{"id":27146,"date":"2018-09-30T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=27146"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:38:47","slug":"sami-callihan-wins-2018-jim-lynam-memorial-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/30\/sami-callihan-wins-2018-jim-lynam-memorial-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Callihan Wins 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> star <strong>Sami Callihan<\/strong> defeated <strong>ACH<\/strong> in the finals to win the 2018 <strong>Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament<\/strong>, one of the indies top tournament showcases, with<strong> All American Wrestling (AAW)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h1>Sami Callihan Wins 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE WINNER of the 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament, \u201cTHE DRAW\u201d SAMI CALLIHAN! \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSamiCallihan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheSamiCallihan<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AAWLynam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AAWLynam<\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nPhoto by: Basil Mahmud \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beezzzzy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Beezzzzy<\/a><br \/>\n.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AAW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AAWPRO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AAWPRO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/professionalwrestling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#professionalwrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/redefined?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#redefined<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#chicago<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/samicallihan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#samicallihan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thedraw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thedraw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OVE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/winner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#winner<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tournament?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#tournament<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prowrestling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#prowrestling<\/a> l <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vc4jNuIKbw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Vc4jNuIKbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AAW Wrestling (@AAWPro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AAWPro\/status\/1046214106217361408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/09\/24\/preview-aaw-jim-lynam-memorial-tournament-night-one-9-28-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">great field of competitors took part in the tournament<\/a>, which included the likes of IMPACT&#8217;s <strong>Moose, Trevor Lee, Rey Fenix, Rich Swann<\/strong> and <strong>DJ Z<\/strong>, as well as other indie stars like <strong>Trey Miguel, Darby Allin, Shane Strickland<\/strong> and <strong>MJF<\/strong>. To get to the finals, Callihan defeated Moose, Rich Swann and <strong>Sammy Guevara<\/strong>, while ACH went through MJF, <strong>Myron Reed<\/strong> and DJ Z.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MRN3aZLFCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MRN3aZLFCg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 A.C.H.\u2122 (@GoGoACH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoGoACH\/status\/1046221557184569345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament is an annual tournament with AAW that pays tribute to one of AAW&#8217;s founding members, <strong>Jim Lynam<\/strong>, who sadly passed away in 2015. The first annual Lynam Tournament was won by <strong>Chris Hero<\/strong> in 2017, while <strong>Michael Elgin<\/strong> won last year&#8217;s edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, IMPACT Wrestling and Major League Wrestling (MLW) star Sami Callihan defeated ACH in the finals to win the 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament, one of the indies top tournament showcases, with All American Wrestling (AAW). Sami Callihan Wins 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament THE WINNER of the 2018 Jim Lynam Memorial Tournament, \u201cTHE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":27147,"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":[788,969,3481,488],"class_list":["post-27146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aaw","tag-ach","tag-jim-lynam-memorial-tournament","tag-sami-callihan"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27146","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=27146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}