#Tyler Reks

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Tuft has made it clear she’s willing to lace her boots back up and re-debut — not as the “monster of a male” she says she once was, but as a trans athlete who loves her body." If he really wants to show he's not a "monster of a male" he would only go against oppents who went through male puberty. Or switch to the other wrestling company that does have TIM performers.

BY SAMANTHA RIEDEL December 8, 2023

Former pro wrestler Gabbi Tuft says she wants to return to a WWE ring “very shortly” and face one of the company’s biggest stars, two years after publicly coming out as transgender.

Tuft, who underwent open-heart surgery in 2019, revealed to TV Insider she recently stepped between the ropes for the first time in over a decade while visiting a training school owned by industry veteran Dustin Rhodes (formerly known as Goldust). “Since I did that there has been a huge resurgence and feeling for what I love,” Tuft said, adding that she was actively seeking medical clearance to compete once more.

“I said to my doctor, ‘Hey, review my scans. Am I clear to go wrestle if I want?’” Tuft said. “I’m hoping to hear back from [them] this week to see if I’m a hundred percent clear. If that’s the case, very shortly I may resume training.”

In her original run with WWE from 2008 to 2012, Tuft wrestled under the moniker “Tyler Reks,” a troublemaking villain or “heel” who played a reliable foil to the company’s heroes. As Reks, Tuft faced off against numerous high-profile male stars of the era, some of whom are still active in WWE, like Kofi Kingston, The Usos, and (somehow) CM Punk. In her comments to TV Insider, Tuft praised one potential future opponent who’s rocketed to wrestling fame and Sapphic adoration over the past few years: Rhea Ripley.

Ripley, the current Women’s World Champion and resident leather-clad demoness of the “Judgement Day” team, has become a huge breakout star over the past few years, appealing especially to queer wrestling fans who dig black lipstick and shoulders. (It helps that calling her “mami” and/or “papi” is, according to WWE’s storytelling, canonically appropriate.) Ripley “is such a force in WWE. She is powerful,” Tufts told TV Insider. “To be honest, when I look at her and her athleticism and tenacity, I see a phenomenal opponent. A phenomenal match in the making.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Tuft praised fellow trans wrestlers Nyla Rose and Gisele Shaw, who perform in All Elite Wrestling and Impact Wrestling (soon to be rebranded TNA, again) respectively. “I love Nyla and Gisele [....] It’s incredible to see them part of the women’s division,” Tuft said, hinting she feels “like there is a spot there for WWE” to finally introduce an out trans wrestler.

“You haven’t seen it there yet. It’s raising questions as to why. Are they waiting for the right opportunity?” Tuft wondered. “It’s definitely a question in my mind. Maybe someday there is someone who can fill that hole very soon.”

Although WWE has yet to feature an openly trans or nonbinary wrestler on TV (and no, “Santina” and other comic-relief drag characters don’t count), the company has slowly opened its doors to queer authenticity, both in and out of the ring. WWE wrestler Steffanie “Tegan Nox” Newell came out as bisexual in 2020, followed by ring announcer Kayla Braxton the next year, while lesbian star Daria “Sonya DeVille” Berenato got engaged to her “ride or die” partner this February. (Kimberly “Piper Nevin” Benson made a coming-out post in 2019, but has since deleted it and hasn’t discussed her sexuality since.) And while WWE’s stories about gay relationships can get, uh, messy, Tuft is right to point out that the company could just hire a trans wrestler and let them wrestle, much as AEW has with Nyla Rose.

Whenever WWE is ready, Tuft has made it clear she’s willing to lace her boots back up and re-debut — not as the “monster of a male” she says she once was, but as a trans athlete who loves her body.

“[T]he day I stopped caring about what other people thought, was the day I truly became limitless,” Tuft wrote in her 2021 coming-out post. Alas, “limitless” is already taken as a wrestling catchphrase, but if Tuft does get cleared for an in-ring return, we’ll be first in line to get her merch regardless.

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Need I remind you that it was CM Punk who twisted the events at All In and said that he calmly approached Jack and said ‘he didn’t punch anybody’ or how it was Punk who leaked to Fiteful saying that Jack pushed and bumped Punk first and Punk retaliated with a chokehold? He waited until Jack calmly put his hands in his hair to throw a punch. Jack backed up. Then Punk grabbed Jack’s hair in order to put him in a headlock ie not a sleeper. Jack stepped out. And then Punk threw more punches before Joe, Hook, Hero, and the ref grabbed them both. Shit lasted a couple seconds. But not before Punk lunged at Tony and knocked over monitors. And no, this was not the incident that made Tony fear for his life. That happened after Punk’s match with Samoa Joe.

Jack Perry did nothing wrong.

Like it was Punk who leaked that story to Nick Hausman about the story regarding real glass to save face after he went on another tangent to burry Hangman Adam Page. That is why Jack was mad. He leaked a story that made Jack look bad so Punk could make himself look better. In hindsight, I am starting to believe it was Punk that was spreading stories about AEW like wildfire to the press. Before Punk, there were rarely any leaks that didn’t involve Sammy Guevara. It’s no wonder that since then, no story has been leaked. No locker room gossip. Nothing.

Punk was a condescending piece of shit in a company built on the idea that the type of hierarchy where top guys like Cena threatening Gabbi Tuft, then Tyler Reks. That is why Hangman broke script to begin with and what that promo was about. Punk kept needling at everyone backstage and bring a piece of shit. And Page saw the culture change with Punk openly disrespecting his peers and pushing people off of AEW like Colt Cabana and using his position to get his way.

Now I’m questioning Brawl Out. I starting to think that the Elite didn’t kick down that door and start that fight. Now I think hotheaded and paranoid Punk escalated that confrontation after the Elite went to his locker room. If Punk has shown those little tendencies to twist a story in his favor like saying Jack bumped into him or confronted him or threw the first punch or was condescending to him when we were just shown footage that it was Punk who did it, I am starting to think Punk was always the problem. In fact, him getting ousted from WWE the first time is starting to make sense. Punk is a carny piece of shit with a fragile ego.

Tony should have not punished Jack at all. He should have fired Punk from the jump.

Should the footage have been shown? Yes. Punk is a fucking lying narcissist who prides himself on being the realest yet he,under the guise of being some guiding veteran, tried to sabotage Perry’s career and reputation. For months, Jack has been made out like some little bitch and all he did was back away and let some 40+ year old man throw a tantrum. The Scapegoat moniker makes sense. Maybe they should have released it online.

They didn’t mention Punk once. The Bucks have been referencing Jack for weeks now since they started this EVP gimmick. Their angle was to accuse FTR of only beating them at All In because of what happened with Jack while redeeming Jack and welcoming him into the Elite. That’s the story. At the same time, it was petty. Will this convince Pepsiman diehards? No.

And this had nothing to do with WWE. It had to do with a former disgruntled employee who lied. Good fucking riddance.

That being said, this show was uncharacteristically mid. The Jerichoverse should die and Mox, Page, O’ Reilly, Thunder Rosa, or fucking someone should have had a ten minute match. The card was disappointing overall.

But regardless, we can stop creating fanfic about this stupid overblown event. If Punk were anyone else, he would have been blackballed from wrestling along with Teddy Hart. There is no excuse for attacking your fellow employee. If it were anyone else, Punk would have been arrested for assault.

Still would have preferred to see a Takeshita match.

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So for an outsider who's just watching 911 without really engaging in the fandom and who likes Tommy and Lou (your blog is the only one I follow) how bad is the fandom about Tommy right now? Like, is it St3rek bad? Or is it a loud minority? I'm just not getting their outrage.

Assuming this means your primary point of reference is Teen Wolf fandom: it’s about the level of how toxic St*rek fans (who were also a small minority in the TW fandom) treated Braeden, just replace “bed warmer” with “plot device” it’s not quite How They Treated Tyler Posey levels yet.

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Have y’all seen Gabi Tuft (fka Tyler Reks) training to compete in ring again??? I hope I HOPE she comes back to WWE bc she’s been training with Nattie and TJ 🥹 oh I would love so much to see her in a ring again regardless where at tho. I just love her 😭😭😭

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i don't think i ever found tyler h*chlin attractive specially cause white gays here like him but it has gotten worse, like after some years here he straight up makes me wretch and that's because there's like two whole other sides of tumblr that are weirdly at odds but also sometimes meet and they intersect as well with the sk*m boys which have also started to have some reactions in me, and well im talking about the overlap between the white gay side of tumblr and the pedophile one, the former usually perceived by white skin everywhere, white western media all over the place, specially white gays living affluent lives, white girlbosses, so much aave butchered, and ofc tyler fucking h*echlin, and a host of other white actors that look like bearded chris ev*ns and it's just soo...... 2012 you know??? like these faggots are maga about the 2010s and its just so funny but also disgusting and like i said it's an overlap but it's with three very notable things, ster*k, sk*m and sh*meless since ian starts the series as a teenager in a relationship with an older man i can see why these freaks would latch onto it, and it's so pervasive to see that these things are signals for pedophiles here and so now i just have visceral reactions to them and it's not their fault really, like any of these pieces of media but in the end i do have to wonder how much are the fans making it worse because fandom always made sure to find romance in a lot of ian's fucked up relationships as well as st*rek and if you ask me even and isak became the picture perfect fetish of this site since they represent the epitome of the thinly veiled white supremacy that is part of all these gay representations and its like, do they know they're gateways to pedophiles? do they know they're representative of them in this site and if so? what can we do when they have had it normalized for so many years to the point they've validated all wrongdoings through the lens of fandom participation and in the name of romance and love while obscuring the roots of their so called love of these pieces of media. i genuinely think it's creepy that adults keep making content of these series more often than not sexual, romanticizing their youth, and a lot of grooming in the case of st*rek, and with isak and even the voyeurism of both their youth, looks and mental illness is so damn transparent like fuck idk what to say anymore, these are patterns ive noticed everytime i find some porn blog with too many white twinks, follow the chain of reblogs and usually you find hundreds more of pedophiles, with these white twinks starting to blur age lines till they're no longer blurred and it's actual fucking child porn, and the times they follow any of these fandoms' blogs it's so overwhelming and it is making me insane, i was abused so young and i thought it was an anomaly but growing up has shown me the opposite and it's goddamn exhausting to have to reframe all of this cruelty over and over again and the fact that twitter and this shithole allow them to commune and thrive???? this is hell

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While Tyler Reks might have been a blip on the WWE radar, Gabbi Tuft is one awesome lady.

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Gabbi Tuft's Journey from Tyler Reks to WWE's First Openly Transgender Star

Three years ago, a pivotal moment unfolded in Gabbi Tuft’s life. She publicly announced herself as transgender, making history as the first WWE member to do so. Before this, she was widely recognized as the wrestler Tyler Reks. Now Gabbi aims to demonstrate to others that they don’t need to pay attention to how others perceive them. She wants to convey to people that it is never too late to…

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Former WWE Star Gabbi Tuft Announces In-Ring Return

One big thing: Gabbi Tuft set for wrestling comeback Former WWE star Gabbi Tuft, previously known as Tyler Reks, has announced her return to professional wrestling after a long hiatus. • Tuft will make her in-ring comeback on June 25 at West Coast Pro Wrestling’s “Killin’ Them Softly” event in Irvine, California.• The match will air later on West Coast Pro Wrestling and United Wrestling Network…

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probably not, there's already a trans woman wrestler named Nyla Rose who wrestles women in AEW. granted, that's a different promotion, but I doubt WWE will be any different with trans wrestlers. but also Tyler Reks is retired, and hasn't wrestled since 2014 (in the independent circuit no less). I also think he came out a few years ago now.

The timing of the "announcement" is more interesting as Vince McMahon is being sued for sex trafficking by a former female wrestler at the moment. Drumming up "wow look at Reks transition process!" seems like a way to distract the more notable story.

Tuft is now eyeing a return to the wrestling ring

fighting other men right? right???

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If anyone remembers the former Tyler Reks in WWE today they’ve announced they’ve transitioned, now Gabbi Tuft.

Good for her, hope she’s happy.

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And like of COURSE we know why people are still insistent that Tyler is Actually Straight. Because the entire justification for a decade of hate for the man hinges on him disliking St*rek. If he hates it as a straight man then he’s Just Homophobic but if he hates it as a queer man then the foundational argument of how Sterek would be So Good for Representation (keep in mind this was 2014) falls apart and they can’t have that! So, naturally, they have to “prove” his Kinsey 0 status at all costs. It’s just impressive that they’re still at it after 9 years.

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NXT Flashback - Percy Watson vs Tyler Reks