{"id":130048,"date":"2021-12-08T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/recovery\/?p=130048"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:58:11","slug":"wwe-hall-of-famer-blackjack-lanza-dead-at-age-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/12\/08\/wwe-hall-of-famer-blackjack-lanza-dead-at-age-86\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Lanza dead at age 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2834248045\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Lanza has died. He was 86 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Ross took to social media on Wednesday to reveal the news. &#8220;Just heard from old, Winnipeg friend Bob Holliday that Jack Lanza has passed away at the age of 86,&#8221; Ross said. &#8220;Jack was our lead agent during the Attitude Era. Helluva hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRsBBQ\/status\/1468669920087097345<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our hearts go out to the family and friends of WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Lanza. Jack Lanza was a man\u2019s man, respected and beloved by all. He loved and worked for WWE for many years. His loyalty and dedication will never be forgotten. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4wpq9E1Ypo\">pic.twitter.com\/4wpq9E1Ypo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1468700953918517249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lanza was trained by Verne Gagne in his hometown of Minnesota. Lanza was a member of The Blackjacks and worked in multiple territories including the AWA, WWWF, Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and others. 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Jim Ross took to social media on Wednesday to reveal the news. &#8220;Just heard from old, Winnipeg friend Bob Holliday that Jack <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/12\/08\/wwe-hall-of-famer-blackjack-lanza-dead-at-age-86\/\" title=\"WWE Hall of Famer Blackjack Lanza dead at age 86\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_etc","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-17-at-1.56.58-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130050,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130048\/revisions\/130050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}