{"id":70940,"date":"2020-06-19T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=70940"},"modified":"2020-07-28T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:58:27","slug":"rockstar-pro-ends-alliance-with-oi4k-school-after-dave-crist-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/19\/rockstar-pro-ends-alliance-with-oi4k-school-after-dave-crist-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Pro Ends Alliance With OI4K School After Dave Crist Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rockstar Pro<\/strong>, one of the premier indie promotions in Ohio and based out of Dayton, has announced they are ending their alliance with <strong>Dave Crist<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>OI4K Wrestling School<\/strong> as the companies training facility, following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct directed at <strong>Dave Crist<\/strong> over the past 24 hours throughout the #SpeakOut movement on Social Media. The movement began as a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/18\/david-starr-stripped-tnt-ott\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David Starr<\/strong>&#8216;s allegations<\/a> and has since gone viral and empowered women from around the world to speak out on decades of abuse, from sexual to emotional, towards women and men in the industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Effective immediately, Rockstar Pro has ended our relationship with OI4K Wrestling Academy.<\/p>\n<p>We will be launching a new wrestling school under NEW trainers, including Impact star <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachary_wentz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@zachary_wentz<\/a>! More information on the new school will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rockstar Pro Wrestling (@RockstarProWres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockstarProWres\/status\/1274145721734889473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Rockstar Pro has announced they will be starting up their own in-house wrestling program that will be lead by IMPACT Wrestling&#8217;s <strong>Zachary Wentz<\/strong> of the Rascalz, who issued his own statement on the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OWSSu3lzgB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OWSSu3lzgB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nvK5ltbG8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nvK5ltbG8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zachary Wentz (@ZacharyWentz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZacharyWentz\/status\/1274160094150832128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rockstar Pro was founded in 2007 by <strong>Chadwick Parker<\/strong> and <strong>Gee Gee Bradley<\/strong> and has helped groom the new stars from a vibrant Ohio indie scene, with a long association with the Crist Brothers. The promotion is now looking to a new and fresh start going forward with their students and prospects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar Pro, one of the premier indie promotions in Ohio and based out of Dayton, has announced they are ending their alliance with Dave Crist&#8216;s OI4K Wrestling School as the companies training facility, following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct directed at Dave Crist over the past 24 hours throughout the #SpeakOut movement on Social Media. 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