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Wrestler

The Resume

    (October 11, 1992- )
    Born in Chicago, Illinois
    Raised in suburb of Houston, Texas
    Women’s freestyle sport wrestler (68 kg/150 lb category)
    Games of the 32nd Olympiad Gold medalist (Tokyo, 2021)
    2019 World Champion
    Pan American Games Gold medalist (2019)
    Pan American Championships Gold medalist (2019, 2020, 2021)
    Mother from IllinoisGhana
    5 ft 5 in (1,65 m)

Why she might be annoying:

    Cue the MENSA jokes.
    When her father died in a car accident following one of her high school matches, she was heavily tempted to call it quits.
    She quit eating meat (which as a rule is a horrible idea for her discipline).
    She loves karaoke.
    You’d be hard pressed to find her without her Mickey Mouse ears hairdo.
    Though she won in her weight category at the 2016 Olympic trials, it was not yet a qualified class.

Why she might not be annoying:

    In a bizarre twist, her twin sister – also an amateur athlete – entered the wrestling fray first, while she wasn’t initially interested.
    To compensate for her lack of qualification after the trials, she remained in Brazil to act as a practice partner for teammates in other classes.
    Compare her draping herself in the American flag and expression of joy following her gold medal win over the Nigerian opponent to the surly conduct of the female gymnastics team.
    While she planned to use some of her Olympic winnings to buy her mother a promised food truck, a manufacturing company beat her to the punch and gifted them one (worth five times what she was aiming for).
    Along with a fellow gold medalist, she was a guest at WWE SummerSlam in Las Vegas, where both were gifted with a personalized Olympic champion belt.
    She would go on to marry a fellow wrestler from her high school and university days.

Credit: Cool It All Right?


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying