{"id":20820,"date":"2018-06-25T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:35:18","slug":"breaking-news-eli-drake-signs-new-contract-with-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/06\/25\/breaking-news-eli-drake-signs-new-contract-with-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Eli Drake Signs New Contract With Impact Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been the talk of many wrestling fans the past few months when it came to light that <strong>Eli Drake<\/strong>&#8216;s contract was coming to an end &#8211; where would Eli be taking his services this summer? Would he remain a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/06\/08\/so-you-want-to-get-back-into-impact-wrestling-a-quick-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s roster or would he return to the WWE, back to NXT where he was unceremonious released years ago. Impact sent out a message today that the former Impact World Heavyweight Champion has indeed chosen to stay with Impact &#8220;long into the future&#8221; and signed an extension to his expiring contract.<\/p>\n<h1>Eli Drake Signs New Contract With Impact Wrestling<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING NEWS: We\u2019re delighted to announce that dummies will be named and shamed long into the future as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEliDrake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheEliDrake<\/a> has signed a contract extension with IMPACT Wrestling. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eZJGQ4Bmq0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eZJGQ4Bmq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMPACTWRESTLING\/status\/1011330863685087233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eli Drake was featured during the latest set of tapings in Windsor, Ontario, Canada from earlier this month that are set to air this coming Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been the talk of many wrestling fans the past few months when it came to light that Eli Drake&#8216;s contract was coming to an end &#8211; where would Eli be taking his services this summer? Would he remain a part of Impact Wrestling&#8216;s roster or would he return to the WWE, back to NXT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":20822,"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":[2,7,6],"tags":[1319,226,116],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-eli-drake","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-nxt"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820","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=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}