Rosa related NXT’s Thea Hail with a WWE recruiter.
The leaps from AEW to WWE have been restricted. The primary large star to depart Tony Khan’s wrestling firm for the land of sports-entertainment was Cody Rhodes, because the American Nightmare returned to his longtime employer in April 2022. Following Rhodes was Brian Pillman Jr., the primary ex-AEW expertise to report to WWE NXT. Jade Cargill, Shawn Spears, and Ethan Web page would comply with swimsuit over the previous 12 months. Whereas there have been solely a handful of contracted expertise to make the leap, dozens of wrestlers have competed in one-off AEW matches and subsequently signed with WWE after. Present NXT stars like Je’Von Evans and Nathan Frazer each had contests on AEW Darkish earlier than inking WWE developmental contracts.
AEW’s Thunder Rosa Helped Thea Hail Land WWE Deal
One other star akin to Evans and Frazer is NXT’s Thea Hail. Previous to signing with WWE, Hail competed on AEW Darkish as Nikita Knight. She battled future AEW Ladies’s Champion Thunder Rosa in a shedding effort.
Because it seems, Rosa’s assist to getting Hail publicity went past simply wrestling her.
“I ended up touchdown a darkish [non-televised] match for AEW after having a seminar with QT Marshall, and I wrestled Thunder Rosa, and she or he obtained me in touch with a recruiter from WWE,” Hail revealed in an interview with Pittsburgh Metropolis Paper.
Hail signed with WWE in 2022, being introduced as one of many firm’s newest batch of recruits that March. She started wrestling on tv simply weeks later, and by Could 2022, Hail had joined fan-favorite steady Chase U.
“I stop gymnastics, I stop cheer. I had no clue what I wished to do with my life, and I used to be simply scrolling by Instagram, and I all the time comply with[ed] WWE,” Hail stated of her choice to start pursuing professional wrestling in 2021. “I all the time thought it was superb, however I by no means actually thought it was a factor you would do. I noticed this video of Rey Mysterio, and I simply put my telephone down, and went, ‘I am doing that.’ [My dad] discovered me a coaching college in Pittsburgh referred to as the Stronghold Coaching Heart, after which that was mixed with the Iron Metropolis Wrestling Academy, and I educated at each of these faculties.”
Hail challenges NXT Ladies’s Champion Roxanne Perez for her title tonight at NXT The Nice American Bash, which airs at 8 PM ET on USA Community.
