{"id":40481,"date":"2019-03-10T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=40481"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:42:31","slug":"luke-harper-makes-live-return-following-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/10\/luke-harper-makes-live-return-following-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Harper Makes Live Return Following Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a tough break for the <strong>Bludgeon Brothers<\/strong> in 2018, when in the midst of their SmackDown Tag Team Championship reign, <strong>Erick Rowan<\/strong> went down with a torn bicep and they quickly lost the belts to <strong>The New Day<\/strong> last August. As creative began to work on ideas for Luke Harper as a singles competitor, he would remain on the WWE Live Event circuit, including a one-night NXT return to face <strong>Ricochet<\/strong> in September for the NXT North American Championship in Buffalo, NY. But it was long before Luke Harper would feel the injury bug as well, going out with a hand injury that ended his 2018 early.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40485\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40485\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/Rowan-1-758x426-e1552254114791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thankfully, he&#8217;s back in action, as he made his first appearance since October 1, 2018 on Saturday night in his hometown of Rochester, NY at a Raw Live Event that saw Harper defeat <strong>Mojo Rawley<\/strong>. Harper was back to his Wyatt Family attire and now on the opposite brand as his former tag partner, Rowan, who has now paired as the enforcer for WWE Champion <strong>Daniel Bryan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPR99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ESPR99<\/a> I\u2019ve got a Luke Harper sighting! In his hometown Rochester <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjLsfLBpYB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KjLsfLBpYB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DanK (@VIOLENTbyDES1GN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VIOLENTbyDES1GN\/status\/1104746298111082504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a tough break for the Bludgeon Brothers in 2018, when in the midst of their SmackDown Tag Team Championship reign, Erick Rowan went down with a torn bicep and they quickly lost the belts to The New Day last August. As creative began to work on ideas for Luke Harper as a singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":40484,"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":[2,25,3],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-40481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-luke-harper"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40481","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=40481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}