{"id":116774,"date":"2022-11-12T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=116774"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:11:50","slug":"bandido-signs-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/11\/12\/bandido-signs-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandido Signs With AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bandido is officially All Elite.<\/p>\n<h2>Bandido is ALLELITE<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bandidowrestler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bandidowrestler<\/a>! What a huge win moments ago on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWRampage<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TNTdrama<\/a> tonight!!<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#39;s official: Bandido is ALL ELITE! <\/p>\n<p>See you in Bridgeport at Wednesday Night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBSNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TBSNetwork<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1VfAOrWJkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1VfAOrWJkC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan\/status\/1591275930521341952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the November 11 episode of Rampage, Bandido defeated RUSH in a first-round match in the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament. Bandido&#8217;s win was aided by John Silver who stopped Jose the Assistant, from interfering, Bandido capitalized by rolling up RUSH for the surprise win.<\/p>\n<p>Following the win, Tony Khan took to social media to announce the signing of the luchador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/29\/incredible-year-bandido\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">2021: The Incredible Year of Bandido<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bandido was reportedly offered the deal weeks ago following his debut in AEW and has seemingly put pen to paper on a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bandido is a former ROH World Champion having debuted for the company in 2018 and was featured there until ROH went on hiatus at the end of 2021. After Tony Khan took over the promotion, he also competed at the ROH Supercard of Honor in April 2022 against then-ROH champion, Johnathan Gresham in an unofficial title unification match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/09\/27\/big-lucha-world-champion-bandido\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">#AndNEW: Bandido is The First Big Lucha World Champion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Bandido has been active on the indie scene, namely AAA and PWG where he&#8217;s a former champion. He made his AEW debut on the September 28 episode of AEW Dynamite to challenge Chris Jericho for the ROH title.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Header Photo Credit \u2013 AEW.<\/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 wrestling stories worldwide as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of important 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 AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TBS and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. Additionally, AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandido is officially All Elite. Bandido is ALLELITE Congratulations @bandidowrestler! What a huge win moments ago on #AEWRampage on @TNTdrama tonight!! Now it&#39;s official: Bandido is ALL ELITE! See you in Bridgeport at Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite on @TBSNetwork! pic.twitter.com\/1VfAOrWJkC &mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) November 12, 2022 On the November 11 episode of Rampage, Bandido defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4271,"featured_media":116781,"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":[4677,12,2192],"tags":[2345],"class_list":["post-116774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-wrestling","tag-bandido"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116774","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\/4271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}