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Steffanie Newell (born 15 November 1994) is a Welsh professional wrestler.

She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Tegan Nox.

Newell previously wrestled on the British independent circuit under the ring name Nixon Newell, most notably for promotions such as Attack! Pro Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, WhatCulture Pro Wrestling, and Fight Club: Pro.

Steffanie Newell was born on 15 November 1994 in Bargoed, Wales, 15 miles north of Cardiff.

As a little girl, Newell played football for a number of teams in her area.

At one point she took part in trials for both Cardiff City and the Wales national team.

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 Port Talbot 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 netball and tag rugby.

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 Molly Holly as her favourite female wrestler and dream opponent.

Newell made a one-time appearance on Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling at their 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.

Newell 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.

Nixon Newell was the first woman to wrestle at Wolverhampton based promotion, Fight Club: Pro in 2015 where she competed in a 4-way match in the infinity tournament against Chris Brookes, Dan Moloney and Eddie Dennis.

Due to Newell's departure to WWE, Fight Club: Pro honored her with a show named after her “First Female of Fight Club” where Nixon requested to face Candice LeRae.

This match ended after Newell hit LeRae with the Shiniest Wizard.

Newell's final FCP match took place at Dream Tag Team Invitational (Night 1) where she was a surprise entrant in a 6-way 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 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.

Newell debuted for the American all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes at Volume 81, 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 WhatCulture Pro Wrestling (WCPW) on 27 July at Loaded No. 5, defeating Bea Priestley, but was defeated by Priestley the following day.

On 24 August, Newell and Priestley faced off once again, this time in a last woman standing match to crown the first ever WCPW Women's Champion, won by Newell.

On 13 February 2017, Newell lost the WCPW Women's Championship to Bea Priestley in a no disqualification match, ending her reign at 173 days.

In January 2017, Newell embarked on her first tour of Japan, competing with the all-female promotion Stardom.