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Time of India
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Tyra Mae and Jasper Troy speak out after winning WWE LFG
Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy (Image via X) Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy (Image via X) Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy (Image via X) 1 2 A big moment has arrived for two new WWE stars. Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy have won the first season of WWE LFG (Legends & Future Greats), and now their dreams are coming true. After working hard through weeks of training and matches, both stars finally get their shot in WWE. The show, which aired on A&E , featured 16 young wrestlers from WWE's Performance Center. They were coached by four WWE legends like The Undertaker, Booker T, Bubba Ray Dudley, and Mickie James. These legends helped guide the talent, teaching them how to wrestle better, talk on the microphone, and grow as WWE superstars. Tyra Mae Steele is ready to shine Tyra Mae Steele was part of Team Undertaker . She had an impressive background before even stepping into WWE. She won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2020 Olympics. Her skills and focus helped her stand out right from the beginning. After being named the winner of WWE LFG, she shared her excitement in an interview with Sports Illustrated : "I'm so excited. It's been a long time coming. I swear I've just been waiting for my moment to shine. I just feel elated. I just feel so, so freaking blessed." In the final match at Madison Square Garden, Tyra faced Zena Sterling from Team Bubba. It was the biggest match of her life, and she gave it her all in front of a huge crowd. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với mức chênh lệch giá thấp nhất IC Markets Đăng ký Undo Winning at such a big stage showed that she was ready for the next step in WWE. Tyra Mae Steele & Jasper Troy talk winning the WWE LFG Season One on A&E! Jasper Troy wants more than just one win Jasper Troy was part of Team Booker T . Unlike Tyra, he did not come from a wrestling background. Instead, he used to play football before starting his wrestling journey. He made his WWE debut in 2023 and slowly worked his way up. In the final episode, he wrestled against Shiloh Hill from Team Undertaker. He won the match and proved that he belongs in WWE. But for Jasper, the journey does not stop here. "I'm just excited I didn't take my foot off the gas after winning," Troy said. "If anything I was so looking forward to the end of the show and I was so wrapped up around 'winning and winning and winning' and then I just had a moment where I was like 'this isn't the end, and I don't know why it feels like the end.'" "This isn't a movie where the movie ends and cuts to black. This is just the beginning... we won the show and I was excited and for a while, I was riding that wave, but then I had to get back to shore and realize, 'is this the only time you want to be at the top?'" Both Steele and Troy impressed fans and legends alike during the show. They now train at WWE's Performance Center and are expected to appear in NXT soon. With the second season of WWE LFG already confirmed, new talent will get a chance, but for now, it is Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy's time to shine. Read more: The Undertaker wins new WWE championship at 60 without stepping in the ring Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Fox News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jasper Troy chose to chase WWE 'dream' after football 'wasn't fun anymore'
Before Jasper Troy received a contract for the WWE NXT brand, he had dreams of dominating in between the hashmarks instead of in between the ropes. Troy, whose real name is Antoine Frazer, played college football at Northern Iowa before he decided to start his journey into a WWE ring. He told Fox News Digital that getting into the company was always dream for him, even back when he was picking up the sticks with his friends. "For me, wrestling was always a dream. I know it's so oversaid, but for me, I was really locked in every Monday, every Thursday. Sunday, I would watch the little preview pay-per-view channel just to get a glimpse of what the pay-per-view was going to be like," he said. "For me, it was begging for the newest 'SmackDown vs. Raw' (video game). Going to my friend's house, and that's what we would play all day and night." Troy said football wasn't fun anymore as he competed for the Panthers and finished his collegiate career. Eventually, he said there came a point in which football wasn't fun anymore. The sport he grew to love fell out of favor with him. "Me and my brother, we would always talk about wrestling together," he said. "I was playing football, and I was lucky to be successful at playing football but, like (Tyra Mae Steele) said, it just got to a point where it wasn't fun anymore. "It stopped being about the things that made me love the sport, especially at a college level, a D1 level. There were so many more factors that, coming where I come from, I was exposed to at the time, but I don't think I was mature enough to adapt to my surroundings as well as other guys on my team were." He said there was a time when he had to make a decision about what came next, and his heart was set on pro wrestling. He said he had the support from his trainers, but they implored him to finish school first. "When COVID hit I just had a chance to look away from football for like a year and really figure out what I wanted to do with my life," he told Fox News Digital. "I love football and I could keep chasing this dream and see how far I could really make it and I just kept seeing more wrestling on my TV during COVID. "It was all perfect timing for me. As soon as I did my pro day, I had a tryout with the WWE, and after that, I just fell in love, and that was it. It was that fire I had when I was a kid. It was a whole new experience for me, and after that, I said, 'I'm done with football. I'm a full-time WWE superstar.'" Troy will now get to make an impact on the NXT roster and join the rising stars in the men's division there. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Fox News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Olympic gold medalist talks decision to make leap to WWE: 'My calling from God'
Tyra Mae Steele is poised to become a rising star on the WWE NXT roster as soon as she steps into the ring on the brand following her "WWE Legends and Future Greats" ("WWE LFG") victory. For Steele, pro wrestling was not always in the cards. Anyone who watched the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 may know Steele as Tamyra Mensah-Stock. She won the gold medal in the women's 68-kilogram freestyle competition, becoming the first female African American and first Black female wrestler to win Olympic gold. She became a viral sensation during the Summer Olympics. However, she told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that the drive to stay on the wrestling mountain top began to wither away and that freestyle wrestling was becoming more of a chore. "I'm a natural athlete. God gave me a natural ability to just crush people and I love doing it and I enjoy doing it. When I won the Olympics, I had a lot of pleasure in it, but it was during COVID when nobody was around, and it was very, very unfortunate that there wasn't anybody in the crowd," she said. "I wrestled for another two years and I didn't have much love for it. "Every time I would wrestle somebody, it was easy overseas. And what I love is putting in hard work and having somebody combat me and just having that fight. That what brings me joy and pleasure – I don't know why, I'm sadistic, but whatever you want to call it, it's the fighter in me." Steele said she got "bored" with Olympic training, and when WWE knocked on her door, she answered. She entered WWE in 2023 with hopes of eventually getting to the main roster. "When I found out that WWE wanted to take me on, I'm thinking, 'This is going to be a new venture and this is going to be exciting, it's going to be something that's fresh for me,'" she said. "And I feel like for me, it was my calling from God. It's been an absolute blessing with me being here. I have found, I swear, joy in life all over again." Putting weight cutting behind her and the ability to showcase her personality more was something that appealed to Steele as well. She embraced the new challenge in a new sport. "So, why am I here? I'm here because I feel like I'm called to be here," she told Fox News Digital. "I'm here because I enjoy the fight. I'm here because I get a fresh start to be a new person and to get my face and my energy into new eyes. And, I can also bring my fans that are like, 'No, wait, do another Olympics.' No, no, no. See me in the WWE. It's gonna be epic." Steele won the "WWE LFG" competition on the women's side and now gets a chance to really feature her skills in NXT. She will join an exciting division that features female wrestlers who could be poised to make the leap to either "Raw" or "SmackDown" at a moment's notice. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Fox News
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Tyra Mae Steele, Jasper Troy win 'WWE LFG' competition; duo puts NXT roster on notice
Pro wrestlers Tyra Mae Steele and Jasper Troy won the "WWE Legends and Future Greats" (LFG) competition on Sunday night to earn WWE NXT contracts. Steele got her spot over Zena Sterling, and Troy earned his over Shiloh Hill to move up to the next level of competition. Both competitors will join the NXT brand and become the next duo to make an impact on the developmental brand. "I'm super excited," Steele told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "I'm more patient. I just know in due time, everything is going to take place and when it rains it pours. So, I am excited to just see what the future holds and how the WWE Universe is gonna take my energy and all that I have to offer." Troy expressed that he was more anxious to get into the ring and mix it up. "I'm just more ready to see how the story unfolds. To me, it's like expecting a movie to come out," he explained. "I'm just waiting to play my role in that film and see myself on the screen. But the funnest part for me has just been the work that we've been putting in since winning. Being more behind the scenes again, and I think it was just fun and go back to a feeling of trying to make it out of the bottom again. "Because, you know, after the winning the show, I was on this big high. I felt like, 'Wow, everything's about to start changing rapidly. But everything just slowed down for a couple of months. I was just like, this is another test, this is another trial that I have to get through. The moment I come out it's like a new debut and new beginning. The next chapter is very exciting to me." Steele, whose real name is Tamyra Mensah-Stock, comes in with an audience a bit more familiar with her. She is a world champion freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She also won two gold medals at the World Championships, one gold medal at the Pan American Games, three gold medals at the Pan American Championships and three gold medals at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yaryigin. She put the NXT locker room on notice as her debut looms. "My hard work is different than dang-near everybody. I am an Olympic gold medalist, not a lot of people can say that," she said. "That is a standard that not a lot of people can accomplish. It is an Olympic standard. To everyone that is going to be seeing me coming into the roster, they need to know, they need to understand that Tyra Mae Steele is going to be coming to this roster with an Olympic standard. "And I am going to be flattening everyone who will be standing in my way. This is a standard that not a lot of people can live up to. And I see some people slacking – that just makes me hungry." Steele said she keeps hearing that the NXT women's division is "the hottest roster that there is" and vowed to make sure it stays that way. "When I step into the building, when I step into the ring with anybody, they're going to go, 'Oh, my gosh, she wasn't kidding about that Olympic standard,'" she said. "They're gonna feel it, and they're gonna love it and they're gonna appreciate it. And if they don't appreciate it, they're dang sure going to respect it." Troy, whose real name is Antoine Frazer, joined WWE as a recruit nearly three years ago. He played college football at Northern Iowa, Kansas and Rhode Island. He praised the talent on the men's roster for when he first entered the company. "When I came in, the locker room wasn't that much different, but there was a noticeable amount of talent," he told Fox News Digital. "And when I looked up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh, like, where do I fit in?' When Bron Breakker was here regularly, Carmelo Hayes, Ilja Dragunov, that locker room was tough. Even Grayson Waller, I mean … they were the ones leading the charge. "They would out-perform each other. It was almost like they were competing to see who's gonna have the best performance of the night. Every coconut (show type) I went to I saw at least five or six main-event matches that could have been promoted." He added that he is bringing the "same mentality." "I'm ready to compete," Troy said. "I'm ready to move. I'm ready to shuffle the deck of players myself. I'm not coming in to participate or just tribute. I'm coming in to contribute. I'm coming in to be a factor in this. They gotta handle whatever they gotta handle." Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The Undertaker wins new WWE championship at 60 without stepping in the ring
Image via WWE The Undertaker may have retired from in-ring competition years ago, but his presence in WWE remains as powerful as ever. At 60, the legendary superstar has now added a new accolade to his storied career - being crowned the first-ever WWE LFG Champion . The Phenom, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022, served as a mentor on the debut season of WWE Legends & Future Greats (LFG), a talent-scouting reality show that brings together WWE legends and aspiring wrestlers. The show's finale, aired on May 18, saw rookies battling it out for a chance to earn WWE NXT contracts. While the spotlight was on the newcomers, it was The Undertaker who walked away with the brand-new title. Coaching success leads to surprise title win The final four featured two male and two female competitors, each mentored by different WWE veterans. While Booker T, Bubba Ray Dudley, and Mickie James had one or no representatives in the finals, The Undertaker stood out with two protégés - Tyra Mae Steele and Shiloh Hill, both advancing to the last round. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Ótimas notícias para os cidadãos brasileiros! Leia mais Undo With more finalists under his wing than any other coach, The Deadman was awarded the LFG Championship by none other than Shawn Michaels, who made a surprise appearance to present the belt. Though Tyra Mae Steele (Team Undertaker) and Jasper Troy (Team Booker T) were declared the overall winners, it was The Undertaker's coaching dominance that earned him the LFG crown. The belt, designed specifically for the show, recognizes the winning coach, not an in-ring competitor. It's a symbolic title, but one that has stirred excitement among fans nonetheless. Is The Undertaker coming back to WWE? Despite the new championship, WWE has confirmed that The Undertaker is not returning to in-ring action. While fans online began speculating about a possible comeback, the 60-year-old has repeatedly stated that his body is no longer suited for active wrestling, despite occasionally feeling the urge to compete again. His latest win may not have come inside the squared circle, but it reinforces the legend's ongoing influence in the company. By mentoring new talent, The Undertaker continues to shape WWE's future - not with chokeslams or tombstones, but with guidance and experience. For now, the Deadman rests in retirement - as a champion once again. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
