{"id":14264,"date":"2018-02-14T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2018-02-14T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T01:12:00","slug":"wwe-signs-former-impact-star-mahabali-shera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/02\/14\/wwe-signs-former-impact-star-mahabali-shera\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Signs Former Impact Star Mahabali Shera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Indian star <strong>Mahabali Shera<\/strong> as the next <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> star to switch companies as today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wwenxt\/article\/indian-wrestler-amanpreet-singh-reports-to-wwe-performance-center\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE announced<\/a> that Shera &#8211; real name\u00a0Amanpreet Singh &#8211; had signed an NXT contract and reported to the WWE Performance Center today. In the release, Singh stated &#8220;\u201cI came to the U.S. with the dream that someday, I am going to make my country proud. I would consider myself fortunate if I am able to become a positive role model for the youngsters of my country and impact lives. I don\u2019t think I can find a better platform than WWE to empower myself to empower others, especially those back at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14266\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14266\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/20180213_AmanpreetSingh_WWEPC-42b912d5822217a96d087110d08c2c15-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amanpreet Singh is a former Indian bodybuilder who turned to pro wrestling in 2011, after being selected by Impact Wrestling for their then India-only project, <strong>Ring Ka King<\/strong>, where he competed in the RKK Heavyweight Championship tournament as <strong>Mahabali Veera<\/strong>. While he wouldn&#8217;t win it in the tournament (TNA star <strong>Matt Morgan<\/strong> won it), he would eventually win the title in 2012, defeating <strong>Nick Aldis<\/strong> (then <strong>Magnus<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14265\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14265\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/DH-LleRWsAAU0lO-e1518656270371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Impact Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He debuted with Impact Wrestling in 2015 as <strong>Koya<\/strong>, the new muscle for <strong>James Storm<\/strong>&#8216;s new faction <strong>The Revolution<\/strong>, alongside <strong>The Great Sanada<\/strong> (now simply <strong>SANADA<\/strong> in NJPW) and <strong>Manik<\/strong> (current WWE Superstar <strong>TJ Perkins<\/strong>). He would eventually turn on the stable and return to a modified version of his RKK name, Mahabali Shera. During his time with Impact, he also worked several indie promotions, including<strong> WAW<\/strong> and <strong>British Empire Wrestling (BEW)<\/strong> in the UK, <strong>XICW<\/strong> in Detroit, and <strong>Destiny World Wrestling<\/strong> in Toronto. Shera was quietly released from Impact Wrestling last September. In his final match on Impact Wrestling on September 21, 2017, he was squashed by <strong>Kongo Kong<\/strong>, although he would end his stay with Impact with back to back wins against <strong>The Cult of Lee<\/strong> (Trevor Lee and Caleb Konley) on episodes of <em><strong>Impact X-Plosion<\/strong><\/em> in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Indian star Mahabali Shera as the next Impact Wrestling star to switch companies as today the WWE announced that Shera &#8211; real name\u00a0Amanpreet Singh &#8211; had signed an NXT contract and reported to the WWE Performance Center today. In the release, Singh stated &#8220;\u201cI came to the U.S. with the dream that someday, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":14267,"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":[2,5,3],"tags":[226,823,116,798],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-mahabali-shera","tag-nxt","tag-wwe-performance-center"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}