{"id":8161,"date":"2017-10-02T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:43:56","slug":"gail-kims-farewell-match-smash-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/10\/02\/gail-kims-farewell-match-smash-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Kim&#8217;s Farewell Match Set In Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> Hall of Famer and women&#8217;s wrestling legend <strong>Gail Kim<\/strong> stunned the wrestling world earlier this year when she announced that 2017 would be her final year as an in-ring performer. A 17-year veteran of the industry, Gail Kim has already begun transitioning into her post-ring career with Impact Wrestling, working as a backstage agent\/producer for Impact&#8217;s Knockouts Division. But she just recently announced that her final Impact match will be when she challenges for the Knockout&#8217;s Championship at this year&#8217;s <em><strong>Bound For Glory<\/strong><\/em>, emanating from her home country of Canada, held in the nation&#8217;s capital of Ottawa. Kim will be a part of the Fatal 4-Way for the Knockouts Title, against current champion <strong>Sienna<\/strong>, as well as former Knockouts Champion <strong>Taryn Terrell<\/strong> and<strong> Allie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Roy9r__FaPg<\/p>\n<p>But while many have stated that her Championship match at\u00a0<em>Bound For Glory<\/em> will be her final in-ring appearance as a wrestler, that&#8217;s not exactly true. The former 6x Impact Knockouts Champion and WWE Women&#8217;s Champion has one last match set, and it&#8217;s in her home town of Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8162\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8162\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/DK7fdbDVYAADSbd-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Smash Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To close out the year, Gail Kim will be competing in the CANUSA Classic, a women&#8217;s team tournament held annually by <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong>, as part of Team Canada. So far she&#8217;s announced for December 3 in a match against her current Impact sidekick, Allie (formerly <strong>Cherry Bomb<\/strong> on the indie circuit), another Smash regular.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live in the Toronto area, there won&#8217;t be a dry eye in the building of the Franklin Horner Community Centre, when a true pioneer of women&#8217;s wrestling in the past 20 years takes her final bow in the city where it all started.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are still available through <a href=\"http:\/\/smash-wrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smash Wrestling&#8217;s website<\/a>, but be warned, they are going fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact Wrestling Hall of Famer and women&#8217;s wrestling legend Gail Kim stunned the wrestling world earlier this year when she announced that 2017 would be her final year as an in-ring performer. A 17-year veteran of the industry, Gail Kim has already begun transitioning into her post-ring career with Impact Wrestling, working as a backstage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":8163,"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":[2,7,6,203],"tags":[568,1527,1528,185,226,204],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","category-smash-wrestling","tag-allie","tag-bound-for-glory","tag-canusa-classic","tag-gail-kim","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-smash-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","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=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}