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STEPHANIE VAQUER SIGNS WITH…

By Mike Johnson on 2024-07-10 17:10:00

PWInsider.com has confirmed with a source close to Stephanie Vaquer that she has officially signed with WWE just weeks after competing at AEW’s Forbidden Door PPV against Mercedes Mone. Vaquer had a great performance in that match, with sources close to Mone confirming that she went into that bout seeking to “make” Vaquer. The signing went down within the last week.

Vaquer, 31, has been pulled from the forthcoming New Japan Pro Wrestling Fantasticamania event in California, which NJPW and CMLL announced earlier today. A NJPW source has also confirmed Vaquer was pulled as she was “signed elsewhere.”

Vaquer is from Chile and debuted in that country in 2009 for the MCL promotion. She debuted for CMLL in Mexico back in 2019 and has also worked for Toryumon in Mexico. In 2022, she branched out to Japan, working for Sendai Girls and Tokyo Joshi Pro. She debuted for New Japan Strong in 2023.

There is no word when she will make her WWE debut as of this writing.

  • JelloBrains
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    2 months ago

    Apart from professional wrestling, I’m thinking a lot about how Stephanie Vaquer signing with WWE and moving to US as a result may affect her ongoing domestic violence case against former partner Cuatrero. He’s been held in jail since last April on bail, because the judge believes he has the potential to harm Stephanie Vaquer if released and because his social media follows have threatened her. We have very limited information on the trial – just occasional leaks about pre-trial motions – and have no idea when it might resolve. Vaquer moving to the US means Cuatrero is less of a threat to her; even out of jail, she’ll be a country away (and he may not be able to leave Mexico.) There’s still the very real social media threats. It’s additionally going to be tougher for her to continue participating in this trial if she’s no longer Mexico based – Zoom and Teams and other video meeting software does exist, but there’s emotional disconnect as well.

    If I were trying to escape a bad situation, I’d also probably choose WWE, they don’t work a lot of stuff in Mexico or with other promotions all that often which means it’s less likely to come across somebody that might have history one way or another with the situation. Their performance center is also fairly well protected due to past events with stalkers one of which led to the police shooting a man.