5 things you need to know about WWE NXT women's champion Shayna Baszler

#2. She began to pursue professional wrestling much later in her athletic career

Despite pursuing wrestling later in life, she has received a great deal of success.

Many of today's pro wrestlers started competing when they hit puberty. For instance, current WWE NXT talent Roderick Strong began training as early as 13 years of age and former WWE United Kingdom Champion Tyler Bate is just 20 years of age, having won that championship at the age of 19. However, in the case of Shayna Baszler, her professional wrestling career came much later than those examples.

Of course, as noted, her MMA career ran over nine years, and when we add on her newly adopted professional wrestler career, she has spent the last eleven years of her life to actively competing in a ring of one kind or another. On August 8th, 2018 Baszler will be celebrating her 38th birthday, and we wish her the happiest of birthdays on that date. However, if we subtract the number of years prior to her birthday that would make Baszler 26 years of age when she first started in the octagon, and 35 when she committed herself to professional wrestling.