Wrestling & MMA

From football to pro wrestling, agile big man Lance Archer is a fixture on ‘AEW Dynamite’

A important match for sure as “Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer faces Rey Fenix during “AEW Dynamite” on Wednesday on TNT.

The winner of that competition qualifies for the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match featured at the “AEW Revolution” pay-per-view on Sunday, March 7.

Cody Rhodes, Scorpio Sky and Penta El Zero M are already part of the six-person Face The Revolution Ladder Match. Archer or Fenix will be next to enter the fracas.

With great demand for those three remaining spots, AEW conducts qualifying matches on “AEW Dynamite” on TNT. That starts Wednesday with the high-flying, tough Fenix vs. the agile, 6-8, 275-pound Archer, accompanied by the legendary Jake “The Snake” Roberts.

The winner of the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match at “AEW Revolution” earns an AEW TNT Championship title shot.

In my audio interview with Archer, he discusses his upcoming battle against Fenix (his recent tag team partner) on “AEW Dynamite,” the ladder match at “AEW Revolution,” the entrants, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Texas Football, Hearne High School Eagles, his “Muderhawk Monster” moniker, his dog, Shaq and more.

Archer, 43, grew up in a small town in Texas, near College Station, home to Texas A&M University. He attended Hearne High School, playing baseball, basketball and of course football. High school football in Texas is king.

BTW, he was not a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Archer pursued his football dreams in college, competing as a quarterback for Howard Payne University and Southwest Texas State University, where he earned a degree in English. His football career ended in college, and then his pro wrestling career via Solo Fiatala began in Texas in 2000.

“AEW Dynamite” is 8 p.m. Wednesdays on TNT from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville.

“AEW Revolution” is 8 p.m. Sunday, March 7 on pay-per-view from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville.

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This story was originally published February 24, 2021 at 8:00 AM.

Jim Varsallone
Miami Herald
Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription
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