Mariah Could is formally a WWE famous person. 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 area 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 one of the best ladies’s division on this planet simply received much more glamorous.”

Could is the newest 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 comparable motion when Saints, recognized previously as Ricky Starks, debuted.

Could is taken into account one of the vital promising ladies’s professional wrestlers round. The 26-year-old signed with AEW in 2023 after reducing her tooth in Japan’s Stardom promotion and on the regional scene. Inside a yr, Could gained AEW’s annual Owen Hart Basis Event. She subsequently beat “Timeless” Toni Storm, her former mentor, in entrance of a reported 46,000 followers at All In to develop into AEW ladies’s world champion. 

Could’s remaining AEW look was at March’s Revolution pay-per-view. Could didn’t 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 referred to as as much as the principle roster after WrestleMania.