Tessa Blanchard
Tessa Blanchard (born July 26, 1995) is an American professional wrestler signed to Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Women of Wrestling (WOW). She is also known for her time in Impact Wrestling, where she is a former Impact World Champion and Impact Knockouts Champion. A third-generation professional wrestler, Blanchard is the daughter of Four Horsemen member Tully Blanchard. She also performs as part of various independent promotions. In addition, Blanchard is a former The Crash Women's Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, and WOW World Champion.
Blanchard is the granddaughter of wrestler Joe Blanchard, daughter of Tully Blanchard and the stepdaughter of Magnum T.A.
At age 4, Blanchard and her siblings moved in with her mother and stepfather after her parents' separation. Tully Blanchard would visit his children at least once a month after the divorce. She has three siblings from her father and twin half-siblings from her stepfather named Lucy and Tucker. 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 was also on the track team.
She left home after high school and briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, lived off from income from working in a nightclub, and stopped communicating with members of her immediate family for a prolonged stretch. Blanchard was bartending and waiting tables and partying with her college friends when her interest in wrestling was piqued. She went with her father for the Four Horsemen’s 2012 induction into WWE’s Hall of Fame in Miami. Tessa kept her wrestling plans unknown from her family as she was then still only slowly reconciling with her mom and stepdad.
Blanchard went to Highspots Wrestling School, a mere 20 minutes from where she lived, when she turned 18 in 2013. She was trained by veteran NWA/WWE/WCW enhancement talent George South and had future WWE wrestler Cedric Alexander among her classmates. 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 tried out for WWE in 2014 but a formal offer never materialized
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