{"id":62657,"date":"2020-02-18T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=62657"},"modified":"2020-03-23T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T05:06:14","slug":"wrestlemaniaweek-update-more-names-announced-for-bloodsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/18\/wrestlemaniaweek-update-more-names-announced-for-bloodsport\/","title":{"rendered":"#WrestleManiaWeek Update: More Names Announced For Bloodsport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is ramping up with match and competitor reveals for the flurry of amazing shows happening WrestleMania Week in Tampa, Florida this year. As usual, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> is in the thick of it, and one of their cornerstones is Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport<\/strong><\/em>. Lots of great names already announced, including Davey Boy Smith Jr., Jeff Cobb<\/strong> and Killer Kelly<\/strong>, plus the first two matches, in Josh Barnett vs. Jon Moxley<\/strong> and NJPW’s Minoru Suzuki<\/strong> vs. Beyond ace Chris Dickinson.\u00a0<\/strong>Over the past week, Josh Barnett has revealed for more combatants, include one making his debut.<\/p>\n

JR Kratos<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u201cThe God of War\u201d\u00a0JR Kratos<\/strong>\u00a0is a West Coast indie talent who has been a powerhouse since he started out in 2012. A regular with\u00a0All Pro Wrestling (APW)<\/strong>, he\u2019s a 2x APW Universal Heavyweight Champion who has also worked with\u00a0Alternative Wrestling Show (AWS), Supreme Pro Wrestling (SPW)<\/strong>\u00a0(he\u2019s a 3x SPW Heavyweight Champion) and various other West Coast indies, including\u00a0PCW ULTRA<\/strong>, where he\u2019s been featured in the tag team\u00a0Border Patrol<\/strong>\u00a0alongside\u00a0Colt Stevens<\/strong>. This marks Kratos’ third\u00a0Bloodsport<\/em>, defeating\u00a0Simon Gotch\u00a0<\/strong>last spring in New Jersey, and then losing to\u00a0Erik Hammer\u00a0<\/strong>at this past fall’s edition.<\/p>\n

ERIK HAMMER<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Erik Hammer\u00a0<\/strong>is a legit catch wrestler who has competed globally in Catch Tournaments. The official training partner of Josh Barnett, he\u2019s also competed for\u00a0Antonio Inoki<\/strong>\u2018s\u00a0Inoki Genome Federation (IGF)<\/strong> from 2008 through 2015. Hammer is returning for his second\u00a0Bloodsport,\u00a0<\/em>after defeating JR Kratos this past fall.<\/p>\n

ALLYSIN KAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Former IMPACT Knockouts Champion\u00a0Allysin Kay<\/strong> \u2013 also known as Sienna \u2013 becomes the first woman to enter the franchise. A scrappy and intense competitor her entire career, the former NWA World Women\u2019s Champion and former Shine<\/strong> Champion will be looking to make continue her win streak at\u00a0Bloodsport,\u00a0<\/em>having defeated former SHIMMER Champion Nicole Savoy<\/strong> at the last\u00a0Bloodsport\u00a0<\/em>last fall.<\/p>\n

THOMAS SANTELL<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A 19-year veteran, Thomas Santell<\/strong> proved to be one of Beyond Wrestling<\/strong>‘s breakout stars<\/a> from the first two seasons of Uncharted Territory<\/strong><\/em>. A master technician, to many Santell is best remembered as being former WWE Superstar Antonio Thomas, one half of The Heart Throbs. Santell will probably shock a lot of people over his underrated ring work.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to the\u00a0Last 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":"

Everyone is ramping up with match and competitor reveals for the flurry of amazing shows happening WrestleMania Week in Tampa, Florida this year. As usual, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) is in the thick of it, and one of their cornerstones is Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport. Lots of great names already announced, including Davey Boy Smith Jr., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":63223,"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":[5274,6],"tags":[611,4327,5573,5473,661],"class_list":["post-62657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gcw","category-north-america","tag-allysin-kay","tag-josh-barnetts-bloodsport","tag-jr-kratos","tag-thomas-santell","tag-wrestlemania-week"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62657","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=62657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}