PERSON: Tamyra Mensah-Stock

Professional Wrestler

Tamyra Mariama Mensah-Stock (born October 11, 1992, née Mensah) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she wrestles on the LFG brand under the name Tyra Mae Steele.

Mensah-Stock previously competed in women’s freestyle wrestling, winning the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021, and became the first black woman to win gold in women’s freestyle wrestling.

In 2010 and 2011, she became the Texas High School Girls Champion having finished second in 2009.[ In 2010, she became the U.S. Junior National runner-up.

After high school, she attended Wayland Baptist University (WBU) where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Science. As a student wrestler, she became the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) Nationals Champion in 2014 and 2017. She also took third place in the 2013 at the U.S. Universities Championship and first place in 2015.

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