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

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.