{"id":18749,"date":"2018-05-09T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2018-05-12T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:16:17","slug":"matt-cross-is-all-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/05\/09\/matt-cross-is-all-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cross Is ALL IN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a big week for the Elite run\u00a0<strong>All In\u00a0<\/strong>show.\u00a0 With a press conference coming up soon they made another talent announcement.\u00a0<strong>Matt Cross,\u00a0<\/strong>more commonly known as\u00a0<strong>Son Of Havoc <\/strong>in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/03\/01\/lucha-underground-new-ecw-not-way-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lucha Undeground<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0is ALL IN.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Mad Dogg&#8221; Matt Cross<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ALL_IN_2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ALL_IN_2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 1st!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestlingIsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestlingIsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hOqbUzzQV7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/hOqbUzzQV7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; matt cross \/\/\/ (@MDoggMattCross) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDoggMattCross\/status\/994245672143470592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A competitive gymnast in his younger years and a gold medal winner AAU Junior Olympic\u00a0games is it any surprise that Havoc is an excellent\u00a0high flier.\u00a0 Trained at the Cleveland Pro Wrestling training school under J.T Lightning he made is debut in 2001.\u00a0 The 17-year veteran made his name in the US indie circuit as M-Dogg 20 mainly in\u00a0<strong>Combat Zone Wrestling<\/strong>.\u00a0 In 2005 Cross ventured over to Ireland where he competed for\u00a0<strong>Irish Whip Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>against greats names such as\u00a0<strong>Johnny Storm<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was in Europe that Cross found the most success wrestling in front of 72,000 people at a show in France.\u00a0 After a run in\u00a0<strong>Ring Of Honor\u00a0<\/strong>Cross found himself competing in\u00a0<strong>WWE Tough Enough\u00a0<\/strong>in 2011 where he was eliminated in week 2 to the surprise of many viewers.\u00a0 After Tough Enough he returned to his life touring the indie scene until he became a member of the\u00a0<strong>Lucha Underground\u00a0<\/strong>roster.\u00a0 It was here that he became the masked Son OF Havoc.\u00a0 His biker influences character was the lovable loser with a badass girlfriend in\u00a0<strong>Ivelisse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Havoc broke up with Ivelisse and finally picked up his first win against\u00a0<strong>Angelico.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>LU authority figure\u00a0<strong>Dario Cueto\u00a0<\/strong>forced the three to team together in a tournament to crown trios champions.\u00a0 The rag tag oddball team won the tournament much to the delight of the believers.\u00a0 Ever since LU Cross has seen his stock rise in independent wrestling and also saw him return to his old stomping ground in Europe where he appeared in\u00a0<strong>OTT\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>PROGRESS Wrestling<\/strong>.\u00a0 A great veteran high flier and an excellent addition to the already stacked All In card.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Already confirmed for ALL IN:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong>, ROH\/NJPW<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Young Bucks<\/strong>, ROH\/NJPW<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong>, NJPW\/ROH<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hangman Page<\/strong>, ROH\/NJPW<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe Villain\u201d Marty Scurll<\/strong>, ROH\/NJPW<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tessa Blanchard<\/strong>, Impact Wrestling\/WrestleCircus\/SHIMMER, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Amell<\/strong>, \u201cArrow\u201d TV Series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rey Fenix<\/strong>, Lucha Underground\/Impact Wrestling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pentagon Jr.<\/strong>, Lucha Underground\/Impact Wrestling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kazuchika Okada<\/strong>, NJPW<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deonna Purrazzo<\/strong>, ROH\/WOH<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea Green,\u00a0<\/strong>SHIMMER\/Impact Wrestling (formerly)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joey Janela,\u00a0<\/strong>CZW\/ PWG, etc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Penelope Ford,\u00a0<\/strong>CZW\/Beyond Wrestling, etc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Britt Baker<\/strong>, SHIMMER\/Ring of Honor\/WrestleCircus, et.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jay Lethal<\/strong>, Ring of Honor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a big week for the Elite run\u00a0All In\u00a0show.\u00a0 With a press conference coming up soon they made another talent announcement.\u00a0Matt Cross,\u00a0more commonly known as\u00a0Son Of Havoc in\u00a0Lucha Undeground,\u00a0is ALL IN. &#8220;Mad Dogg&#8221; Matt Cross I&#39;m @ALL_IN_2018 September 1st!!#WrestlingIsForever pic.twitter.com\/hOqbUzzQV7 &mdash; matt cross \/\/\/ (@MDoggMattCross) May 9, 2018 A competitive gymnast in his younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":18759,"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":[2,6],"tags":[1774,1452,877],"class_list":["post-18749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-all-in","tag-matt-cross","tag-son-of-havoc"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}