{"id":98634,"date":"2021-08-19T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=98634"},"modified":"2021-08-19T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:52:43","slug":"indi-hartwell-pops-question-dexter-lumis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/19\/indi-hartwell-pops-question-dexter-lumis\/","title":{"rendered":"Indi Hartwell Pops the Question: A Brief History of WWE Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some well meaning interference from her found family <strong>The Way, NXT<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Indi Hartwell <\/strong>began dating her longtime object of affection, <strong>Dexter Lumis, <\/strong>in earnest. While he\u2019s not the most robust conversationalist, she\u2019s head over heels for the tortured and unblinking artist. On August 17\u2019s NXT, with an assist from color commentator <strong>Beth Phoenix, <\/strong>Hartwell popped the question to Lumis. Lumis accepted, which is undoubtedly not going to sit well with the high strung patriarch of <strong>The Way<\/strong>, <strong>Johnny Gargano.<\/strong> More found-family hijinks are surely ahead from Hartwell\u2019s quirky stablemates. The romcom storyline between Hartwell and Lumis has been a comedic delight, and their proposal scene evokes<em> other<\/em> <strong>WWE<\/strong> moments involving \u2018tying the knot\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InDex?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#InDex<\/a> is ENGAGED!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DexterLumis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DexterLumis<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indi_hartwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@indi_hartwell<\/a>! \u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9iC87xBHtV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9iC87xBHtV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE NXT (@WWENXT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENXT\/status\/1428084836145713160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>AJ Lee and CM Punk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hartwell and Lumis\u2019 proposal drew some immediate comparisons online to Lee proposing to Punk. Although the two are happily married in real life, art did not imitate life for the two. Punk soundly rejected Lee, who had transferred her affections to the rival of her kayfabe ex, <strong>Daniel Bryan. <\/strong>Neither Lee nor Bryan were in Lee\u2019s good books when she became <strong>Raw<\/strong>\u2019s, and she had some fun toying with her two exes.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Edge and Vickie Guerrero<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One of the \u201cUltimate Opportunist&#8217;s&#8221; Ruthless Aggression era power plays was marrying<strong> Raw <\/strong>General Manager, <strong>Vickie Guerrero, <\/strong>to have an advantage over his rivals<strong>.<\/strong> <strong>Triple H<\/strong> interrupted their wedding ceremony in the ring with found footage of Edge getting cozy with <strong>Alicia Fox, <\/strong>the couple\u2019s wedding planner. The ceremony continued, however. There is a lot that could be said about the romantic saga of Vickie and Edge, but suffice it to say the Cougar and her cub parted ways when Vickie was stripped of her position as GM.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Edge and Lita<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Edge had another high profile wedding in the squared circle, to <strong>Lita.<\/strong> The specter of <strong>Matt Hardy <\/strong>was cheekily evoked when Hardy\u2019s titantron intro hit in the middle of the ceremony. It wasn\u2019t Hardy, however, but <strong>Kane, <\/strong>Lita\u2019s storyline ex, who literally crashed the event, emerging from the floor, and chaos ensued.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Randy \u201cMacho Man\u201d Savage and his valet, Elizabeth, were perennially popular figures in WWE\u2019s Golden Age. It wasn\u2019t widely publicized that they were a real life married couple, so there was a hint of \u2018are they or aren\u2019t they\u2019, with a shot of \u2018what does she see in this guy?\u2019 speculation swirling about the pair. Randy was outrageous, Elizabeth was placid; he was flamboyant, she was glamorous and elegant. They were a study in contrasts, much like the bubbly and childlike Hartwell and the pensive, sinister Lumis. When Savage\u2019s feud with former Megapowers ally <strong>Hulk Hogan<\/strong> blew up and Elizabeth refused to take sides, Randy jettisoned her as his valet for <strong>Sensational Sherri<\/strong>. The crowd favorite Elizabeth wasn\u2019t to be seen onscreen again until <em>WrestleMania 7. <\/em>Sherri flipped her lid on Randy for losing a retirement match to <strong>the Ultimate Warrior,<\/strong> and Elizabeth rushed from the stadium crowd to the ring to defend him; the usually serene Southern belle grabbed her brassy rival Sherri by the hair and tossed her out of Randy\u2019s life. He proposed, and although they were already married in real life, their characters had perhaps WWE\u2019s most poignant wedding at 1991\u2019s <em>SummerSlam.<\/em> It wasn\u2019t without nasty shocks, though, thanks to <strong>Jake \u201cthe Snake\u201d Roberts<\/strong> menacing the bride with his trademark reptile.<\/p>\n<h3>Predicting Another Crashed WWE Wedding<\/h3>\n<p>The found-family of Indi Hartwell, The Way, have been opposed to her involvement with Dexter Lumis and have gone to some comedic, over the top lengths to stop their relationship. If the story culminates in a wedding scene, it will be just as hilarious. If Indi and Dexter make it to the altar, it will undoubtedly be in the shadowy lighting and squared circle of the Capitol Wrestling Center, and chances are high that overprotective <strong>Candice LeRae <\/strong>and \u00a0Johnny Gargano will ruin Indi\u2019s big day in yet another entry to the list of wild WWE weddings.<\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\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. 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>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some well meaning interference from her found family The Way, NXT\u2019s Indi Hartwell began dating her longtime object of affection, Dexter Lumis, in earnest. While he\u2019s not the most robust conversationalist, she\u2019s head over heels for the tortured and unblinking artist. 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