{"id":31415,"date":"2018-11-23T00:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=31415"},"modified":"2018-11-23T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T05:44:19","slug":"evolve-announces-impact-tag-champs-lax-for-evolve-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/23\/evolve-announces-impact-tag-champs-lax-for-evolve-117\/","title":{"rendered":"EVOLVE Announces IMPACT Tag Champs LAX For EVOLVE 117"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling in 2018 is a very strange and beautiful place. Today <strong>EVOLVE Wrestling<\/strong> &#8211; one of the top US indies that recently rebooted with the announcement that WWE wrestlers from <strong>NXT<\/strong> and <em><strong>205 Live<\/strong><\/em> would now be featured alongside EVOLVE contracted wrestlers &#8211; announced that current <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> Tag Team Champions <strong>LAX<\/strong> (Santana &amp; Ortiz) would be debuting with EVOLVE at <em><strong>EVOLVE 117<\/strong><\/em> in their home turf of Queens, New York City on December 15.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>LAX to EVOLVE! More in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackFriday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlackFriday<\/a> WWN Alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Save 10% on tix to EVOLVE on 12\/15 in Queens, NY &amp; 12\/16 in Deer Park, NY with code &quot;LAX&quot; at check out! This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackFridaySale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlackFridaySale<\/a> only lasts until this Monday at midnight EST.<\/p>\n<p>Get tix at: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D1pOeItXOq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/D1pOeItXOq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMMYccTf49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nMMYccTf49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EVOLVE Wrestling (@WWNEVOLVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWNEVOLVE\/status\/1065798587320360960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With EVOLVE head <strong>Gabe Sapolsky<\/strong> now working as a consultant for NXT and a recent NXT invasion seeing NXT talents like <strong>Fabian Aichner<\/strong> win the EVOLVE Championship and <strong>The Street Profits<\/strong> win the EVOLVE Tag Team titles, EVOLVE is now assumed to be a new developmental for the WWE the way that <strong>Ultimate\u00a0Pro Wrestling\u00a0(UPW)<\/strong> did in the early 1990s. Free to develop and sign their own talent, but also a platform for WWE signees. The announcement of IMPACT Tag Team champs LAX is unique in that it sees a &#8220;rival&#8221; promotion having talent &#8211; and their champions no less &#8211; appear on a WWE allied card.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s yet to be announced who LAX will face, but seeing IMPACT talent appearing on an EVOLVE card is exciting none the less. The card already features NXT&#8217;s <strong>Kassius Ohn<\/strong>o (formerly Chris Hero) vs. <strong>Darby Allin<\/strong>, and Aichner, Street Profits, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling in 2018 is a very strange and beautiful place. Today EVOLVE Wrestling &#8211; one of the top US indies that recently rebooted with the announcement that WWE wrestlers from NXT and 205 Live would now be featured alongside EVOLVE contracted wrestlers &#8211; announced that current IMPACT Wrestling Tag Team Champions LAX (Santana &amp; Ortiz) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":31417,"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":[11,2,7,6],"tags":[136,3917,1176],"class_list":["post-31415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolve","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-evolve","tag-evolve-117","tag-lax"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415","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=31415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}