{"id":67943,"date":"2020-05-05T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=67943"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:15:55","slug":"kimber-lee-debuts-on-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/05\/kimber-lee-debuts-on-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimber Lee Debuts On IMPACT Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s Knockouts locker room continues to be the most stacked women&#8217;s division in North America, and it appears it is only getting deeper. During <strong>Madison Rayne<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Locker Room Talk<\/strong><\/em> segment, Madison interviewed <strong>Havok<\/strong> about <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/04\/29\/killer-death-machine-nevaeh-makes-impact-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week&#8217;s debut of <strong>Neveah<\/strong><\/a>, a prominent person from Havok&#8217;s indie past (and present). During the segment, Madison revealed she knew someone else with a past with Havok, unveiling indie veteran and <strong>SHIMMER<\/strong> Champion <strong>Kimber Lee<\/strong> on to the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadisonRayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MadisonRayne<\/a> tried to get to the bottom of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FearHavok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FearHavok<\/a>&#39;s relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nevaehOi4k?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nevaehOi4k<\/a> but the debuting KIMBER LEE added a whole new layer to the story. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> @Kimber_Lee90 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Llljb85XgT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Llljb85XgT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1257832343391395841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kimber Lee has been wrestling on the US and international indies since 2011, when she was trained by WWE Superstar <strong>Drew Gulak<\/strong> and became the first female graduate of the <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) Academy<\/strong>. She would go onto wrestle in CZW and eventually SHINE Wrestling, where she formed <strong>The Kimber Bombs<\/strong> with <strong>Cherry Bomb<\/strong> (AEW&#8217;s Allie). But it was in <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong> she would make history &#8211; a long time veteran of the company, in 2013 she won the CHIKARA Grand Championship, becoming the first woman to capture the main title of a major indie. She had a brief stint with NXT as <strong>Abbey Laith<\/strong>, before returning to the indies in 2018. She made her Japanese debut with <strong>Stardom<\/strong> following her WWE departure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19321\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19321\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/kimber-lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/kimber-lee.jpg 419w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/kimber-lee-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/kimber-lee-299x420.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CHIKARA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kimber Lee&#8217;s history with Jessicka Havok goes back to their days together in CZW and CZW&#8217;s sister promotion, <strong>Women&#8217;s Superstars Uncensored (WSU)<\/strong>, with battles in 2014, as well as working with SHIMMER during the same time. From 2016 to today, they two have warred in Chicago with <strong>AAW Pro<\/strong>, with Kimber Lee defeating Havok for the AAW Women&#8217;s Championship in May 2018. Last November, Havok was unsuccessful in her attempt to defeat Kimber Lee for the SHIMMER Championship. Yet strangely enough, Kimber Lee&#8217;s last match in 2020 was a tag match alongside Havok against rising stars <strong>Hyan<\/strong> and <strong>Savanna Stone\u00a0<\/strong>at <em><strong>AAW A New Dawn<\/strong><\/em> this past January. Kimber Lee has only worked with IMPACT once before, at the IMPACT co-production <em><strong>RISE 9: RISE of the Knockouts<\/strong><\/em> in 2018 with <strong>RISE Wrestling<\/strong>, where she faced <strong>Shazza McKenzie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FREE MATCH] Kimber Lee &amp; Lufisto vs. Jessicka Havok &amp; Nevaeh | CZWstudios.com | Women\u2019s Wrestling\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-Jfe13wgGU?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>And now, for the time being, Kimber Lee is a part of IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts locker room that features <strong>Tessa Blanchard, Jordynne Grace, Taya Valkyrie, Rosemary, <\/strong>Madison Rayne<strong>, Su Yung, Tenille Dashwood, Kiera Hogan, Alisha Edwards<\/strong>, her opponent Jessicka Havok, and recent additions<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/03\/31\/kylie-rae-impact-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kylie Rae<\/a><\/strong> and Neveah.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for 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.\u00a0 We provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can watch IMPACT every Tuesday on AXS-TV and see past episodes of IMPACT Wrestling on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT+<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling&#8216;s Knockouts locker room continues to be the most stacked women&#8217;s division in North America, and it appears it is only getting deeper. During Madison Rayne&#8216;s Locker Room Talk segment, Madison interviewed Havok about last week&#8217;s debut of Neveah, a prominent person from Havok&#8217;s indie past (and present). 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