness often lives in shadows.
She’s also taken a few side gigs in entertainment—like a role in the 2022 action film Pact of Vengeance, where she played Ava Hernandez opposite the late Leo Fong. The movie wasn’t good, but she was. Which is how it usually goes for Diamante.
And just for good measure, her brother, KC Navarro, is a rising star in TNA. Must be something in the blood.
The Woman Who Outlasted the System
By 2024, Diamante is still grinding. Not always on Dynamite, not always in the headlines—but always visible to the people who watch with real eyes. She’s what happens when you don’t quit. She’s the wrestler’s wrestler, the lunch-pail pro who turns every house show into a master class in ring psychology and punishment.
She’s not the brand. She’s the bruises under the brand. No manager. No gimmick. No legacy name or TikTok dance to ride on. Just 16 years of body slams and busted knees.
Some wrestlers burn fast, bright, and fade away. Diamante? She’s a slow fire. Still smoldering. Still dangerous.
Still here.
