{"id":31823,"date":"2018-12-02T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=31823"},"modified":"2018-12-02T23:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:26:56","slug":"indie-wrestler-shane-mercer-uses-bleachers-as-weapon-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/02\/indie-wrestler-shane-mercer-uses-bleachers-as-weapon-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Wrestler Shane Mercer Uses Bleachers As Weapon (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night at an event in Chicago for <strong>The Resistance<\/strong> promotion called <em><strong>Silent Night, Deadly Night<\/strong><\/em>, indie wrestler <strong>Shane Mercer<\/strong> exercised a stunning feat of strength (and nastiness) when he used a rather unique weapon in his match. While it&#8217;s not uncommon to see people use a folded chair, garbage can lid, ladder, or table in a match, it&#8217;s not normal to see a wrestler use an entire bleachers section. But that&#8217;s exactly what Mercer did, as evidenced by the video he posted on his personal Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100008785036698%2Fvideos%2F1942682306034585%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Resistance is a new hardcore promotion in the Chicago area, who held their debut event this past February. Shane Mercer is an 11-year indie veteran, best known for his lengthy tenure with <strong>IWA Mid South<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a former IWA Mid South Heavyweight Champion and IWA Mid South Tag Team Champion. This past summer, he defeated IMPACT star <strong>Kongo Kong<\/strong> for the <strong>Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW)<\/strong> Heavyweight Championship, a title he still carries. Mercer also wrestles for the likes of <strong>EVOLVE, Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), Paradigm Pro Wrestling (PPW), FEST Wrestling<\/strong> and others, and last year appeared on NXT TV as an enhancement in a tag match against <strong>The Street Profits<\/strong> (under the name Riley Apex).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night at an event in Chicago for The Resistance promotion called Silent Night, Deadly Night, indie wrestler Shane Mercer exercised a stunning feat of strength (and nastiness) when he used a rather unique weapon in his match. While it&#8217;s not uncommon to see people use a folded chair, garbage can lid, ladder, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":31824,"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":[3958],"class_list":["post-31823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-shane-mercer"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823","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=31823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}