10 Things You Didn't Know About Tessa Blanchard
1. Fighting With Paige's Family
Tessa Blanchard has wrestled all over the world, wowing audiences from Japan to New Jersey, winning championships all over the place as she goes. She has wrestled in opening matches and main events alike, in high-pressure situations and carefree battle royals. She has done it all, and she's still only 25 years old.
She has also wrestled in the movies, standing in as stunt double for an actress portraying another prodigious product of a famous wrestling family: Paige. Real name Saraya-Jade Bevis, Paige is the most successful member of the famous Knight family, her accomplishments far outstripping the name in which she got her start. To be blunt, Paige is one of the most important and impressive female performers of the modern age, a championship winner and trailblazer who was forced to retire early in depressingly miserable circumstances.
A film was made about Paige and her family, a motion picture released in 2019 titled 'Fighting With My Family'. Paige was played by Florence Pugh in the film, but all of the wrestling scenes were filmed by future Impact World Champion and fellow wrestling royalty, Tessa Blanchard.
All this meant that Tessa got to wrestle in front of a packed Monday Night RAW crowd, portraying one of the most memorable moments in recent memory in the process. Will this be the last time that the young Blanchard gets to shine on such a big stage? Well, with crowds currently not allowed it might be a while, but don't bet against Tessa Blanchard eventually finding her way to the supposed promised land that is WWE.