5 Things you need to know about SmackDown referee Jessika Carr 

#1. She's actually wrestled on NXT

Kennadi Lewis lost to Nikki Cross

Jessika Carr may have made a name for herself as a referee in the squared circle, but when she first came to WWE she was working as a singles competitor. Like many other women who are signed to a Performance Center contract, she also had hopes of becoming a women's wrestler in the company, but this wasn't to be.

Carr wrestled a number of matches for WWE before making the switch to being a referee, including a match against Nikki Cross back in January 2017, where she was defeated. Carr went by the ring name Kennadi Lewis, but her in-ring career came to an end in April 2017 and she was then used as a referee in the first-ever Mae Young Classic.

Kennedy Lewis looked like she could have been a star in NXT as a wrestler, but it appears that she made an even bigger impact when she decided to make history and become WWE's first full-time female referee. She is expected to continue to break through glass ceilings in the future as part of the SmackDown roster.