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NEW EVOLVE SIGNING, FIRST DETAILS ON ROYAL RUMBLE WEEKEND EVENTS IN FLORIDA, TAG CHAMPS TO BE CROWNED AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2015-11-11 10:40:11
EVOLVE officially announced yesterday that they will be crowning official Tag Team champions in 2016. That was pretty obvious given the storylines of late. Announced for the tournament thus far are Johnny Gargano & Drew Galloway, Roppongi Vice and Anthony Nese & Caleb Konley. So, they are putting a lot of the top names in.

Peter Kaasa, who blew EVOLVE officials away at the NYC loop, was officially signed to an EVOLVE contract last week.

EVOLVE is also thrilled with Matt Riddle, who they are considering a top talent for the company after just four appearances. Riddle has been working and training with Drew Gulak (who is awesome in his own right) and has shown a ton of potential.

In another sign of the WWE relationship, Sami Zayn, Rich Swann and Biff Busick all plugged the EVOLVE Florida events over the weekend on their social medial.

EVOLVE 51 and 52 from last weekend are on VOD at www.WWNLive.com

EVOLVE officials feel that champion Timothy Thatcher really emerged in a major way with great matches over the Florida loop and there's no question at this point that he's the top guy in the company after awesome matches against Johnny Gargano and Drew Galloway. The idea was that Thatcher beat each of the previous "faces" of the company in one week to take that mantle himself.

The latest Seminar/Tryout sold out again. There are plans to have many more of these in 2016.

The next EVOLVE loop will be the 2016 WWE Royal Rumble weekend with events on 1/22/16 with EVOLVE 52 at the Orpheum in Ybor City, FL, 1/23 EVOLVE 54 at the Orlando Downtown Recreation Complex in Orlando, FL and EVOLVE 55 on 1/24 at the Orlando Downtown Recreation Complex in Orlando. The Orlando venue really close to the Rumble venue. The Tag tournament will be held over that weekend. The promotion will be dark the remainder of this year.

The promotion, however, is gearing up for a big Black Friday sale as they have Blu-rays from EVOLVE, SHINE and FIP in production right now to go along with nine recent releases.

There are already plans for a NYC return next year.

For more on the promotion, tickets and merchandise, visit www.DGUSA.tv.

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