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Tegan Nox

Steffanie Newell (born 15 November 1994) is a Welsh professional wrestler. She makes appearances on the independent circuit under the ring name Nixon Newell. She is best known for her time in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Tegan Nox. She has also appeared for promotions such as All Elite Wrestling, Attack! Pro Wrestling, and Progress Wrestling.

Steffanie Newell was born in Bargoed on 15 November 1994. Despite playing football for the majority of her youth, she grew up as a fan of professional wrestling after being introduced to it at the age of five, and has cited Molly Holly as her favourite female wrestler and dream opponent.[unreliable source?] As a youth, she played football for a number of teams in her area. At one point, she took part in trials for both Cardiff City FC and the Welsh women's national football team. She also played netball and tag rugby. At age 13, she suffered a knee injury which would ultimately cost her a place on the Welsh Under-16 team. When she finally turned 16, she gave up football and planned to take a long hiatus from all sports, citing her knee injury and a lack of passion for the sport. Shortly after, she found a professional wrestling school in Port Talbot and began training under Dave Stewart and Wild Boar. She has said that the encouragement of her late grandfather become a professional wrestler was her main inspiration.

Newell made a one-time appearance with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at its pay-per-view event Slammiversary XI as a fan under her real name. She won an all expenses paid trip via Challenge TV. Newell was interviewed by SoCal Val.

Newell debuted for Attack! Pro Wrestling 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 Pete Dunne 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 (Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos). 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 TLC match. In late-2016, Newell turned into a villainess, abandoning Bayside High and aligning herself with Pete Dunne. In their first match together, Dunne and Newell (dressed as the Suicide Squad iterations of The Joker and Harley Quinn, respectively) defeated Martin Kirby and El Ligero (dressed as Kevin Owens and El Generico, respectively).

Newell debuted for the American all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes at Volume 81 in June 2016, first losing to Veda Scott and then losing to Nicole Matthews the following day at Volume 82. At Volume 84, Newell picked up her first win in Shimmer, defeating Scott.

Newell debuted for Progress Wrestling 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 World Wonder Ring Stardom. In her first match on the tour, she and Kay Lee Ray defeated Oedo Tai (Kris Wolf and Viper). On 29 January, Newell challenged Kairi Hojo for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, losing after a diving elbow from Hojo.

In April 2017, it was reported that Newell had signed a contract with WWE. It was reported that Newell was replaced in the WWE Mae Young Classic, because of suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament before the tournament had even begun.

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