{"id":35914,"date":"2019-01-19T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T03:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=35914"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:59:29","slug":"a-new-nightmare-debuts-at-nxt-live-event-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/19\/a-new-nightmare-debuts-at-nxt-live-event-in-tampa\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Nightmare Debuts at NXT Live Event in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night at an NXT Live Event in Tampa, Florida, a new duo emerged to take on the mixed tag team duo of NXT North American Champion <strong>Ricochet<\/strong> and <strong>Kacy Catanzaro<\/strong>, whom the duo warned would be the &#8220;Worst Nightmare&#8221; for NXT. The duo\u00a0was former NXT UK Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Rhea Ripley<\/strong> pairing up with <strong>Shane Thorne<\/strong>, formerly of <strong>The Mighty<\/strong> alongside <strong>Nick Miller<\/strong> (who <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/12\/14\/nxt-releases-nick-miller-and-tucker-taishan-dong-quits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently got his release from the WWE<\/a> to attend his newborn child in Australia), who has now changed his ring name to <strong>Shane Solo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h1>A New Nightmare Debuts at NXT Live Event in Tampa<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RheaRipley_WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RheaRipley_WWE<\/a> is just so Bad Ass\ud83e\udd18<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NXTTampa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NXTTampa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LoveIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LoveIt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pac8xMZ66h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pac8xMZ66h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MattKOTR (@mlking89) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlking89\/status\/1086488794373779456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RheaRipley_WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RheaRipley_WWE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneThorneWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ShaneThorneWWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NXTTampa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NXTTampa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptvRe1J99P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ptvRe1J99P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ashley (@AshleyLiz39) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AshleyLiz39\/status\/1086470255440990208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a very <strong>Chyna<\/strong>-esque\u00a0move, the duo entered the arena with 225 lb. Shane Solo (formerly known as <strong>Shane Haste<\/strong> during his Australia and <strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH<\/strong> days in <strong>The Mighty Don&#8217;t Kneel<\/strong>) perched firmly on Ripley&#8217;s shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/judekilgour\/status\/1086461648217477120<\/p>\n<p>While the new pairing got the loss against Ricochet and Kacy on Friday night, the pairing got quite a bit of buzz from those in attendance and on Social Media, and a partnership could be just the thing to help elevate Shane Solo as a singles star in his own right with Miller gone from the WWE for the foreseeable future (returning to his former moniker of <strong>Mikey Nicholls<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/12\/mcw-vendetta-results-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he&#8217;s already been announced for a return to <strong>Melbourne City Wrestling<\/strong><\/a>). Rhea Ripley has quietly made her return to the NXT circuit regularly in the US since about November, initially defending the NXT UK title at Live Events, and then feuding with <strong>Bianca BelAir<\/strong> at recent events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night at an NXT Live Event in Tampa, Florida, a new duo emerged to take on the mixed tag team duo of NXT North American Champion Ricochet and Kacy Catanzaro, whom the duo warned would be the &#8220;Worst Nightmare&#8221; for NXT. The duo\u00a0was former NXT UK Women&#8217;s Champion Rhea Ripley pairing up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":35916,"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":[2,317,5,3,320],"tags":[116,3041,4276,1932],"class_list":["post-35914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-nxt","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-shane-solo","tag-shane-thorne"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914","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=35914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}