{"id":29620,"date":"2018-10-28T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2018-10-28T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:48:15","slug":"andnew-jd-drake-wins-wwn-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/28\/andnew-jd-drake-wins-wwn-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: JD Drake wins WWN Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the injury to\u00a0<strong>Joey Janela\u00a0<\/strong>forced him to vacate the WWN title, EVOLVE had to get themselves a new champion.\u00a0 A six-man\u00a0ladder match\u00a0was made to crown a new champion.\u00a0 In the end, <strong>JD Drake<\/strong>\u00a0emerged victorious overcoming\u00a0<strong>AR Fox<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Austin Theory<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Anthony Henry<\/strong>,<strong>Darby Allin\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Harlem Bravado\u00a0<\/strong>to become the new WWN Champion.\u00a0 Drake has won tag team gold before in EVOLVE as part of the <strong>Workhorsemen<\/strong> alongside <strong>Anthony Henry\u00a0<\/strong>(who <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/01\/andnew-anthony-henry-wins-full-impact-pro-world-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently won the F<strong>ull Impact Pro<\/strong> World Championship<\/a> himself).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AND NEW WWN CHAMPION!!!<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Collar Badass <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJDDrake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealJDDrake<\/a> outlasted the other men to capture the title in an instant classic at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVOLVE114?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EVOLVE114<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the replay on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClubWWN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ClubWWN<\/a> and don\u2019t miss a minute when we return to action for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVOLVE115?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EVOLVE115<\/a> in Livonia, MI on Nov 9th! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKHtKbL3Bu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DKHtKbL3Bu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EVOLVE Wrestling (@WWNEVOLVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWNEVOLVE\/status\/1056732810445250560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On a night when EVOLVE crowned all new champions, two of which came from NXT, JD Drake is an EVOLVE guy that won the title, which interestingly was the main event of this show.\u00a0 Since the FloSlam deal was canceled, the positioning of the EVOLVE and WWN titles has been a point of discussion for EVOLVE fans, but with Aichner capturing the EVOLVE title and JD Drake capturing the WWN title, we may finally see a division emerge as the EVOLVE title can be the NXT superstars\u00a0title and the WWN is for the EVOLVE guys.\u00a0 As for the choice of Drake as champion, it seems like the right move.\u00a0 There are no clear stars in EVOLVE right now to win the title and Drake has the in-ring ability to keep the fans happy and put on great matches both singles and tag while the company builds new stars around him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJDDrake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealJDDrake<\/a> you\u2019re the man! Well deserved, Don\u2019t do the job to the corporate titan&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IAldGhECgX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/IAldGhECgX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u201cThe Bad Boy\u201d Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1056735875537793025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 29, 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>After the injury to\u00a0Joey Janela\u00a0forced him to vacate the WWN title, EVOLVE had to get themselves a new champion.\u00a0 A six-man\u00a0ladder match\u00a0was made to crown a new champion.\u00a0 In the end, JD Drake\u00a0emerged victorious overcoming\u00a0AR Fox,\u00a0Austin Theory,\u00a0Anthony Henry,Darby Allin\u00a0and\u00a0Harlem Bravado\u00a0to become the new WWN Champion.\u00a0 Drake has won tag team gold before in EVOLVE as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":29635,"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":[11,2,6],"tags":[136,3772,3175,1256],"class_list":["post-29620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolve","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-evolve","tag-evolve-114","tag-evolve-championship","tag-james-drake"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}