{"id":71071,"date":"2020-06-24T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=71071"},"modified":"2020-06-24T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:47:36","slug":"calvin-tankman-mlw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/24\/calvin-tankman-mlw\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Tankman Signs With MLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> announced the signing of super heavyweight indie wrestler <strong>Calvin Tankman<\/strong> to the MLW roster.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1275796062687514624<\/p>\n<p>Entering his fifth year in the industry, Calvin Tankman came up through the Indiana indie scene, with <strong>Wild Championship Wrestling Outlaws (WCWO)<\/strong> in Indianapolis and <strong>IWA Mid South<\/strong>, winning the IWA M-S Heavyweight Championship in 2018. He&#8217;s also worked for other Indiana promotions such as <strong>Wrestling Theology Fellowship (WTF), Fight Or Die Pro Wrestling (FxD), EMERGE Wrestling, Paradigm Pro Wrestling (PPW)<\/strong>, and <strong>Bizarro Lucha<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s the current reigning Luchiversal Champion at 255-days. He&#8217;s also worked in Ohio with <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW)<\/strong> and this past weekend made his debut for <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>.<\/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<div class=\"InformationBoxRow\">\u201cCalvin caught my eye for his athletic explosiveness and versatility as a competitor,\u201d said MLW CEO Court Bauer in Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mlw.com\/2020\/06\/24\/calvin-tankman-signs-with-mlw\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThere isn\u2019t anyone like Calvin Tankman in the sport today and it is our privilege to share this extraordinary competitor with the world.\u201d While Calvin Tankman stands 6&#8217;2&#8243; and weighs in at 355 lbs., the big man also has uncanny agility for a man his size. \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for an opportunity to show what I can do at the next level and MLW has given me that opportunity,\u201d said Tankman in the MLW presser. \u201cI want the money, championships, and everything MLW has to offer and I don\u2019t care who I have to go through to get it. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s Fatu, Hammerstone, or anyone else on the roster when I step in the ring, I\u2019m going to prove that I\u2019m one of the best young wrestler in the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"InformationBoxRow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Major League Wrestling (MLW) announced the signing of super heavyweight indie wrestler Calvin Tankman to the MLW roster. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1275796062687514624 Entering his fifth year in the industry, Calvin Tankman came up through the Indiana indie scene, with Wild Championship Wrestling Outlaws (WCWO) in Indianapolis and IWA Mid South, winning the IWA M-S Heavyweight Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":71207,"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":[2,5283,6],"tags":[6039,2012],"class_list":["post-71071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlw","category-north-america","tag-calvin-tankman","tag-mlw"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71071","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=71071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}