{"id":25063,"date":"2018-08-29T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=25063"},"modified":"2018-08-29T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:51:07","slug":"uks-preston-city-wrestling-partners-with-anthem-for-new-show-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/29\/uks-preston-city-wrestling-partners-with-anthem-for-new-show-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Preston City Wrestling Partners With Anthem For New Show This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the news of <strong>Revolution Pro UK (RevPro)<\/strong> finding a TV home with <strong>FreeSports<\/strong>, <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong> bringing back the old WCPW flagship show <em><strong>Loaded<\/strong><\/em> to YouTube, <strong>World of Sport<\/strong> on <strong>ITV<\/strong> and <strong>NXT UK<\/strong> coming to the WWE Network wasn&#8217;t enough of the British wrestling scene on television, another promotion is joining the televised revolution. <strong>Preston City Wrestling (PCW)<\/strong> has announced they have partnered with <strong>Anthem Sports &amp; Entertainment<\/strong> (the parent company of <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>) to produce new content for a PCW branded program set to air on Anthem&#8217;s <strong>Fight Network UK,\u00a0<\/strong>available on Sky Channel 455.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fight Network UK is proud to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PCW_UK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PCW_UK<\/a> will air every Saturday night at 11pm!<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to Sky Channel 455 to see one of the companies at the heart of the UK wrestling resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>PCW mixes British and international talent for dream matches never before seen on UK TV. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VFI44GUjS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/VFI44GUjS6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fight Network UK (@FightNetUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightNetUK\/status\/1033994042718257152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new show featuring PCW stars mingling with international stars will air every Saturday night at 11pm BST, beginning this Saturday September 1. The debut show is set to feature matches including <strong>Zack Sabre Jr., Matt Riddle<\/strong>, WOS Champion <strong>Rampage Brown<\/strong>, PCW Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Nightshade, Rhio<\/strong>, <strong>Sierra Loxton,\u00a0<\/strong>and more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25067\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25067\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/Preston_City_Wrestling_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/Preston_City_Wrestling_logo.png 500w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/Preston_City_Wrestling_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/Preston_City_Wrestling_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/Preston_City_Wrestling_logo-420x420.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Founded by <strong>Steven Fludder<\/strong> in 2011, Preston City Wrestling is based out the city of Preston, Lancashire, in the northwest of England (about an hour north of Liverpool). Since its inception, PCW has been one of the top promotions in the BritWres scene and a breeding ground for many UK and international stars who have taken the world by storm. Former 3x PCW Heavyweight Champion <strong>Tyson T-Bone<\/strong> was featured in both of the WWE&#8217;s United Kingdom Championship tournaments (and works WWE\/NXT Live Events in the UK), and current WWE Superstars <strong>Apollo Crews<\/strong> (then Uhaa Nation) and <strong>Noam Dar<\/strong> are also both former PCW Heavyweight Champions from their independent days. Dar, alongside NXT&#8217;s <strong>Adam Cole<\/strong> and NXT UK star <strong>El Ligero<\/strong> are also former PCW Cruiserweight Champions, and <strong>Viper<\/strong> is a former PCW Women&#8217;s Champion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25065\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25065\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/08\/DNVS5CTW0AAJHpq-e1535582607643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3x PCW Heavyweight Champion Tyson T-Bone competed in both the 2017 and 2018 WWE UK Championship tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While PCW hasn&#8217;t achieved the notoriety of the bigger UK promotions such as <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong>, RevPro, Glasgow&#8217;s <strong>Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW)<\/strong> or <strong>IPW:UK<\/strong>, PCW has managed to create it&#8217;s own footprint in the UK scene that only gets stronger with each card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the news of Revolution Pro UK (RevPro) finding a TV home with FreeSports, Defiant Wrestling bringing back the old WCPW flagship show Loaded to YouTube, World of Sport on ITV and NXT UK coming to the WWE Network wasn&#8217;t enough of the British wrestling scene on television, another promotion is joining the televised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":25066,"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":[2,13],"tags":[444,3354,226,2998,3353],"class_list":["post-25063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-anthem","tag-fight-network-uk","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-pcw","tag-preston-city-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063","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=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}