{"id":87250,"date":"2021-03-20T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T23:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=87250"},"modified":"2021-03-22T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:09:38","slug":"rhodes-wrestling-academy-first-live-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/20\/rhodes-wrestling-academy-first-live-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Rhodes&#8217; Rhodes Wrestling Academy to Debut First Live Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, live and free on YouTube, <strong>Dustin Rhodes<\/strong>&#8216; new wrestling school, <strong>Rhodes Wrestling Academy (RWA)<\/strong> is presenting its first live showcase event featuring his first class of students. The event will air live and free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3jcnlJeMtTM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the RWA YouTube Channel<\/a> at 8 PM EST. While his younger brother Cody beat him to the punch with running a wrestling school &#8211; he partnered with <strong>QT Marshall<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>One Fall Power Factory<\/strong> to combine resources and in early 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/12\/qt-marshall-and-the-nightmare-factory-training-next-generation-of-aew-wrestlers\/\" target=\"_self\">they rebranded the school<\/a> as <strong>The Nightmare Factory\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; it wasn&#8217;t long before Dustin announced his own wrestling school in Texas, with the doors to RWA opening in early 2021. Around the same time, Nightmare Factory produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6kkoRHOrbpE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their first live Showcase event<\/a>, which featured many of the school&#8217;s recruits, including\u00a0<strong>AEW DARK <\/strong>showcased stars like <strong>Brooke Havok<\/strong> and <strong>Carlie Bravo<\/strong>. On Saturday, March 20, Dustin Rhodes&#8217; Rhodes Wrestling Academy will be presenting their first Showcase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder: This Saturday MARCH 20th Rhodes Wrestling Academy has it&#39;s first of hopefully many Showcases. Stay tuned this week for updates. <br \/>Showtime on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@YouTube<\/a> will be 8\/7 Central. Very proud of my students and hope you enjoy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AcademyRhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AcademyRhodes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gypsy4bigd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@gypsy4bigd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PassionLivesHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PassionLivesHere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eF6n1WcMGc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eF6n1WcMGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RhodesWrestlingAcademy (@AcademyRhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AcademyRhodes\/status\/1372728495621701639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The RWA Showcase will feature AEW star <strong>Rebel<\/strong> (not Reba) as a guest referee, as well as Rhodes&#8217; wife, <strong>Ta-Rel Rhodes<\/strong>, as ring announcer. While the match card hasn&#8217;t been made public yet, the show is expected to feature RWA students such as <strong>Shawna Reed, Themis Miller, Beau Harmon, Ki Sei, Ava Wilde, Zoe Gates, Redd Davis, James Holliday, Sizko Armenta, Rob Dutcher, Billy Burgess<\/strong>, and <strong>Chad Lennix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rhodes Wrestling Academy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrVQNkPV4Ew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a> 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.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">LWOS Boards<\/span><\/a> to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, live and free on YouTube, Dustin Rhodes&#8216; new wrestling school, Rhodes Wrestling Academy (RWA) is presenting its first live showcase event featuring his first class of students. The event will air live and free on the RWA YouTube Channel at 8 PM EST. While his younger brother Cody beat him to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":87254,"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":[4677,12,6,2192],"tags":[5032,7587],"class_list":["post-87250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-dustin-rhodes","tag-rhodes-wrestling-academy"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250","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=87250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}