{"id":28921,"date":"2018-10-20T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=28921"},"modified":"2018-10-20T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T15:37:13","slug":"tessa-blanchard-mercedes-martinez-set-record-for-longest-womens-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/20\/tessa-blanchard-mercedes-martinez-set-record-for-longest-womens-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Blanchard &#038; Mercedes Martinez Set Record For Longest Women&#8217;s Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at <em><strong>RISE 10: INSANITY<\/strong><\/em>, Phoenix of RISE Champion <strong>Tessa Blanchard<\/strong> faced off against <strong>Mercedes Martinez<\/strong> in a 75 minute Iron Woman match, that saw Mercedes Martinez defeat Tessa Blanchard for the title. In the process, the two set a new record for the longest women&#8217;s singles match in the history of pro wrestling at 75 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RISEdtwa\/status\/1053528389473234944<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, setting these records isn&#8217;t exactly something new for Mercedes Martinez. After all, she held the\u00a0<em>previous\u00a0<\/em>record in 2011 with <strong>Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU)<\/strong> in a 73 minute match against <strong>Lexxus<\/strong> (now <strong>Alisha Edwards<\/strong> in <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>) in a WSU Championship defense.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tess_Blanchard\/status\/1053660708204896257<\/p>\n<p>Not only does Mercedes Martinez share the record for the #1 and #2 longest women&#8217;s matches of all time, she also was part of the #3 longest match, which had set the record prior to her WSU title defense in 2011. In 2009, still with WSU, she won a 70 minute Iron Woman match against <strong>Angel Orsini<\/strong>. And her 2009 match not only set the new record in 2009, it smashed it. Before that match, the longest match was a 2007 title match between Europe&#8217;s <strong>Real Quality Wrestling (RQW)<\/strong> Champion <strong>Wesna<\/strong> defending against <strong>Cheerleader Melissa<\/strong> at <em><strong>ChickFight IX: Our Final Chance<\/strong><\/em>. And that match went just over 43 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RISEdtwa\/status\/1053569226886275073<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at RISE 10: INSANITY, Phoenix of RISE Champion Tessa Blanchard faced off against Mercedes Martinez in a 75 minute Iron Woman match, that saw Mercedes Martinez defeat Tessa Blanchard for the title. In the process, the two set a new record for the longest women&#8217;s singles match in the history of pro wrestling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":28925,"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":[2,6,317],"tags":[612,1538,303],"class_list":["post-28921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-women","tag-mercedes-martinez","tag-rise","tag-tessa-blanchard"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921","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=28921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}