{"id":63675,"date":"2020-02-26T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=63675"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:13:52","slug":"lance-archer-all-elite-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/26\/lance-archer-all-elite-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Lance Archer Joins All Elite Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has added a new monster to their roster following the signing of &#8220;the murderhawk monster&#8221; Lance Archer.\u00a0 Archer was most recently a part of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster where he was a former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/10\/14\/andnew-lance-archer-wins-vacant-iwgp-united-states-championship-at-king-of-pro-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IWGP United States Champion<\/a> and a three-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion as a member of Killer Elite Squad (with <strong>Davey Boy Smith Jr.<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lance archer hits a moonsault off the apron <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceHoyt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LanceHoyt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/g129?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#g129<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nwHt0Fh3IF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nwHt0Fh3IF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; dan (@early90spants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/early90spants\/status\/1160130587170000896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 42-year old debuted all the way back in 2000 and brings 20 years of experience to AEW.\u00a0 In his career Archer has competed all over the globe for major promotions like NJPW,\u00a0<strong>Pro Wrestling Noah<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>IMPACT! Wrestling<\/strong> (as Lance Rock of the Rock &#8216;n Rave Infection), <strong>WWE\u00a0<\/strong>(as Vance Archer), and many many more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Gunn vs Lance Archer (FULL MATCH) [Throwback Series]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XqifnyztDoA?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>Despite his age Lance Archer has aged like fine wine and works with the mobility of men half his age, even pulling out a rope-walk moonsault on occasion.\u00a0 All of this comes despite the fact he suffered a herniated disc back in 2017, an injury that would require surgery and sidelined him for seven months.\u00a0 Considering the injury he suffered in his late 30&#8217;s it is miraculous that Archer continues to perform at the level he does, especially considering he was one of the MVPs of the 2019 <em>G1 Climax.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XWimqTaPst0<\/p>\n<p>Lance Archer is a highly decorated competitor who spent his career mostly as a tag team specialist but in 2019 he showed the world he could succeed as a singles performer.\u00a0 The big man will add experience and some menace to the AEW roster but unlike other big men, he can keep up in the ring with anyone and will wow first-time watchers with his array of offense.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/865948025486704640<\/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> 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. Make sure to watch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njpwworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPW World<\/a> to see some of Lance Archer&#8217;s work in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has added a new monster to their roster following the signing of &#8220;the murderhawk monster&#8221; Lance Archer.\u00a0 Archer was most recently a part of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster where he was a former IWGP United States Champion and a three-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion as a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":63680,"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":[4677,12,6],"tags":[4133,3911,1193,3829,385,188,6169],"class_list":["post-63675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","tag-aew","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-lance-archer","tag-lance-hoyt","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-njpw","tag-vance-archer"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63675","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}