{"id":27287,"date":"2018-10-02T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=27287"},"modified":"2019-06-03T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T14:53:05","slug":"joey-janela-out-for-minimum-one-year-announces-la-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/02\/joey-janela-out-for-minimum-one-year-announces-la-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Janela Out For Minimum One Year, Announces LA Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a week ago, indie superstar Joey Janela <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/09\/26\/breaking-joey-janela-faces-long-road-to-recovery-from-massive-knee-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was seriously injured when he landed wrong on a move to the outside, injuring his knee.<\/a>\u00a0While he expected to be out for some considerable time due to the multiple issues and injuries to the knee &#8211; including a &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; PCL and MCL, he was optimistic it wouldn&#8217;t be as severe as it looked. Unfortunately, after he met with his surgeon today, it was. In fact, it was worse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well I met my surgeon today, it\u2019s official I\u2019ll be gone for atleast a year&#8230; even worse then I thought, really heartbroken. He said this one was is really bad, surgery next week&#8230; \ud83d\ude14 The voyage has never been easy for me, It&#39;s a long way to the top<br \/>If you wanna rock &#39;n&#39; roll<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u201cThe Bad Boy\u201d Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1047201638728048645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With it looking like he now won&#8217;t be back until at least the end of 2019 (or early 2020 depending on when the surgeries start), it&#8217;s bad news for fans of pro wrestling&#8217;s &#8220;bad boy&#8221;. Due to the length of the injury, <strong>World Wrestling Network (WWN)<\/strong>, the parent company of <strong>EVOLVE, Shine<\/strong> and <strong>Full Impact Pro<\/strong>, also announced today that they have stripped Janela of his WWN Championship and will hold a tournament in EVOLVE on October 28. &#8220;WWN officials have no choice but to strip Janela of the WWN Championship,&#8221; WWN officials said. &#8220;We wish Joey a full and quick recovery. We will welcome him back whenever he is ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BookItGabe\/status\/1047137686522347520<\/p>\n<p>But luckily there was\u00a0<em>some<\/em> good news on the Joey Janela front. Last night, <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>, the New Jersey based promotion that Janela is a featured performer with, announced the next installment in Janela&#8217;s series of events, following\u00a0<em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>on WrestleMania weekend, and this summer&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s Lost In New York<\/strong><\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Joey Janela and GCW are teaming up once again for a fall event, as GCW debuts on the West Coast, with\u00a0<em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s LA Confidential<\/strong><\/em><em>.<\/em> No matches have been announced as of yet, but so far every one of the Janela series has been a fun romp with some truly unique &#8220;dream matches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bad Boy is down&#8230;but he&#39;s not out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GCW presents<br \/>&quot;Joey Janela&#39;s LA Confidential&quot;<br \/>Friday 11\/16 &#8211; 7pm<br \/>Avalon Hollywood<\/p>\n<p>Tix On Sale Tuesday Night!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IuXUXNCPQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/IuXUXNCPQ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCWrestling_\/status\/1046955444848099328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 2, 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>Just over a week ago, indie superstar Joey Janela was seriously injured when he landed wrong on a move to the outside, injuring his knee.\u00a0While he expected to be out for some considerable time due to the multiple issues and injuries to the knee &#8211; including a &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; PCL and MCL, he was optimistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":27290,"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":[2,5274,6],"tags":[2151,852,3536],"class_list":["post-27287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gcw","category-north-america","tag-game-changer-wrestling","tag-joey-janela","tag-joey-janelas-la-confidential"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287","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=27287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}