To say the modern professional wrestling scene is loaded with talent would be a massive understatement. AEW and WWE both already have massive rosters, and with the amount of talent to choose from globally, someone could easily build a third nationally televised company and there still be a surplus of talent to pick from.
It doesn’t mean there aren’t obvious standouts, and that is especially true among the women’s wrestling renaissance. And it is in this the renaissance woman of wrestling, Hyan, has emerged.
Beginning her journey in 2014, Hyan joined Booker T’s school and promotion, Reality of Wrestling, based out of Houston, Texas. She would hit the ground running, quickly getting booked at multiple independent promotions and Impact Wrestling as an enhancement talent.
Hyan would also find her way to Shimmer during its final years, becoming a regular in the all-women’s promotion before it officially closed its doors in 2021. It was during this time with Shimmer that Hyan would have her first outings to Japan and quickly got her feet wet in the Joshi wrestling scene. This included appearances for Marvelous, Pro Wrestling Wave, and Sendai Girls’.
As the 2020s went on, Hyan’s stock on the independent scene began to really blow up as she could be found working for bigger indies including Defy, DPW, and West Coast Pro in the States and RevPro in England. She would win the 2024 Queen of the Indies tournament, increasing her exposure even further as the Renaissance Woman marched into 2025.
It would also become impossible to not think of her when discussing Texas pro-wrestling. The Texas-native would join a handful of other wrestlers, such as Bryan Keith, making waves in and out of Texas. This would help her land the occasional booking as an extra or enhancement talent for WWE and AEW when they visited the state.
For anyone thinking this is all hype, it is not.
There may be no more well-rounded wrestler on the independent scene at the time of writing.
Hyan has travelled the world to hone her in-ring craft and it shows. She can go to the mat with anyone using English technical wrestling, strikes right out of puroresu, or wild brawling right out of the American Southwest. Anyone, anytime, anywhere, Hyan can seemingly go at the drop of a dime with anyone.
Cut to November 8, 2025.
Hyan is among several extras brought in for that evening’s live edition of AEW Collision. Due to circumstances beyond her control, an opportunity arose for her and fellow Texas-standout Maya World to work as enhancement talent on live TV against Tay Melo and Anna Jay ahead of the pair’s AEW Women’s Tag Title tournament match. Despite the short match-time, it would shine a spotlight on the pair who were showered with praise for stepping up when needed.
The pair would also get to wrestle a tag team match that same night for the Ring of Honor tapings against Billie Starkz and the RoH Women’s World Champion Athena. This match was much more competitive, but the two would still find themselves on the losing end of things.
It isn’t the pair’s last opportunity, though.
At the time of writing this, Hyan and Maya World have been announced for the November 15 episode of AEW Collision to wrestle a tag team match against Alex Windsor and Riho, another team in the tag title tournament. If AEW is actively promoting the pair for TV, especially live TV, it means they have serious eyes on said talent and could be considering signing them, if they aren’t already.
The chance to have the Renaissance Woman grace TV screens every week may be one of the most exciting prospects for wrestling, not just women’s wrestling, as we enter 2026. The talent is already there for the world to see, its simply pointing her in a direction and letting her go. Hyan could easily become a top player in any company’s women’s division in no time at all, shoulder to shoulder with some of the biggest and best names in the industry.
It is simply a matter of where.
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