{"id":6166,"date":"2015-12-17T13:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:13:44","slug":"6166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/17\/6166\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NXT&#8217;er Callihan returning to EVOLVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3945389209\" 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>There has recently been talk of NXT wrestlers appearing on EVOLVE shows.\u00a0In the case of Sami Callihan, that is unnecessary, as the former Solomon Crowe\u00a0left NXT earlier this month and is now returning to EVOLVE Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dgusa.tv\/Events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6168 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/unnamed-1-194x300.png\" alt=\"SamiCallihanEvolve\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/unnamed-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/unnamed-1.png 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>WWNLive announced Thursday that Callihan will return to an EVOLVE ring on January 23 and 24 in Orlando, Florida as part of Royal Rumble Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an EVOLVE show on Jan. 22, but Callihan is not booked for that show.<\/p>\n<p>The show on Jan. 22 will begin the EVOLVE Tag Tournament. The full line-up for the weekend is below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVOLVE 53 &#8211; Jan. 22 in Ybor City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; First Round EVOLVE Tag Title tournament matches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;NXT &amp; TNA&#8221; Johnny Gargano &amp; Drew Galloway<\/li>\n<li>RPG Vice (Trent Baretta &amp; Rocky Romero)<\/li>\n<li>PAB (Anthony Nese &amp; Caleb Konley w\/So Cal Val)<\/li>\n<li>EVOLVE champion Timothy Thatcher &amp; Zack Sabre, Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Hero &amp; Tommy End<\/li>\n<li>The Bravado Brothers<\/li>\n<li>Drew Gulak &amp; T.J. Perkins<\/li>\n<li>Team Tremendous (Dan Barry &amp; Bill Car)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Style Battle Tournament begins with Round Robin format. The four wrestlers included are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Riddle<\/li>\n<li>Three more TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EVOLVE 54 &#8211; Jan. 23 in Orlando<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3250319458\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi-finals of EVOLVE Tag Title tournament<\/li>\n<li>Second Chance Tag Tournament begins with losing teams from E53<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EVOLVE 55 &#8211; Jan. 24 in Orlando<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finals of EVOLVE Tag Title tournament<\/li>\n<li>Winners of Second Chance tournament and losers of EVOLVE Tag Title semi-finals meet in four-team match to determine future Tag Title shot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2255983827\"><div id=\"pwtor-2441660751\"><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>There has recently been talk of NXT wrestlers appearing on EVOLVE shows.\u00a0In the case of Sami Callihan, that is unnecessary, as the former Solomon Crowe\u00a0left NXT earlier this month and is now returning to EVOLVE <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/17\/6166\/\" title=\"Former NXT&#8217;er Callihan returning to EVOLVE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6167,"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":[539,13],"tags":[1122,1121,71,123],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indies-news","category-news_nxt","tag-sami-callihan","tag-solomon-crowe","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-nxt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/CallihanEvolve_3x2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}