{"id":69649,"date":"2020-06-01T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=69649"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:46:17","slug":"canadian-indie-show-backyard-pro-coming-soon-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/01\/canadian-indie-show-backyard-pro-coming-soon-to-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Indie Show &#8220;Backyard Pro&#8221; Coming Soon to YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May, a promo began to circulate for the premiere of a new indie promotion in the Southern Ontario, Canada scene named <strong>Backyard Pro<\/strong>. The video promised to use ten Ontario indie wrestlers in a special backyard show, with everyone portraying brand new characters, akin to WWE&#8217;s <strong>Southpaw Regional Wrestling<\/strong> or <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/11\/19\/throwbackthrowdown-impact-wrestling-announces-full-card-for-special-80s-themed-episode\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Impact Provincial Wrestling Federation (IPWF)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SOON \ud83d\udc40 <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 10 Ontario Pro Wrestlers<br \/>&#8211; Fully Produced Backyard Show<br \/>&#8211; New Characters \/ Locations <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5vudwIlXKT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5vudwIlXKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Backyard Pro (@ProBackyard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProBackyard\/status\/1261712540838629383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the roster was revealed and featured <strong>Alexia Nicole<\/strong> (who has appeared for IMPACT over the past year), <strong>Shane Sabre<\/strong> (who also wrestles in the US indies in <strong>Space Pirates<\/strong> with <strong>Space Monkey<\/strong>), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/08\/13\/indie-watch-the-conscience-of-psycho-mike\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Psycho&#8221; Mike Rollins<\/a>, Fight or Flight<\/strong> (Gabriel Fuerza &amp; Vaughn Vertigo), <strong>&#8220;Hacker&#8221; Scott O&#8217;Shea, Holden Albright, Alessandro Del Bruno<\/strong>, and <strong>Steve Brown\u00a0<\/strong>(who recently portrayed <strong>&#8220;Wheels&#8221; Deaner<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8yegKYSPk0o\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the recent Deaner&#8217;s Compound match<\/a> in IMPACT Wrestling). The roster is a mixture of veterans and rising talent who frequently compete for Southern Ontario indies like <strong>Smash Wrestling, Alpha-1 Wrestling, Superkick&#8217;D, Capital City Championship Combat (C4)<\/strong>, and more. On Saturday, the first match was announced, featuring Alexia Nicole as <strong>Detective Cookie Dough<\/strong> facing Shane Sabre as <strong>Moondawg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIRST MATCH ANNOUNCEMENT \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>Detective Cookie Dough vs Moondawg <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXjB0YMEB3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pXjB0YMEB3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Backyard Pro (@ProBackyard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProBackyard\/status\/1266854252468744192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Psycho Mike revealed he would be re-inventing himself as <strong>Psychotic Michael<\/strong>, and he issued a challenge to <strong>The Rock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProBackyard\/status\/1267132795387871232<\/p>\n<p>Although judging by Backyard Pro&#8217;s response, Michael won&#8217;t be facing Dwayne Johnson at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Okay it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n<p>the rock defends against Psychotic Michael. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvIRo4Khwx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/TvIRo4Khwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2eQiYAJYGZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2eQiYAJYGZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Backyard Pro (@ProBackyard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProBackyard\/status\/1267234499672358913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>The show will available for free on YouTube soon.<\/em> <em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" 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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May, a promo began to circulate for the premiere of a new indie promotion in the Southern Ontario, Canada scene named Backyard Pro. The video promised to use ten Ontario indie wrestlers in a special backyard show, with everyone portraying brand new characters, akin to WWE&#8217;s Southpaw Regional Wrestling or IMPACT Wrestling&#8216;s Impact Provincial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":69651,"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":[8072,6],"tags":[4335,6469,4225,5590,4584,6470],"class_list":["post-69649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-indies","category-north-america","tag-alexia-nicole","tag-backyard-pro","tag-fight-or-flight","tag-psycho-mike","tag-shane-sabre","tag-wheels-deaner"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69649","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=69649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}