{"id":39553,"date":"2019-03-01T15:27:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=39553"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:40:32","slug":"breaking-madison-rayne-returning-to-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/01\/breaking-madison-rayne-returning-to-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Madison Rayne Returning to IMPACT Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after it was reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/02\/28\/madison-rayne-departs-ring-of-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Madison Rayne<\/strong> was leaving Ring of Honor&#8217;s Women of Honor due to unhappiness with the creative direction<\/a>, <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> announced that their five-time Knockouts champion would be returning to the company.<\/p>\n<p>While the 33-year-old Rayne is recently known for her time in WOH as well as competing in <strong>WWE<\/strong>&#8216;s second annual <em><strong>Mae Young Classic<\/strong><\/em> and taking part in <em><strong>All In<\/strong><\/em>, the bulk of her career has been spent with TNA\/IMPACT Wrestling. Rayne first debuted for the company in 2008 and became a full-time member of the roster a year later.<\/p>\n<p>The current <strong>Remix Pro<\/strong> Fury Champion and <strong>International Wrestling Cartel<\/strong> Women&#8217;s Champion, Rayne is one of the most successful Knockouts in history, recording five singles title reigns and two with the tag team championships, the first alongside <strong>Lacey von Erich<\/strong> and <strong>Velvet Sky<\/strong> as the\u00a0<strong>Beautiful\u00a0People<\/strong> and most recently in 2012, with <strong>Gail Kim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, after nine-plus years with the company, Rayne departed for WOH, where she spent just six months. Now, she&#8217;ll be making her return to a brand new Knockouts division which features the potential for her to take on a mentorship role and work with some fresh faces. Before departing the company last year, Rayne had begun doing this, working both on the\u00a0creative team and in a commentary role. It is unknown at this time what her responsibilities will be in her return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: 5 time Knockouts Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadisonRayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MadisonRayne<\/a> is returning to IMPACT Wrestling! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4eHff9cVL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4eHff9cVL8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1101574695072251910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While many speculated Rayne might head to <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong>, she&#8217;s decided to come home instead, doing so at a time where the Knockouts division is as good as it&#8217;s ever been. Her re-addition to the roster will only make it better as Rayne will bring veteran leadership in the locker room as well as in the ring, where she&#8217;ll have opportunities to face the new ladies such as current Knockouts champion <strong>Taya Valkyrie<\/strong>, who she&#8217;s only shared the ring with once and <strong>Jordynne Grace\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Scarlett Bordeaux<\/strong>, both of which would be first-time ever matchups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after it was reported that Madison Rayne was leaving Ring of Honor&#8217;s Women of Honor due to unhappiness with the creative direction, IMPACT Wrestling announced that their five-time Knockouts champion would be returning to the company. While the 33-year-old Rayne is recently known for her time in WOH as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":39555,"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":[2,7,12,6,2192,321,317],"tags":[226,593,1792,1331,1594],"class_list":["post-39553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","category-tna-knockouts","category-women","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-knockouts","tag-knockouts-championship","tag-knockouts-division","tag-madison-rayne"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553","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\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}