{"id":100491,"date":"2021-10-15T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=100491"},"modified":"2021-10-15T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:21:53","slug":"lee-moriarty-is-all-elite-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/15\/lee-moriarty-is-all-elite-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Moriarty is All Elite, Signs With AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive news went down earlier this evening as it was confirmed that Lee Moriarty signed with AEW. Last month, during Moriarty&#8217;s early days with AEW, company owner Tony Khan offered the contract to him following a match with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wrestling\/2021\/03\/21\/daniel-garcia-named-limitless-champion\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Garcia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>earlier in the show. Moriarty has been impressive on AEW Dark, not only against Garcia but <strong>Dante Martin\u00a0<\/strong>and others. Now, it&#8217;s been confirmed that Lee Moriarty is All Elite.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the team&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theleemoriarty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@theLeeMoriarty<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AllElite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qcgHU4uFbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qcgHU4uFbb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1449193124300050433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Lee Moriarty is All Elite<\/h2>\n<p>Lee Moriarty was considered one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/21\/indie-watch-the-apex-of-combat-lee-moriarty-set-to-soar\/\" target=\"_self\">hottest free agents<\/a> in all of wrestling following his explosion in popularity last summer after making his debut for\u00a0<strong>Game Changer Wrestling <\/strong>(GCW). Moriarty first gained buzz in <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>(AIW) thanks to some matches with\u00a0<strong>Alex Shelley\u00a0<\/strong>in the promotion but it was GCW that catapulted him to prominence.\u00a0 Moriarty took that attention and became one of the most sought-after indie stars of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] Wheeler YUTA v Lee Moriarty | Beyond Wrestling #TwoWeeksNotice (Ring Of Honor ROH Pure)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sWSB5qLu2VE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just on the indies where Moriarty has excelled, he has appeared in <strong>IMPACT! Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>in the past, been drafted to\u00a0<strong>Major League Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>(MLW) where he took part in the Battle Riot, and even wrestled for\u00a0<strong>Ring Of Honor\u00a0<\/strong>on their\u00a0<em>Death Before Dishonor\u00a0<\/em>event. Moriarty has clearly been a name in demand in the professional wrestling industry who has acquitted himself well everywhere he&#8217;s been. AEW continues to pick up the top free agents in pro wrestling and Lee Moriarty will definitely not be the last.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive news went down earlier this evening as it was confirmed that Lee Moriarty signed with AEW. Last month, during Moriarty&#8217;s early days with AEW, company owner Tony Khan offered the contract to him following a match with Daniel Garcia\u00a0earlier in the show. Moriarty has been impressive on AEW Dark, not only against Garcia but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":86251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,12,6,2192],"tags":[6165],"class_list":["post-100491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-lee-moriarty"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}