AEW Dark Names At WWE Tryouts This Week
Added 2021-05-07 17:36:39 +0000 UTCWWE held a female set of tryouts on May 6 & 7 in Orlando, and Fightful has learned some more about some of the participants. We've heard there are a dozen participants, and some familiar indie names as well.
Tesha Price- A four year wrestler, she's appeared for WWE in the past, wrestling Britt Baker in a dark match during the Mae Young Classic and working an enhancement match against Lacey Evans on NXT in 2018. She's been an AEW regular on Dark since November, making nearly 20 appearances, including a Dynamite match against Abadon.
Alex Gracia- Gracia has been working for three years and has appearances for NWA, Stardom, IMPACT Wrestling and EVOLVE. She's another AEW regular dating back to September, working over a dozen matches there. She wrestled Hikaru Shida on Dynamite in December. Gracia also had a WWE tryout in 2019.
Ava Everett- Wrestling since 2018 primarily in the northeast, she's been working Limitless Wrestling a lot of late. She's also made appearances for CZW, Beyond, among others.
Natalia Markova- Markova isn't a stranger to the process, as she also had a WWE tryout in 2017. She has worked with several now-WWE connected properties such as EVOLVE and PROGRESS, but primarily worked in SHINE. She's been working well over a decade.
We'll work to find out more about the participants.
Comments
They have a fairly deep division now, with the aforementioned names and Diamante, Thunder Rosa, Swole and Allie. I haven't seen Alex there for a little while now. I do think they should develop Tesha Price though, she has developed over time on Dark and improved. Also like they have brought Willow Nightingale in as well. Then Dani Jordyn is another solid Dark regular.
JKetchup
2021-05-09 00:41:29 +0000 UTCThat’s a bit hyperbolic. They have Britt, Shida, Jade, Tay, Statlander, Penelope, Abadon, Shanna, Leyla, Red Velvet, Mizunami, and Nyla. Then Dark featuring Madi, and KiLynn a lot. They still have Anna Jay when she comes back from injury as well as Serena. Riho and Yuka Sakazaki in Japan when things get better with COVID can hopefully return. And dark features newer talent a lot and anyone else I forgot to mention
Brian Bayless
2021-05-07 22:14:48 +0000 UTCIf AEW loses Tesha Price and Alex Gracia, it just proves that they don't care about their women's division, and are just like WWE where a focus will be on 2-3 women and the rest are irrelevant. I don't even recognize the other 2 names, but Tesha & Alex are great workers.
Raymond Slover
2021-05-07 22:03:41 +0000 UTCNice.
Magan Yusuf
2021-05-07 20:20:53 +0000 UTCI'm really happy for all of them.
Tony L
2021-05-07 19:46:39 +0000 UTC.....
Fightful Select
2021-05-07 19:30:36 +0000 UTCRj Kelly
2021-05-07 18:53:52 +0000 UTCGracia and Price deserve the attention, they’ve both done some great work on Dark.
Bryant Heath
2021-05-07 18:34:05 +0000 UTCEh. I like Price well enough. Gracia.... The name is familiar but I can't out a face to her
Will Landrum
2021-05-07 17:58:45 +0000 UTCTotally agree! I’m really surprised Gracia in particular hasn’t been signed
Chris Rains
2021-05-07 17:39:21 +0000 UTCI’m high on gracia and tesha price. Will suck if aew lets them slip away
Elaquent
2021-05-07 17:38:16 +0000 UTC
