{"id":158187,"date":"2023-05-03T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=158187"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:45:02","slug":"wwe-signs-olympic-gold-medalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/03\/wwe-signs-olympic-gold-medalist\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE signs Olympic gold medalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1512670500\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE has signed Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock to a contract. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/article\/olympic-gold-medalist-tamyra-mensah-stock-signs-with-wwe\">announced the signing<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1653822984052781059<\/p>\n<p>Tamyra Mensah-Stock won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She is the first Black woman to win gold in freestyle wrestling. She appeared at Summerslam in 2021, but has not been seen on television programming since then.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word as to when Mensah-Stock will report to the Performance Center or how long her journey will be before she contributes to the main roster.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/03\/jon-moxley-announced-for-new-japan-pro-wrestling-dominion\/\">Jon Moxley announced for New Japan Pro Wrestling Dominion<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-43880674\"><div id=\"pwtor-4099790945\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE has signed Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock to a contract. The company announced the signing on Wednesday afternoon. https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1653822984052781059 Tamyra Mensah-Stock won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/03\/wwe-signs-olympic-gold-medalist\/\" title=\"WWE signs Olympic gold medalist\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":158188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-158187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/05\/WWE-Tamyra-Mensah-Stock.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158189,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158187\/revisions\/158189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}