{"id":44389,"date":"2019-04-17T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:40:00","slug":"gursinder-singh-requests-release-from-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/17\/gursinder-singh-requests-release-from-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gursinder Singh Requests Release from IMPACT Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning, <strong>IMPACT<\/strong> star and <strong>Desi Hit Squad<\/strong> member <strong>Gursinder Singh<\/strong> announced that he had requested his release from IMPACT Wrestling. Gursinder has not appeared on IMPACT since October of last year, after seemingly being ousted from Desi Hit Squad in match from Mexico against fellow Hit Squad member <strong>Rohit Raju<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wrestling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#wrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8MzGTsnmFC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8MzGTsnmFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rohan Raja (@RavenousRohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RavenousRohan\/status\/1118517214095667200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Originally from West Sussex, England, he moved to Canada in 2015 to train with <strong>Lance Storm<\/strong> in Calgary, Alberta, making his debut in the Western Canadian indies that year as<strong> Tony Cage<\/strong>, working with <strong>Prairie Wrestling Alliance (PWA), Real Canadian Wrestling (RCW)<\/strong> and <strong>High Impact Wrestling (HIW)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canadian Hercules Tyler Colton vs. Tony Cage for CWE Heavyweight Championship\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmBVMhqhg3U?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 headed to the Ontario scene, relocating to Toronto, where he began to work for <strong>Smash Wrestling, Destiny Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>Border City Wrestling<\/strong>, where he caught the eye of IMPACT&#8217;s <strong>Scott D&#8217;Amore<\/strong>. He signed with IMPACT and was repackaged as Gursinder Singh and joined the new <strong>Gama Singh<\/strong> led Desi Hit Squad. Following his apparent dismissal from the Desi Hit Squad, he was replaced by <strong>Raj Singh<\/strong>, another Canadian indie wrestler who wrestled as <strong>Gama Singh Jr.<\/strong> on the indies (he&#8217;s the real life son of Gama Singh and the cousin of WWE Superstar <strong>Jinder Mahal<\/strong>). Gursinder&#8217;s release request comes a day removed from a report that IMPACT was <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/04\/17\/report-mahabali-shera-returning-to-impact-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bringing back former Indian star <strong>Mahabali Shera<\/strong><\/a> to the company.<\/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>On Wednesday morning, IMPACT star and Desi Hit Squad member Gursinder Singh announced that he had requested his release from IMPACT Wrestling. Gursinder has not appeared on IMPACT since October of last year, after seemingly being ousted from Desi Hit Squad in match from Mexico against fellow Hit Squad member Rohit Raju. 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