Tessa Blanchard gives update on in-ring status, currently attending university

[Chris]

an interview with Bill Apter for Sportskeeda, Tessa Blanchard gave an update on her in-ring status.

Blanchard told Apter that she's currently attending the University of Texas at San Antonio and going to school on campus. Blanchard said college is her main focus right now while still trying to do one or two wrestling-related appearances or matches per month.

"I kind of do that on purpose," Blanchard responded when asked about people losing track of what she's doing. "I like to keep some things for me, some things for my family. Right now, I'm in school... so that's like my main focus right now. I try to do one to two of these wrestling get-togethers or matches a month. Honestly, not too much more than that at the moment."

Blanchard said she's studying international affairs, which involves a lot of history and politics.

Apter asked Blanchard if she's still competing periodically on the indies.

"Yeah, doing whenever it makes me feel happy," Blanchard said. "Honestly, that's really my main focus right now, my happiness. I don't want to compromise my happiness for anything. Not for money, not for popularity, not for followers, not for any of that."

Blanchard was supposed to be part of the current relaunch of Women of Wrestling, but it was reported this May that she was done with the promotion. Dave Meltzer wrote that the two sides "had different ideas and were constantly butting heads."

Impact Wrestling terminated its relationship with Blanchard in June 2020. She was stripped of the Impact World Championship at that time.

Blanchard's interview with Apter can be seen below:

Tessa Blanchard gives update on in-ring status

Blanchard is focused on college while still occasionally competing in the ring.

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[Smart Marx]

That’s probably smart. Get a degree to fall back on if pro wrestling ultimately doesn’t work out for you.

Plus, maybe in that time away she’ll mature and the prospects will have time to let go of the heat they have for her and her reputation. Maybe in a couple years she’ll find her way back to a reputable company and if not, she’ll have a degree to start over doing something else.

 

[Deezy]

Get your education....this business has a fanbase that would rather believe anything about someone because they hate that they're getting a push.

 

[Cwalker]

Perfect time for her to get her degree honestly. She’s not in super high demand which would side track her. Use your time to be productive

 

[Chris]

I always forget how young she actually is too, she's still barely late at undergraduate shit lol

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Good for her because I feel like her time peaked and then it passed with everything that happened. So, if she is done with wrestling at least she is smart enough to fall back on something.

 

[Y2Jayne]

I think she's been humbled enough to make a comeback now if she chooses to.

 

[Chris]

Getting kicked out of WOW of all companies can't be good for the self esteem yeah, and she hasn't went full conspiracy theory "I don't have free speech" so actually plausible

 

[ETE]

On the one hand she spectacularly threw away her potential and what was shaping out to be an incredible career. Putting aside all the rumours about her attitude and such and 'butting heads' Impact gave her the World (Title) and she decided to just not turn up to work anymore.

On the other hand she's still really young and having a degree (as useless as many are thesedays) and something to potentially fall back on isnt a bad idea.