{"id":7834,"date":"2017-09-19T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:31:22","slug":"mae-young-classic-finalist-shayna-baszler-signs-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/09\/19\/mae-young-classic-finalist-shayna-baszler-signs-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"MYC Finalist Shayna Baszler Signs With WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/8bitamazon\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today on her Twitch channel<\/a>, MMA Four Horsewoman <strong>Jessamyn Duke<\/strong> confirmed the speculation that her fellow Four Horsewoman <strong>Shayna Baszler<\/strong>, one of the finalists in the inaugural Mae Young Classic, had signed with the WWE.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7836\" src=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-696x847.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN-345x420.jpg 345w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/Shayna_Baszler_-_Qq42CoN.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the final match last week, <strong>Triple H<\/strong> tweeted a photo of himself with the two finalists &#8211; Baszler and eventual winner <strong>Kairi Sane<\/strong> &#8211; strongly hinting that both were now a part of the WWE family. Some assumed he was being metaphoric, as their participation in the tournament alone would have indicated that. But others were under the impression that a deal was imminent and just being finalized, primarily because of the WWE focus on promoting the brewing hostilities between the MMA Four Horsewomen (<strong>Ronda Rousey<\/strong>, Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke and <strong>Marina Sharif)<\/strong> and the original NXT Four Horsewomen (<strong>Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks<\/strong> and <strong>Bayley<\/strong>), which <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/07\/15\/wild-horses-womens-faction-war-erupt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we reported months ago was laying the groundwork for<\/a> this, followed by the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/08\/04\/another-mma-four-horsewoman-entering-pro-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duke herself had begun pro wrestling training<\/a> with <strong>Rocky Romero<\/strong>. Days after that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/what-s-ronda-rousey-and-wrestling-exclusive-look\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Fightful.com<\/strong> broke the news<\/a> that Rousey herself was also beginning preparations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The calm before the storm&#8230;<br \/>Win, lose, or draw, it is my pleasure to welcome @KairiSaneWWE and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QoSBaszler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@QoSBaszler<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaeYoungClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MaeYoungClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZBeDBj3Zvt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZBeDBj3Zvt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Triple H (@TripleH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripleH\/status\/907761472817602560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shayna Baszler was also at this past week&#8217;s NXT tapings (although she wasn&#8217;t used), confirmed when NXT Superfan <strong>Izzy<\/strong> posted a selfie with Baszler.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hanging with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QoSBaszler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@QoSBaszler<\/a> before the NXT Tapings! You were awesome in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaeYoungClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MaeYoungClassic<\/a> Thank you again! \ud83e\udd18 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frpvw1TpuO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/frpvw1TpuO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Izzy Moreno (@ItsIzzyMania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsIzzyMania\/status\/908434023491530752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/wwe\/sk-exclusive-reason-why-kairi-sane-won-the-mae-young-classic\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Many dirtsheets reported<\/a> following the Mae Young Classic that <strong>Vince McMahon<\/strong> changed the winner to Kairi Sane from Baszler because he had no intention of pushing someone who they weren&#8217;t going to sign and promote an angle that they had no plans of following through on. With today&#8217;s news from Duke that Baszler is signed &#8211; as well as the fact that Rousey and Duke are undergoing wrestling training and the fourth Horsewoman, Sharif, is married NXT Superstar <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong> and has already appeared on NXT TV &#8211; it would appear that the angle is quite clearly alive and the WWE had every intention of signing her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7837\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7837\" src=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/09\/maxresdefault-2-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No word yet on when she&#8217;ll debut on WWE programming, but Shayna Baszler is the current reigning AIW Women&#8217;s Champion, so she&#8217;ll have to finish up her indie commitments first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on her Twitch channel, MMA Four Horsewoman Jessamyn Duke confirmed the speculation that her fellow Four Horsewoman Shayna Baszler, one of the finalists in the inaugural Mae Young Classic, had signed with the WWE. Prior to the final match last week, Triple H tweeted a photo of himself with the two finalists &#8211; Baszler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":7835,"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":[2,317,3],"tags":[160,163,403,717,896,142,116,1284,159,1182,47],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-wwe-universe","tag-bayley","tag-becky-lynch","tag-charlotte-flair","tag-four-horsewomen","tag-mae-young-classic","tag-mma","tag-nxt","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sasha-banks","tag-shayna-baszler","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}