There are matches where you win by being better. And then there are matches where you win by being willing.

At Brand New Day, six competitors climb into a ladder match with two prizes dangling overhead: a UTA contract—the kind that changes your whole calendar—and a same-night shot at the WrestleZone Championship. That’s not just an opportunity. That’s an invitation to gamble your body twice in one night and walk out with a new life.

Here’s what each participant brings into the storm.

Graysie Parker — The Known Quantity, the Dangerous Memory

Of the six, we’ve seen Graysie Parker before—and that matters, because you don’t “introduce” a former WrestleZone Champion to WrestleUTA. You remember her.

Parker is already etched into WrestleZone history as a champion who didn’t borrow momentum—she took it. Her first reign began at The Great Southern Trendkill Tour, where she defeated Aaron Shaffer to win the WrestleZone Championship, then carried it for 49 days with four defenses before dropping it at Star Forge Open Fight Night: 2 on an open challenge.

It’s also important to point out where she’s been since: Parker currently works at Iron City Wrestling, where she defended the WrestleZone championship by talking out Aaron Shaffer—before ultimately losing it to Eric Dane Jr. in ICW. That overlap isn’t trivia. It’s a thread, and Brand New Day is where threads become ropes… and ropes become ladders.

She enters this match with something the others can’t manufacture: proof. Proof she can hold a title in this ecosystem. Proof she can navigate pressure. Proof she can walk into a night where the world is loud and leave with gold. And now, the cruelest twist: she doesn’t just have to win a contract—she could win it and be forced to cash her ambition later that same night.

Darren Valiant — The Spotlight Specialist Who Turns Chaos Into Cameras

Darren Valiant wrestles like he was built for clips. He’s a babyface with star energy, but not the lazy kind—the kind that comes from being a workhorse who can make anyone look dangerous, then steal the scene anyway.

He brings a specific kind of ladder-match advantage: timing. Valiant is a flash technician and athletic striker, a guy who can turn a scramble into a sequence and a sequence into a finish. His offense lives in sudden punctuation—superkicks, snap counters, jumping DDT variations—and his signature weapon might be his ability to sell chaos so huge that the comeback becomes inevitable.

In a match where bodies crash like punctuation marks, his “out of nowhere” threat is real: the Valiant Shift (a jumping reverse DDT) can happen in a blink, even off a misstep or a desperate swing. If this ladder match turns into a highlight reel… he’s the guy most likely to edit the ending in real time.

Rafe Sable — The Human Catastrophe Who Weaponizes Risk

Rafe Sable wrestles like a warning label and smiles like he didn’t read it.

He’s a babyface daredevil with hardcore high-risk instincts—unhinged flyer energy—who doesn’t “build” momentum so much as detonate it. He turns ropes into launchpads, corners into impact zones, and openings into chain reactions.

In a ladder match, Sable is terrifying because he’ll treat the structure like part of his moveset. A sprint becomes a dive. A stumble becomes a springboard. A bad idea becomes a near fall. His finish, the Arabesque Drop (spinning tornado DDT), is tailor-made for chaotic movement—exactly what ladders create when six people are fighting in the same breath. And if the moment calls for it, he’s got the nuclear option: the Triple-Edge Splash, a triple-jump moonsault that screams “big match.”

But the cost is always the same with Sable: you don’t know if the wreckage will be the opponent… or the man driving the car.

Maxwell Jett — The Platinum Pretender Who Turns Ladders Into Leverage

Every ladder match has someone who wants to fly—and someone who wants to use the people who fly.

That second guy is Maxwell Jett.

Jett is the heel in this field: a technical opportunist with a con artist’s patience and a predator’s smile. He doesn’t need to out-jump you—he needs to out-position you. He targets arms and necks, cuts off comebacks, and steals momentum with plausible shortcuts that make the crowd furious because they know it worked.

And in a ladder match, targeted damage is destiny. If Jett can soften an arm, suddenly climbing is slower. If he tweaks a neck, suddenly reaching is pain. If he traps a limb at the perfect time, suddenly the only thing between you and the contract is gravity. His Platinum Driver—an arm-trap piledriver—reads like the kind of finish that happens when someone gets desperate on a ladder and Jett decides to make a point.

Win or lose, Jett’s presence guarantees one thing: somebody’s dream will be interrupted at its loudest moment.

Kairo Bex — The Neon Ace With Angles Nobody Sees Coming

Kairo Bex is electricity with a pulse. He’s a stylish aerial striker who fights like the spotlight is a switch—because he’s the one flipping it on.

His biggest asset in a ladder match is angle. Bex doesn’t just move fast; he changes direction in ways that force mistakes. Rope-walk feints, springboards, slingshot counters—he turns the ring into a geometry problem opponents can’t solve under pressure.

And if the ladders start stacking and the ring becomes a jungle gym, Bex is the guy who can make that environment look natural. His finisher, Neon Skyline (a springboard twisting cutter), is the kind of move that punishes hesitation—one heartbeat of indecision and suddenly you’re flat on your back staring at lights you can’t afford.

If Brand New Day becomes a race, Bex is built for the final sprint.

Jace Van Ardent — The Airborne Original Who Lives in the Split-Second

Jace Van Ardent has the kind of calm that makes danger look normal. A free-spirited, clean-cut crowd favorite with sharp kicks and unreal balance, he wrestles like he’s always a half-step ahead—floating through risk, snapping into impact, then resetting like it never happened.

His toolkit is perfect for the ladder match rhythm: kick flurries to create space, springboard/corner angles to punish chasers, and the ability to turn a small opening into a big moment.

While others may chase the “big stunt,” Van Ardent feels like the guy who wins by surviving the chaos long enough to hit something clean—then climbing while everyone else is still figuring out what hit them. His Ardent Impact (diving frog splash) isn’t just a finisher—it’s a reminder that in a ladder match, one clean landing can erase five minutes of madness.

What This Match Really Is

This ladder match isn’t only about who’s the best athlete, the smartest strategist, or the boldest risk-taker. It’s about who can take a night built to ruin people… and turn it into a launch.

Because whoever pulls down that contract isn’t just “winning a match.” They’re earning the right to immediately walk into the second half of their own disaster: a WrestleZone Championship opportunity later that same night.

Six enter with different languages—timing, violence, leverage, angles, balance, experience. One leaves holding the future in their hands… and praying those hands still work when it’s time to reach for the title.