{"id":87532,"date":"2021-03-23T21:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=87532"},"modified":"2021-03-23T22:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T02:02:18","slug":"alex-gracia-nwa-powerrr-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/23\/alex-gracia-nwa-powerrr-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Gracia Makes NWA Debut on Returning &#8216;NWA Powerrr&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the <strong>National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)<\/strong> aired its first episode of <strong>NWA Powerrr<\/strong> since January 26th, 2020&#8217;s &#8220;<strong><em>Super Powerrr<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; episode just before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the nation. A lot has happened to the NWA since that time &#8211; some of their stars have crossed over to work with <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong>, such as <strong>Thunder Rosa<\/strong> and <strong>Ashley Vox<\/strong>, while several of their featured stars have departed the company, such as <strong>Eli Drake<\/strong> to <strong>NXT<\/strong> (as <strong>LA Knight<\/strong>), <strong>Ricky Starks<\/strong> to AEW, and <strong>Tasha Steelz<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Cowboy&#8221; James Storm<\/strong> to <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>. In sadder news, <strong>Jocephus<\/strong> &#8211; aka <strong>Question Mark<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/25\/nwa-star-jocephus-passes-away\/\" target=\"_self\">tragically passed away last month<\/a>. The NWA returned this past weekend with <em><strong>NWA Back For The Attack<\/strong><\/em><em>, <\/em>their first PPV since January 2020&#8217;s <em><strong>NWA Hard Times<\/strong><\/em><strong>, <\/strong>setting up the return of NWA Powerrr.\u00a0 But at the relaunch of\u00a0NWA Powerrr, the NWA revealed some new stars to the promotion, including indie standout <strong>Alex Gracia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pink Dream <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexgracia3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alexgracia3<\/a> has come to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NWAPowerrr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NWAPowerrr<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UDagVLmZrF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/UDagVLmZrF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DVNLvYrg38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DVNLvYrg38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27 (@WrestlingCovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlingCovers\/status\/1374486277366501376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A graduate of <strong>Rudy Boy Gonzales<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Texas Wrestling Academy<\/strong> in 2018, Alex Gracia broke out in the explosive Texas scene, primarily with <strong>Booker T<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Reality of Wrestling<\/strong> in Houston, where she&#8217;s a former ROW Diamonds Division Champion. She also appeared for other Texas indie promotions like <strong>Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW)<\/strong> and <strong>Heavy Metal Wrestling<\/strong>, and in her rookie year debuted with <strong>SHIMMER, Shine Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>RISE Wrestling<\/strong>. She also currently competes for Thunder Rosa&#8217;s <strong>Mission Pro Wrestling (MPW)<\/strong> and has appeared on two IMPACT Wrestling specials. In 2019, she wrestled a two-month stint in Japan with <strong>Stardom<\/strong> and debuted with <strong>CMLL<\/strong> in Mexico. In September of last year, she made her debut with AEW, where she&#8217;s regularly competed on <em><strong>AEW Dark<\/strong><\/em>. Speaking of Dark, Alex Gracia pulled the &#8220;Rick Rude&#8221; on Tuesday night &#8211; not only did she make her\u00a0NWA Powerrr\u00a0debut against <strong>Kamille<\/strong>, but she also appeared on AEW Dark where she faced fellow NWA star <strong>Ashley Vox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You\u2019ll remember me. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PinkDream?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PinkDream<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1UagL3d7Wi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1UagL3d7Wi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Gracia (@alexgracia3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexgracia3\/status\/1374518891058106369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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 Check out the NWA at its new home of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FITE TV<\/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> to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) aired its first episode of NWA Powerrr since January 26th, 2020&#8217;s &#8220;Super Powerrr&#8221; episode just before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the nation. A lot has happened to the NWA since that time &#8211; some of their stars have crossed over to work with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":87533,"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":[12,6,6504,2192],"tags":[5729,5685,5773],"class_list":["post-87532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","category-nwa","category-wrestling","tag-aew-dark","tag-alex-gracia","tag-nwa-powerrr"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87532","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=87532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}