Wren Sinclair’s WWE career may still be taking shape in NXT, but her most meaningful WrestleMania dream reaches back to the very beginning of her time in professional wrestling. The former WWE Women’s Speed Champion has named Jazz as the opponent she would most want to face on WWE’s biggest stage, turning a pivotal teacher-student relationship into a potential full-circle WrestleMania moment.
Sinclair began her WWE journey toward the end of 2023, arriving with several years of prior ring experience. Her professional debut came in 2019 with Mission Pro Wrestling, and the person standing across from her that night was not simply another opponent on the independent scene. It was Jazz, the accomplished veteran who helped train Sinclair at the Hybrid School of Wrestling in San Antonio.
That history makes a potential match more personal than a standard dream bout. Jazz was Sinclair’s first opponent, an instructor who shaped her foundation, and a performer whose reputation for toughness was felt directly by the wrestler she trained. Speaking on Busted Open After Dark, Sinclair made it clear that, when asked to identify the WrestleMania match she wants most, Jazz remains the answer.
“My first person, and I’ll always say this person, my first match ever in this business was against Jazz,” Sinclair said on Busted Open After Dark. “If I could get Jazz at WrestleMania, like, get that girl a new pair of knees and let’s get her in the ring.”
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It is an answer rooted in appreciation as much as ambition. For many wrestlers, a WrestleMania wish list can center on a current champion, a marquee name from the main roster, or a superstar with whom they share an obvious storyline connection. Sinclair’s choice instead points to the person who was there before the WWE exposure, before the NXT platform, and before she held a title in WWE’s Speed division.
Jazz’s role in Sinclair’s development goes beyond having shared the ring in a first match. Sinclair trained under her in San Antonio and has spoken about the intensity that came with that education. She described Jazz as someone who hits hard while acting as if she does not, a detail that captures both the veteran’s physical style and the demanding environment that helped prepare Sinclair for the profession.
There was also no illusion, on Sinclair’s part, that being trained by Jazz would make their first match easy. Jazz reminded her student that even though she had passed along valuable lessons, there was much more knowledge she had kept in reserve. Sinclair recalled hearing that message immediately before they wrestled for the first time.
“But she always reminds me, ‘I taught you some of what I know. Not all of what I know,’” Sinclair said on Busted Open After Dark. “She said that to me right before we had our first match and I’m like, ‘She’s gonna kill me.’”
The story gives Sinclair’s WrestleMania selection a natural emotional framework. A match between the two would not merely revisit a debut opponent. It would revisit the wrestler who taught Sinclair the realities of the ring and then tested her from the other side of it. The student who once entered her first professional match expecting a punishing lesson would return years later as a WWE talent with a much larger stage beneath her.
Sinclair’s comments also underline the lasting importance of wrestling schools and mentors in a performer’s career. WWE fans may know her through NXT and her run as WWE Women’s Speed Champion, but her professional identity was formed before she arrived in the company. A WrestleMania encounter with Jazz would bring that earlier chapter into the WWE spotlight, recognizing an influence that predates Sinclair’s current television profile.
A Separate Main-Roster Dream Match With Chelsea Green
While Jazz is Sinclair’s ultimate sentimental selection, she also identified a different dream opponent when the conversation turned to WWE’s current main roster. Her choice was WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green, a wrestler Sinclair sees as both relatable and remarkably persistent.
Sinclair’s praise for Green was not limited to championship status. She framed Green as somebody whose personality and emotions make her feel accessible, while also emphasizing the resilience that has defined Green’s career. For Sinclair, Green represents the kind of performer who continued moving forward even when recognition did not always come immediately.
“Then she’s just also kind of like unbreakable, not in the literal sense, because her face is broken, but she just keeps going,” Sinclair said on Busted Open After Dark.
That observation speaks to why Green’s path resonates with Sinclair. In describing their careers, Sinclair pointed to what she views as similarities: doing strong work, not always receiving the corresponding reward right away, and eventually making the decision to seize an opportunity rather than wait for validation.
“I definitely see mirrors or slight resemblances in our careers as far as you do good work, and sometimes it’s not always rewarded and she finally decided to take what’s hers and look where that got her,” Sinclair said on Busted Open After Dark.
Green’s current standing as WWE Women’s Champion makes the idea especially straightforward from a competitive perspective. A Sinclair-Green match would place an NXT wrestler with something to prove against a champion whose climb has been built on perseverance. The personal connection Sinclair sees in their respective journeys could give the contest a clear story without requiring either wrestler to abandon the traits that have defined them.
At the same time, Sinclair’s two answers reveal different sides of her goals in WWE. Jazz represents her roots, her first match, and the instructor whose lessons helped build her as a wrestler. Green represents a present-day target: a main-roster champion whose persistence and career trajectory Sinclair can understand from her own perspective.
Those are not competing ambitions. They are complementary ones. One is a tribute to the foundation of Sinclair’s career; the other is an indication of where she wants to go next. WrestleMania, in Sinclair’s ideal scenario, could serve as the setting for either a reunion with the veteran who helped train her or a breakthrough opportunity against a reigning champion.
Sinclair’s Path From Debut to WWE
Sinclair’s first professional match in 2019 came only a few years before she joined WWE near the end of 2023. That relatively direct progression from Mission Pro Wrestling to the NXT system gives added weight to her recollections of Jazz. The person she faced on day one was not an abstract inspiration from a distance; Jazz was directly involved in Sinclair’s preparation and then immediately became the first major challenge of her in-ring career.
That kind of beginning can stay with a wrestler. First matches are often remembered because they represent the point at which training becomes reality. In Sinclair’s case, the match also came with the pressure of working against the trainer who had already warned her that the full scope of her knowledge had not been shared. It was a daunting introduction, but it clearly became a defining memory rather than a deterrent.
Since arriving in WWE, Sinclair has continued building her profile through NXT, with her former reign as WWE Women’s Speed Champion adding a notable accomplishment to her résumé. Her comments about potential WrestleMania opponents show that she is thinking on both a personal and professional level: honoring the people who made her journey possible while also measuring herself against the company’s top names.
A WrestleMania match with Jazz remains a dream rather than an announced WWE plan, and Sinclair’s discussion of Green similarly reflects an aspirational matchup rather than a confirmed program. Still, the choices offer a strong view of what motivates Sinclair. She has not forgotten where she started, and she has not hidden the level she hopes to reach.
For Sinclair, the most meaningful match imaginable would bring her back to the wrestler who stood across the ring from her in 2019 and who helped teach her how to survive there. Her main-roster choice, meanwhile, would test her against Chelsea Green, a champion whose ability to keep pushing forward has made a lasting impression. Whether either bout becomes reality is unknown, but Sinclair has already drawn a clear line between her past, her present in NXT, and the WrestleMania future she hopes to create.
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