{"id":45399,"date":"2019-05-04T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=45399"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:29:58","slug":"bilateral-amputee-wrestler-dustin-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/05\/04\/bilateral-amputee-wrestler-dustin-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilateral Amputee Wrestler Dustin Thomas Heading to AEW Double or Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/03\/breaking-chris-jericho-kenny-omega-crash-indie-show-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Chris Jericho<\/strong> (and then <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong>) crashing the <strong>Southern Honor Wrestling<\/strong> show<\/a> in Canton, Georgia on Friday night got all the headlines on Friday night, another AEW member, <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong>, made a huge announcement at the show as well. Bilateral amputee indie wrestler <strong>Dustin Thomas<\/strong> &#8211; who has no legs &#8211; was announced as the newest entrant in the <em><strong>Double of Nothing<\/strong> <\/em>Battle Royal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyRhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CodyRhodes<\/a> announces <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAllCantBeMe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WeAllCantBeMe<\/a> To compete in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEWrestling<\/a> Over the Budget Battle Royal! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y6gfSZa9iy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/y6gfSZa9iy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Harris (@jpharrisjr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpharrisjr\/status\/1124499063313960960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dustin Thomas made headlines with his match against <strong>Tony Deppen<\/strong> at this year&#8217;s <strong><em>Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break 3<\/em><\/strong> over <strong>WrestleMania<\/strong> weekend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FREE MATCH] Tony Deppen vs. Dustin Thomas | Game Changer Wrestling\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VvB9j07f39k?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>Dustin Thomas stunned the wrestling world when he made his debut last September, seemingly coming in from the audience and proceeded to wow the audience with his athleticism. He got his first major national exposure at\u00a0<em>Spring Break 3<\/em> and has since become one of the new sensations of 2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Tella vs Dustin Thomas\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWIpSZmSPok?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>While Chris Jericho (and then Kenny Omega) crashing the Southern Honor Wrestling show in Canton, Georgia on Friday night got all the headlines on Friday night, another AEW member, Cody Rhodes, made a huge announcement at the show as well. Bilateral amputee indie wrestler Dustin Thomas &#8211; who has no legs &#8211; was announced as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":45402,"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":[4677,2,6],"tags":[4133,98,4131,4952],"class_list":["post-45399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aew","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-double-or-nothing","tag-dustin-thomas"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45399","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=45399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}