{"id":119434,"date":"2026-02-20T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:46:09","slug":"major-league-wrestling-returns-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119434\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Wrestling Returns to Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMLW&#8217;s roots in the City of Brotherly Love run deep, dating back more than two decades to the company&#8217;s debut event, Genesis, in June 2002 at the 2300 Arena,\u201d the promotion <a href=\"https:\/\/mlw.com\/2026\/02\/17\/mlw-announces-two-night-philadelphia-spectacular-june-12-13\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local Story: Reading Fightin Phils Iced Coffee Jerseys Break Sales Record<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event go on sale on Friday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. Eastern, with prices starting at $15. Tickets can be purchased at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.MLW2300.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MLW2300.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled appearances include MLW World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kross, Featherweight Champion Shotzi Blackheart, former world champion Matt Riddle, and the CONTRA Unit group. Don Gato is also slated for a special appearance as MLW expands its collaboration with Don Gato Tequila for the live events.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wrestle Zone, recent title developments include Shotzi Blackheart winning the MLW World Women&#8217;s Featherweight Championship and Austin Aries capturing the National Openweight Championship against Blue Panther.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMLW&#8217;s roots in the City of Brotherly Love run deep, dating back more than two decades to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,15585],"class_list":["post-119434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}