{"id":52836,"date":"2019-08-18T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=52836"},"modified":"2019-08-18T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T12:46:57","slug":"epico-colon-wwc-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/08\/18\/epico-colon-wwc-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Epico Colon Wins WWC Universal Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Wrestling Council\u00a0<\/strong>celebrated the company&#8217;s 46th Anniversary in a show headlined by WWE Superstar Epico facing &#8220;The Precious One&#8221; Gilbert for the top title in the company.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52837\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52837\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/08\/Epico-e1566131587336.jpg\" alt=\"Epico\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a surprising result, Epico got the win and became the new WWC Universal champion.\u00a0 WWC was famously the stomping ground of the legendary Carlos Colon and has been somewhere that the family has been<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/03\/12\/primo-epico-and-carlito-to-wrestle-in-march-for-wwc\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> big draws for decades<\/a>.\u00a0 Epico Colon becomes the latest member of the Colon family to reach the top of the company.<\/p>\n<p>It was a night of change for WWC as the company crowned two new champions, Epico and\u00a0<strong>Bellito<\/strong>, and they debuted a new logo and new title belts.\u00a0 The question was asked back when <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/11\/06\/wwe-acquires-wwc-library-whats-on-those-tapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWC sold WWE<\/a> it&#8217;s tape library what that might mean for the company and it now looks like they get Epico as their champion in return.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also rumored that <strong>Primo<\/strong> is becoming more involved with the company backstage.<\/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. 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