{"id":80602,"date":"2020-12-12T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=80602"},"modified":"2020-12-12T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:52:09","slug":"andnew-danny-limelight-papo-esco-uwn-tag-team-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/12\/12\/andnew-danny-limelight-papo-esco-uwn-tag-team-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Danny Limelight &#038; Papo Esco Win the UWN Tag Team Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s been a heck of a year for West Coast indie star <strong>Danny Limelight<\/strong> in Covid era pro wrestling in 2020, and he&#8217;s capped it off this weekend by capturing the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedwrestlingtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Wrestling Network<\/a> (UWN)<\/strong> Tag Team Championships with his partner &#8220;King Fatboy&#8221; <strong>Papo Esco<\/strong> of<strong> The Bodega<\/strong>. The star of such promotions as <strong>Championship Wrestling From Hollywood (CWFH)<\/strong>, <strong>Future Stars of Wrestling (FSW)<\/strong>, and many other West Coast promotions since his debut in 2014 saw a huge year where he received high profile attention after debuting as part of the <strong>New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)<\/strong> American roster for NJPW USA&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>NJPW Strong<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>program (picking up big wins over\u00a0<strong>Blake Christian\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Barret Brown\u00a0<\/strong>in the Lion&#8217;s Break Crown tournament, before losing to\u00a0<strong>Clark Connors\u00a0<\/strong>in the Finals) and then spending much of the past few months appearing for\u00a0<strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<em><strong>AEW DARK<\/strong><\/em><em>, <\/em>initially competing against\u00a0<strong>The Jurassic Express\u00a0<\/strong>in October and most recently in singles action against\u00a0<strong>Brian Cage<\/strong> on December 8. UWN is a co-op union of independent wrestling companies in the US, created by CWFH&#8217;s <strong>David Marquez<\/strong> in 2013 and aside from having their titles appear on CWFH, UWN launched their own programming, <em><strong>UWN Primetime Live<\/strong><\/em> this past September, which featured stars from the UWN as well as those from the <strong>National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)<\/strong> as well as East Coast stars like <strong>Chris Dickinson<\/strong>.\u00a0 On Saturday&#8217;s episode, the final <em>UWN Primetime Live\u00a0<\/em>of 2020 until it restarts in 2021, saw The Bodega defeat <strong>SoCal Distancing<\/strong> (Adrian Quest &amp; Andy Brown) for the titles, ending their reign at 292 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve always bet on winners. Some markets watched it happen on TV earlier. The Bodega are the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unitedwrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@unitedwrestling<\/a> World Tag Team Champs! Catch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CWFHollywood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CWFHollywood<\/a> this weekend when it\u2019s on in your area! \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDofPg1xKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tDofPg1xKQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Marquez (@CWFHMarquez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CWFHMarquez\/status\/1337839841996750848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the end of November with CWFH, The Bodega won a #1 Contenders Four-Way Tag Team Match, against <strong>4 Minutes Of Heat<\/strong>\u00a0(Eddie Pearl\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Ricky Gibson), <strong>Wasted Youth\u00a0<\/strong>(Adriel Noctis\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Sketch), and <strong>Max Caster\u00a0&amp;\u00a0VSK\u00a0<\/strong>(two other UWN talents who have appeared for AEW &#8211; Caster has actually signed with AEW and competes in <strong>The Acclaimed<\/strong> alongside <strong>Anthony Bowens<\/strong>). As part of The Bodega, Limelight uses the name Danny Rivera, where he is paired with another West Coast wrestler in Papo Esco, a veteran of <strong>Alternative Pro Wrestling (APW)<\/strong> in California. The duo had only recently united as a tag team this past October.<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> 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, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? 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