{"id":78494,"date":"2020-11-05T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=78494"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:47:21","slug":"aleah-james-nxt-uk-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/11\/05\/aleah-james-nxt-uk-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleah James Makes NXT UK Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising British star <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/03\/25\/indie-watch-aleah-james\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Aleah James<\/strong><\/a> made her <em><strong>NXT UK<\/strong><\/em> debut on tonight&#8217;s edition of the show, losing to &#8216;The Fashionista&#8217; <strong>Jinny<\/strong> in fairly short order.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The athleticism by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thealeahjames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@thealeahjames<\/a> though! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NXTUK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NXTUK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rtKVe7aOQU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rtKVe7aOQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NXT UK (@NXTUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXTUK\/status\/1324448891790643200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>James had been rumoured to be coming into the brand for a while, stemming from a <a href=\"https:\/\/itrwrestling.com\/news\/nxt-uk-close-to-signing-several-new-talents-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> courtesy of Inside The Ropes&#8217; <strong>Gary Cassidy<\/strong>. It&#8217;s worth noting that Gary also reported that another &#8220;unnamed, but prominent, talent from the UK indie scene&#8221; had also signed with the company. Of course, that name turned out to be<strong> Rampage Brown<\/strong>, who was revealed as being arriving with the brand on last week&#8217;s show. Other names included in that list were <strong>Adam Maxted<\/strong>, <strong>Sha Samuels<\/strong>, <strong>Molly Spartan<\/strong>, and <strong>Gursinder Singh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only debuting last year, Aleah quickly grew to become one of the UK&#8217;s fastest-rising talents, thanks in part to her involvement in the wacky <strong>Schadenfreude &amp; Friends<\/strong> events. In her six matches for the promotion thus far, she&#8217;s only last once, both times to <strong>Chris Brookes<\/strong>. James has since gone on to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/22\/aleah-james-joins-schadenfreude-management-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">become part<\/a> of the promotion&#8217;s managerial team, joining Brookes, <strong>Kid Lykos<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Davis<\/strong>, and <strong>Kyle Fletcher<\/strong> in producing England&#8217;s new favourite promotion.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word yet on if Aleah has officially signed with the brand, however, it would certainly benefit both James and NXT UK as a whole greatly. Considering she&#8217;s still fairly new into her career, she could use the NXT UK platform to grow her career substantially before she&#8217;s even really taken off. Just look at what it&#8217;s done so far for the newest addition to the NXT UK women&#8217;s division, <strong>Aoife Valkyrie<\/strong>. The <strong>Woke Queens<\/strong> member only joined the division earlier this year, and has already become a strong contender to challenge for <strong>Kay Lee Ray<\/strong>&#8216;s Women&#8217;s Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes peeled for more on Aleah James and NXT UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p>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, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Be sure to catch all of the NXT UK action via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>. Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? 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The athleticism by @thealeahjames though! #NXTUK pic.twitter.com\/rtKVe7aOQU &mdash; NXT UK (@NXTUK) November 5, 2020 James had been rumoured to be coming into the brand for a while, stemming from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2567,"featured_media":78498,"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":[12,5336,452,3],"tags":[6308,951,2868],"class_list":["post-78494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nxt-uk","category-wwe-uk","category-wwe-universe","tag-aleah-james","tag-jinny","tag-nxt-uk"],"modified_by":"Adam Morrison","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78494","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\/2567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}