Christian Olympic champion in women's wrestling prefers to compete against women only



A female Olympic gold medalist in wrestling has weighed in on men competing in women's sports, saying she prefers wrestling against men only "in practice."

Tamyra Mensah-Stock, 32, recently traveled to the Tilles Center for Performing Arts in Brookville, New York, for the sixth annual FOX Nation Patriot Awards. Wearing glasses, dreadlocks, and a gold cross around her neck, Mensah-Stock stopped to answer whether she had ever competed against so-called transwomen athletes in freestyle wrestling.

"No, thank goodness. But I know a few people that have," she replied.

When pressed about whether she might consider doing so in the future, Mensah-Stock hesitated.

"I'll just say this. I've wrestled plenty of guys in practice, and I will only wrestle them in practice — because wrestling men is very, very difficult even when they are 20 pounds smaller than me," she explained.

The thought of competing against a man in her weight class then seemed to give her further pause. "If they're the same weight as me ..." she said, trailing off. She then came to a firm conclusion: "I just keep it in practice."

'It’s just by the grace of God that I’m just able to even move my feet,' she explained. 'I just leave it in his hands.'

Mensah-Stock first captured the hearts of Americans everywhere with her exuberant demonstration of patriotism immediately after she took the gold medal in women's freestyle wrestling at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.

"I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there," she gushed with a grin on her face and an American flag wrapped around her shoulders. "I love it, and I'm so happy I get to represent U-S-A!"

Overcome with emotion, Mensah-Stock then expressed thanks to God, crediting him with giving her the talent and means to achieve her dreams.

"It’s just by the grace of God that I’m just able to even move my feet," she explained. "I just leave it in his hands. I prayed that all of the training and practice, the hell that my freaking coaches put me through pays off. Every single time it does. I get better and better. It’s so weird that there is no cap to the limit of what I can do."

"I’m excited to see what I have next."

Because of her love of country and her honorable representation of the United States at the Olympics, Fox Nation named Mensah-Stock the Most Valuable Patriot of 2021.

In May 2023, she signed a contract with WWE to become a professional wrestler. She has not ruled out wrestling against men as part of that agreement.

The FOX Nation Patriot Awards aired on the Fox New Channel on Sunday night.

H/T: the Daily Mail

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Whitlock: It's obvious Olympic wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock has a relationship with the Father and her father



I spent most of last night and this morning trying to figure out what's so different about Tamyra Mensah-Stock.

She's the 28-year-old black woman who won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling Tuesday and then celebrated like it was "1999." You know that faraway time The Artist Formerly Known As Prince used to sing about. Back then, Bill Clinton was president, Cher had the No. 1 song, "Believe." Ricky Martin was "Livin' La Vida Loca."

Two decades ago, it was commonplace for black American Olympians to wrap themselves in the flag and celebrate their homeland. Now we don't know what to expect. There's an expectation of some sort of anti-American protest.

American shot putter Raven Saunders won the silver medal and crossed her arms in an X above her head. She said she did it for oppressed people across the world. Saunders said that she and other athletes had been plotting ways to protest for two weeks over a group chat.

I don't think Tamyra Mensah-Stock was on that group text string. She's different. After winning her gold medal, she was overcome with joy. She honored God and celebrated her country.

"It's by the grace of God I'm able to even move my feet," she gushed. "I just leave it in his hands and I pray that all the practice, that the hell my coaches put me through pays off. And every time it does."

When a reporter asked her about the American flag draped over her body, she didn't hold back on her enthusiasm.

"It feels amazing. I love representing the U.S.," she said. "I freaking love living there. I love it, and I'm so happy I get to represent USA."

It's important you watch the entire interview. A written description does not do it justice. Her joy jumps through the television screen. You can feel her emotion and energy. Her authenticity exposes the robotic fraudulence of the protestors who plot their actions for weeks.

What makes Mensah-Stock different from Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James, and so many of the other protesters?

It starts with her relationship with her father. Both of them. The one above and the one in the ground. Mensah-Stock enthusiastically professes a relationship with God. She has not chosen the secular path of her peers.

Her dad was her biggest fan. He died in a car accident driving home from one of her high school wrestling meets. She broke down when a reporter asked what her father would think of her gold medal performance.

The absence of your biological father -- or a bad relationship with him -- oftentimes creates a lifelong bitterness and cynicism. It's not true for everyone. But it is true.

Mensah-Stock's dad immigrated to America from Ghana. He came here to chase the American dream. He bought into this country and was rewarded for doing so. His children adopted his American spirit and values.

Broken families break the spirit.

LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick have and/or have no relationship with their biological fathers. We shouldn't be surprised that their view of America is ruled by cynicism and bitterness. Despite their economic riches, life has been unfair to them. There's no amount of money that can replace the love of a father and mother.

The lack of American pride is a byproduct of the breakdown of the nuclear family.

Mensah-Stock has modeled the behavior of her parents. She's created her own nuclear family. She's married to a wrestler from her college. She has an unwavering commitment to her immediate family. She said she's giving her Olympic prize money to her mom, so her mom can start a food truck business.

Mensah-Stock's parents laid an incredible foundation of support for their kids. That foundation launched a daughter all the way to the Olympics. It was awesome to see Mensah-Stock celebrate God, her dad, her mom, and her country.

That used to be commonplace for black athletes before we turned our backs on the family structure God prescribed.

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US gold medal winner's unguarded, faith-filled tears of joy — and patriotic verve — might be best moment of Tokyo Olympics



It would seem that United States Olympic wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock has no time or inclination to act cool or witty or snarky or sassy.

Nope. All she has time for these days is getting ready to hit the mat — and pin her next opponent. Then when she scores her next victory, Mensah-Stock's emotions simply come flooding out.

And at no time was her unguarded, unaffected, pure joy — through tears and laughter — more apparent than when she won the women's light heavyweight (68-kilogram) gold medal Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics.

We need to protect this woman at all costs… An infectious beam of positivity, her spirit is undeniable. What an inc… https://t.co/aTCY8b7qSP

— The Wrestling Room (Pat Mineo) (@MrPatMineo) 1627995526.0

"I'm feeling very happy, and I keep trying not to cry, but it keeps happening!" she said, trying to catch her breath, at a news conference with an American flag wrapped around her shoulders following her victory.

Mensah-Stock, 28, became only the second U.S. woman — and the first black woman — to win Olympic wrestling gold, NPR said. She is from Katy, Texas.

A reporter noted to Mensah-Stock in a brief moment of composure that "you started wrestling in the 10th grade" — and BOOM! More tears.

"I knew I could do it when I first started wrestling," she explained while continuing to cry. "I felt like I could be an Olympic champ, so I kept going." With that, Mensah-Stock pounded her hand down and said, "I did it!"

The reporter then brought up her father who died when Mensah-Stock was in high school — in a car accident on the way home from one of her wrestling meets, Yahoo Sports said.

With that, harder tears from Mensah-Stock as she placed her head on top of arms on the podium as the reporter asked how her dad might be reacting to her victory.

She then stood, cried some more, and rubbed her eyes: "He would be so proud! He would be so happy!"

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @MrPatMineo

Mensah-Stock then broke into a smile when she noted that her late father was from Ghana and that he was "like enemies with Nigeria," which made her final match against Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu "kind of like poetic."

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @MrPatMineo

Jumping up and down

She turned things up a notch when the reporter brought up that women's wrestling has been an Olympic sport only for a couple of decades — and with that, Mensah-Stock began jumping up and down.

"Yeah!" she cried before explaining how proud she is that younger girls can look up to her and perhaps follow in her footsteps.

'By the grace of God'

Mensah-Stock added later in the interview that "it's by the grace of God I'm able to even move my feet. Like, I just leave it in His hands and I pray that all the practice ... the hell that my freaking coaches put me through pays off, and every single time it does, and I get better and better, and it's so weird that there is no cap to the limit that I can do. And I'm excited to see ... what I have next."

And when the reporter asked how it felt with the American flag around her shoulders, she had more than enough gas in her tank to give a shout out to her home country: "It feels amazing. I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there. I love it. And I'm so happy I get to represent U-S-A!"

“I’m so happy I get to represent USA!” https://t.co/Y5CcjaPCbK

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) 1628016143.0

Oh, and a food truck for her mom

Yahoo Sports noted that when Mensah-Stock was asked what she would do with the money attached to gold medals, she had a very specific idea.

"I wanted to give my mom $30,000 so she can get a food truck, 'cause it's her dream," Mensah-Stock said, according to the outlet. "And I told her five years ago, 'Alright mommy, I'll get you your food truck, but you gotta be responsible. So my mom's gettin' her food truck!" Yahoo Sports noted, not surprisingly, that she danced from side to side, adding that her mom is "gonna have her little cooking business. She can cook really, really, really well. Barbecue!"