{"id":22545,"date":"2018-07-21T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=22545"},"modified":"2018-08-11T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:33:06","slug":"spoiler-huge-indie-name-debuts-at-ring-of-honor-tapings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/21\/spoiler-huge-indie-name-debuts-at-ring-of-honor-tapings\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOILER: Huge Indie Name Debuts at Ring of Honor Tapings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported earlier this week<\/a> by <strong>Dave Meltzer<\/strong> on <strong>Wrestling Observer Radio<\/strong> that <strong>Jeff Cobb<\/strong>, one of the hottest free agents in wrestling, had signed a limited, non-exclusive deal with <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong> and would be debuting this weekend at the television tapings this weekend at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenTurpen\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter user Ben Turpen<\/a> was at the tapings tonight and confirmed that Jeff Cobb did in fact debut, interrupting a potential Top Prospect tournament match between <strong>Eli Isom<\/strong> and <strong>F.R. Josie<\/strong>, taking out both youngsters.<\/p>\n<h1>SPOILER: Huge Indie Name Debuts at Ring of Honor Tapings<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scoop 14 &#8211; FR Josie vs Eli Isom in a Top Prospect Tournament match. Qualifying match? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Exmwqq885u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Exmwqq885u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Turpen (@BenTurpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenTurpen\/status\/1020812980529901568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scoop 15 &#8211; Jeff Cobb attacks both guys, making his ROH debut. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rWZGoXs51v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rWZGoXs51v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Turpen (@BenTurpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenTurpen\/status\/1020813916883116032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scoop 16 &#8211; Jeff Cobb makes his ROH debut <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eW0XREhdbN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eW0XREhdbN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Turpen (@BenTurpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenTurpen\/status\/1020814151663439872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeff Cobb originally gained national prominence for his role as &#8220;The Monster&#8221; <strong>Matanza Cueto<\/strong> in <strong>Lucha Underground<\/strong>, before gaining notoriety under his real name. The Hawaiian native of Guam descent represented Guam in the 2004 Summer Olympics, before transitioning to pro wrestling in 2009, starting out with <strong>Action Zone Wrestling (AZW)<\/strong> on his native island. But after his breakthrough as Matanza in 2015, Jeff Cobb has become indie wrestling&#8217;s new Suplex Machine, competing for such promotions as <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), EVOLVE, Smash Wrestling, All American Wrestling (AAW), Major League Wrestling (MLW), WrestleCircus<\/strong> and many, many more in North America. He&#8217;s also extended his resume to include international stints with the likes of <strong>NJPW, PROGRESS, RevPro, Over The Top (OTT) Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw)<\/strong>. Cobb is a former Lucha Underground Champion (as Matanza) and a former PWG Tag Team Champion alongside <strong>Matt Riddle<\/strong> in <strong>The Chosen Bros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keith Lee vs. Jeff Cobb - Limitless Wrestling (WWE NXT, NJPW, AEW Dynamite, PWG, Beyond)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_c1Eq9Lwug?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>It was reported earlier this week by Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio that Jeff Cobb, one of the hottest free agents in wrestling, had signed a limited, non-exclusive deal with Ring of Honor and would be debuting this weekend at the television tapings this weekend at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia. Twitter user Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":22550,"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":[2,6,8],"tags":[694,61],"class_list":["post-22545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-roh","tag-jeff-cobb","tag-ring-of-honor"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545","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=22545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}