WWE signs Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock

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. 

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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.