Looks like Rachel Evers is the latest departure from NXT as she returned her Twitter account to her real name, Rachael Ellering, and tweeted a video highlighting her NXT and indie career before stating “Rachael Ellering – Don’t Call It A Comeback”. Stylistically, it was very similar to the video that her real-life significant other Kassius Ohno was released and returned as Chris Hero. With WWE reportedly relaxing their stance about requested releases, Ellering could very well have asked for her release and not necessarily been an expected WWE release.
https://twitter.com/RachaelEversWWE/status/1260707246239027201
After years on the indies, the second-generation wrestler and daughter of WWE Hall of Famer “Precious” Paul Ellering, Rachael Ellering finally signed with WWE as part of their January 2019 Class at the WWE Performance Center. But much like another recent release, Deonna Purrazzo, Ellering – rebranded as Rachel Evers – was used more on TV in her pre-signing enhancement days than while under contract.
In 2015, she trained with Lance Strom at his Storm Wrestling Academy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, making her start in the Western Canadian indie scene with Edmonton’s Prairie Wrestling Alliance (PWA). The following year she began working for Shine Wrestling and Queens of Combat (QOC), as well as WrestleCircus, IWA Mid South, and a dark match with Ring of Honor. She also made three appearances on NXT in 2016, in losses to Alexa Bliss, Liv Morgan, and Ember Moon.
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In 2017, she expanded even further nationally, adding the likes of SHIMMER, AAW Pro, RISE Wrestling, Wrestling Revolver, and more in the US indies, as well as competing twice with IMPACT Wrestling in matches against Sienna (Allysin Kay) and Laurel Van Ness (Chelsea Green). She also competed in the inaugural WWE Mae Young Classic, defeating Marti Belle in the first round before bowing out to Abbey Laith (now IMPACT’s Kimber Lee) in the second. She continued to expand as a national indie star working coast to coast.
That December, she headed to Japan to make her debut with Stardom. She had two tours of Stardom, the winter of 2017/2018 and then again that summer, competing in the 2018 Stardom 5*STAR Grand Prix. She competed in the second annual Mae Young Classic that year as well but lost in the opening round to joshi star Hiroyo Matsumoto.
After joining WWE in January of 2019, she began working the NXT Live Event circuits in March of that year, and by July was working alongside Deonna Purrazzo and Chelsea Green, in a new unit called VXT. But just days after the group’s debut on the Live Events, Rachael Ellering was injured, tearing her MCL. That July 27, 2019 match against Kayden Carter would be her final WWE match.
With her seeming exit from the company, she will only add to a huge crop of free agents heading out into the ever-shifting pro wrestling landscape, with healthier competition in the majors, and strengthening indie boom that could use a few reinforcements every now and then.
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