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Nixon Newell Makes NXT Debut After One Year Off To Injury

At last night’s NXT Live Event in Venice, Florida, Welsh indie star Nixon Newell finally made her heavily anticipated NXT debut, teaming with Dakota Kai to face Vanessa Borne & Reina Gonzalez. Billed as Steffanie Newell (her real name), it marked almost one year to the date that Newell last performed. One of the early favourites to win the inaugural Mae Young Classic last year when she was an early announcement, a torn ACL sustained shortly after her arrival at the WWE Performance Center last June put her on the shelf for ten months. Her last match was April 30, 2017 against Joey Ryan with IPW:UK for the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhiR2uPF1RW/

Nixon Newell was one of the UK scene’s most promising young stars when the 22-year old went down to injury at the start of the summer. Debuting in 2013, by 2015, she was working all the top promotions in Europe, including PROGRESS, ICW, Pro Wrestling EVE, OTT, Germany’s wXw, as well as her regular grounds of Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE) and Wales’ ATTACK! (which is owned by Pete Dunne and Mark Andrews). She also worked with Stardom in Japan and SHIMMER in the United States. She’s been wrestling since her teens and came to the WWE as a 3x ATTACK! 24/7 Champion, SWE Queen of Southside and SWE Tag Team Champion, and WCPW (now Defiant) Women’s Champion.

Other wrestlers and personalities began to tweet their support and excitement of Newell’s return to the ring.

https://twitter.com/DakotaKai_WWE/status/985187875108114432

https://twitter.com/JoeyRyanOnline/status/985146370087636992

https://twitter.com/Flash_Morgan/status/985185229638979584

https://twitter.com/Glen_Joseph/status/984975457601941504

SOME MATCHES FROM HER PRE-NXT CAREER

 

Jamie Greer

Jamie Greer

Jamie Greer joined LWOPW in 2015 and was the site's Managing Editor from 2016 through 2020. After handing over ME duties to Alex Richards, he remains a frequent contributor to the site. He's also written for Pro Wrestling Illustrated, WrestleZone, The Windsor Star, and other publications. He lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with his wife and son.

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