{"id":34135,"date":"2019-01-01T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=34135"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:46:26","slug":"andnew-orange-cassidy-wins-independent-wrestling-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/01\/andnew-orange-cassidy-wins-independent-wrestling-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Orange Cassidy Wins Independent Wrestling Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, at <strong>Beyond Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Heavy Lies The Crown<\/strong><\/em>, <strong>Orange Cassidy<\/strong> ended the 309-day reign of &#8220;Hot Sauce&#8221; <strong>Tracy Williams<\/strong> as the <strong>Powerbomb.tv<\/strong> Independent Championship, making it the first singles championship of Cassidy&#8217;s 14-year career. Since the victory, Powerbomb.tv has rebranded itself as <strong>IndependentWrestling.tv<\/strong> and the title will now be referred to as the Independent Wrestling Championship. The title was created in late 2017, with\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Gresham\u00a0<\/strong>winning the inaugural title, before losing it to Williams this past February. The title is defended at indie promotions available on IndependentWrestling.tv&#8217;s streaming service, primarily Beyond Wrestling, but also in <strong>NOVA Pro, ACTION Wrestling, Freelance Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>TRUE Wrestling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h1>Orange Cassidy Wins Independent Wrestling Championship<\/h1>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliusblaise\/status\/1079964861537361921<\/p>\n<p>Orange Cassidy has been working the US indies since 2004, but gained early notoriety working with <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), EVOLVE<\/strong> and <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong>, where he is a part of the <strong>Gentlemen&#8217;s Club<\/strong> with <strong>Chuck Taylor, Jake Manning<\/strong> and <strong>Swamp Monster<\/strong> (WWE Superstar <strong>Drew Gulak<\/strong> is a former member). He made his Beyond Wrestling debut in 2014 and has since become one of Beyond&#8217;s regular stars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] John Silver v. Orange Cassidy | Beyond Wrestling (AEW Dark Order, All Elite, Full Gear)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q69tBqKUrSM?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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey.  We did it.  Let&#39;s party.  2019 is for us.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beyondwrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@beyondwrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PowerbombTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PowerbombTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Orange Cassidy (@orangecassidy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orangecassidy\/status\/1080006833958502400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay tuned to Last Word on Pro Wrestling for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, at Beyond Wrestling&#8216;s Heavy Lies The Crown, Orange Cassidy ended the 309-day reign of &#8220;Hot Sauce&#8221; Tracy Williams as the Powerbomb.tv Independent Championship, making it the first singles championship of Cassidy&#8217;s 14-year career. Since the victory, Powerbomb.tv has rebranded itself as IndependentWrestling.tv and the title will now be referred to as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":34140,"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":[309,2423],"class_list":["post-34135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-beyond-wrestling","tag-orange-cassidy"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135","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=34135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}