{"id":10244,"date":"2017-12-02T23:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T04:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T04:06:24","slug":"angelico-leaving-aaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/12\/02\/angelico-leaving-aaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucha Underground&#8217;s Ang\u00e9lico Leaving AAA, Moving To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <strong>Lucha Underground<\/strong>&#8216;s most electric (and injury prone) stars, South Africa&#8217;s<strong>\u00a0Ang\u00e9lico<\/strong>, recently announced he was finishing up with Mexico&#8217;s <strong>AAA<\/strong> and leaving his home for the past four years, Mexico, and relocating to Spain in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uMzoaR4rce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uMzoaR4rce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ANGELICO (@Angelico_AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Angelico_AEW\/status\/934206545138679813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BUVm7JEgEEA<\/p>\n<p>Ang\u00e9lico, real name Adam Bridle, is a 10-year indie veteran who began in South Africa&#8217;s <strong>Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa<\/strong> in 2007, before leaving for Spain and working for <strong>Nu Wrestling Evolution (NWE)<\/strong>, where he was trained in lucha libre by <strong>Ultimo Dragon<\/strong> and AAA&#8217;s <strong>Bengala<\/strong>. He went to Mexico in 2008, working various promotions like <strong>Toryumon<\/strong>, <strong>International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG)<\/strong>, before becoming a regular for AAA in 2013. In 2014, he took part in AAA&#8217;s US co-production, Lucha Underground, where he was teamed with <strong>Ivelisse<\/strong> and <strong>Son of Havoc<\/strong> (<strong>Matt Cross<\/strong>), winning the LU Trios Championship twice.\u00a0Ang\u00e9lico became famous with an insane dive during a Lucha Underground episode back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angelico&#039;s Insane Dive on the 4\/23 Lucha Underground Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifP7tVo6DZ8?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<p>No word yet if\u00a0Ang\u00e9lico is returning for the recently announced Season 4 for Lucha Underground, but he&#8217;s been dabbling in the UK scene of late, working for <strong>WCPW<\/strong> (now <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong>), <strong>RevPro, SWE, Fight Club: PRO<\/strong> and others, not to mention Germany&#8217;s <strong>wXw<\/strong>. If he&#8217;s basing out of Barcelona, Spain, chances are he&#8217;ll become a regular for Barcelona&#8217;s premier wrestling promotion, <strong>Revolution Championship Wrestling (RCW)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ricochet vs. Ang\u00e9lico (Pro Wrestling World Cup - Round Of 16)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FZ87RoXCgo?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>One of Lucha Underground&#8216;s most electric (and injury prone) stars, South Africa&#8217;s\u00a0Ang\u00e9lico, recently announced he was finishing up with Mexico&#8217;s AAA and leaving his home for the past four years, Mexico, and relocating to Spain in 2018. pic.twitter.com\/uMzoaR4rce &mdash; ANGELICO (@Angelico_AEW) November 24, 2017 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BUVm7JEgEEA Ang\u00e9lico, real name Adam Bridle, is a 10-year indie veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":10249,"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":[16,2,6],"tags":[678,878,137],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aaa","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aaa","tag-angelico","tag-lucha-underground"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","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=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}