{"id":71465,"date":"2020-06-29T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=71465"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:17:48","slug":"benji-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/29\/benji-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Benji Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some sad news has emerged from the north-east English wrestling scene this morning, as <strong>Benji<\/strong> announced his retirement from the ring on his Twitter, bringing a culmination to his three-year career.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlerBenji\/status\/1277524966590857217<\/p>\n<p>After being trained by <strong>Rampage Brown<\/strong>, <strong>HT Drake<\/strong>, and <strong>Screwface<\/strong>, Benji would go on to become a household name all across the north-east of England, primarily wrestling for the likes of <strong>Three Count Wrestling (3CW)<\/strong>, <strong>NORTH Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>Main Event Wrestling (MEW)<\/strong>. Benji always strived to be as diverse as possible, which was crystal clear when performing for different companies. On 3CW shows, he&#8217;d be coming down the aisle as part of the jock group <strong>Ace Athletic<\/strong>, whereas on NORTH events, he would be found alongside <strong>Landed Gentry<\/strong> partner <strong>Zeo Knox<\/strong> as a mallet-wielding Tory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Benji Defends Newly Won Magnificent Seven Briefcase Against Conor Renshaw (Defiant Loaded #16)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SK58E9Mnnho?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>The north-east star grew in popularity upon making his debut for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/08\/01\/defiant-wrestling-closes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-defunct<\/a> <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong> promotion in December 2018, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tZE7U6gfMcs\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fans clamouring<\/a> to see him take the Internet Championship from <strong>Martin Kirby<\/strong>. While he didn&#8217;t quite get his hands on singles gold, Benji would go on to lift the Magnificent Seven briefcase the following March, which he cashed in at <em><strong>Built to Destroy<\/strong><\/em>, the final Defiant event. Alongside <strong>Visage<\/strong>, the duo became the final Defiant Tag Team Champions by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/06\/30\/defiant-wrestling-champions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dethroning<\/a> <strong>The South-Coast Connection<\/strong> (<strong>Ashley Dunn<\/strong> and <strong>Kelly Sixx<\/strong>) in a high-octane Ladder Match.<\/p>\n<p>Fans and wrestlers alike have been sending their best wishes to Benji as he now embarks on his new life as a retired professional wrestler.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Last 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.\u00a0 We provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sad news has emerged from the north-east English wrestling scene this morning, as Benji announced his retirement from the ring on his Twitter, bringing a culmination to his three-year career. https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlerBenji\/status\/1277524966590857217 After being trained by Rampage Brown, HT Drake, and Screwface, Benji would go on to become a household name all across the north-east [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2567,"featured_media":71468,"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":[13,12],"tags":[4728,1514,5365],"class_list":["post-71465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","tag-benji","tag-defiant-wrestling","tag-north-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Adam Morrison","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71465","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\/2567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}