{"id":103285,"date":"2021-10-27T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=103285"},"modified":"2021-10-27T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:13:30","slug":"roh-world-champion-bandido-gcw-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/27\/roh-world-champion-bandido-gcw-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"ROH World Champion Bandido Announced for GCW Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the pro wrestling world was reeling from the news of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/27\/ring-of-honor-releases-talents\/\" target=\"_self\">the sudden release of <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>&#8216;s roster<\/a> and the announcement of an ROH reboot in the spring, <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> announced the immediate plans for Ring of Honor&#8217;s potentially final World Champion, as it was announced that <strong>Bandido<\/strong> &#8211; who is also currently the <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)<\/strong> World Champion and <strong>The Crash<\/strong> Heavyweight Champion in Mexico &#8211; would be making his promotional debut during GCW&#8217;s upcoming series of shows in Texas and California.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*BREAKING*<\/p>\n<p>BANDIDO is coming to GCW!<\/p>\n<p>December 3: HOUSTON<br \/>December 4: DALLAS<br \/>December 17: LA<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all 3 events go on Sale this Friday (10\/29) at 3PM Est! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sk5hPiucnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sk5hPiucnc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCWrestling_\/status\/1453505121967607811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bandido has been ROH World Champion since July when he defeated <strong>Rush<\/strong> at <em><strong>ROH Best in the World<\/strong><\/em>, and his reign of nearly 680-days is the longest run of a PWG World Champion. GCW is a familiar playground for many ROH stars, including GCW OGs <strong>Chris Dickinson <\/strong>and <strong>Tony Deppen<\/strong>, former ROH Pure Champion <strong>Johnathan Gresham<\/strong>, and most recently,\u00a0<strong>The Briscoes<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rohwrestling.com\/news\/briscoes-win-gcw-tag-team-championship\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who recently won the GCW Tag Team titles<\/a>. With so many talents entering a free agency period, expect a flurry of announcements over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the pro wrestling world was reeling from the news of the sudden release of Ring of Honor&#8216;s roster and the announcement of an ROH reboot in the spring, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) announced the immediate plans for Ring of Honor&#8217;s potentially final World Champion, as it was announced that Bandido &#8211; who is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":103286,"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":[5274,12,6,2192,8],"tags":[2345],"class_list":["post-103285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gcw","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","category-roh","tag-bandido"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103285","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=103285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}