{"id":83440,"date":"2021-01-22T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=83440"},"modified":"2021-01-22T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:16:48","slug":"report-wwe-signs-us-indie-star-aqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/01\/22\/report-wwe-signs-us-indie-star-aqa\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: WWE Signs US Indie Star AQA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/wwe-news\/aqa-part-next-group-wwe-performance-center-signees-330936?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/a>, it was reported that another name will join recently announced signees <strong>Elayna Black<\/strong> (Cora Jade), <strong>Priscilla Kelly<\/strong> (Gigi Dolan), <strong>Lacey Ryan<\/strong> (Zoey Stark), and incoming Japanese sensation <strong>Sareee<\/strong> for the January class at the WWE Performance Center. WON reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/09\/29\/indie-preview-aqa-ready-to-reign-the-ring-videos\/\" target=\"_self\">Texas-based indie star <strong>AQA<\/strong><\/a> will also be a part of that class.<\/p>\n<p>AQA is only 23 years old, but she&#8217;s learned from some of the best &#8211; she&#8217;s a student of 2x WWE Hall of Famer<strong> Booker T<\/strong>, and was a top star for Booker&#8217;s Houston-based promotion <strong>Reality of Wrestling (ROW)<\/strong>, where she&#8217;s a former 2x ROW Diamond Champions. Following a joint show between ROW and\u00a0<strong>RISE Wrestling<\/strong> in January of 2019, <em><strong>RISE 12: ROW On The RISE<\/strong><\/em>, AQA was offered spots on both the RISE and\u00a0<strong>SHIMMER<\/strong>\u00a0rosters. She made her official RISE debut at\u00a0<em><strong>Early to RISE<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(the preshow for\u00a0<em><strong>RISE 13: Legendary<\/strong><\/em>), where she faced off against\u00a0<strong>Allysin Kay,\u00a0<\/strong>before entering the #1 Contenders battle royale at\u00a0<em>Legendary.<\/em>\u00a0She followed up with her SHIMMER debut at\u00a0<em><strong>SHIMMER 109<\/strong><\/em>, in a scramble match with\u00a0<strong>Shotzi Blackheart<\/strong>, <strong>Hyan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Keira Hogan<\/strong>, <strong>Miranda Alize<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Penelope Ford<\/strong>. In July of 2019, she appeared for <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> in the IMPACT and ROW joint event <em><strong>Deep IMPACT<\/strong><\/em>, where she was in a Fatal Four Way against\u00a0<strong>Tessa Blanchard, Su Yung<\/strong>, and her ROW rival Hyan. She spent most of 2020 recovering from an injury, but it now appears that her journey will continue with WWE on the NXT brand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FULL MATCH] Thunder Rosa vs AQA | Ladies Night Out 3 - Aug 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gTs3jTOC74s?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><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">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.\u00a0WWE fan? You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it was reported that another name will join recently announced signees Elayna Black (Cora Jade), Priscilla Kelly (Gigi Dolan), Lacey Ryan (Zoey Stark), and incoming Japanese sensation Sareee for the January class at the WWE Performance Center. WON reports that Texas-based indie star AQA will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":55173,"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":[2,317,4,5,3,320],"tags":[4342,7234,116,47,7267],"class_list":["post-83440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-wwe","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-aqa","tag-independent-wrestling-news","tag-nxt","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83440","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=83440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}