{"id":8324,"date":"2017-10-06T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:08:55","slug":"another-indie-star-expected-join-nxt-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/10\/06\/another-indie-star-expected-join-nxt-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Indie Star Expected To Join NXT Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dave Meltzer and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/a>, current<strong> Full Impact Pro<\/strong> Champion <strong>Fred Yehi<\/strong> is expected to become the next <strong>EVOLVE<\/strong> wrestler to sign with the WWE and report to the WWE Performance Center, most likely to debut with NXT.\u00a0The Georgia native\u00a0has been wrestling for five years, debuting with EVOLVE in 2015, as well one of it&#8217;s sister promotions, <strong>Full Impact Pro (FIP),<\/strong> the following year. He&#8217;s currently on the verge of a 500-day reign as the FIP World Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8326\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8326 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/CGxmxj5Y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/CGxmxj5Y.jpg 268w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/CGxmxj5Y-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: FIP \/ PamElla Lee Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks in part to WWE&#8217;s affiliation with <strong>World Wrestling Network (WWN),<\/strong> the parent company that controls EVOLVE, FIP and others, Yehi has been on the WWE&#8217;s radar for some time. He took part in a WWE Cruiserweight Classic qualifier in EVOLVE last spring, losing to eventual winner <strong>TJ Perkins<\/strong>. During his run in EVOLVE, Yehi was a member of the popular faction <strong>Catch Point<\/strong>, that featured current WWE Superstars <strong>Drew Gulak<\/strong> and TJ Perkins, as well as <strong>Matt Riddle, Chris Dickinson, Jaka<\/strong> and <strong>Tracey Williams<\/strong> (with whom Yehi held the EVOLVE Tag Team titles).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8325\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8325 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/catchpoint-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catch Point (Photo: WWN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If reports prove to be accurate, Yehi will join <strong>Lio Rush<\/strong>, <strong>Donovan Dijak<\/strong> and <strong>Shayna Baszler<\/strong> as the latest top indie signings with the NXT brand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EVOLVE Mini-Doc: Fred Yehi\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TvXSPvuCMbI?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dave Meltzer and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, current Full Impact Pro Champion Fred Yehi is expected to become the next EVOLVE wrestler to sign with the WWE and report to the WWE Performance Center, most likely to debut with NXT.\u00a0The Georgia native\u00a0has been wrestling for five years, debuting with EVOLVE in 2015, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":8327,"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":[11,2,6],"tags":[136,782,1476,116,47,798],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolve","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-evolve","tag-fred-yehi","tag-full-impact-pro","tag-nxt","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-performance-center"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}