WWE has signed another Olympic gold medalist after inking a deal with Gable Steveson in 2021. Steveson recently returned to amateur wrestling and is believed to be trying to make the Olympic team again for the 2024 Paris Games.
ESPN reported that WWE officials had told them that the company had signed Tamyra Mensah-Stock, who made history at the Tokyo Olympics, as she is ending her amateur wrestling career for an attempt to become a pro wrestler.
She became the Olympic champion at 68 kilograms at the Tokyo Games in 2021, which earned her the right to be honored as the first Black woman to win gold in freestyle wrestling. Since winning the gold, she had expressed joining the company. She won the 2022 world championship in Belgrade, Serbia, for her second world title.
“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.”
On Monday, she started in WWE’s developmental program by training at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. It was noted that her goal is to make WWE’s main roster within one year.
