13 Facts About Tamyra Mensah-Stock

Tamyra Mensah-Stock is signed to WWE, where she wrestles on the LFG brand under the name Tyra Mae Steele.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the suburbs of Houston, Texas.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock's father was a Ghanaian who lived in Ghana until the age of 30, and her mother is from Illinois.

At Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas, her twin sister, Tarkyia, joined the wrestling team their freshman year while Tamyra Mensah-Stock pursued track and field.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock joined the wrestling team her sophomore year, at age 15, after her sister and the wrestling coach, Mark Balser, convinced her to take part in a wrestling practice session.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock took third place in the 2013 at the US Universities Championship and first place in 2015.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock won the gold medal in the women's 68 kg event during the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and qualified to represent United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock was one of the three gold medalists for the United States in women's freestyle category at the 2019 World Championships, which marked the first instance where US delegation claimed three gold medals in women's wrestling event at a single World Championships.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the first female African-American and the first Black wrestler to win Olympic gold, and only the second female American to win gold, after Helen Maroulis in 2016.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 Tunis Ranking Series event held in Tunis, Tunisia.

On May 3,2023, it was announced Tamyra Mensah-Stock had signed with WWE to become a professional wrestler.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock is the third Olympic wrestling gold medalist and the first female Olympic wrestling gold medalist to sign with the company.

In 2016, Tamyra Mensah-Stock married Jacob Stock, who wrestled alongside his future wife at Morton Ranch High School and at Wayland Baptist University.