In this picture Torracat looks very much like the wrestler :-(
No, it does not. There is no physical hints to a wrestler at all. It just stands on its hind legs briefly to smack a fireball elsewhere. Its like any other normal cat able to stand on their hindlegs briefly. Its nothing special to it.
The bulky arm, the pose - I really hate it - it really reminds me of a wrestler. But I hope it will be something else
Why is Tsareena not Grass/Fighting?Well, when cats play with something, they do tend to tangle their bodies around it if it's small enough, not unlike a full-body grapple (greco-roman, I believe it is?). Once they do, they just paw at it relentlessly. I could see that behavior inspiring a wrestler direction; cats are vicious even if they're only playing... like wrestlers.
Anyway, perhaps someone more familiar with mortal kombat can answer this to me; MK has two fighters named kitana, who is a princess, and sareena, who I have no idea what she is (I read the wikipedia information about them, but you have to have a 200-hour course on MK history to understand that. It reads like a soap opera).
Do they have any connections with tsareena? I'm still mystified on how they jumped from a happy-go lucky fruit to a serious kick-prone queen; each theme makes more sense separately (a queen evolution of steenee, or a kicking evolution of steenee), but not so much together.
Why is Tsareena not Grass/Fighting?
The wife of the Tsar in Russia was called the Tsarina when it was still a feudalist society (which was recent), so I think it's definitely a reference to Russia somehow. I've not figured out the inspiration behind the name of Steenee, though. The double e is a trend throughout the whole line, though Bounsweet is probably a portmanteau between bountiful and sweet and is most likely unrelated. It wouldn't surprise me if the double ee in Tsarina is just a slight mutation of the english word (like with Farfetch'd) as opposed to sharing a stem with Steenee, but either is possible.Pretty sure the tsar in tsareena refers to the word czar meaning "of noble rank" or emperor.
The wife of the Tsar in Russia was called the Tsarina when it was still a feudalist society (which was recent), so I think it's definitely a reference to Russia somehow. I've not figured out the inspiration behind the name of Steenee, though. The double e is a trend throughout the whole line, though Bounsweet is probably a portmanteau between bountiful and sweet and is most likely unrelated. It wouldn't surprise me if the double ee in Tsarina is just a slight mutation of the english word (like with Farfetch'd) as opposed to sharing a stem with Steenee, but either is possible.