{"id":109835,"date":"2022-02-10T21:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=109835"},"modified":"2022-02-12T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T16:55:14","slug":"big-kon-fma-konnor-makes-impact-wrestling-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/10\/big-kon-fma-konnor-makes-impact-wrestling-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Kon Formally Known As Konnor Makes IMPACT Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big Kon,<\/strong> formerly known as <strong>Konnor<\/strong> as part of <strong>The Ascension<\/strong> in <strong>NXT<\/strong> and <strong>WWE<\/strong> made his <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> debut. He answered an open challenge laid out by <strong>Josh Alexander<\/strong> this week on IMPACT on AXS TV.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another obstacle for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walking_Weapon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Walking_Weapon<\/a> and his name is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Big_Kon1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Big_Kon1<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Ok4Ji4kAZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6Ok4Ji4kAZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1491942369721212936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Big Kon Makes IMPACT Wrestling Debut<\/h2>\n<p>Josh Alexander came to the ring to talk about the upcoming tag match at <em>No Surrender.<\/em> Alexander was scheduled to be part of <strong>Team IMPACT<\/strong> as they go against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/08\/honor-no-more-faction\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Honor<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>No More<\/strong><\/a>, a group of former <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong> wrestlers. Alexander made it clear that the IMPACT World Title is still on his mind as he has unfinished business with <strong>Moose.<\/strong> He then issued an open challenge which was answered by Big Kon who made his way into the IMPACT Zone for the first time. The challenge was short-lived, as Alexander quickly made Big Kon tap from an ankle lock.<\/p>\n<p>Konnor is best known for his time as part of The Ascension with <strong>Victor.\u00a0<\/strong>They won the NXT Tag Team Titles once during their run with the company. The duo finished up their time in NXT in December of 2014 before making their way to the main roster. They returned to NXT sporadically in 2015 and 2016 for a few matches. The duo was released by WWE in December of 2019. Since leaving WWE, Big Kon has made appearances for a variety of independent wrestling promotions. Time will tell if we see more of Big Kon in the IMPACT Zone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/em><\/a><em>\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. You can catch IMPACT Wrestling on Thursday nights on AXS TV and Twitch.TV as well as all the time on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>IMPACT Plus<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Kon, formerly known as Konnor as part of The Ascension in NXT and WWE made his IMPACT Wrestling debut. He answered an open challenge laid out by Josh Alexander this week on IMPACT on AXS TV. Another obstacle for @Walking_Weapon and his name is @Big_Kon1!#IMPACTonAXSTV pic.twitter.com\/6Ok4Ji4kAZ &mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) February 11, 2022 Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":47618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[7,12,6],"tags":[3805,5288],"class_list":["post-109835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","tag-josh-alexander","tag-konnor"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109835","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\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}