Tessa Blanchard Pictured Training With Top WWE Stars

Tessa Blanchard, Sasha Banks, and Bayley... in the same ring at the same time?

Tessa Blanchard
Hybrid School of Wrestling

Top wrestling free agent Tessa Blanchard has been pictured alongside several top WWE stars at the Hybrid School of Wrestling in San Antonio, Texas.

The school's Twitter account posted the following on Wednesday evening, with Blanchard featuring alongside Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Kalisto:-

Hybrid School of Wrestling runs classes under trainers Chris Marval and, more notably, former WWE wrestler Sho Funaki, who is still with Vince McMahon's promotion as a Japanese play-by-play announcer.

Blanchard remains a free agent after leaving IMPACT Wrestling as the company's World Heavyweight Champion in June 2020. Reportedly let go amid fears that she'd no-show a Slammiversary 2020 booking after failing to submit requested video content while self-isolating in Mexico, Tessa had been implicated in a racism scandal five months prior, when she was accused of using slurs against and spitting in the face of Puerto Rican wrestler La Rosa Negra.

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Barely a week passes without fresh rumours on Blanchard's future emerging. This photograph is surely set to spark more, given Banks and Bayley's lofty WWE status.

For now, the talented 25-year-old remains on the market.

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