{"id":86178,"date":"2021-03-06T06:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=86178"},"modified":"2021-03-06T06:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T11:39:21","slug":"shawn-dean-joins-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/06\/shawn-dean-joins-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Dean Officially Joins AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Khan broke the news that &#8220;Captain&#8221; Shawn Dean has officially joined the company.\u00a0 Shawn Dean is the latest wrestler who helped AEW out at the peak of COVID-19 to be rewarded with a contract after his hard work throughout 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for your service to the USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnDean773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ShawnDean773<\/a>, + thank you for everything you\u2019ve done for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEW<\/a> to help us thrive through the pandemic. Your consistent hard work, positivity + reliability have made you so valuable to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEW<\/a>; now it\u2019s my honor to officially welcome you aboard! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJhRB7MNyz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SJhRB7MNyz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan\/status\/1367887034887634946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>AR Fox <\/strong>trainee debuted for AEW in march 2020 on AEW Dark against\u00a0<strong>Shawn Spears<\/strong>.\u00a0 He wrestled 26 matches for AEW between Dark and Dynamite last year.\u00a0 Although he never won he persevered and kept at it.\u00a0 He has been paired off with a number of different partners including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/10\/lee-johnson-is-all-elite\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Lee Johnson<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Fuego Del Sol<\/strong>, and most recently <strong>Carlie Bravo<\/strong>.\u00a0 Dean is still awaiting his first win but has proven to be an asset to AEW with his hard work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FENIX VS SHAWN DEAN | AEW DARK - 5\/19\/20\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WT2bSVRlYU?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>AEW was Shawn Dean&#8217;s first real big break.\u00a0 After debuting in 2017 Dean mostly spent his time wrestling for\u00a0<strong>World Wrestling Alliance<\/strong>, <strong>ACTION Wrestling<\/strong>, and other southern indies.\u00a0 He did get to wrestle for\u00a0<strong>EVOLVE <\/strong>at <em>EVOLVE 114 <\/em>but he was never brought back to the company.\u00a0 With AEW he has been able to continue his own development throughout the COVID-19 pandemic while the indies ground to a halt.\u00a0 With him now under contract we may see Dean get something of a push on one of AEW&#8217;s three shows as he has proven himself to be a competent performer.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;4348&#8243;]<\/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.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW DARK Tuesday nights at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? 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Thank you for your service to the USA, @ShawnDean773, + thank you for everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":86179,"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":[4677,12,6,2192],"tags":[6315],"class_list":["post-86178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-shawn-dean"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86178","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}