{"id":73752,"date":"2020-08-02T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=73752"},"modified":"2020-08-02T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T19:52:31","slug":"andnew-eric-ryan-wins-king-of-the-deathmatches-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/08\/02\/andnew-eric-ryan-wins-king-of-the-deathmatches-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Eric Ryan Wins King of the Deathmatches 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the power of <strong>44OH<\/strong> &#8211; the faction led by GCW World Champion <strong>Rickey Shane Page<\/strong> that has terrorized <strong>Game Changer Wrestling<\/strong> for the past year &#8211; was simply too much. 44OH&#8217;s <strong>Eric Ryan<\/strong> &#8211; with help from Page and <strong>Eddy Only<\/strong> &#8211; defeated <strong>SHLAK<\/strong> to win the 2020 <strong>IWA Mid South<\/strong> <em><strong>King of the Deathmatches<\/strong><\/em> tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of you don\u2019t have friends and it shows. I\u2019ve known <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ericryanpro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Ericryanpro<\/a> for 15 years. Of course I\u2019m going to lend him a helping hand. He\u2019s the man and deserves everything he\u2019s getting and has got. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/44OH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#44OH<\/a> forever! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qd25EfhGsD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Qd25EfhGsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RSP \u30ea\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u30fb\u30b7\u30a7\u30fc\u30f3\u30fb\u30da\u30a4\u30b8 (@RickeyShanePage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickeyShanePage\/status\/1289929332278796288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was Eric Ryan&#8217;s third time in the tournament &#8211; in 2017 and 2018 he was eliminated before the semi-finals &#8211; but on Saturday he went the full course. He defeated <strong>BC Killer<\/strong> in the opening round in a Glass Galore Texas Deathmatch, and in the second round beat <strong>Jeff King<\/strong>, who had knocked out 44OH&#8217;s Eddy Only in the opening round, in a Panes of Glass Match. In the same quarter-final round, SHLAK defeated 44OH&#8217;s leader Rickey Shane Page &#8211; and with SHLAK being gang-affiliated with Page&#8217;s arch-enemy <strong>Nick Gage<\/strong>, you knew that Page&#8217;s loss was going to have ramifications for SHLAK.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals, Eric Ryan defeated veteran <strong>John Wayne Murdoch<\/strong> in Glass Castle Match, while SHLAK beat <strong>Dale Patricks<\/strong> to advance to the finals. The finals were contested in a Barbed Wire Cage House Of Horrors match, that saw both Page and Only help their 44OH teammate Eric Ryan overcome the beast known as SHLAK and become the 2020 King of the Deathmatches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf2 | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ericryanpro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Ericryanpro<\/a> es el &#39;King of the Deathmatches&#39; del a\u00f1o 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Merecid\u00edsima victoria de Ryan. Ideal para aumentar el &#39;heat&#39; de 44.OH en la escena y para mostrarle al mundo todo su potencial <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KOTDM2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KOTDM2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fitetv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FiteTV<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smartmarkvideo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@smartmarkvideo<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/83oGWGoi56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/83oGWGoi56<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u00c1lex (@AlexGimenezBCN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexGimenezBCN\/status\/1289843184361594880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other big news out of the event, <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Jake Crist<\/strong> won the IWA Mid South Heavyweight title on Night One, defeating champion <strong>Ace Perry<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin Giza<\/strong> in a triple threat match to open the show. Crist would defend his title on Night Two against <strong>Lincoln Moseley<\/strong>. It&#8217;s Crist&#8217;s second reign as IWA M-S Heavyweight Champion, last holding the title back in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Give me the ball and I guarantee you won\u2019t be disappointed. Just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWAMidSouth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IWAMidSouth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ModernManINBlack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ModernManINBlack<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iwaMidsouth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#iwaMidsouth<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Photo credit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKarpPhotos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nickkarpphotos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0OcYrd8aYq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0OcYrd8aYq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jake Crist (@TheJakeCrist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJakeCrist\/status\/1289760031072587778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to\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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the power of 44OH &#8211; the faction led by GCW World Champion Rickey Shane Page that has terrorized Game Changer Wrestling for the past year &#8211; was simply too much. 44OH&#8217;s Eric Ryan &#8211; with help from Page and Eddy Only &#8211; defeated SHLAK to win the 2020 IWA Mid South King of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":73755,"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":[6],"tags":[6136,4503,1640,855,6717,3906],"class_list":["post-73752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","tag-44oh","tag-eric-ryan","tag-iwa-mid-south","tag-jake-crist","tag-king-of-the-deathmatches","tag-shlak"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73752","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=73752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}