A week later, Blanchard successfully defended her title of women's champion of the ECWA against Amber O'Neal. Blanchard won the tournament by eliminating successively Tina San Antonio, Renee Michelle, and finally, Jenny Rose. On October 11, she participated in the Super 8 ChickFight tournament organized by the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA), a federation of Delaware, where women under ECWA compete. Together the duo won the Shimmer Tag Team Championship in 2016 and reigned for almost exactly a full year.īlanchard competed at Queens of Combat 2 on June 13, 2014, where she interrupted a speech by Miss Rachel after her victory over Amanda Rodriguez, which resulted in a match between Blanchard and Miss Rachel, where Blanchard was defeated. In SHIMMER Blanchard aligned herself with Vanessa Kraven in a tag-team known as 'Mount Tessa'. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014–2016) She tried out for WWE in 2014 but a formal offer never materialized.

Blanchard informed her father and stepfather about her wrestling training upon the insistence of South and Highspots owner Michael Bochicchio around six months into her training. She was trained by veteran NWA/WWE/WCW enhancement talent George South and had future WWE wrestler Cedric Alexander among her classmates.

Tessa kept her wrestling plans unknown from her family as she was then still only slowly reconciling with her mother and stepfather.īlanchard went to Highspots Wrestling School in Charlotte when she turned 18 in 2013. She went with her father for the Four Horsemen's 2012 induction into WWE's Hall of Fame in Miami. Blanchard was bartending and waiting tables and partying with her college friends when her interest in wrestling was piqued. She left home after high school and briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, lived off income from working in a nightclub, and stopped communicating with members of her immediate family for a prolonged stretch. Blanchard considers herself a musical-theater enthusiast, having enrolled at the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, joining Shakespeare recitation contests, and acting in all of her high school's amateur productions. She has three siblings from her father and twin half-siblings from her stepfather.

Tully Blanchard would visit his children at least once a month after the divorce. Īt age four, Blanchard and her siblings moved in with her mother and stepfather after her parents' separation. She is the granddaughter of wrestler Joe Blanchard, daughter of Tully Blanchard and the stepdaughter of Magnum T. Early life and training īlanchard was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 26, 1995. In addition, Blanchard is a former The Crash Women's Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, and WOW World Champion.Ī third-generation professional wrestler, Blanchard is the daughter of Tully Blanchard, granddaughter of wrestling promoter Joe Blanchard, and the stepdaughter of Tully Blanchard's rival Magnum T. She is best known for her time in Impact Wrestling, where she became the first female wrestler to win the Impact World Championship and is also a former Impact Knockouts Champion. Tessa Blanchard (born July 26, 1995) is an American professional wrestler, currently performing in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

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