{"id":9314,"date":"2017-11-09T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2017-11-09T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:41:35","slug":"impact-tapings-matches-detroit-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/11\/09\/impact-tapings-matches-detroit-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Taping Matches In Detroit in December?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last night&#8217;s tapings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for upcoming episodes of <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong>, Impact Global Champion <strong>Eli Drake<\/strong> announced during an in-ring segment that he was scheduled for a match in Detroit in December for <strong>Border City Wrestling (BCW)<\/strong>. Later in the segment, <strong>Alberto El Patron<\/strong> comes down to challenge Eli, before <strong>Johnny Impact<\/strong> (aka Johnny Mundo, aka John Morrison) comes down to say he&#8217;ll be in Detroit as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9317\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9317\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-09-at-7.16.01-PM-1024x389.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"243\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday December 3rd, Windsor, Ontario, Canada&#8217;s BCW is throwing an event across the river in Belleville, Michigan (30 miles southwest of Detroit) called <a href=\"http:\/\/bordercitywrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motown Showdown<\/a>, headlined by Eli Drake, Johnny Impact and Alberto El Patron. Considering that Impact just aired several matches from <em><strong>BCW Excellence<\/strong><\/em> as part of their new format of international promotions featuring Impact stars &#8211; a Knockouts tag match between <strong>Sienna<\/strong> and <strong>KC Spinelli<\/strong> vs. <strong>Rosemary<\/strong> and <strong>Allie<\/strong>, Impact Tag Team Champions <strong>OvE (Dave &amp; Jake Crist)<\/strong> vs. BCW Tag Team Champs <strong>Brent Banks &amp; Phil Atlas<\/strong>, and an X-Division style 4-way between <strong>Petey Williams, Idris Ibrahim, NOAH<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Kaito Kiyomiya<\/strong> and BCW\/<strong>Smash<\/strong> regular <strong>Tarik<\/strong> &#8211; it&#8217;s safe to say that upcoming BCW events will be a part of the international flair of the new format for Impact Wrestling. Another match was taped at <em>BCW Excellence<\/em>, when Eli Drake defended his Impact Global Championship against former Impact Wrestling star and <strong>Team Canada<\/strong> member <strong>A1<\/strong>, but it has yet to air. Oh yeah &#8211; BCW is owned by current Impact creative director and VP of International Relations <strong>Scott D&#8217;Amore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NKOy-5C3Xqk<\/p>\n<p>No matches have been formally announced as of yet, but the poster advertises a few other BCW regulars who have appeared on Impact Wrestling and\/or <em><strong>Impact XPlosion<\/strong><\/em>, such as Idris Ibrahim,\u00a0<strong>Jon Bolen\u00a0<\/strong>and new <strong>Glory Pro<\/strong> Champion <strong>Jake Something<\/strong>.\u00a0There&#8217;s no other Impact names revealed as of yet, but there should be more announcements forthcoming now that the tapings are finishing up this weekend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9315\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9315\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/22852213_10155911593909791_3660155261371751804_n-e1510273650202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bordercitywrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCW Motown Showdown,<\/a> Sunday December 3, 2017 at The Diamondback Saloon,\u00a049345 Interstate 94 S Service Drive, Belleville, Michigan 48111<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last night&#8217;s tapings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for upcoming episodes of Impact Wrestling, Impact Global Champion Eli Drake announced during an in-ring segment that he was scheduled for a match in Detroit in December for Border City Wrestling (BCW). Later in the segment, Alberto El Patron comes down to challenge Eli, before Johnny Impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":9316,"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":[2,6],"tags":[193,272,1569,1319,226,100],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-alberto-el-patron","tag-border-city-wrestling","tag-detroit","tag-eli-drake","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-john-morrison"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","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=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}