{"id":86871,"date":"2021-03-15T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=86871"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:27:34","slug":"legit-leyla-hirsch-is-all-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/15\/legit-leyla-hirsch-is-all-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLegit\u201d Leyla Hirsch is All Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been made official. Earlier today, the first episode of <strong>AEW Dark: Elevation<\/strong> aired. Just before the show went live on the <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> YouTube channel, AEW President and CEO <strong>Tony Khan<\/strong> took to Twitter to make a big announcement. <strong>\u201cLegit\u201d Leyla Hirsch<\/strong>, who has made multiple appearances for the company in recent months, has just been signed. As of today, the \u201cLegit\u201d star is All Elite.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, \u201cLegit\u201d Leyla Hirsch wrestled on the amateur level during high school. It wasn&#8217;t until 2017 that Hirsch began her training to become pro. She trained at the <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling<\/strong> Academy. From there, she began to appear on multiple episodes of <strong>CZW Dojo Wars<\/strong>, working with the likes of <strong>El Cheapo<\/strong> and <strong>Dojo DEEJ<\/strong>. The following year, Hirsch began to ply her craft in other organizations, including <strong>Queens of Combat<\/strong> and <strong>Women Superstars Uncensored<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations and welcome aboard officially to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegitLeyla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LegitLeyla<\/a> Hirsch, I\u2019m thrilled to have you signed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEW<\/a>! Thank you very much to Leyla and to all of you great fans who support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEWonTNT<\/a> for making this possible! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUHa4fbY9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fUHa4fbY9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan\/status\/1371597140384972802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In January of 2020, \u201cLegit\u201d Leyla Hirsch took her skills internationally when she joined <strong>World Wonder Ring Stardom<\/strong>. It was in Stardom where she became a member of <strong>Tokyo Cyber Squad<\/strong>, teaming with fellow members <strong>Konami<\/strong>, <strong>Ruaka<\/strong>, <strong>Jungle Kyona<\/strong>, and<strong> Hana Kimura<\/strong>. Her first post appearance, post-COVID, took place in <strong>Game Changer Wrestling<\/strong> in October. She competed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/10\/09\/thecollective-gcw-josh-barnetts-bloodsport-3-10-11-20\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><em>Josh Barnett&#8217;s Bloodsport 3<\/em><\/strong><\/a> event, participating in the Women&#8217;s Tournament, where she lost to <strong>Lindsay Snow<\/strong> in one of the opening bouts.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the month, Hirsch made her first appearance for All Elite Wrestling on <strong>AEW Dark<\/strong>. She competed against, and had a solid showing with, AEW Women&#8217;s World Champion <strong>Hikaru Shida<\/strong>. During the same month, she made her first <strong>AEW Dynamite<\/strong> appearance, challenging <strong>Serena Deeb<\/strong> for the <strong>NWA<\/strong> World Women&#8217;s Championship. This isn&#8217;t to say that the \u201cLegit\u201d AEW star has been without victories. During her short time in the promotion, she has picked up wins over <strong>Tesha Price<\/strong> and <strong>Madi Wrenkowski<\/strong>, just to name a few up-and-comers.<\/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? 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>It has been made official. Earlier today, the first episode of AEW Dark: Elevation aired. Just before the show went live on the All Elite Wrestling YouTube channel, AEW President and CEO Tony Khan took to Twitter to make a big announcement. \u201cLegit\u201d Leyla Hirsch, who has made multiple appearances for the company in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3354,"featured_media":86873,"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":[4581],"class_list":["post-86871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-leyla-hirsch"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86871","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\/3354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}