Valerie Loureda making WWE NXT Level Up debut this Friday
Former Bellator MMA fighter Valerie Loureda’s first televised pro wrestling match will air this Friday night.
Loureda, who is going by the name Lola Vice in WWE/NXT, will make her NXT Level Up debut on this week’s episode. She’s facing Dani Palmer in a singles match on the show.
“Vice, an accomplished MMA fighter and NXT’s first Cuban-American Superstar, is set for a tough test in her first match when she battles Palmer,” WWE.com wrote. “A relative newcomer herself, Palmer is searching for her first career victory, despite impressive showings against the likes of Sol Ruca and Thea Hail.”
The 24-year-old Loureda is from Miami and had a 4-1 record during her Bellator career. She revealed last June that she’s signed a multi-year contract with WWE. In November, Loureda announced that Lola Vice would be her in-ring name.
Loureda made her in-ring debut at an NXT house show this past October.
NXT Level Up airs on Peacock/WWE Network at 10 p.m. Eastern time on Fridays. This week’s episode will also feature the debut of Kale Dixon (real name Caleb Balgaard), a former college baseball player for South Alabama who joined the WWE Performance Center last August.
Here’s the full lineup for this week’s Level Up:
- Oro Mensah vs. Scrypts
- Dante Chen vs. Kale Dixon
- Lola Vice vs. Dani Palmer