5 things you didn't know about Nia Jax

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Nia Jax is the most dominating women’s Superstar in the WWE today

#4 She was a promising basketball player

Nia Jax performing a leg drop
Nia Jax weighs 240lbs

At 6 foot 2 inches tall, Nia Jax stands heads and shoulders above most human beings on the planet. Her size and height fits her dominant WWE persona, but this wasn't always the dream for Nia Jax. In High school, Jax was a very promising basketball player.

So promising was her potential, that she made the 1st team at Carlsbad High School, this success transferred into a sports scholarship at Palomar College in California.

In her last year at the college, she was part of the team that won the Pacific Coast Conference Championship in 2002 before she graduated with a business degree. Coaches at her college had tipped her to become a professional WNBA player, but she chose to go into modelling instead.

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