{"id":12470,"date":"2018-01-15T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2018-01-16T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:52:57","slug":"breaking-chelsea-green-announces-departure-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/15\/breaking-chelsea-green-announces-departure-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Chelsea Green Announces Departure From Impact Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following tonight&#8217;s last night of Impact tapings for the run of episodes leading up to the April 22 Impact PPV Redemption in Toronto, Ontario, Chelsea Green, aka Laurel Van Ness on Impact Wrestling, announced her departure from the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impactwrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IMPACTWRESTLING<\/a> \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k21Y9lNqCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/k21Y9lNqCC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CHELSEA GREEN (@ImChelseaGreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImChelseaGreen\/status\/953094783593041920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>BREAKING: Chelsea Green Announces Departure From Impact Wrestling<\/h1>\n<p>The announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/12\/01\/report-laurel-van-ness-requests-release-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirms the reports from early December<\/a> that Chelsea Green had requested her release following the last round of tapings in Ottawa, Ontario, shortly after she had won the Impact Knockouts Championship. Green worked this round of tapings in order to drop the championship belt to <strong>Allie<\/strong>, as well as putting over newcomer <strong>Keira Hogan<\/strong> in the process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12473\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DP2buHGUIAE5eRv-874x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"555\"><\/p>\n<p>With her release following tonight&#8217;s tapings, Chelsea Green ends a two year career with Impact Wrestling almost to the date, debuting with Impact on January 7, 2016. Initially working sporadic dates, she signed full time that September, where she was renamed Laurel Van Ness and began working with <strong>Maria Kanellis<\/strong>&#8216; stable, including Allie, <strong>Sienna<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;The Miracle&#8221; Michael Bennett<\/strong>. Following her love triangle storyline of being left at the altar by <strong>Braxton Sutter<\/strong> in February of last year, she became a drunken, maniacal jilted bride character, which culminated in her defeating Rosemary for the Knockouts Championship during November&#8217;s Ottawa tapings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12474\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DPP_0321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DPP_0321.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DPP_0321-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Impact Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Chelsea Green, the former student of <strong>Lance Storm<\/strong> has worked for a variety of promotions the past few years, including <strong>SHIMMER, Stardom, RISE, SHINE, Queens of Combat (QOC)<\/strong>, and <strong>WrestleCircus<\/strong>. She&#8217;s currently dating WWE Superstar <strong>Zack Ryder<\/strong>, so whether she ends up with the WWE, either in NXT or the main roster, is still up in the air, but she is still announced for and taking indie bookings at this time. Green has worked for the WWE in the past, first in 2014 as the role of <strong>Daniel Bryan<\/strong>&#8216;s therapist, <strong>Megan Miller<\/strong>, and then in 2015 as a contestant on the rebooted <em><strong>Tough Enough<\/strong><\/em>. With her announcement, Green joins other Impact stars <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/01\/13\/feast-fired-returns-tonights-impact-tapings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EC3<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/01\/14\/breaking-another-impact-veteran-finishes-up-with-company-spoiler\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lashley<\/a><\/strong> to have finished up with the company at these tapings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12475\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12475\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/950ef7610385b2efd06f994e8e875eb5-e1516073330212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Zack Ryder&#8217;s Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following tonight&#8217;s last night of Impact tapings for the run of episodes leading up to the April 22 Impact PPV Redemption in Toronto, Ontario, Chelsea Green, aka Laurel Van Ness on Impact Wrestling, announced her departure from the company. Thank you @IMPACTWRESTLING \ud83d\udc99 pic.twitter.com\/k21Y9lNqCC &mdash; CHELSEA GREEN (@ImChelseaGreen) January 16, 2018 BREAKING: Chelsea Green Announces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":12472,"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],"tags":[571,226,570],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-chelsea-green","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-laurel-van-ness"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","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=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}