{"id":24671,"date":"2018-08-24T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=24671"},"modified":"2018-08-24T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T03:06:16","slug":"andnew-johnny-blackcraft-wins-inaugural-blackcraft-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/24\/andnew-johnny-blackcraft-wins-inaugural-blackcraft-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Johnny Blackcraft Wins Inaugural Blackcraft Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight saw the first ever event by <strong>Blackcraft Wrestling (BCW)<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Burning Bridges<\/em><\/strong>, took place from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the company &#8211; formed by the <strong>Blackcraft Cult<\/strong> clothing company &#8211; put on a fun and entertaining show with a gothic vibe. It felt like an American occult version of<strong> Lucha Underground<\/strong>, complete with a crazed cult leader leading the show, a mysterious character named <strong>The Preacher<\/strong>, who welcomed &#8220;The Unbelievers&#8221; to join <strong>The Cult<\/strong>. And if the gentleman who portrayed The Preacher looked familiar, it&#8217;s actor <strong>Doug Bradley<\/strong>, best known for portraying <strong>Pinhead<\/strong> in the <em><strong>Hellraiser<\/strong><\/em> horror franchise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24672\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24672\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/PREACHER-e1535165623869.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preacher photo: Red Dot Studios \/ Blackcraft Wrestling; Pinhead photo: Dimension Films<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the main event, BCW crowned the inaugural Blackcraft Heavyweight Champion in a triple threat between UK&#8217;s &#8220;King of the Goths&#8221; <strong>Jimmy Havoc<\/strong>, <strong>Brody King<\/strong> and <strong>Johnny Blackcraft<\/strong> (the BCW alter ego of <strong>John Morrison<\/strong>, aka <strong>Johnny Mundo<\/strong> in LU and <strong>Johnny Impact<\/strong> in <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>). In the end, Johnny Blackcraft overcame the odds to become the first ever BCW Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bm4neD_AcWO\/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&#038;igshid=106igkiadpgqr<\/p>\n<p>BCW also crowned two more champions at\u00a0<em>Burning Bridges<\/em>, with <strong>OvE<\/strong> (Dave &amp; Jake Crist) winning the BCW Tag Team titles in a Fatal 4-Way with <strong>The Butcher &amp; The Blade<\/strong> (Pepper Parks &amp; Andy Williams), <strong>Youthinazia<\/strong> (Matt Cross &amp; Josh Prohibition) and <strong>The Mane Event<\/strong> (Duke Davis &amp; Ganon Jones Jr.), and <strong>Saraya Knight<\/strong> defeating <strong>Britt Baker<\/strong> to become the first BCW Women&#8217;s Champion (with a little help from her daughter, WWE Superstar <strong>Paige<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FansSSarayaK\/status\/1033170228778344448<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">3 hellraisers!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyHavoc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JimmyHavoc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FpVpZCnmYi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FpVpZCnmYi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julia Hamer (@RealsarayaK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealsarayaK\/status\/1033096493509607425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight saw the first ever event by Blackcraft Wrestling (BCW),\u00a0Burning Bridges, took place from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the company &#8211; formed by the Blackcraft Cult clothing company &#8211; put on a fun and entertaining show with a gothic vibe. It felt like an American occult version of Lucha Underground, complete with a crazed cult leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":24677,"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":[3323,2229,2161,521,100,3324,1668,345,1567,554],"class_list":["post-24671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-blackcraft-wrestling","tag-britt-baker","tag-brody-king","tag-jimmy-havoc","tag-john-morrison","tag-johnny-blackcraft","tag-johnny-impact","tag-johnny-mundo","tag-ove","tag-saraya-knight"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671","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=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}