Alberto Del Rio Becomes The GFW World Heavyweight Champion

Apr 23, 2017 at 2:18 PM

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Alberto Del Rio Becomes The GFW World Heavyweight Champion

The Impact Wrestling owners, Anthem sports is leaving no stone unturned to make the revamped promotion a success. As part of it, they merged another promotion under their banner to spread their wings.

Starting this week, the company has bought the Global Force Wrestling (GFW). This led to their claim to the episode tapings, championships and using their brand name. Plus, they will be able to use all the superstars under the GFW banner.

The first major happening following the merger took place at the latest tapings of Impact Wrestling where a new GFW champion was crowned. Alberto Del Rio who is now performing under the name of Alberto El Patron has picked up the title.

The match was scheduled between the reigning champion Magnus and El Patron for the title. As per the fans in attendance, it was a solid match between the two veterans with some solid spots and segments in it. At the end, Patron picked up the win via submission. He locked in his pendant Rompe Destinos to make Magnus tap out and become the new Global Force Wrestling champion.

Alberto Del Rio started performing in the Impact Wrestling (IW) promotion starting from the month of March. On the first night out there, he was able to come out with the title in hand. However, later the title was taken back from him due to controversy.

He did not sign an official deal with the promotion, then and was performing with a verbal agreement. That ended in the past week when a signed a multi-year contract with IW. It is expected that he will continue performing here till the end of his career. Previously, in a number of interviews, he has stated that he wants to end his career on this platform.

The promotion is also keeping faith on this seasoned veteran as he has already won both the IW and GFW title in a span of two months. In return, Del Rio is giving power packed performances in every main event matches. Despite all the fallouts with WWE, he seems ready to prove his legacy here.

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