{"id":70802,"date":"2020-06-17T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=70802"},"modified":"2020-06-17T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:42:41","slug":"abadon-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/17\/abadon-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadon &#8220;The Living Dead Girl&#8221; is All Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, 2020, <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong> brought in West Coast indie wrestler Abadon to face off against <strong>Hikaru Shida<\/strong> in action on <em><strong>AEW DARK<\/strong><\/em>. While Abadon&#8217;s AEW debut was more of an enhancement role, the nightmarish appearance and antics of &#8220;The Living Dead Girl&#8221; made her an internet sensation overnight. She even gained high praise from <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> himself who declared &#8220;Abadon was fantastic. Can\u2019t wait for folks to check out her match&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KennyOmegamanX\/status\/1235780522401554432\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a Tweet sent out<\/a> after the tapings for DARK took place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HIKARU SHIDA VS ABADON | AEW DARK - 3\/4\/20 DENVER, CO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNNOLR2-dkc?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>Abadon is only about a year into her pro wrestling career, working primarily on the West Coast with Denver, Colorado&#8217;s <strong>Rocky Mountain Pro<\/strong> Wrestling. The goth agitator returned to AEW on Wednesday, this time appearing as the opponent for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/04\/07\/aew-announces-signing-of-indie-wrestler-anna-jayy-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the highly anticipated recent-signee <strong>Anna Jay<\/strong><\/a> who had been pre-hyped with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWrestling\/status\/1273410903497756672\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her own vignette pre-match<\/a>. But in shocking fashion, Abadon dismantled Jay with ease, a move that seemed to shatter Anna Jay leading to her <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/17\/anna-jay-joins-the-dark-order-as-first-female-recruit\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seemingly joining Dark Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SOUL COLLECTED <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abadon_rmp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@abadon_rmp<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> NOW on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TNTDrama<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GdI7QAsxEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/GdI7QAsxEP<\/a> for our International fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWonTNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iWXwNFIo5v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/iWXwNFIo5v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1273411760037539842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With a quick win, Abadon scored her first victory in AEW and the news only got better for the young wrestler. Shortly after the end of the match, AEW announced on their Social Media that Abadon was the latest name to become ALL ELITE, signing with the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the team, ABADON is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AllElite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wbMf5Vs8v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2wbMf5Vs8v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1273417196375625728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Things are about to get spooky in AEW with the arrival of a unique twist on the growing trend of horror-inspired characters such as <strong>Rosemary, Holidead<\/strong>, and <strong>Su Yung<\/strong>. She just may be the <strong>Penelope Ford<\/strong> to <strong>Jimmy Havoc<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Kip Sabian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last 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. You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8PM ET on TNT and AEW DARK Tuesday nights at 7 PM ET\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, 2020, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) brought in West Coast indie wrestler Abadon to face off against Hikaru Shida in action on AEW DARK. While Abadon&#8217;s AEW debut was more of an enhancement role, the nightmarish appearance and antics of &#8220;The Living Dead Girl&#8221; made her an internet sensation overnight. She even gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":70805,"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":[4677,2,6],"tags":[6537,4133,6536],"class_list":["post-70802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-abadon","tag-aew","tag-anna-jay"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70802","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=70802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}