{"id":41375,"date":"2017-04-18T13:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=41375"},"modified":"2017-04-18T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:33:35","slug":"mike-bennett-maria-formerly-tna-roh-headed-wwes-main-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/mike-bennett-maria-formerly-tna-roh-headed-wwes-main-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Bennett and Maria, formerly of TNA and ROH, headed to WWE&#8217;s main roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2608107377\" 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>Mike Bennett and Maria, formerly of TNA and ROH, are headed to WWE&#8217;s main roster, according to PWTorch sources. A return to Impact Wrestling was a possibility, but WWE&#8217;s offer more appealing. They are expected to land on Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: It&#8217;s surprising they&#8217;re jumping right to the main roster, according to what we&#8217;re hearing. They are a WWE-style act, based on their presentation on\u00a0Impact Wrestling last year, and Bennett&#8217;s in-ring style is more along the lines of &#8220;WWE style&#8221; than &#8220;Indy style,&#8221; so I&#8217;m not shocked Vince McMahon would have interest in them.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3463074132\"><div id=\"pwtor-3005791543\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mike Bennett and Maria, formerly of TNA and ROH, are headed to WWE&#8217;s main roster, according to PWTorch sources. A return to Impact Wrestling was a possibility, but WWE&#8217;s offer more appealing. They are expected <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/mike-bennett-maria-formerly-tna-roh-headed-wwes-main-roster\/\" title=\"Mike Bennett and Maria, formerly of TNA and ROH, headed to WWE&#8217;s main roster\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37497,"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":[2,3],"tags":[1476,1375],"class_list":["post-41375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-maria","tag-mike-bennett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/01\/BennettMikeWK3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375","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=41375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41376,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions\/41376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}