Tag: Tamyra Mensah-Stock

Tyra Mae-Steele ‘not going anywhere’ after odd WWE release story

Posted on by Joseph Currier

In an odd story, Olympic gold medalist and WWE Evolve wrestler Tyra Mae-Steele sent out a social media post today that made some fans believe she had been released from WWE.

Steele (real name Tamyra Mensah-Stock) tweeted about a dream she had where, without WWE’s approval, she returned to Olympic wrestling and was subsequently fired by WWE. The company has officially confirmed that Steele is still under contract, and Steele has clarified that she is not going anywhere.

“I love that yall care, but im living my best life in WWE,” she wrote. “Getting better and better everyday, trust im not going anywhere for a long time.”

Describing her dream in the initial tweet, Steele said that, in her dream, she won a $350,000 prize for winning the wrestling competition. But when she tried to go back to WWE, they released her for not getting permission.

“On a weekend off working for WWE, I went back to Olympic wrestling, won gold at Worlds, prize purse was $350000…. Tried to go back to WWE that Monday. They moved me up to Raw, just to tell me they had to let me go bc I went behind their back,” the tweet said. “So was this a [dream or nightmare?]”

Steele has not been called up to the main roster and has only sporadically competed on the main NXT brand so far, including teaming with Tavion Heights for a mixed tag team match against Chelsea Green & Ethan Page at Heatwave 2025. Steele lost to Kendal Grey on last night’s WWE Evolve episode and was promoting the match on social media both before and after her initial tweet today.

After winning gold at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, Steele joined WWE in 2023. She was the female winner of WWE: LFG (Legends & Future Greats) season one.

WWE files trademarks for longtime WCW PPV name, new moniker for former Olympian

Posted on by Josh Nason

A familiar event name to WCW fans may be re-appearing in either WWE or NXT at some point in the future.

On Tuesday, WWE filed a trademark for SuperBrawl, the long-running WCW pay-per-view for which they previously owned the rights, relinquishing them on and off in the two decades since they acquired their former rival.

Cody Rhodes actually got the trademark in 2019 and then abandoned it in 2020.

SuperBrawl first began in 1991 and lasted for 11 years before its finale in 2001 with SuperBrawl Revenge which was the second-to-last PPV the company put on before being purchased by WWE that year.

WWE has previously used WCW-related brand names like Starrcade for a special one-off live event in addition to Halloween Havoc in NXT.

WWE also officially filed a trademark on the name Tyra Mae Steele, the new in-ring moniker for Tamyra Mensah-Stock, the female U.S. Olympic wrestler who will make her televised in-ring debut this Friday on NXT Level Up. She made her in-ring debut this past March on an NXT house show.

Gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock makes WWE TV debut at NXT Level Up taping 

Posted on by Ian Carey

Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock took part in the NXT Level Up tapings at the WWE Performance Center on Tuesday.

Performing under the name Tyra Mae Steele, she wrestled Wren Sinclair on the show.

Mensah-Stock made her in-ring debut at an NXT house show on March 30, 2024. She defeated Breanna Covington on the show.

The 30-year-old made history at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 by becoming the first-ever Black female athlete to win gold in women’s freestyle wrestling. She took the top spot in the women’s freestyle 68-kilogram competition. Mensah-Stock signed with WWE in May 2023 and reported to the WWE Performance Center that summer.

Three matches were taped for Level Up on Tuesday night in Orlando. Spoilers from the taping are available below.

NXT Level Up spoilers from Tuesday, July 2, 2024 —

  • Josh Briggs defeated Shiloh Hill
  • Wren Sinclair defeated Tyra Mae Steele
  • Luca Crusifino defeated Uriah Connors

Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock debuts at WWE NXT house show

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Tamyra Mensah-Stock has made her in-ring debut.

The Olympic gold medalist competed in her first match at a NXT house show on Saturday in Melbourne, Florida, defeating Breanna Covington.

Mensah-Stock made history at the Tokyo Olympics back in 2021 by becoming the first-ever Black female athlete to earn a gold medal in women’s freestyle wrestling, winning in the freestyle 68 kilograms competition. In May of last year, she signed with WWE and reported to the WWE Performance Center in Florida. In July, Dave Meltzer wrote in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that she was ‘doing great’ in her training.

Gable Steveson, who also won an Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in 2021, had his first match last year at NXT’s Great American Bash event, where he and Baron Corbin wrestled to a double count out. Earlier this year, Steveson began wrestling in dark matches before the start of WWE SmackDown, defeating the likes of Cedric Alexander and Cameron Grimes.

Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock ‘doing great’ in WWE training

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Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock is progressing well on the road to her in-ring debut.

The new edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter includes an update on Mensah-Stock’s WWE Performance Center training. Dave Meltzer reports that he’s been told Mensah-Stock is “doing great’ and is taking to pro wrestling naturally.

Reports on Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock, who was the actual biggest name recent signing but has not debuted yet, are very strong. We’re told she’s doing great and taking to pro wrestling like a fish to water

The 30-year-old Mensah-Stock signed with WWE this May. In 2021, she made history at the Tokyo Olympics by becoming the first Black woman to ever win a gold medal in women’s freestyle wrestling.

During interviews surrounding the Tokyo Olympics, Mensah-Stock expressed interest in becoming a pro wrestler and joining WWE. She told ESPN this May that signing with WWE was a dream come true.

Along with fellow gold medalist Gable Steveson, Mensah-Stock was honored by WWE at SummerSlam 2021.

Steveson is set to make his WWE in-ring debut at NXT Great American Bash this Sunday (July 30). Steveson is facing Baron Corbin at the show.

WWE signs Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock

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WWE has signed Tamyra Mensah-Stock. 

The Olympic gold medalist reported to the Performance Center on Monday. She told ESPN that it’s her goal to make the main roster within one year. 

Mensah-Stock is the first-ever Black female athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in women’s freestyle wrestling. She earned that honor after winning the Women’s freestyle 68 kilograms competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Later that same month, Mensah-Stock and Gable Steveson appeared in a segment at SummerSlam 2021, with WWE recognizing both their accomplishments. 

Mensah-Stock talked openly about pursuing her WWE dream after the Olympics but decided to compete at the 2022 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, where she again took home a gold medal. She had previously placed third in the 2021 World Championships and wanted another chance in the competition before going to WWE. 

Mensah-Stock told ESPN:

“I didn’t want to end my career on that note,” Mensah-Stock said. “So I did another world championships, I wiped the floor with everybody, and I was like, ‘Man, this is not fun anymore. I need a change.’ Something in the back of my head that’s just been itching at me, a dream of mine for I don’t know how long. I just wanted to be in the WWE.”

She continued to speak in regard to her love of pro-wrestling:

“I love watching the athletes just in the ring, just going what they do best,” Mensah-Stock said. “I just see their personalities just shine through the television, and I see their strength. Just everything about them resembles me, and I’ve just wanted to be a part of that.”

Mensah-Stock also won gold at the 2019 Pan-American Games, 2019 World Championships, and took home three straight gold medals at the Pan-American Championships from 2019 to 2021.