{"id":9915,"date":"2017-11-23T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2017-11-23T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:19:10","slug":"kay-lee-ray-done-icw-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/11\/23\/kay-lee-ray-done-icw-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay Lee Ray Done With ICW As Well?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still too early to confirm, but a recent Tweet from Scottish indie wrestler <strong>Kay Lee Ray<\/strong> following her defeat this past Sunday at <strong>ICW<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Fear &amp; Loathing X<\/strong><\/em>, in which she lost her ICW Women&#8217;s Championship to <strong>Kasey Owens<\/strong>, has some speculating that she may be joining another former ICW Champion, <strong>Joe Coffey<\/strong>, and departing the company. ICW released a match-up announcement that new ICW Women&#8217;s Champ Owens would be facing <strong>Viper<\/strong> (aka <strong>Piper Niven<\/strong> in the WWE&#8217;s <strong>Mae Young Classic<\/strong>) at ICW&#8217;s December 10th taping for <em><strong>ICW Fight Club<\/strong><\/em>. Kay Lee Ray mentioned that she would not be seeking a rematch, claiming that she previously claimed she&#8217;d leave the ICW women&#8217;s division if she lost the title at <em>Fear and Loathing X<\/em> and she&#8217;s sticking to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is no rematch for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I said if I lost the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsaneChampWres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@InsaneChampWres<\/a> Woman&#39;s title at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICWHydro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ICWHydro<\/a> that I&#39;d be stepping away from the division.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4b\ud83d\ude1f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XzlyssS20C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XzlyssS20C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc63\udb40\udc74\udb40\udc7f\ud83d\udd25 (@wwe_alba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwe_alba\/status\/933764251512131584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s always a chance that Kay Lee Ray could simply be stepping away from the division and remaining with ICW for intergender tag matches, it seems odd a women&#8217;s wrestler would remain in a promotion if she could no longer compete for the women&#8217;s title, although ICW could always have Kay Lee Ray compete for one of the other ICW titles, such as the Zero G or Tag Team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9918\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9918\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/kayleeray2jpg-js349065594-1-e1511489692815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An 8-year veteran of the UK indies, she began in the <strong>Scottish Wrestling Alliance (SWA)<\/strong> in 2009 and has been a regular with ICW since 2010. During the past few years, Ray has appeared for multiple promotions around the world including <strong>Stardom<\/strong> in Japan, <strong>SHIMMER<\/strong> and <strong>SHINE<\/strong> in the United States, and multiple UK promotions including <strong>PROGRESS, Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE), Pro Wrestling EVE,<\/strong> and <strong>Fight Club: PRO<\/strong>. She even worked matches for <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> during their UK tours, teaming up with WWE Superstar <strong>Noam Dar<\/strong> to defeat <strong>Gail Kim<\/strong> and <strong>Rampage Brown<\/strong> on an episode of <em><strong>TNA Xplosion<\/strong><\/em> back in 2015. Throughout her wrestling career, she&#8217;s a 2x ICW Women&#8217;s Champion, 2x SWE Queen of Southside Champion, and the SWA Scottish Women&#8217;s Champion. She also competes for <strong>WCPW<\/strong> (now <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong>), where she&#8217;s the current reigning Women&#8217;s Champion. She gained huge national exposure this past summer as one of the participants in the WWE Mae Young Classic, where she was knocked out in the first round by Mexico&#8217;s <strong>Princess Sugehit<\/strong>. Previously, she appeared on NXT in an enhancement role in 2015, losing to <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Princesa Sugehit vs. Kay Lee Ray - First Round Match: Mae Young Classic, Aug. 28, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JrhWEWUJu3g?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>The tweet comes days after former ICW World Heavyweight Champion <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/11\/22\/joe-coffey-finishes-icw\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Coffey also bid farewell to ICW<\/a>, causing some to speculate that they may be bound for a more major promotion, ranging from NXT to NJPW to Impact Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>While this could just be storyline &#8211; Ray still works in Japan with Stardom, so could just be departing temporarily to work abroad for a bit &#8211; the timing with Coffey&#8217;s news seems to have hit a nerve with UK BritWres fans, amid reports that WWE&#8217;s new UK wrestling series may be closer to realization that ever before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9919\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/kay_lee_ray_in_wwejpg-js348605483-e1511489726182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still too early to confirm, but a recent Tweet from Scottish indie wrestler Kay Lee Ray following her defeat this past Sunday at ICW&#8216;s Fear &amp; Loathing X, in which she lost her ICW Women&#8217;s Championship to Kasey Owens, has some speculating that she may be joining another former ICW Champion, Joe Coffey, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":9921,"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":[2,21,13],"tags":[1139,454,116],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-icw","category-international","tag-kay-lee-ray","tag-icw","tag-nxt"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}