{"id":40017,"date":"2019-03-05T22:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=40017"},"modified":"2019-03-05T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:46:12","slug":"oney-lorcan-makes-main-roster-debut-with-205-live-colby-corino-also-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/05\/oney-lorcan-makes-main-roster-debut-with-205-live-colby-corino-also-appears\/","title":{"rendered":"Oney Lorcan Makes Main Roster Debut with 205 Live, Colby Corino Also Appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, NXT&#8217;s <strong>Oney Lorcan<\/strong> became the next NXT Superstar to make the jump to the main brands, joining <em><strong>Raw<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Cruiserweight Division and the <em><strong>205 Liv<\/strong><\/em>e brand. He entered the Cruiserweight Championship tournament, defeating another recent NXT call up in <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/09\/09\/ultimo-ninja-meet-nxts-humberto-carrillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humberto Carrillo<\/a>\u00a0and advanced to the next round. He had previously appeared on one episode of\u00a0<em>205 Live\u00a0<\/em>back in 2017, in a loss to\u00a0<strong>Rich Swann<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneyRules?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OneyRules<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneyAdvances?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OneyAdvances<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cruiserweight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Cruiserweight<\/a> Championship No. 1 Contender&#39;s Tournament! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/205Live?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#205Live<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_starDESTROYER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@_StarDESTROYER<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/myMDWq1sDK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/myMDWq1sDK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1103134135252471810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oney Lorcan joined the WWE in 2015 and has been working with NXT since he signed, where for the past year he&#8217;s been part of a tag team with UK star <strong>Danny Burch<\/strong> (aka Martin Stone). But the 33-year old is a 10-year veteran of the ring, starting out in 2009 with <strong>Chaotic Wrestling<\/strong> in Massachusetts, where he wrestled as<strong> Bif Busick<\/strong>. A product of <strong>Lance Storm<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Storm Wrestling Academy<\/strong> in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Lorcan began working for his home state Chaotic Wrestling in 2009, blossoming into one of the best technicians in the indies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Rope Barbed Wire Match: Sozio vs. Biff Busick | CZWstudios.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mk5DNMh1O6g?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>By 2012, he began to venture out of state and got his feet wet in other promotions like <strong>Beyond Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)<\/strong>, and <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW)<\/strong>. In 2013, he entered his first <em><strong>CZW Best of the Best<\/strong><\/em> tournament and made his debuts with <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), EVOLVE<\/strong> and <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong>, where he entered the <em><strong>PWG Battle of Los Angeles<\/strong><\/em> in both 2014 and 2015. In 2014, he captured the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, which he held for 161 days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] Biff Busick (NXT Oney Lorcan) vs. Donovan Dijak | Beyond Wrestling #DijakWeek\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAYPONWyQy8?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 other<em> 205 Live<\/em> news from Tuesday night, <strong>Mike Kanellis<\/strong> faced a local talent in his\u00a0<em>205 Live\u00a0<\/em>match and the wrestler was rising indie star <strong>Colby Corino<\/strong>. Corino previously worked with Kanellis (back when he was Mike Bennett) back in <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>, although the two never crossed paths in the ring. The 22-year old is the son of WWE Producer and former ECW World Heavyweight Champion <strong>Steve Corino<\/strong> and has been working for EVOLVE Wrestling the past year.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/totaldivaseps\/status\/1103134894438395910<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, NXT&#8217;s Oney Lorcan became the next NXT Superstar to make the jump to the main brands, joining Raw&#8216;s Cruiserweight Division and the 205 Live brand. He entered the Cruiserweight Championship tournament, defeating another recent NXT call up in Humberto Carrillo\u00a0and advanced to the next round. He had previously appeared on one episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":40022,"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":[316,2,5,3],"tags":[299,702],"class_list":["post-40017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-205live","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-205-live","tag-oney-lorcan"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017","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=40017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}