{"id":109962,"date":"2022-02-13T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=109962"},"modified":"2022-02-13T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:52:32","slug":"nick-wayne-aew-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/13\/nick-wayne-aew-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wayne Offered AEW Contract at DEFY Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standout PNW indie DEFY Wrestling held their<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/10\/preview-defy-wrestling-year-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> fifth-anniversary show<\/a> with a main event that saw Christopher Daniels defend the Interim DEFY Championship against budding star Nick Wayne, Wayne is a third-generation prodigy of pro wrestling.\u00a0 While the match between Daniels and Wayne drew plaudits from the live crowd it is what happened afterward that whipped everyone into a frenzy.\u00a0 AEW star Darby Allin made his way to the ring holding an AEW contract for Nick Wayne, which Wayne was happy to accept.\u00a0 AEW&#8217;s social media has not yet confirmed the signing but Wayne did accept the offer.<\/p>\n<h2>Nick Wayne Agrees to Join AEW<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Darby just presented Nick with an AEW contract <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AAwA9VyrLU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/AAwA9VyrLU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanalvarez\/status\/1492754624964530179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wayne is not even 18 yet but he has been gaining a following on the independent scene thanks to his standout work in places like DEFY and Game Changer Wrestling (GCW).\u00a0 Wayne recently had a major jump in notoriety following a match with AEW&#8217;s Joey Janela that received rave reviews, and was late put on YouTube by DEFY for free viewing. Nobody can say for sure but you would have to think that this showing opposite Janela went a long way to Wayne being offered a deal by AEW.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joey Janela Vs Nick Wayne | DEFYNOW | NOV. 25, 2021\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIFiWzb0iEI?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>AEW&#8217;s future is very secure.\u00a0 Nick Wayne is yet another prospect that the promotion can file away for the future, getting to train with AEW and presumably getting some added experience on Dark\/Dark: Elevation will go a long way to aiding his development as the years tick on.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;18865&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\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.<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 You can see more from DEFY Wrestling via <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/defyondemand.vhx.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DEFY on Demand<\/a> including the bout between Wayne and Daniels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standout PNW indie DEFY Wrestling held their fifth-anniversary show with a main event that saw Christopher Daniels defend the Interim DEFY Championship against budding star Nick Wayne, Wayne is a third-generation prodigy of pro wrestling.\u00a0 While the match between Daniels and Wayne drew plaudits from the live crowd it is what happened afterward that whipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":99766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2129,315,7234,7960],"class_list":["post-109962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-defy","tag-independent-wrestling","tag-independent-wrestling-news","tag-nick-wayne"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109962","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=109962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}