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Bianca Belair won the 2021 Women's Royal Rumble match on Sunday night and will now go on to wrestle for a Women's Championship of her choosing at WrestleMania in April.
Interestingly, this is Belair's biggest win to date, since the former NXT star is still yet to win a Championship in developmental or on WWE's main roster. WWE signed Belair with no prior wrestling experience back in 2016 after Mark Henry saw some of her videos on Instagram and believed that the athlete would be a good fit for the company.
Five years later, the EST of WWE has come through the ranks of NXT, met and married Montez Ford, and is now looking forward to her first-ever WrestleMania match in just two months. It's been a crazy few years for the former NXT star and finally, the WWE Universe are looking up and taking note of one of the company's hottest new prospects.
Here are just five facts every fan of Bianca Belair needs to know as she sets her sights on becoming Champion for the first time.
#5. Bianca Belair comes from a talented family
There are many women in WWE at present who already had a head start when they signed for WWE, because their family had links to the business. The most obvious example of this is The Queen Charlotte Flair, whose father is a two-time WWE Hall of Famer.
Bianca Belair didn't have any links to the wrestling business or any experience as part of the company when she was signed almost five years ago, but she did have some links when it comes to entertainment.
There aren't many fans who can argue that Bianca Belair isn't one of the most entertaining WWE stars on the mic or has enough character to push her gimmick forward, and it appears that she could have gotten that gene from her father.
As part of her latest Chronicle on the WWE Network, Belair revealed that her father was once part of a group called The Blair Brothers alongside her uncles, and that was how he was able to earn an income for the first few years that Bianca was alive.
Whilst the group didn't reach the dizzy heights of the bands at that time, Belair's father earned enough to support his family for several years.
#4. Bianca Belair admitted that she has had some dark times in her life
Bianca Belair is currently a role model for many of the women who watch WWE on a regular basis and several little girls who are looking to follow in her footsteps. Whilst The EST of WWE has created an on-screen persona for herself, she was able to talk about her life in-depth as part of her Chronicle on the WWE Network, where she revealed that she has had some dark times.
Belair admitted there was a time when she was in college, away from home and she was struggling, when she actually attempted suicide. It was something that led to her being admitted to a psychiatric hospital and her family being able to rally around and bring her back home, so that she could get the help that she needed.
Bianca Belair didn't compete as an athlete for a while after this but was able to get back into sport when she saw Crossfit athletes online and recalled that she wanted to be like them.
#3. Bianca Belair struggled with bulimia when she was younger
There are many young men and women in sport at present who are pushing their bodies to the limit to be the best, which is a level that Bianca Belair was once at.
The current WWE Superstar was a track athlete in college and admitted that she had a horrible trainer at the time who would refer to her as the "fat girl" in her track team, which led to her developing an eating disorder.
Fellow WWE star Alexa Bliss has spoken openly about her battle with Anorexia when she was growing up and competing as a cheerleader, and it appears that the competition to be as small as the other women was what fueled Belair's eating disorder as well.
Whilst Bianca Belair has managed to put those days behind her, she was able to open up about them on her recent Chronicle on the WWE Network which will have helped many other women who look up to The EST of WWE and can relate to her struggle.
#2. Bianca Belair struggles with "Shifting Rib Syndrome"
Bianca Belair has been able to show off her athleticism and incredible strength throughout her time in WWE in recent years, but whilst Belair has earned her EST of WWE moniker, it hasn't come without its own struggles.
Belair struggled with "shifting rib syndrome" whilst competing as a CrossFit athlete. This is a condition where a person's lower ribs shift as they move and it creates pain in the upper abdomen and chest. This caused a lot of issues for Belair, who noted in a recent interview that she struggled to overcome the condition alongside competition as an athlete.
“It really just hit me hard because I really felt like I had found my next step. It was opening doors for other things. I had people contacting me to be on reality TV shows like American Ninja Warrior. I thought it was really going somewhere, and then it all completely stopped. … It literally felt like it crippled me.”
It appears that Bianca Belair has put the issue behind her since joining WWE or has at least found a way to control it.
#1. Bianca Belair revealed Montez Ford's opening line when the couple met
Bianca Belair and Montez Ford are currently one of WWE's most popular couples after meeting at the company's Performance Center and going on to marry just two years later.
The couple is now on SmackDown and has worked together on WWE TV previously, as part of a feud with Zelina Vega, which initially brought Belair to the main roster.
While the couple is very open about their relationship publicly, one fact that Belair only disclosed recently was how Montez Ford reacted when he decided that he liked her.
Bianca Belair recalled that the former Tag Team Champion came over to her and told her that he liked her make-up, which she thought was strange for a male Superstar. Ford went on to admit that he did like her make-up at the time.
It appears that even though it was a strange first interaction for the duo, the couple has gone on to marry, and both have become successful Superstars on WWE's main roster in recent years.
