{"id":16158,"date":"2018-03-27T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=16158"},"modified":"2018-03-27T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:21:24","slug":"uk-wrestler-primate-jason-prime-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/27\/uk-wrestler-primate-jason-prime-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Wrestler &#8220;Primate&#8221; Jason Prime Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em><strong>Road To No Regrets\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>event in Newcastle, England last night, Jason Prime &#8211; better known to wrestling fans as <strong>Primate<\/strong> &#8211; announced his retirement from professional wrestling. Primate revealed that following a ring accident eight weeks ago, he had broken his jaw and had to have it rebuilt and wired shut (hence his speaking in the video below). But following a check up last Friday, he was informed by the doctor that his wrestling days were now over as any form of impact to his jaw ongoing could result in his weakened jaw shattering. With a tear in his eyes, Primate thanked Defiant, <strong>WhatCulture<\/strong> and the fans in attendance, as he revealed he was retiring from the ring.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emotional Conclusion At Road To No Regrets In Newcastle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDTYrhY28yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The news is even sadder when you consider that Primate is only a four year veteran of the ring, trained by Rampage Brown and beginning with Cumbria&#8217;s <strong>Target Wrestling<\/strong> in 2014, then Newcastle&#8217;s <strong>Main Event Wrestling (MEW)<\/strong> in 2015. In 2016, he got his big break as he was selected for the opening roster for WhatCulture&#8217;s foray into professional wrestling, <strong>WCPW<\/strong>, where he became a fan favourite for his hardcore approach to the sport. He was WCPW&#8217;s first Hardcore Champion, and stayed with the promotion when it transitioned to Defiant Wrestling last year. He won another Hardcore Championship and recently held the Defiant Tag Team titles alongside another UK savage, <strong>Jimmy Havoc<\/strong>. Through his work with Defiant and rise through the UK indie scene, Primate found himself on cards with <strong>PROGRESS, ICW, IPW:UK<\/strong> and much more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Hendry vs. Primate - WCPW Title Match (Pro Wrestling World Cup Germany)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ruxjjFHPjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Jason Prime has already found a new venture post-Primate &#8211; in fact it was in motion before his retirement announcement. Prime will be a key part of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/battlereadyncl\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Battle Ready<\/strong><\/a>, a brand new performance center and training school for British wrestling, that looks to open this coming summer.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Primate_\/status\/968250940380844032<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WCPW Loaded #17.5: Rampage vs. Primate - No Holds Barred\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2hKHeYSGcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for BritWres stars, promoters and personalities to sound off on British wrestling&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gutting news about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Primate_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@The_Primate_<\/a> retiring. Genuine top bloke who no matter how low he was feeling would always see a positive side and be full of laughs. Good luck with the training school bro, catch you down the road.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Haskins (@ThisIsHaskins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsHaskins\/status\/978655060270952448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossOnRasslin\/status\/978596966555889664<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are very sorry to hear that \u201cThe Primate\u201d Jason Prime has had to retire. Undoubtably the greatest MEW champion of all time, he brought it every time he stepped foot in the ring <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ahDdDmN7Vb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ahDdDmN7Vb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Main Event Wrestling (@MEWrestlingUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEWrestlingUK\/status\/978571881526845440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LionheartUK\/status\/978550060081401856<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlasgowJester\/status\/978583204776038400<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKirbyProEgo\/status\/978526226598985728<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ligero1\/status\/978586336386076672<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Had some great battles with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Primate_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@The_Primate_<\/a>  and very sad to see his career cut short, and a dream too.<\/p>\n<p>Head over to<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yOGSBfc4xX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/yOGSBfc4xX<\/a><br \/>to check out his other dream in his top notch training facility that is coming soon! Battle Ready! purchase a quality bit of clobber too!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Coffey (@Joe_Coffey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joe_Coffey\/status\/978586759855558656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosephConners\/status\/978578978213650432<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Defiant Wrestling&#8216;s\u00a0Road To No Regrets\u00a0event in Newcastle, England last night, Jason Prime &#8211; better known to wrestling fans as Primate &#8211; announced his retirement from professional wrestling. Primate revealed that following a ring accident eight weeks ago, he had broken his jaw and had to have it rebuilt and wired shut (hence his speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":16169,"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":[18,2,13],"tags":[2413,1514,2412,1689],"class_list":["post-16158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defiant","category-featured","category-international","tag-battle-ready","tag-defiant-wrestling","tag-jason-prime","tag-primate"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158","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=16158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}