{"id":34828,"date":"2019-01-10T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=34828"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:20:34","slug":"uk-star-viper-reportedly-heading-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/10\/uk-star-viper-reportedly-heading-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Star Viper Reportedly Heading to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the latest <em><strong>Wrestling Observer Radi<\/strong><\/em>o, <strong>Dave Meltzer<\/strong> has stated that UK sensation <strong>Viper<\/strong> &#8211; who competed in the inaugural WWE <strong>Mae Young Classic<\/strong> as <strong>Piper Nive<\/strong>n &#8211; has turned down an offer from the new <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong> and will be heading to the WWE when her current deal with <strong>World of Sport<\/strong> expires sometime in the coming months. Many were surprised\u00a0the standout from the first Mae Young Classic wasn&#8217;t announced for the NXT UK brand last year, but it turned out she had committed to World of Sport&#8217;s reboot this past year instead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Piper Niven vs. Toni Storm- Quarterfinal Match: Mae Young Classic, Sept. 6, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwFDjxT8Lf4?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>The 27-year old from Ayrshire, Scotland has been wrestling since she was only 16, coming out of the <strong>Source Wrestling School,<\/strong> where she was trained by <strong>Mikey Whiplash<\/strong> and WWE Superstar <strong>Killian Dain<\/strong> (formerly Big Damo). She soon debuted with the <strong>Scottish Wrestling Alliance (SWA)<\/strong> in 2009, and then <strong>Pro Wrestling EVE<\/strong> in 2011. She really broke out in the UK scene in 2013, when she began to work regularly with <strong>Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW)<\/strong>, and has since gone on to work for <strong>SHIMMER<\/strong> and <strong>Shine<\/strong> in the US, as well as other British promotions like <strong>Defiant Wrestling, Preston City Wrestling (PCW)<\/strong>, and <strong>Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SWE - Nikki Storm v Viper\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JwKuzFPsPxg?start=129&#038;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>In 2016, she travelled to Japan to begin working with <strong>Stardom<\/strong>, the country&#8217;s top\u00a0<em>joshi<\/em> promotion, where she still works regularly. She&#8217;s also worked more in the US, with <strong>Bar Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>RISE<\/strong>, as well as in Germany with <strong>Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw).<\/strong> Viper is the current reigning EVE International Champion and Stardom Wrestling Alliance (SWA) Undisputed World Women&#8217;s Champion, and is a former 2x ICW Women&#8217;s Champion. With Viper reportedly WWE bound in the coming months, it will be interesting to see if her best friend, another former Mae Young Classic and NXT competitor,<strong> Kay Lee Ray<\/strong>, will join Viper in NXT UK when her own WOS deal expires, or if she&#8217;ll take the chance with AEW.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWE Wrestler Uses Thousands of Thumbtacks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3E-zb0rZZhE?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer has stated that UK sensation Viper &#8211; who competed in the inaugural WWE Mae Young Classic as Piper Niven &#8211; has turned down an offer from the new All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and will be heading to the WWE when her current deal with World of Sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":34830,"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":[2,317,3,320],"tags":[2868,1574,1573],"class_list":["post-34828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-nxt-uk","tag-piper-niven","tag-viper"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828","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=34828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}