{"id":60508,"date":"2020-01-08T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=60508"},"modified":"2020-01-08T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:07:16","slug":"canadian-deathmatch-wrestler-dr-luther-debuts-with-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/08\/canadian-deathmatch-wrestler-dr-luther-debuts-with-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Deathmatch Wrestler Dr. Luther Debuts With AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <em><strong>AEW Dynamite<\/strong><\/em>, Canadian indie veteran and Japanese deathmatch specialist <strong>Luther<\/strong> made his debut with the company, revealed as the newest member of <strong>Brandi Rhodes<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Nightmare Collective<\/strong>, alongside <strong>Awesome Kong<\/strong> and <strong>Melanie Cruise<\/strong>. Luther is better known for his time in Japan in the mid-90s with some of the country&#8217;s hardest hitting promotions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Japanese Deathmatch Legend Dr. Luther (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RasselinDoc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RasselinDoc<\/a>) has arrived with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NightmareCollective?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NightmareCollective<\/a>.<br \/>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> NOW on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TNTDrama<\/a> 8e\/7c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWonTNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8twpP7Yrr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8twpP7Yrr0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1215086967135797249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luther is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada and trained in the Hart Dungeon in the late 80s, working for <strong>Stampede Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Canadian National Wrestling Alliance (CNWA)<\/strong>. It was in these Western promotions that he encountered <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong>. After a few years with Stampede and CNWA, Luther headed to Japan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Black Dragon &amp; Dr Luther VS Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) &amp; Adam Firestorm, Portland Wrestling\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fBOFLCVstPQ?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>He headed first to <strong>Frontier Martial-arts Wrestling (FMW) <\/strong>becoming their World Light Heavyweight Champion, with stops in <b>Wrestle Association R (WAR)<\/b>, IWA Japan and others.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gz2bm_jnEPQ<\/p>\n<p>He returned to North America and joined a burgeoning promotion on Canada&#8217;s West Coast, <strong>Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling<\/strong> (ECCW, although they&#8217;ve since changed the E to stand for Elite), where he won the ECCW Heavyweight Championship. He made a few appearances for <strong>ECW<\/strong> near the end of the decade. His in-ring days began to slow down by the early 2000s, and he made a comeback in the last few years, with ECCW as well as US Pacific Northwest indie promotions like DEFY Wrestling and DOA Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sabu v Dr Luther - ECCW Title\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IcV9sbaKxQQ?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>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite, Canadian indie veteran and Japanese deathmatch specialist Luther made his debut with the company, revealed as the newest member of Brandi Rhodes&#8216; Nightmare Collective, alongside Awesome Kong and Melanie Cruise. Luther is better known for his time in Japan in the mid-90s with some of the country&#8217;s hardest hitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":60513,"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":[5730,2011,5986],"class_list":["post-60508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-brandi-rhodes","tag-luther"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60508","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=60508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}