{"id":3187,"date":"2017-03-15T21:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2017-03-15T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:43:16","slug":"impact-alberto-el-patron-relinquishes-title-bobby-lashley-renamed-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/03\/15\/impact-alberto-el-patron-relinquishes-title-bobby-lashley-renamed-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact: Alberto El Patron Forfeits Title, Bobby Lashley Renamed Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alberto El Patron<\/strong>, known to most fans as <strong>Alberto del Rio<\/strong>, made an incredible impression on fans when he made his surprise debut on <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> &#8211; formerly <strong>TNA<\/strong>. During his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/03\/13\/alberto-el-patron-entrance-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debut<\/a>, <strong>El Patron<\/strong> defeated reigning <strong>Impact World Champion Bobby Lashley<\/strong> to become the new top dog in the company.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all is looking well when it comes to the relationship between <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Alberto El Patron<\/strong>; the company recently took to their social media accounts in order to tell fans that <strong>El Patron<\/strong> has relinquished the <strong>Impact World Championship<\/strong>, with <strong>Bobby Lashley<\/strong> being renamed the champion due to move. You can check out a video of the former <strong>WWE<\/strong> champion forfeiting the title below.<\/p>\n<p>This may a work, and would definitely be down to the somewhat controversial finish during the match; two referees were involved, with one counting a pin fall victory for<strong> El Patron<\/strong>, while the other saw that the new champ had hit <strong>Lashley<\/strong> with the belt in order to secure the victory. This led to <strong>Impact<\/strong>&#8216;s authority figures seemingly ordering the new champ to give up the title, with <strong>Bobby Lashley<\/strong> then being renamed the World Champion.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to a number of rumors that have been circulating since the star made his <strong>Impact<\/strong> debut, it may be down to the fact that<strong> El Patron<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t exactly like how he&#8217;s being booked. As some publications have speculated, the former <strong>WWE<\/strong> star didn&#8217;t exactly agree with being made World Champion straight away, with him wanting to gradually build up to the spot. With that being said, it looks as if he&#8217;s still set to be one of the promotions top stars for the next several months, with the video below showing that he&#8217;s set to take on <strong>Bobbly Lashley<\/strong> a second time for the Impact World Championship, although it&#8217;s unclear when this rematch will actually take place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alberto El Patron Relinquishes The World Title | IMPACT Digital Exclusive\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WMrRwXOaoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto El Patron, known to most fans as Alberto del Rio, made an incredible impression on fans when he made his surprise debut on Impact Wrestling &#8211; formerly TNA. During his debut, El Patron defeated reigning Impact World Champion Bobby Lashley to become the new top dog in the company. However, not all is looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1930,"featured_media":3202,"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":[7,6],"tags":[247,193,630,226,129],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-alberto-del-rio","tag-alberto-el-patron","tag-bobbly-lashley","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-tna"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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\/1930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}