Cathy Kelley says her Mensa membership, the one she famously used to out-score Logan Paul on WWE’s The Bump, traces back to a troll in her podcast comments more than a decade ago.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet, the WWE SmackDown interviewer explained the origin of the IQ test that has become part of her public identity.
“This is like 12 years ago, when I was podcasting and I’d just gotten into wrestling. It was just calling me a dumb c-word. And I decided, because I just love proving people wrong and maybe proving myself right, that I had a really high IQ. So I went and I took the test.”
Kelley scored high enough to qualify for Mensa, the high-IQ society, and has cited a score of 142 in the past. She told Van Vliet she got the membership card mainly to prove the point and no longer pays dues.
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The membership resurfaced in 2024 when Logan Paul, appearing on The Bump, claimed to be the smartest person in WWE. Kelley revealed her score topped his stated 139, a clip that spread widely online.
Despite that, Kelley pushed back on the idea that she is the smartest person in the company.
“I don’t think that I’m the smartest one at WWE. I think the smarter you get, the more that you know that you don’t know everything. And IQ-wise, there are a lot of people who haven’t been tested, so I don’t know.”
Kelley added that she now plays up the intellect as part of her on-air character. The full conversation, which also covered her in-ring ambitions and Performance Center training, is available on Van Vliet’s INSIGHT podcast.