{"id":61568,"date":"2020-01-24T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=61568"},"modified":"2020-01-24T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T02:41:59","slug":"filthy-tom-lawlor-to-face-haku-wrestlemania-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/24\/filthy-tom-lawlor-to-face-haku-wrestlemania-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Filthy&#8221; Tom Lawlor to Face Haku WrestleMania Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on a few short months away from <em><strong>WrestleMania 36<\/strong><\/em> in Tampa, Florida, and that also means WrestleMania Week is just around the corner. It&#8217;s a fantastic week of some of the best indie promotions and wrestlers turn the host city into a week-long showcase of some of the best the world has to offer. One such event is <strong>Black Label Pro<\/strong>&#8216;s event, <em><strong>Threat Level Midnight<\/strong><\/em>. And on Friday, they announced a huge fight to determine the toughest man in pro wrestling, as former <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> World Champion and former UFC fighter <strong>&#8220;Filthy&#8221; Tom Lawlor<\/strong> faces one of the toughest pro wrestlers in history, the near-mythical <strong>Haku<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Who&#39;s the toughest man in professional wrestling?!<\/p>\n<p>Haku vs &quot;Filthy&quot; Tom Lawlor <\/p>\n<p>April 3rd at 11:59pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheCollective?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TheCollective<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tix: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gGDFKMPAIt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/gGDFKMPAIt<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iMbQtqOnBq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/iMbQtqOnBq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RbYvagNSrh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RbYvagNSrh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Black Label Pro (@BLabelPro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLabelPro\/status\/1220520673325600770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Haku still makes spot appearances a few times a year, usually alongside his sons in NJPW&#8217;s <strong>Guerrillas of Destiny<\/strong>, Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa. But this will be one of the highest-profile singles matches he&#8217;s had in ages. Considered by many of his peers as the toughest man ever to grace the squared circle, on Friday April 3, he&#8217;ll be stepping into the ring with a former UFC MMA fighter, &#8220;Filthy&#8221; Tom Lawlor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**THREAT LEVEL MIDNIGHT**<\/p>\n<p>Tune into tonight to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThursdayNightFix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ThursdayNightFix<\/a> to hear a special announcement regarding our event on April 3rd in Tampa FL. as a part of The Collective.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A6rS6LVjnF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/A6rS6LVjnF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Collective Packages: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mFFKrVK7O9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/mFFKrVK7O9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KFJuqNIa0j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/KFJuqNIa0j<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ee874R4km8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ee874R4km8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Black Label Pro (@BLabelPro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLabelPro\/status\/1220480412578914305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This match announcement comes on the heels of two previous match announcements, as <strong>Nick Gage<\/strong> will face off against another former UFC fighter in <strong>Stephan Bonna<\/strong>r, while the tag-team duo of <strong>Violence is Forever<\/strong> (Kevin Ku &amp; Dominic Garrini) will face off against an interesting tandem of <strong>Jordynne Grace &amp; Leyla Hirsch. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for 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. You can watch Black Label Pro at <a href=\"https:\/\/independentwrestling.tv\/vod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IndependentWrestling.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on a few short months away from WrestleMania 36 in Tampa, Florida, and that also means WrestleMania Week is just around the corner. It&#8217;s a fantastic week of some of the best indie promotions and wrestlers turn the host city into a week-long showcase of some of the best the world has to offer. 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