The daughter of this WWE Hall of Famer is on her way to follow in her father’s footsteps.
Hall of Famer Earthquake, aka John Tenta, was one-half of the Natural Disasters alongside Typhoon, and was inducted into the 2025 Class of the ceremony. Recently, appearing on the Kelly Clarkson Show, Joanna Tenta Sowards, daughter of John Tenta, opened up on her journey toward becoming a pro wrestler.
“When I was younger, I used to love watching wrestling. When I was 15, I told my dad that I wanted to do what he did. I wanted to become a professional wrestler.”
She further claimed that while her love for wrestling stopped following her father’s death, it reignited after WrestleMania 39 in 2023 and kick-started her new journey. Training to become a pro-wrestler, she said,
“After he died, I stopped watching wrestling for almost 17 years. I tuned back in during WrestleMania 39 and remembered why I loved wrestling so much. In June 2024, I decided that, even though I was older now, I wanted to learn and train to be a pro wrestler for the joy of it, so I’ve learned so much about how to trust in my body, to believe in myself to work hard, but most importantly and what I sought after is that is has formed a new and special connection with my dad.”
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Joanna Tenta Sowards is training at Absolute Intense Wrestling, which is an independent promotion based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, John Tenta, passed away in June 2006 as a result of bladder cancer.
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“Once in a while, I get the itch, and I say, ‘Man, I wonder if I could still run the rope, take a bump?’ Or I’ll go to D-Von’s [Dudley] school, and I wonder if I could still roll around with the younger guys. Not take a ton of bumps and get physical at like live rounds, high-level, high-pace type stuff. But I want to see if I can still do it at 53 years old.”