
This Current WWE Champion Used To Call Minnesota Home
You may have noticed that WWE is broadcasting on Netflix on Monday nights. I stumbled across Raw on Netflix this past Monday night and they were talking about the women's champion. Once they mentioned the name, Tiffany Stratton, I had to see where she was originally from, as in many cases there is a Minnesota connection, and in Tiffany's case that was also true. Did you know that the current WWE Women's Champion called Minnesota home for a while?
It's true, Tiffany Stratton, whose real name is Jessica Woynilko, grew up South of the Twin Cities in the Prior Lake area. Stratton has had success early on in her professional career, as she is the current WWE Women's Champion and in the past she as been a one-time NXT Women's Champion and a former holder of the Women's Money in the Bank contract holder.

Stratton before becoming a WWE Superstar used to be a gymnast who had various levels of success (she was named to the 2016 US National Gymnastics team), but early on in her life, her mom saw something inside her that made her contact one of Minnesota's great wrestling families to help train Tiffany. Greg Gagne, of the Gagne-wrestling fame, helped develop a young Stratton according to various wrestling websites.
It was in 2021 that Stratton made her professional wrestling debut under her ring name, and that happened at a taping in November. From there, it seems she hasn't looked back and has kept her foot on the gas, as she now reigns as the WWE Women's Champion.
There is another up-and-coming WWE contract holder from Minnesota that you might want to keep an eye on, and that is “Big Body Javi” Javier Bernal, he actually hails from the Kenyon-Wanamingo area, and was a Macalester College graduate, Randy Beidelschies.
Randy is a great person outside the squared circle and I'm hopeful he gets promoted from NXT to Smackdown to Raw shortly.
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