{"id":44279,"date":"2019-04-16T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=44279"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:50:46","slug":"harper-requests-wwe-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/16\/harper-requests-wwe-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Harper Requests WWE Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0<strong>Wyatt Family\u00a0<\/strong>member <strong>Luke\u00a0Harper\u00a0<\/strong>has requested his WWE release.\u00a0 The former NXT and SmackDownLIVE tag team champion and former Intercontinental Champion has not been on TV since August 2018 when his tag partner\u00a0<strong>Erick Rowan\u00a0<\/strong>got injured.\u00a0 In October\u00a0Harper took time off due to injury but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/03\/10\/luke-harper-makes-live-return-following-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned to the house show loop in March<\/a>.\u00a0 He was a part of the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at\u00a0<strong>WrestleMania 35\u00a0<\/strong>which marked his WWE return but was eliminated fairly\u00a0easily<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5DvmKaHd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/J5DvmKaHd7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brodie Lee (@ThisBrodieLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisBrodieLee\/status\/1118246927999676416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If it is granted Harper would return to the independent wrestling scene for the first time since 2012.\u00a0 As Brodie Lee, he wrestled all over the world including places like\u00a0<strong>Dragon Gate, CHIKARA\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Combat Zone Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>among others as he was a confused heavyweight that believed he was a cruiserweight.<\/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>Harper returning to the indie scene can only be a positive at a time when the scene is in need of big-name stars and they style Harper once wrestled being more popular than ever ensures he will deliver killer matches wherever he goes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FREE MATCH] Jon Moxley vs. Brodie Lee | CZWstudios.com | Dean Ambrose\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7dREciYFIlw?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for 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>Former\u00a0Wyatt Family\u00a0member Luke\u00a0Harper\u00a0has requested his WWE release.\u00a0 The former NXT and SmackDownLIVE tag team champion and former Intercontinental Champion has not been on TV since August 2018 when his tag partner\u00a0Erick Rowan\u00a0got injured.\u00a0 In October\u00a0Harper took time off due to injury but returned to the house show loop in March.\u00a0 He was a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"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":[2,6,3],"tags":[4835,260,47,548],"class_list":["post-44279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-wwe-universe","tag-harper","tag-luke-harper","tag-wwe","tag-wyatt-family"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44279","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44279\/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=44279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}