Tay Melo
| Tay Melo | |
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Melo in March 2024 | |
| Birth name | Taynara Melo de Carvalho |
| Born | June 9, 1995 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Children | 1 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Tay Conti Tay Melo Taynara Conti Taynara Melo |
| Billed height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) |
| Billed from | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Trained by | Dustin Rhodes WWE Performance Center |
| Debut | April 1, 2017 |
Taynara Melo Guevara (née de Carvalho and formerly Conti; born June 9, 1995) is a Brazilian professional wrestler and judoka. She has been signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since September 2020, where she performs under the ring name Tay Melo (/ˈtaɪ/). In AEW, she has often performed in a tag team with Anna Jay as TayJay.
Prior to joining AEW, Melo performed for WWE's NXT brand as Taynara Conti from 2017 to 2020. Through a partnership with AEW in 2022, she also appeared in the Mexican promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where she was a former one-time AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion with real life husband Sammy Guevara as members of AEW's Jericho Appreciation Society stable. She took a maternity leave from AEW in January 2023 and made her in-ring return at an event for AEW's Japanese partner promotion, World Wonder Ring Stardom, in January 2025 before making her return to AEW that June.