{"id":682587,"date":"2026-03-26T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/682587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:00:14","slug":"lash-legend-wants-to-recruit-67-wnba-star-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/682587\/","title":{"rendered":"Lash Legend Wants to Recruit 6&#8217;7&#8243; WNBA Star to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before she was successful in the wrestling ring, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/tag\/lash-legend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lash Legend<\/a> was a force to be reckoned with in the world of basketball, and opened up about who she might want to recruit from that world in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a recent appearance on the Battleground Podcast, Legend was asked which WNBA star she\u2019d like to recruit to the world of WWE. Legend was quick to point to Teaira McCowan, a player currently playing for Fenerbah\u00e7e of the EuroLeague Women and Turkish Super League, and who previously played for the Dallas Wings from 2022-25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played at Mississippi State, and she\u2019s just a stallion, and I feel like everybody would be scared of her,\u201d said Legend. \u201cAnd she\u2019s for real strong, she\u2019s not no lanky center, she would come in here and really dominate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her time in WWE, Legend was an accomplished basketball player. She played college basketball at both Texas A&amp;M and Mississippi State, the latter of which saw her earn first-team All-SEC honors. In 2019, Legend (real name Anriel Howard) was drafted 24th in the WNBA Draft, and played for the Seattle Storm briefly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she and Nia Jax reign as WWE Women\u2019s Tag Team Champions. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1627613-wwe-wrestlemania-42-womens-tag-title-current-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Current Plans For WWE WrestleMania 42\u2019s Women\u2019s Tag Title Match \u2014 Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before she was successful in the wrestling ring, Lash Legend was a force to be reckoned with in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":682588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[286802,62,67,132,68,232,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-682587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-lash-legend","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba","14":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116294190815033777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}