{"id":7731,"date":"2017-09-14T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:56:41","slug":"canadian-olympic-gold-medalist-erica-wiebe-gets-wwe-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/09\/14\/canadian-olympic-gold-medalist-erica-wiebe-gets-wwe-tryout\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Gold Medalist Erica Wiebe Gets WWE Tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Squared Ring Sirens<\/strong> reported earlier<\/a> today that the appearance of 28-year Canadian Olympic wrestler Eric Wiebe<\/strong> at the finals of the Mae Young Classic on Tuesday night was no random cameo. The 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist in women’s wrestling in Rio was there as the WWE’s special guest – as she is there for a WWE tryout at the Performance Center all this week.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Erica Wiebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wiebe has been a domination on the women’s amateur wrestling circuit, after she won a Bronze Medal at the World University Games in 2013 – although Wiebe is from Ottawa, Ontario, she attended the University of Calgary. In 2014, she represented Canada in the Commonwealth Games, after winning every tournament she was in that year (36 matches in total), before taking the Commonwealth Gold in Glasgow, Scotland. The following year at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin, a world championship of sorts for freestyle wrestling in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she defeated Russia’s own\u00a0Alena Starodubtsyeva<\/strong> to win the Gold again. She capped off her 3-year reign capturing Olympic Gold from Kazakhstan’s\u00a0Guzel Manyurova<\/strong> in Brazil in 2016.<\/p>\n