Steffanie Newell (born 15 November 1994) is a Welsh

professional wrestler Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to real-life wrest ...

. She performs on the

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under the

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Nixon Newell. She is best known for her tenures in the American

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, where she performed under the ring name Tegan Nox. Newell has also wrestled on the British independent circuit, most notably for promotions such as

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and

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Early life

Steffanie Newell was born on 15 November 1994 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 15 miles north of

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. As a youth, Newell played

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for a number of teams in her area. At one point she took part in trials for both

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and the

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. At age 13, she suffered a knee injury which would ultimately cost her a place on the Wales Under-16 team. When she finally turned 16, she gave up football, instead planning on taking a long hiatus from all sports, citing her knee injury and a lack of passion for the sport as her reasons. Shortly after quitting football, she found a professional wrestling school in

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and began training under Dave Stewart and "Wild Boar" Mike Hitchman. She said that the encouragement of her late grandfather to pursue a career in professional wrestling was her main inspiration. Outside football, she played

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and

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. Despite playing football for the majority of her youth, Newell grew up as a fan of professional wrestling after being introduced to it at the age of five and cites

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as her favourite female wrestler and dream opponent.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (2013–2017)

Newell performing for

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Newell made a one-time appearance with

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at its

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event

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as a fan under her real name. She won an all expenses paid trip via

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. Newell was interviewed by

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. Newell debuted for

in July 2014, competing three times on the same show. Firstly, she defeated Lana Austin and later in the evening teamed with Austin to defeat Mark Andrews and

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to win the Attack! 24/7 Championship for the second time in her career. Later that night, Newell and Austin lost the championship to Mike Bird in a handicap match. She debuted her Luchadora the Explorer character on 24 January 2015, teaming with Brookes in a loss to The Anti-Fun Police (Damian Dunne and Ryan Smile). She competed as Luchadora once again on 14 February, winning a special invitational scramble match. In January 2016, Newell aligned herself with Mark Andrews, forming the extremely popular team known as Bayside High. In their first match as a team, Newell and Andrews defeated #CCK (

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and

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). Two days later on 3 April, Bayside High became the new Attack: Pro! Tag Team Champions, defeating #CCK. The duo retained the titles until August, when they lost them back to #CCK in a

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. In late-2016, Newell turned into a

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, abandoning Bayside High and aligning herself with Pete Dunne. In their first match together, Dunne and Newell (dressed as the

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iterations of

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and

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, respectively) defeated Martin Kirby and

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(dressed as

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, respectively). Newell debuted for the American all-female promotion

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at Volume 81 in June 2016, first losing to

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and then losing to

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the following day at Volume 82. At Volume 84, Newell picked up her first win in Shimmer, defeating Scott. Newell debuted for

on 28 August 2016, defeating Alex Windsor. On 27 November, she entered the Natural Progression Series IV Tournament (a single elimination tournament to crown the first ever Progress Women's Champion), defeating Katey Harvey in the first round. In January 2017, Newell embarked on her first tour of Japan, competing with the all-female promotion

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. In her first match on the tour, she and

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defeated Oedo Tai (

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and

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). On 29 January, Newell challenged

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for the

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, losing after a diving elbow from Hojo.

WWE

NXT (2017–2021)

In April 2017, it was reported that Newell had signed a contract with

. It was reported that Newell was replaced in the WWE

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, because of suffering a

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before the tournament had even began. Newell returned to the ring on 13 April 2018, at an NXT

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, where she teamed up with

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in a tag team match to defeat Reina González and

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. After being announced as a competitor in the

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, Newell entered the tournament on 8 August, under the ring name "Tegan Nox", defeating Zatara. Nox returned the following day, defeating

in the second round before suffering another knee injury in her quarter-final match against

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. After the match premiered on the

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, Nox posted on Twitter that she had suffered numerous injuries during the match, including: a torn ACL,

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, lateral collateral ligament,

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, and

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. On 25 June 2019, Nox made her in-ring return at an NXT live event in

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. On 11 September, Nox made her ''

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'' debut when she defeated Shax. Afterwards, Nox began a feud with

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, resulting in a non-title match between the two on 3 October episode of ''

'', where Nox was unsuccessful. On 16 October, Nox returned to NXT, defeating Taynara. Thereafter, Nox began teaming with long-time friend Dakota Kai, with the two defeating

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and

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to become number one contenders to the

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on 23 October episode of '' NXT''. Nox and Kai would go on to lose their title match against The Kabuki Warriors ( Asuka and

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) on 30 October episode of ''NXT''. Two days later on ''SmackDown'', Nox and Ripley were one of the many ''NXT'' wrestlers to invade the show, challenging

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and Sonya Deville to a tag-team match, which Nox and Ripley emerged victorious. Later that night, Nox joined

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and the rest of the NXT roster as they declared war on both Raw and

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, and vowed to win the

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brand warfare. Nox was chosen by Ripley to join her team as part of a women's

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at NXT TakeOver: WarGames. At the event on 23 November, just before the match took place,

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was attacked backstage and unable to compete in the women's WarGames match, before her teammate Dakota Kai replaced Yim on Team Ripley. Ripley's team defeated

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's team, however Nox would not take part in the match after Kai turned on Team Ripley and attacked her. Nox had a title match for the

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on 15 July episode of ''NXT'', but was defeated by

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. On 30 September, WWE announced that Nox had once again suffered a torn ACL and would be out of action for an indefinite amount of time. After a near ten-month absence, Nox returned on 6 July 2021 at

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, causing LeRae and

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to lose the

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Main roster (2021, 2022–2024)

On 9 July 2021 episode of ''

'', Nox made her main roster debut teaming with Shotzi as Shotzi & Nox to defeat the

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, Natalya and Tamina in a non-title match. The two would then go on to defeat Natalya and Tamina in numerous tag team matches, but would never receive a championship match. As part of the 2021 Draft, Nox was drafted to the Raw

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while Shotzi remained on the

brand, thus ending the team. On 18 November, she was released from her WWE contract without ever appearing on ''Raw''. After a year, Nox returned to WWE on 2 December 2022 episode of ''SmackDown,'' rescuing

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from an attack by

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( Bayley, Dakota Kai and

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). On 16 December episode of ''SmackDown,'' Nox and Morgan lost to Damage CTRL for the Women's Tag Team Championship. As part of the

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, Nox was drafted to the ''Raw'' brand. On 25 September episode of ''Raw'', Nox picked up a victory over Natalya to receive a

match against

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. Two weeks later on ''Raw'', Nox unsuccessfully challenged Lynch for the title. In the weeks to follow, Nox would form an alliance with Natalya. This alliance would result in Nox defeating both Women's Tag Team Champions

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and

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in singles matches. On 20 November episode of ''Raw'', Nox and Natalya won a fatal 4-way tag team match to receive a Women's Tag Team Championship opportunity. The following week on ''Raw'', Nox and Natalya would challenge for the titles in a losing effort. On 27 January 2024 at the

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, Nox entered in her third women's

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at number 12, eliminating Natalya before being eliminated by Bayley. During the 2024 WWE Draft, Nox was drafted back to the SmackDown brand. On 1 November, Nox was released from WWE for a second time.

Independent circuit (2024–present)

On 6 November 2024, it was announced that Newell would make her return to Attack! Pro Wrestling on 14 and 15 December, but her appearance was cancelled. She made her official independent return for Attack! Pro Wrestling on 1st March for their 'Press Start 8' event.

Professional wrestling style and persona

Newell has stated her ring name "Tegan Nox" is a tribute to both her Welsh heritage and being a fan of the Harry Potter franchise. This also relates to her nickname: "The Girl with the Shiniest Wizard" – as she uses a step-up knee strike, commonly referred to as a

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, as her finishing move. She has dubbed herself NXT's resident "Lady Kane"; a moniker that she gave herself in honor of her favorite WWE Superstar,

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, as well as adopting his

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finisher.

Other media

Newell made her video game debut as a playable character in ''

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''. She also appeared as a playable character in ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Personal life

Newell is

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, and she cited '' Captain Marvel'' as her inspiration for

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Championships and accomplishments

** Attack! 24/7 Championship (3 times) − by herself (2 times), with Lana Austin (1 time) ** Attack! Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mark Andrews * British Empire Wrestling ** British Empire Women's Championship (1 time) *

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(

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) * ''

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'' ** Ranked No. 26 of the top 100 female wrestlers in the ''

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'' in 2020 * Southside Wrestling Entertainment ** SWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) − with

PJ Black Phillip Paul Lloyd (born 3 March 1981) is a South African-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, under the ring name Justin Gabriel. He is currently wrestling under the ring name P. J. Black. A second-generation w ...

** Queen of Southside Championship (1 time) *

What Culture Pro Wrestling WhatCulture Ltd. is a British online entertainment news website and magazine which was launched in 2010. The site offers news in the field of professional wrestling, television, films, music, video games, and board games. History Originally star ...

** WCPW Women's Championship (1 time)

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