Mariah Could is formally a WWE celebrity. Former AEW ladies’s world champion Could debuted on Tuesday’s episode of NXT, confirming hypothesis that she left All Elite Wrestling to signal with WWE.
Could’s debut got here amid turmoil over who would problem NXT ladies’s champion Jacy Jayne. The lights minimize out within the enviornment throughout a multi-woman brawl earlier than a highlight shined on Could standing on a balcony.
“I’ve lastly arrived!” Could exclaimed as the gang cheered. “Girls, you’ll be able to name me the NXT ladies’s champion as a result of the most effective ladies’s division on the earth simply obtained much more glamorous.”
Could is the most recent AEW expertise to land in NXT, becoming a member of reigning NXT North American champion Ethan Web page and former North American champion Ricky Saints. Notably, the NXT commentators didn’t determine Could by title. They took related motion when Saints, recognized previously as Ricky Starks, debuted.
Could is taken into account some of the promising ladies’s professional wrestlers round. The 26-year-old signed with AEW in 2023 after chopping her tooth in Japan’s Stardom promotion and on the regional scene. Inside a 12 months, Could received AEW’s annual Owen Hart Basis Match. She subsequently beat “Timeless” Toni Storm, her former mentor, in entrance of a reported 46,000 followers at All In to change into AEW ladies’s world champion.
Could’s closing AEW look was at March’s Revolution pay-per-view. Could did not regain the ladies’s world title from Storm in a bodily brutal and critically acclaimed match dubbed the “Hollywood Ending.”
Her NXT signing helps fill out the developmental model’s ladies’s division after former champions Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia and Roxanne Perez have been known as as much as the primary roster after WrestleMania.