{"id":55320,"date":"2019-10-02T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=55320"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:39:13","slug":"mlw-signs-zeda-zhang-to-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/10\/02\/mlw-signs-zeda-zhang-to-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"MLW Signs Zeda Zhang To Multi-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> has promoted the impending debut of the MLW Women&#8217;s Division. Since its reboot in late 2017, while they briefly had women&#8217;s matches, MLW seemed to drop women&#8217;s wrestling all together in the past year or so. But all of that is about to change, as <a href=\"https:\/\/mlw.com\/2019\/10\/02\/zeda-zhang-signs-multi-year-deal-with-mlw\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLW announced<\/a> the first signing for the division, in former NXT Superstar <strong>Zeda Zhang<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55323\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55323\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/EF4NwL7WoAMdeEv-e1570054495183.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: MLW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A former amateur MMA fighter, Julie Ho joined NXT in 2017, working to become a pro wrestler. She appeared in the inaugural <strong>Mae Young Classic<\/strong>, where she was knocked out of the first round by <strong>Shayne Baszler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zeda vs. Shayna Baszler - First Round Match: Mae Young Classic, Aug. 28, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c7Hyu57xs-0?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>Her run with NXT was shortlived and she left WWE in early 2018. Instead of retiring from a sport she hardly spent much time in, she was determined to get herself better, hitting the independent scene. Over the past year, she worked with I Believe In Wrestling in Florida as well as Queens of Combat, PCW ULTRA, and others. She also spent time in China training under CIMA, where she&#8217;s competed with Middle Kingdom Wrestling (MKW) and Singapore Pro Wrestling (SPW). She&#8217;s also competed in Mexico with The Crash Lucha.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8cRkuMBeGkE<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for 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, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can watch MLW on BeIN Sports USA or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/majorleaguewrestling\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, Major League Wrestling (MLW) has promoted the impending debut of the MLW Women&#8217;s Division. Since its reboot in late 2017, while they briefly had women&#8217;s matches, MLW seemed to drop women&#8217;s wrestling all together in the past year or so. 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