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Puerto Rico is facing one of its worst disasters ever. Almost a month after the destruction left by Hurricane Maria, electric power is still down \u2013 just 15% of the island has power \u2013 and clean water is almost impossible to get.<\/p>\n
Those effects by Maria have caused the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico to go on sleep mode. Not a single wrestling show has been presented after the destructive cyclone. Our hopes were put on Championship Wrestling Association (CWA)<\/strong> to put the first show after the hurricane, especially since they were bringing on of the best Indy names out there in the form of the \u201cTechnical Wizard\u201d Zack Sabre Jr.<\/strong> It turns out that our hopes must be postpone until 2018, as CWA<\/strong> announced this past week that they cancelled their 10\/30 show were Zack Sabre Jr. was supposed to do his Puerto Rico debut. Reasons were not giving, but its obvious that the state of the island and the many problems that are affecting Puerto Rico makes it almost impossible to run a wrestling show.<\/p>\n Something that took everyone in Puerto Rico and in Latin America by surprise, was the news that Mike Mendoza<\/strong> was all week in the WWE Performance Center<\/strong><\/a> in Orlando. The grandson of Salvadorian wrestling legend and Puerto Rican resident El Vikingo<\/strong>, Mendoza appeared in Orlando \u2013 and in an article by WWE.com<\/strong> \u2013 as Victor Ortiz<\/strong> in the recent October tryouts by World Wrestling Entertainment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Is not like Mendoza was not deserving of it, the 3rd<\/sup> generation wrestler had a breakout year in 2017. He started in January winning the WWC Puerto Rican Championship<\/strong> \u2013 the oldest championship in the island, it goes back to the 70s \u2013 and later the WWC World Tag Team Championship<\/strong>. His heel persona and promos were the best as they ever been, morphing in what we know now as \u201cThe Scorpion<\/em>\u201d Mike Mendoza. He would transition to World Wrestling League<\/strong> where he had standout matches and was deemed the #2 babyface of the company. Even his international bookings had him going, getting call to Ohio for Cleveland Knights Championship Wrestling<\/strong> and getting in Hugo Savinovich’s<\/strong> show and some Mexican\/Puerto Rican promotions.<\/p>\n Mendoza will be giving soon an interview to Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/strong> and Impacto Estelar\u00a0<\/strong>to talk about his experience in the WWE Performance Center and were his career will be going.<\/p>\n Probably the breakout star of 2017 and the most over wrestler right now in the island, Starr Roger<\/strong> keeps accumulating accomplishments. This time around, he did something that hasn\u2019t been done since 1994, and that\u2019s reaching more than 300 days with a championship in Puerto Rico – with the CWA Heavyweight Tittle. As weirds as that sounds, since in other companies is common practice to see long reigns, for some strange reason, in Puerto Rico nobody can hold a championship more than 250 days.<\/p>\n Last week, Starr Roger with his CWA Championship reign, reach 300 days. In his run, the list of wrestlers that he face off for the championship includes: Jay Lethal \u2013 he beat Lethal for the title and the match was named \u201cBest Wrestling Match in 2017 (Puerto Rico) -, Alejandro Marrero, Super Crazy, Maxx Stardom, Cuervo, BJ, among others. His run represents a new idea, that you can have a long reign for your main title and keep fans attention. Also, if you\u2019re wondering who had the longest reign before Roger, its Carlos Colon with the WWC Universal Championship in 1994, he almost had it for 500 days.<\/p>\n Florida Wrestling Revolution<\/strong> will be now home for talent from the Caribbean and renowned Indy names of the American wrestling scene. The company is hoping to have their first show in February, using talent from Puerto Rico and big Mexican talents, like Drago<\/strong>, Psycho Clown<\/strong> and former AAA Mega Champion<\/strong> Texano Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n The FWR<\/strong> show is schedule to take place on 2\/10, next year in the Downtown Recreation Complex in Orlando, Florida. The first match announced for that show is former WWC World Tag Team Champion Cuervo<\/strong> vs. Lucha Underground<\/strong> superstar Drago. Also, Puerto Rican legend and former WWF superstar Rico Suave<\/strong> (Jose Estrada Jr.) vs. former NWA World Heavyweight Champion<\/strong> Kahagas<\/strong>. The promotion is also advertising names like Hijo del Fantasma<\/strong> (King Cuerno in LU), Savio Vega <\/strong>(WWL),\u00a0Angel Fashion<\/strong> (WWL), Pagano<\/strong> (AAA), Starr Roger<\/strong> (CWA), Mighty Ursus<\/strong> (WWC), among others.<\/p>\n Is unknown if the company can keep this type of business model. In the past, paying for a lot of plane tickets and big Indy names came very expensive, and more if you\u2019re bringing talents from Mexico and Puerto Rico left to right. We hope that this isn\u2019t the case for the promising promotion.<\/p>\n – In a move that might have come because of the damage left by Hurricane Maria, one of Puerto Rico\u2019s most promising star Angel Fashion will be working in Florida for World Xtreme Wrestling<\/strong> \u2013 WWE Hall of Famer \u201cWild Samoan\u201d Afa<\/strong>\u2019s wrestling school and promotion. Fashion is a former WWC Puerto Rican Champion and tag team partner in WWL with Mike Mendoza, both are attributed for the boom times that WWL is enjoying right now. Because of how bad the wrestling scene in the island is right now \u2013 there\u2019s not a single show scheduled now \u2013 Fashion decided to move to Florida and wrestle this period in the Sunshine State \u2013 until everything is resolves in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n – Reported by Contralona PR<\/a>, Apolo, who is one of our honorable mentions in Last Word on Pro Wrestling\u2019s Top 10 Greatest Puerto Rican Wrestlers of All Time<\/a>, won this weekend Power of Wrestling’s Heavyweight Championship in Germany. Apolo has had a wild year in 2017, traveling all over the world to countries like Austria, Germany, Australia, South Africa and even Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s back! Emmanuel Rosado is back with the latest news and happenings from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean wrestling scene. Zack Sabre Jr.\u2019s Debut in CWA is Delayed Puerto Rico is facing one of its worst disasters ever. Almost a month after the destruction left by Hurricane Maria, electric power is still down \u2013 just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":8759,"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":[2,13],"tags":[1614,1530,1211,857,1615,1616,1023,1074,1096,1178,1109,172],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-angel-fashio","tag-apolo","tag-cuervo","tag-drago","tag-hugo-savinovich","tag-kahagas","tag-mike-mendoza","tag-pagano","tag-savio-vega","tag-starr-roger","tag-texano-jr","tag-zack-sabre-jr"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mike Mendoza at WWE Tryouts<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Starr Roger Reaches 300 Days <\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A Puerto Rican promotion in Kissimmee? <\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Other news from the Caribbean: <\/strong><\/h3>\n
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