After weeks of online speculation, Austin Aries has finally arrived in WWE NXT.
The former Ring of Honor & TNA superstar made his debut appearance at Friday’s NXT TV tapings at the CFE Arena in Orlando, Florida. Aries was introduced as a huge surprise by William Regal, and subsequently attacked by Baron Corbin.
Aries, 37, finished his duties with TNA in June 2015, and returned to Ring of Honor for a six man tag match in July. He’s a former 2 x ROH World Champion, a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion and a former 6 x TNA X-Division Champion.
The episode will air on March 2nd.
Aries has previous links with WWE, supplying the voice for “Jacob Cass” in the WWE ’12 video game, as well as performing motion capture for the games for the last few years.
It remains to be seen whether WWE will allow Austin Aries to keep his name, as they have with Samoa Joe, or if they will change it in due course as they did with Finn Balor, Kevin Owens and Hideo Itami.
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