{"id":35973,"date":"2019-01-20T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=35973"},"modified":"2019-01-20T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:25:40","slug":"curt-stallion-signs-with-evolve-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/20\/curt-stallion-signs-with-evolve-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Stallion Signs With EVOLVE Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, it was announced that rising Midwest indie star <strong>Curt Stallion<\/strong> has signed a contract with <strong>EVOLVE Wrestling.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The baffled king composing Hallelujah.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Contracted?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Contracted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9M9orKMsqP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9M9orKMsqP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stallion Rogers \u2606 \u30b9\u30bf\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u30b9 (@StallionRogers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StallionRogers\/status\/1087021839522643970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s made a name for himself in the US Midwest indie scene of late, Texas born and raised Curt Stallion started out in the Texas indies after training with <strong>Jastin Taylor<\/strong> and debuting with <strong>Top of Texas Pro Wrestling<\/strong> in 2013. He would soon find work with one of Texas&#8217; top indies, <strong>Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW)<\/strong>, by 2015, but he decided to move to St. Louis, Missouri to further his wrestling education and opportunity. In St. Louis, he began training under former <strong>Ring of Honor (ROH)<\/strong> World Champion and IWGP Intercontinental Champion <strong>Michael Elgin<\/strong>, and he slowly began to work in other promotions, such as <strong>New York Wrestling Connection (NYWC), Dynamo Pro<\/strong>, as well as several dark matches for ROH.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VQF2nJD-QsA<\/p>\n<p>He really began to work more of the Midwest in 2016, wrestling for <strong>IWA Mid South, St. Louis Anarchy<\/strong>, and <strong>Wrestling Revolver<\/strong>, as well as working more Southern and Mid Atlantic indies like <strong>Pro Wrestling Freedom (PWF)<\/strong> and <strong>Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment (AWE)<\/strong>, all while still wrestling for his Texas home, ACW, where he won the ACW Unified Championship in 2016. He also made his Canadian debut with Ethan Page&#8217;s company, <strong>Alpha-1 Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>and got his first taste of the <strong>World Wrestling Network (WWN)<\/strong> family (EVOLVE&#8217;s parent) in <strong>Full Impact Pro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future of Honor: Curt Stallion vs Myron Reed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRGMEa608d0?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<p>In 2017, he took another huge step, in starting to work with Chicago&#8217;s <strong>All American Wrestling (AAW)<\/strong>, where he joined a stable alongside Chicago indie veteran <strong>Nick Brubaker<\/strong> and another young Midwest star on the rise, <strong>Jake Something<\/strong>. By the end of the year, they were challenging\u00a0<strong>The Besties in the World\u00a0<\/strong>for the AAW Tag Team titles. When his mentor opened up\u00a0<strong>Glory Pro<\/strong>, Stallion became one of Glory Pro&#8217;s immediate stars, and he began working with a new upstart Southern promotion, Nashville&#8217;s <strong>Southern Underground Pro (SUP)<\/strong>, becoming their inaugural SUP Bonestorm Champion and reigning for over 300 days, as well as Ohio&#8217;s top promotion, <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREE MATCH | Curt Stallion vs. Kyle O&#039;Reilly | Glory Pro\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5v6u9wFTjlA?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<p>Last year, Stallion exploded even further, making debuts with <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), Rockstar Pro, Beyond Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>NOVA Pro<\/strong>, and last December made his EVOLVE debut at <em><strong>EVOLVE 117<\/strong><\/em> against <strong>AR Fox<\/strong>. His role in AAW also increased dramatically, when he and Something &#8211; alongside new valet <strong>Quinn McKay<\/strong> &#8211; joined <strong>David Starr<\/strong> and <strong>Eddie Kingston<\/strong>&#8216;s stable <strong>WRSTLING<\/strong>. Stallion and Something are filling some big shoes, replacing <strong>Jeff Cobb<\/strong> (signed with ROH) and <strong>Trevor Lee<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/13\/trevor-lee-announces-hes-signed-wwe-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heading to the WWE<\/a>), instantly elevating to the main event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] Joshua Bishop VS. Curt Stallion - Absolute Intense Wrestling\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyMtFNwRzeo?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<p>And now, Curt Stallion is starting off 2019 by signing his first big contract, with EVOLVE Wrestling, where he&#8217;ll continue to develop and work alongside some of EVOLVE&#8217;s biggest stars. And his signing got a ringing endorsement from one of his indie pals who made the leap to NXT in 2018, the &#8220;Bro&#8221; himself, <strong>Matt Riddl<\/strong>e.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So stoked for my buddy Curt Stallion, he\u2019s been killing it at evolve and I couldn\u2019t be happier for my bro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stallion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stallion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/evolvewrestling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#evolvewrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wwenxt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#wwenxt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nxt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#nxt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lmwjf6AAjt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lmwjf6AAjt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Riddle (@SuperKingofBros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperKingofBros\/status\/1086882212916666368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 20, 2019<\/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>Over the weekend, it was announced that rising Midwest indie star Curt Stallion has signed a contract with EVOLVE Wrestling.\u00a0 The baffled king composing Hallelujah.#Contracted pic.twitter.com\/9M9orKMsqP &mdash; Stallion Rogers \u2606 \u30b9\u30bf\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u30b9 (@StallionRogers) January 20, 2019 While he&#8217;s made a name for himself in the US Midwest indie scene of late, Texas born and raised Curt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":35981,"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":[788,2477,136],"class_list":["post-35973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aaw","tag-curt-stallion","tag-evolve"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973","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=35973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}