{"id":83691,"date":"2021-01-26T05:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=83691"},"modified":"2021-01-26T05:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:50:34","slug":"ricky-morton-us-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/01\/26\/ricky-morton-us-indies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock N’ Roll Will Never Die: Ricky Morton Jumps Headfirst into US Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday night, Ricky Morton<\/strong> was announced for two separate huge indie events in the US independent circuit, as the legend of the Rock N’ Roll Express<\/strong><\/a> continued to surge to arguably their most popular time period in decades. The 8x National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)<\/strong> World Tag Team Champions have seen a career resurgence in the past few years, ever since they made a cameo in Matt Hardy’s Tag Team Apocalypto on IMPACT Wrestling. While the duo had still been active for decades but their matches were usually only a handful of matches a year. While regarded as legends of tag team wrestling, they were well past their hey-day from the 1980s.<\/p>\n

But since their cameo in the Broken Universe, the Rock N’ Roll Express has found themselves not just appearing for the likes of All Elite Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)<\/strong>, NWA, and Ring of Honor, they’ve also become indie darlings, appearing for the likes of Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), Beyond Wrestling, Glory Pro, MCW Pro<\/strong>, and many more. The same team that battled the likes of The Midnight Express, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard, The Rockers<\/strong>, and The Russians<\/strong> in the 1980s, were now facing the likes of Santana & Ortiz, The Briscoes, SCU (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian), The Besties in the World<\/strong>, and The Butcher & Blade<\/strong>, and competing in tag matches with Hiroshi Tanahashi<\/strong>. Their return to pro wrestling continued when Ricky Morton was announced for two huge events in the US indie circuit on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The first announcement revealed that Ricky Morton would be returning to GCW for the upcoming weekend’s GCW Fight Forever<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a 24-hour live wrestling event streaming free on GCW’s official YouTube<\/a> page from 8 PM on Friday night to 8 PM on Saturday night, as part of 44.OH<\/strong>‘s 4-5 PM block on Saturday, What We Want<\/em><\/strong>. Ricky Morton will be teaming up with his son, US indie wrestler Kerry Morton<\/strong>, facing off against the 44.OH duo of Atticus Cogar<\/strong> and reigning GCW World Champion Rickey Shane Page<\/strong>. Ricky Morton is no stranger to GCW by this point – The Rock N’ Roll Express debuted at\u00a0Joey Janela’s Spring Break 3<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>during WrestleMania<\/em><\/strong> Week in 2019, facing Santana & Ortiz, and last October, Morton returned in singles action, where he defeated AEW’s Joey Janela<\/strong> at\u00a0Joey Janela’s Spring Break 4<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>at The Collective. Teaming with his son, a rising star in the US indies, he’ll be facing the top guy in Game Changer Wrestling at a historic event for the US independents.<\/p>\n

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*Fight Forever Update!*<\/p>\n

Match Announcement:<\/p>\n

44OH! vs The Mortons<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat We Want\u201d
1\/30 – 4PM<\/p>\n

Sponsors:
Match: @AllNightLongWP<\/a>
Block: @FREEBIRDS_shop<\/a><\/p>\n

Donate:https:\/\/t.co\/HOF0ux88xI<\/a>\u2026#FightForever<\/a> streams LIVE & FREE for everyone on Youtube & FiteTV! pic.twitter.com\/WKLaFoZApC<\/a><\/p>\n

— 44OH! (@The44OH) January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n