{"id":61904,"date":"2020-01-29T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=61904"},"modified":"2021-01-14T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:28:34","slug":"three-more-names-announced-for-gcw-for-the-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/29\/three-more-names-announced-for-gcw-for-the-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Three More Names Announced for GCW For The Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> and <strong>AJ Gray<\/strong> have teamed up for a huge event over WrestleMania Week called <em><strong>For The Culture<\/strong><\/em>, drawing attention to the plethora of talented wrestlers of color around the world. No WrestleMania event has announced as many talents yet as <em>For The Culture<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/08\/for-the-culture-gcw-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced 12 names<\/a> a few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/24\/faye-jackson-among-six-more-names-announced-for-for-the-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plus 6 more last week<\/a>. They&#8217;ve now announced three more names, bringing the total amount of talent to 21 wrestlers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Calvin Tankman is For The Culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61907\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61907\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/01\/EPVaPwUX0AE5B91-e1580324706353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: GCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Indestructible&#8221; <strong>Calvin Tankman<\/strong> is still in the early stages of wrestling, but the 380 lb. Tankman has been on a steady rise since debuting a few years ago. A mainstay with <strong>IWA Mid South<\/strong> since 2016, and a former IWA Mid South Heavyweight Champion, Tankman has been a wrecking crew throughout the US indies, with the likes of <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), EMERGE Wrestling, Paradigm Pro Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>Bizarro Lucha<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s the current reigning BL Luchaversal Champion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mance Warner vs. Calvin Tankman | EMERGE FREE MATCH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EYdXlUQHYGE?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<h3><strong>Tre Lamar is For The Culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>AJ<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61905\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61905\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/01\/EPaJmYqWAAIP1q8-e1580324673335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: GCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AJ Gray is also part of a stable called <strong>40 Acres<\/strong>, and both his partners were also announced for<em> For The Culture<\/em>, beginning with hot young prospect <strong>Tre Lamar<\/strong>. A trainee of NXT&#8217;s <strong>Johnny Gargano<\/strong> and <strong>Candice Larae<\/strong>, Lamar has exploded in the Midwest, where&#8217;s also in the <strong>Blood Diamond<\/strong> stable alongside <strong>Jake Lander<\/strong> and <strong>Kobe Durst<\/strong>. The 22-year old is a regular with AIW, IWA Mid South, and <strong>Black Label Pro<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a former BLP Tag Team Champion with Lander.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREE MATCH | Tre Lamar vs Myron Reed: I | PPW Black Album\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/URy69EzxbGQ?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<h3><strong>PB Smooth is For The Culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61906\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61906\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/01\/EPaJmYqXUAAEsCt-e1580324689707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: GCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>PB Smooth<\/strong> is a mountain of a man and the muscle in 40 Acres. The 6&#8217;9&#8243; Smooth is also a student of Gargano, and has been a force in AIW, where he&#8217;s a former AIW Absolute Champion. He&#8217;s not just Ohio based, as he&#8217;s bringing his stature to the likes of <strong>Glory Pro<\/strong>, Pennsylvania&#8217;s <strong>International Wrestling Cartel (IWC)<\/strong> and Canada&#8217;s <strong>Alpha-1<\/strong> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PB Smooth vs Twan Tucker | UXWA 25\/8 | Match #4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/umXdFSHcLLA?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<h3><strong>ALL NAMES ANNOUNCED SO FAR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AC Mack<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AJ Gray<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>BLK JEEZ<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Calvin Tankman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Bey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Christian Cassanova<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dezmond Xavier<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Faye Jackson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flip Bros (Air Wolf &amp; Angel Dorado)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jody Fleisch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Davis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Myron Reed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PB Smooth<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sugar Dunkerton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tasha Steelz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tre Lamar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Treehouse Lee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trey Miguel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2 Cold Scorpio<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Zenshi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">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. No announcement of how to watch live on video, but GCW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/search\/?q=GCW\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">usually runs on FITE.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) and AJ Gray have teamed up for a huge event over WrestleMania Week called For The Culture, drawing attention to the plethora of talented wrestlers of color around the world. No WrestleMania event has announced as many talents yet as For The Culture, which announced 12 names a few weeks ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":61906,"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":[2,5274,6],"tags":[6039,5784,1833,4636,6040],"class_list":["post-61904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gcw","category-north-america","tag-calvin-tankman","tag-for-the-culture","tag-gcw","tag-pb-smooth","tag-tre-lamar"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61904","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=61904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}