{"id":73031,"date":"2020-07-21T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=73031"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:50:24","slug":"indie-watch-the-embodiment-of-will-power-will-hobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/21\/indie-watch-the-embodiment-of-will-power-will-hobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Watch: “The Embodiment of Will Power” Will Hobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indie Watch is our regular series that looks at all of the amazing talents working the independent circuits around the world. Some are veterans revitalizing their careers, some are indie prospects hitting their peaks, while others are names to be on the watch for! This edition looks at a longtime West Coast veteran who has finally found the national television platform as a regular on AEW DARK, “The Embodiment of Will Power”, Will Hobbs.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the past few years, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> has done pretty well discovering regional indie stars who are mostly unknowns and giving them a national platform to make them go viral, with such stars as NXT’s Jake Atlas<\/strong>, IMPACT’s Chris Bey<\/strong>, and AEW’s Jungle Boy<\/strong> and Marko Stunt<\/strong>. But since the pandemic travel restrictions affected travel for many main roster stars, All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> has been utilizing scores of regional indie stars on AEW DARK<\/strong><\/em>, giving most of them the most high profile opponents of their young careers. Several of them, such as Preston Vance<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(aka Dark Order #10), Anna Jay<\/a><\/strong>, Alan Angels<\/strong><\/a> (aka Dark Order #5), and Abadon<\/strong><\/a> all joining the company fulltime. Another of AEW’s recent indie stars has been a 10-year veteran of the West Coast indie circuit in Will Hobbs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Will Hobbs trained at the APW Boot Camp<\/strong> under trainers Michael Modest, Donovan Morgan<\/strong>, and Frank Murdoch<\/strong>, and made his debut with All Pro Wrestling (APW)<\/strong> in July of 2009 in a Battle Royal for the #1 Contendership for the APW Worldwide Internet Championship. Performing under the name Will Rood<\/strong>, he was used sporadically as he trained, but it wouldn’t be until 2012 that Hobbs would become a regular performer with APW.<\/p>\n