Tiffany Stratton Originally Wanted To Go To The Olympics In Gymnastics, Quit Due To Injuries

Tiffany Stratton recalls her biggest dream from when she was a gymnast.

Over the course of the past few years, WWE have found themselves signing more athletes with no to little pro wrestling experience and training them from the ground up. This rings true for current WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton who prior to signing with WWE, was a talented gymnast with hopes to compete at the Olympics.

While speaking in a new interview with Sidewalks Entertainment, Stratton spoke of her original dream of representing the US at the Olympics in gymnastics.

“So, yes, I was a gymnast basically my entire life. I grew up doing gymnastics. I wanted to go to the Olympics. That was like my ultimate goal. However, injuries and stuff like that kind of had me fall short of that. So eventually I had to quit gymnastics. It was very sad. Then I took up CrossFit and then I did bodybuilding for a little bit. I kind of was- I wanted to do something a little bit more competitive and I saw wrestling on Instagram and my mom and I too were scrolling through the channels and SmackDown was on. My mom had mentioned like, ‘that’s totally something I can see you doing’, I was like, ‘yeah, whatever, mom, it’s fine.’ Then eventually I was like, you know what, I’m gonna give it a go. So I looked up my nearest pro wrestling school, and it was Mr. Kennedy’s. I signed up for classes. Then my mom actually got in contact with Greg Gagne, who is an old wrestler for WWE. He agreed to train me and help me get a tryout. Then I tried out and they signed me a week later and I went through the whole system. I was in NXT for a little bit. I was there for about two years. Then I got called up around the Royal Rumble two years ago. Then eventually I won Money In The Bank and I cashed in and I became the WWE Women’s Champion and here we are.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Stratton spoke about WrestleMania heading to Saudi Arabia. You can read more about that here.

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