{"id":73623,"date":"2020-07-30T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=73623"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T22:13:28","slug":"report-leon-ruff-signs-with-nxt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/30\/report-leon-ruff-signs-with-nxt\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Leon Ruff Signs With NXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, WWE&#8217;s Performance Center YouTube page posted a video introducing former <strong>EVOLVE Wrestling<\/strong> star <strong>Leon Ruff<\/strong>, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwinsider.com\/article\/138331\/wwe-earnings-being-released-today-nxt-star-returning-to-the-ring-new-signing-confirmed-and-more.html?p=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PWInsider<\/a> and Fightful Select are reporting that the 24-year old has indeed signed an NXT contract out of the fall-out of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/02\/report-wwe-acquires-evolve-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">WWE purchasing EVOLVE Wrestling<\/a> earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Am Leon Ruff\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NZUqTbHMHbs?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>In the WWE Universe, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/12\/leon-ruff-evolves-into-a-wwe-superstar-during-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">EVOLVE star Leon Ruff<\/a> had quietly become a WWE Superstar starting and has appeared on nearly every WWE program since March of this year, having\u00a0appeared on\u00a0<em><strong>Raw, SmackDown, NXT, Main Event<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0<strong><em>205 Live<\/em><\/strong>, with only NXT UK left as the sole WWE brand to appear on. Leon Ruff is a student of EVOLVE and US indie star AR Fox and has only been wrestling since 2017, but the young man has impressed many and it appears he&#8217;ll now continue his career as a part of the NXT brand going forward. Fightful Select also states that Ruff won&#8217;t be the last EVOLVE star to be signed to NXT deals and begin working with the Yellow and Gold brand in 2020 and into the future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drake Maverick vs. Leon Ruff: 205 Live, July 24, 2020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zeNC0BrT0bs?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>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, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 WWE fan? You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE and NXT content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, WWE&#8217;s Performance Center YouTube page posted a video introducing former EVOLVE Wrestling star Leon Ruff, and now PWInsider and Fightful Select are reporting that the 24-year old has indeed signed an NXT contract out of the fall-out of WWE purchasing EVOLVE Wrestling earlier this summer. In the WWE Universe, EVOLVE star Leon Ruff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":70501,"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":[2,5,3],"tags":[1600,4903,116],"class_list":["post-73623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-evolve-wrestling","tag-leon-ruff","tag-nxt"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73623","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=73623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}