{"id":9408,"date":"2017-11-11T22:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T03:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2017-11-12T00:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T05:22:34","slug":"breaking-new-shimmer-tag-team-champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/11\/11\/breaking-new-shimmer-tag-team-champions-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: New SHIMMER Tag Team Champions Crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s SHIMMER 96 event in Chicago, the team of Leva Bates and Delilah Doom ended the year long reign of Mount Tessa, the duo of Tessa Blanchard and Vanessa Kraven, as SHIMMER Tag Team Champions. According to reports, following the match, Mount Tessa disbanded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHIMMERwomen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SHIMMERwomen<\/a> tag team champions: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Delilah_Doom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@delilah_doom<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrestlingleva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@wrestlingleva<\/a>!! @MtKraven and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tess_Blanchard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tess_Blanchard<\/a> split after the match <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/shimmer97?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#shimmer97<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/womenswrestling?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#womenswrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rre6tuhhP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rre6tuhhP8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pat Laprade (@PatLaprade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatLaprade\/status\/929534047419813890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leva Bates<\/strong> is one of the indies top women&#8217;s wrestlers, whose cosplay at each event is a thing of legend. She is also known by some for her cult following as <strong>Blue Pants<\/strong> in NXT from 2014 through 2015, as well as a few appearances with <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong> on several <em><strong>One Night Only<\/strong><\/em> PPVs. <strong>Delilah Doom<\/strong> is a rising women&#8217;s star on the indie scene, who has appeared twice for the WWE in the past year. She appeared on <em><strong>Raw<\/strong> <\/em>last year as <strong>Rachel Levy<\/strong> as one of the victims of a debuting <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong>, as well as <strong>Delilah Dawson<\/strong> on <em><strong>Smackdown Live<\/strong><\/em> this year in a losing effort against <strong>Carmella<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Delilah_Doom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@delilah_doom<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrestlingleva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@wrestlingleva<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1qodMzPbsy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1qodMzPbsy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HeelFace Wrestling \uea00 (@HeelFaceRaslin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeelFaceRaslin\/status\/929571646888923136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9409\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/884f34dd8bb7da2143191abccea11919-e1510456245889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>With Tessa dropping the tag titles after a 365 day reign, many will undoubtedly start the &#8220;bound for WWE&#8221; rumours, as her boyfriend <strong>Ricochet<\/strong> is also rumoured to be heading to Orlando to start with NXT in January of 2018. Blanchard still holds two <strong>WrestleCircus<\/strong> titles, the Sideshow and Lady of the Circus championships, and is currently still the reigning <strong>Exodus Wrestling Alliance (EWA)<\/strong> Florida Heavyweight Champion at 933 days. Blanchard, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer and Four Horseman <strong>Tully Blanchard<\/strong>, has appeared in one-offs for NXT since last year, including appearing in this summer&#8217;s Mae Young Classic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9410\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9410\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/TessaBlanchard4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s SHIMMER 96 event in Chicago, the team of Leva Bates and Delilah Doom ended the year long reign of Mount Tessa, the duo of Tessa Blanchard and Vanessa Kraven, as SHIMMER Tag Team Champions. According to reports, following the match, Mount Tessa disbanded. New @SHIMMERwomen tag team champions: @delilah_doom &amp; @wrestlingleva!! @MtKraven and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":9411,"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":[2,318,317],"tags":[1718,595,1717,673,1716,303,827],"class_list":["post-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shimmer","category-women","tag-delilah-doom","tag-leva-bates","tag-mount-tessa","tag-shimmer","tag-shimmer-96","tag-tessa-blanchard","tag-vanessa-kraven"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408","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=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}