Nick Wayne is an AEW wrestler. He is the only child of late wrestler Buddy Wayne and his wife Shayna Wayne. Wyane is a third-generation wrestler who hails from a wrestling family (father and maternal grandparents). From the beginning, his father and mother encouraged his interest in the ring.
The high-flyer’s father is no longer here to celebrate his son’s accomplishment, but he did leave him with a legacy to carry on. The older Wayne died when Nick was just 11 years old, leaving his mother to raise him into a lovely young man. The one-time DEFY World Champ was born Nick Finely on July 10, 2005, in Seattle, Washington, although he is better known by his ring moniker “Nick Wayne.” Wayne debuted in wrestling in 2018 and has since competed for Without A Cause, Lucha Libre Volcanica, and Invasion Championship Wrestling.
Darby Allin, a wrestler and buddy, offered him an AEW contract on February 12, 2022, when he was 16 years old. Nick was still a student at Cascade High School at the time. So, after he graduates from high school and is 18, he will be able to go from an apprentice to a pro wrestler. He made his AEW Dynamite debut on July 12, 2023 (two days after his 18th birthday), but lost to Swerve Strickland. He joins the ranks of wrestlers like Sting, Chris Jericho, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, and Adam Cole, to mention a few.
Nick Wayne’s Parents: Buddy Wayne And Shayna
Buddy Wayne, Wayne’s father, is a retired wrestler, and Shayna, Wayne’s mother, is a model. They tied the knot in the early 2000s. On September 17, 2017, three months after his death, she tweeted a photo of herself with her husband and declared that they had been together for over a decade.
“3 months today… 13 years…today,” she wrote. “I’m at a loss for words.”
Buddy (real name: Steve Finley) Wayne, Nick Wayne’s father, made his wrestling debut in 1985 for All-Star Wrestling in Vancouver. The late wrestler was well-known in the Pacific Northwest and worked for organizations such as Championship Wrestling USA. From the 1990s until 2003, he wowed audiences in WCW and WWE with his skills, joining the ranks of Shawn Michaels, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Edge.
Buddy Wayne Academy was formed in Everett, Washington, in 2006 by Buddy and his wife, Shayna. He never formally retired from wrestling despite reducing his ring appearances, but he was a seasoned show on the stage whenever he entered. It’s hardly unexpected that pro wrestlers’ families appear in the show’s plot, and his wife is no exception. She was born Shayna Edwards and hails from a wrestling family: her uncle, Moondog Ed Moretti, was a wrestling legend. She is a model, and she often posts images from her modeling gigs on Instagram.
He Was Detained with His Mother at the Airport
Wayne and his mother were held in Iceland with an emergency landing on July 24, 2022, while coming home after the former’s PROGRESS Wrestling debut in Frankfurt, Germany. It was due to a bomb threat written on a washroom mirror. Authorities questioned his mother, Shayna, assuming she possessed a cosmetics kit used to write the threats. Later, the wrestler verified that the mother-son team had safely returned home.
Wayne’s Father Died When He Was 11 Years Old
Nick’s father, Buddy Wayne, died of a heart attack on June 17, 2017, while he was in his pre-teens. The late wrestler had a history of cardiac difficulties, having had open heart surgery in 2009 and another in 2013. His death shocked and saddened the family, leaving his wife Shayna to face the motherhood of their only son, who was 11 at the time. Wayne’s wrestling career is undeniably a tribute to his wrestler father.
According to reports, Nick started wrestling seriously when he was nine years old and used to practice with his father. On April 27, 2018, he would make his wrestling debut at age 13, two years after his father’s death.
Nick Wayne, Did He Disown His Mother?
On October 18, 2023, during an episode of Dynamite, Wayne sat down with his mother and the show’s presenter, Jim Ross, and seemed to renounce his parents. They got down to talk about him abandoning longtime buddy Darby Allin at WrestleDream on October 1, siding with Christian Cage during Cage versus Allin for the AEW TNT Championship. Nick remarked in the interview that he had discovered a new “fatherly figure,” alluding to Cage and that the latter was a “better father figure than his father ever was.”
Christian then entered the scene, attempting to take Wyane with him. As his mother, Shayna, sobbed and attempted to stop him, he exclaimed, “You’re a terrible mother,” to which she replied with a smack. Furthermore, she soon shared the interview tape on Instagram. While it may seem genuine, fans familiar with the theatrical wrestling plot refer to it as a dramatic setting for a future storyline.
