{"id":15410,"date":"2018-03-08T23:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2018-03-08T23:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:21:55","slug":"spoiler-tag-team-replacement-in-dusty-rhodes-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/08\/spoiler-tag-team-replacement-in-dusty-rhodes-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOILER: Tag Team Replacement in Dusty Rhodes Classic, Enter Feud With Undisputed Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To anyone who saw the initial brackets for this year&#8217;s edition of the <em><strong>Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic<\/strong><\/em>, the nearly annual tournament in NXT for tag teams (they skipped 2017 after <strong>Authors of Pain<\/strong> won in 2016 and <strong>Finn Balor &amp; Samoa Joe<\/strong> won in 2015), and who were in attendance at Wednesday&#8217;s NXT tapings at Full Sail University must have got a shock when <strong>Oney Lorcan<\/strong> and <strong>Danny Burch<\/strong>&#8216;s opponents came out for their first round match-up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15411\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15411\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/20180223_NXT_Dusty_Bracket-17841004a7db205a8e81980d59412249-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Instead of the advertised <strong>Moustache Mountain<\/strong>, the UK tandem of former WWE United Kingdom Champion <strong>Tyler Bate<\/strong> and <strong>Trent Seven<\/strong>, the makeshift team of current WWE UK Champion &#8220;Bruiserweight&#8221; <strong>Pete Dunne<\/strong> and <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong> came out. The two recently had a heralded clash for the WWE UK Championship on the February 14 edition of NXT on the WWE Network and then this past week on NXT had a seeming bonding moment in a segment with <strong>Undisputed Era<\/strong> (which lead to the announcement of <strong>Adam Cole<\/strong> vs. Pete Dunne for the UK title next week).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roderickstrong?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@roderickstrong<\/a> had some words for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteDunneYxB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PeteDunneYxB<\/a>&#8230; but The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UndisputedERA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UndisputedERA<\/a> wasn&#39;t about to sit back silently! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZFMPsg1dB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xZFMPsg1dB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE NXT (@WWENXT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENXT\/status\/971556107360509953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the recent news of Undisputed Era&#8217;s NXT Tag Team Champion <strong>Bobby Fish<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/03\/04\/breaking-bobby-fish-injured-nxt-live-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injuring his knee at a recent NXT Live Event<\/a> and undergoing surgery, which will put Fish out for six months, it also appeared at the tapings that Adam Cole will replace Fish in the NXT Tag Team Championship squad at <em><strong>NXT Takeover: New Orleans<\/strong><\/em> and face the two finalists of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament in a Triple Threat Match for the NXT Tag Team Titles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15413\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/CtdSdOdXYAIvRdA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/CtdSdOdXYAIvRdA.jpg 480w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/CtdSdOdXYAIvRdA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/CtdSdOdXYAIvRdA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/CtdSdOdXYAIvRdA-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It would appear that Tyler Bate was the hold up, as his partner Trent Seven still flew in for the tapings, facing <strong>Velveteen Dream<\/strong> in singles action. No word on why Bate never made the trip, if the change in direction with the tag titles lead to the plan to replace Moustache Mountain or if they&#8217;re just being protected for <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/03\/06\/wwe-cruiserweight-tag-team-titles-10-teams-who-could-be-in-the-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possibly being called up for <em>205 Live&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>upcoming Cruiserweight Tag Team division<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To anyone who saw the initial brackets for this year&#8217;s edition of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, the nearly annual tournament in NXT for tag teams (they skipped 2017 after Authors of Pain won in 2016 and Finn Balor &amp; Samoa Joe won in 2015), and who were in attendance at Wednesday&#8217;s NXT tapings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":15414,"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":[316,2,3],"tags":[228,409,116,536,280,530,472,1791],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-205live","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-dusty-rhodes-tag-team-classic","tag-moustache-mountain","tag-nxt","tag-pete-dunne","tag-roderick-strong","tag-trent-seven","tag-tyler-bate","tag-undisputed-era"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","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=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}