{"id":19224,"date":"2018-05-22T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19224"},"modified":"2018-05-26T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:50:27","slug":"esw-champion-kevin-bennett-andrade-almas-smackdown-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/05\/22\/esw-champion-kevin-bennett-andrade-almas-smackdown-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ESW Champion Kevin Bennett Andrade Almas&#8217; Smackdown Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On tonight&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Smackdown Live<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>from Worcester, Massachusetts, Andrade &#8216;Cien&#8217; Almas continued his winning streak by facing another indie wrestler in victory. Tonight&#8217;s opponent is Buffalo, New York&#8217;s <strong>Kevin Bennett<\/strong>. Bennett started wrestling in late 2011 with <strong>Bodyslam Wrestling Organization (BWO)<\/strong> in New Jersey, as well as working with Erie, Pennsylvania&#8217;s <strong>Pro Wrestling Rampage (PWR)<\/strong>\u00a0and his hometown promotion with <strong>Empire State Wrestling (ESW)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a former ESW Heavyweight Champion (he just lost the title on May 19 to <strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/04\/26\/breaking-braxton-sutter-leaves-impact-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formerly Braxton Sutter<\/a> with Impact Wrestling). He remains a regular with both to this day, as well as being a top heel with Toronto&#8217;s <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> (whom he&#8217;s worked since 2015).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrade &quot;Cien&quot; Almas vs. local competitor: SmackDown LIVE, May 22, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QLgx_o_v6jQ?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>Following the match, Bennett acknowledged his defeat gracefully on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damn, son. Ya boy got mollywhopped.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Bennett (@KevinBennettRap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinBennettRap\/status\/999111515709038592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19230\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19230\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/26993925_10211406695862743_3013014472165937734_n-1-e1527044804449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t Bennett&#8217;s first appearance on WWE television, although it did mark his in-ring debut. He last appeared on WWE television on an episode of\u00a0<strong><em>Monday Night Raw <\/em><\/strong>from Buffalo,\u00a0back during the <strong>Goldberg<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> feud. Bennett appeared as one of the security guards that made a wall between the two.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goldberg and Brock Lesnar meet face-to-face before Survivor Series: Raw, Nov. 14, 2016\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daN8sUtz7eo?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>Here&#8217;s a couple recent matches of Kevin Bennett on the indie scene, one from his home at ESW against <strong>RJ City<\/strong>, the other a Triple Threat from Smash Wrestling featuring Bennett vs. <strong>Sebastian Suave<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Cobb<\/strong>. Bennett can be seen regularly on <em><strong>Smash Wrestling on the Fight Network<\/strong><\/em> on Thursday nights after <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> (or wherever Smash Wrestling streams on-demand).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESW - RJ City vs Kevin Bennett (01\/20\/2018)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4GgQUcvWcA?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"100 - Sebastian Suave vs Kevin Bennett vs Jeff Cobb - FREE MATCH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYVLBSWC-vo?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>Kevin Bennett is also an indie rapper in the Buffalo area, producing and recording all his own material.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Kevin Bennett - Real (Eat My Beats Contest)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltXTRd-tN5Y?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On tonight&#8217;s\u00a0Smackdown Live\u00a0from Worcester, Massachusetts, Andrade &#8216;Cien&#8217; Almas continued his winning streak by facing another indie wrestler in victory. Tonight&#8217;s opponent is Buffalo, New York&#8217;s Kevin Bennett. Bennett started wrestling in late 2011 with Bodyslam Wrestling Organization (BWO) in New Jersey, as well as working with Erie, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Pro Wrestling Rampage (PWR)\u00a0and his hometown promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":19232,"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":[2,6,3],"tags":[216,2166,148],"class_list":["post-19224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-wwe-universe","tag-andrade-cien-almas","tag-kevin-bennett","tag-smackdown-live"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19224","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=19224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}