{"id":45980,"date":"2019-05-13T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2019-05-16T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:01:31","slug":"andnew-tessa-blanchard-becomes-first-warrior-wrestling-womens-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/05\/13\/andnew-tessa-blanchard-becomes-first-warrior-wrestling-womens-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Tessa Blanchard Becomes First Warrior Wrestling Women’s Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warrior Wrestling<\/strong> has become a force on the strong Chicago-area indie scene in a short span since its debut card a year ago this month. In a territory that features the likes of All American Wrestling (AAW), Freelance Wrestling, GALLI Lucha<\/strong>, and more, Warrior Wrestling has managed to find its own niche and create a top-notch indie promotion with captivating stories and featuring national, international and local talents. On Sunday night, at Warrior Wrestling 5 in Chicago Heights, Warrior Wrestling crowned their inaugural Women’s Champion, in a match featuring IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>‘s Tessa Blanchard<\/strong> and Jordynne Grace<\/strong>, with a special guest referee, WWE Legend Nora “Molly Holly” Greenwald<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tessa Blanchard Becomes First Warrior Wrestling Women’s Champion<\/h2>\n
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Photo: Warrior Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the end, it was Tessa Blanchard who emerged victorious after a hard fought battle (that saw Jordynne Grace powerslam Molly Holly onto Blanchard<\/a>), adding yet more gold to a trophy case that currently also features the Women of Wrestling (WOW)<\/strong> Championship, the PCW ULTRA<\/strong> Women’s Championship, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU)<\/strong> World Championship, and WrestleCircus<\/strong> Lady of the Ring Championship, and has also included the IMPACT Knockouts Championship, The Crash Lucha<\/strong> Feminil Championship, and Phoenix of RISE<\/strong> title.<\/p>\n

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#AndNew<\/a> Warrior Wrestling Women\u2019s Champion @Tess_Blanchard<\/a>! Tessa holds up the title belt as she yells at special guest referee Molly Holly after defeating Jordynne Grace during @WarriorWrstlng<\/a> 5 on Sunday.#wrestling<\/a> #Undeniable<\/a> #WarriorWrestling<\/a> #WomensWrestling<\/a> #MollyHolly<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nL06NyN3Qw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Windy City Slam (@WindyCitySlam) May 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Warrior Wrestling has become a force on the strong Chicago-area indie scene in a short span since its debut card a year ago this month. In a territory that features the likes of All American Wrestling (AAW), Freelance Wrestling, GALLI Lucha, and more, Warrior Wrestling has managed to find its own niche and create a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":45983,"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":[2,6,317],"tags":[2422,303,3345],"class_list":["post-45980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-women","tag-jordynne-grace","tag-tessa-blanchard","tag-warrior-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980","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=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}