{"id":12862,"date":"2018-01-22T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:37:07","slug":"smash-wrestling-crowns-new-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/22\/smash-wrestling-crowns-new-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Wrestling Crowns New Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> hosted their sixth installment of <strong>Any Given Sunday<\/strong>.\u00a0 We the fans were given an experience that included many moments that will be remembered for quite some time.\u00a0 We witnessed <strong>Sebastian Suave<\/strong> and <strong>Tarik<\/strong> destroy each other with thundering chops that could be heard from outside the venue.\u00a0 We were given <strong>Kevin Bennett<\/strong> against <strong>Mark Haskins<\/strong> in a match that had people on their feet almost from bell to bell.\u00a0 Not to be outdone <strong>Matt Riddle<\/strong> and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/04\/canadian-indie-star-brent-banks-makes-defiant-uk-debut-in-canadian-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> <strong>Brent Banks<\/strong><\/a> then put on a classic that could be an early contender for match of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12870\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12870\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DTh1dapV4AA-Ohe-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Smash Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We could talk at great length about what happened in the first six matches of the night.\u00a0 All six were action packed and had the crowd invested in the show, but it was the final two matches of the night that made the event go from great to amazing.<\/p>\n<p>First up we saw <strong>Tyson Dux<\/strong> (c) taking on <strong>Frankie TM<\/strong> for the Smash Heavyweight championship for the second time in recent months.\u00a0 This title match would be much different than the first.\u00a0 These two competitors beat up on each other and traded near falls.\u00a0 It was when Dux had Frankie ready to tap that the plans of Frankie soon became clear.\u00a0 The team of <strong>Stu Grayson<\/strong> and <strong>Evil Uno<\/strong>, the Super Smash Bros.,\u00a0 came out of the curtain distracting all of the security personnel, Smash management, and the referee.\u00a0 A returning <strong>Vanessa Kraven<\/strong> entered the ring through the crowd and laid out Dux allowing Frankie TM to win and become the new Smash Heavyweight champion.\u00a0 All four members of this absolutely\u00a0monster faction then posed at the top of the entrance way with the belt leaving Dux, the longest reigning Smash champion, bloodied in the ring and defeated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMFG @MtKraven just returned at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AGS6?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AGS6<\/a> and helped Frankie the Mobster become the NEW <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smashwrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@smashwrestling<\/a> champion! A travesty!<\/p>\n<p>This is a dark day in Smash Wrestling history&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cZ7CpfsnQj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cZ7CpfsnQj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alexander K Lee (@AlexanderKLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexanderKLee\/status\/955244968041439232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dux now moves onto a tag team opportunity which sees him tagging with Brent Banks to take on Suave and Tarik with the winner being granted entry into the <strong>F8ful Eight<\/strong> tournament at the end of February.\u00a0 Frankie will get ready for his first title defense which has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This won\u2019t end well&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cBUUZtawSM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cBUUZtawSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Smash Wrestling (@smashwrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smashwrestling\/status\/955248186146222081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With all these amazing matches we still had the tag team ladder match to crown the first-ever Smash Wrestling tag team champions.\u00a0 This match saw the team of <strong>Mathieu St-Jacques<\/strong> and <strong>Thomas Dubois<\/strong>, <strong>Tabernak de Team<\/strong>, taking on the team of <strong>Mike Rollins<\/strong> and <strong>Braxton Sutter<\/strong>, <strong>Well Oiled Machines<\/strong>.\u00a0 This match reset that bar from earlier in the night and is the new early front-runner\u00a0for match of the year.\u00a0 Ladders, tables, and chairs were brought in the ring and used often leaving all four competitors with many bumps and bruises.\u00a0 Some of the highlights included Dubois performing a moonsault\u00a0off the top rope while holding a ladder to strike his opponents on the floor, and St-Jaques while at the top of the ladder being toppled over only to fall into Dubois and through a table to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveTSN\/status\/955257760454758400<\/p>\n<p>It was the latter move that allowed Sutter and Rollins the opportunity to climb the ladders and become the new and first ever Smash Wrestling tag team champions.\u00a0 The Well Oiled Machines are next scheduled to face the team of <strong>Kevin Blackwood<\/strong> and <strong>Scotty O&#8217;Shea<\/strong>, <strong>Kill\/Screen<\/strong>, in London next week which could very well be their first tag team title defense.\u00a0 They will also need to keep an eye on the F8ful Eight tag team tournament as it&#8217;s likely they will be defending against some of those teams in the near future if they retain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Smash Wrestling hosted their sixth installment of Any Given Sunday.\u00a0 We the fans were given an experience that included many moments that will be remembered for quite some time.\u00a0 We witnessed Sebastian Suave and Tarik destroy each other with thundering chops that could be heard from outside the venue.\u00a0 We were given Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2367,"featured_media":12869,"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":[8072,2,6,203],"tags":[567,2040,1855,204,1144,1826,279,827,1856],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-indies","category-featured","category-north-america","category-smash-wrestling","tag-braxton-sutter","tag-frankie-tm","tag-mike-rollins","tag-smash-wrestling","tag-super-smash-brothers","tag-tabernak-de-team","tag-tyson-dux","tag-vanessa-kraven","tag-well-oiled-machines"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","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\/2367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}