{"id":78664,"date":"2020-11-09T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=78664"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:57:36","slug":"dbs-fatu-mlw-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/11\/09\/dbs-fatu-mlw-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith vs. Fatu For World Heavyweight Title Headlines Restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Major League Wrestling (“MLW”) today announced<\/span>
\nits flagship series, MLW FUSION, will return next Wednesday November 18 with the biggest title fight in ages: the 2019 Opera Cup winner\u00a0Davey Boy Smith Jr.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0challenging\u00a0Jacob Fatu<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the World Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n

MLW returns Wednesday night November 18 at 7pm ET with the premiere of FUSION on Fubo Sports and YouTube. \u00a0Fans can also watch nationwide on cable and dish via beIN SPORTS on Saturday nights at 10pm ET and on demand\u00a0anytime, anywhere on DAZN.\u00a0Learn where to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DAZN broke the news of this big fight in an exclusive in\u00a0an exclusive interview with Court Bauer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is a dream match we originally slated for Pay-Per-View this past summer and felt it was the perfect match to give the fans as a thank you for hanging tight and supporting us through #TheRestart,” said MLW CEO Court Bauer.<\/p>\n

This is the first-time ever the 3rd generation catch wrestler Smith has wrestled the undefeated World Champion Fatu. Fatu won the title July 6, 2019 and has successfully defeated a who’s who of challengers, including: LA Park, CIMA, Ross Von Erich, Tom Lawlor, Brian Pillman Jr. and countless others.<\/p>\n

For nearly a year, Davey Boy Smith Jr. has campaigned for a World Heavyweight title fight, following his historic and successful\u00a0bid for the 2019 Opera Cup.<\/p>\n

The title fight would experience an unexpected derailing on May 9th with CONTRA Unit’s hostile takeover of Major League Wrestling in the shocking closing moments of the MLW\/AAA Super Series.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath, MLW.com reported Smith suffered a broken back. While the league wrestled with CONTRA over control of the league amid the pandemic, a determined Smith embarked on his road to recovery. Recently cleared by league physician\u00a0Dr. Sweglar, Smith reemerged ready to throwdown with the 300 pound CONTRA kingpin.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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About Major League Wrestling<\/strong>
\nMajor League Wrestling (MLW\u00ae) is a sports media holding company\u00a0with a focus on professional wrestling sporting events\/programming, digital content and ancillary entertainment.<\/p>\n

The fastest growing wrestling league today, Major League Wrestling\u00a0<\/em>airs on DAZN, fubo Sports Network as well as on beIN SPORTS in the United States and in over 20 countries abroad.<\/p>\n

MLW streams for free Wednesday nights at 7pm ET on\u00a0YouTube.com\/MajorLeagueWrestling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MLW features a roster full of high profile fighters and on-air talent from around the world including: CONTRA Unit, “Filthy” Tom Lawlor, Ross and Marshall Von Erich, Alex Hammerstone, Richard Holliday, LA Park, Myron Reed and Injustice, Salina de la Renta, Alicia Atout and many more.<\/p>\n

MLW is the parent company of the MLW Radio Network, the leading provider of professional wrestling podcasts in the world with 5-6 podcasts in the top iTunes 100 in the sports category on the average day.<\/p>\n

Like MLW on Facebook:\u00a0http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/majorleaguewrestling<\/a><\/strong>
\nFollow MLW on Twitter:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MLW<\/a>
\nFollow MLW on Instagram:\u00a0http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/majorleaguewrestling<\/a><\/strong>
\nLearn more about MLW at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.MLW.com<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major League Wrestling (“MLW”) today announced its flagship series, MLW FUSION, will return next Wednesday November 18 with the biggest title fight in ages: the 2019 Opera Cup winner\u00a0Davey Boy Smith Jr.\u00a0challenging\u00a0Jacob Fatu\u00a0for the World Heavyweight Championship. MLW returns Wednesday night November 18 at 7pm ET with the premiere of FUSION on Fubo Sports and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":78665,"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":[5283,12,6,2192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlw","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}