{"id":10157,"date":"2017-11-30T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:44:27","slug":"tournament-crown-new-knockouts-champion-starts-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/11\/30\/tournament-crown-new-knockouts-champion-starts-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament To Crown New Knockouts Champion Starts Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s episode of <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> will feature the start of a short tournament to crown the 49th Knockouts Champion in Impact Wrestling history, following the vacating of the title by a retiring <strong>Gail Kim<\/strong> on the November 16 episode of Impact. The tournament will be short, featuring two triple threat matches, with the winner of each match moving to the final to face the other winner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10161\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10161\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/DN65OOzU8AAXIma-e1512067272647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Impact Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Knockouts title was created in 2007 and the inaugural champion was the very woman who vacated the title two weeks ago, 7x Champion Gail Kim, who defeated <strong>Awesome Kong, Traci Brooks, ODB, Angelina Love, Jacqueline, Roxxi Laveaux, Christy Hemme, Shelly Martinez<\/strong> and<strong> Velvet Sky<\/strong> in a gauntlet match at <em><strong>Bound For Glory &#8217;07<\/strong><\/em>. Ten years later, Gail Kim won her record 7th Knockouts title at <em>Bound For Glory &#8217;17<\/em> in Ottawa, Ontario last month, defeating reigning champion <strong>Sienna<\/strong> and <strong>Allie<\/strong> in a triple threat match.<\/p>\n<p>The two triple threats will feature three\u00a0former Knockouts Champions in one match &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Rosemary<\/strong> vs. Sienna vs. Allie &#8211; and then <strong>Laurel Van Ness<\/strong> vs. former Knockouts Champion <strong>Madison Rayne<\/strong> vs. newcomer <strong>KC Spinelli<\/strong> in the other, with the latter airing tonight to kick off the show.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rkaGctoF4ik&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p>The wild card in the tournament is the least well known (to most) in Canadian indie star <strong>KC Spinelli<\/strong>. She&#8217;s been wrestling since 2009, beginning on the West Coast with<strong> ECCW<\/strong>, but has since appeared for many other promotions, including <strong>SHIMMER<\/strong> and <strong>AAA<\/strong>, plus other top Canadian indies like <strong>SMASH, A-1, Destiny<\/strong> and <strong>BCW<\/strong>. She held the ECCW Women&#8217;s title for 512 days amidst a near 3 year feud with <strong>Nicole Matthews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] Courtney Rush vs KC Spinelli\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WTrDIjd2FnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s episode of Impact Wrestling will feature the start of a short tournament to crown the 49th Knockouts Champion in Impact Wrestling history, following the vacating of the title by a retiring Gail Kim on the November 16 episode of Impact. The tournament will be short, featuring two triple threat matches, with the winner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":10159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6,321,317],"tags":[568,226,1140,1792,570,1594,277,451],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","category-tna-knockouts","category-women","tag-allie","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-kc-spinelli","tag-knockouts-championship","tag-laurel-van-ness","tag-madison-rayne","tag-rosemary","tag-sienna"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}