{"id":121674,"date":"2021-06-22T23:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=121674"},"modified":"2021-06-22T23:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:26:28","slug":"roh-announces-first-championship-match-for-best-in-the-world-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/06\/22\/roh-announces-first-championship-match-for-best-in-the-world-event\/","title":{"rendered":"ROH announces first championship match for Best in the World event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1094003501\" 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>Ring of Honor announced the first championship match for their upcoming PPV event, Best in the World.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Deppen will defend the ROH World Television Championship against Dragon Lee. Lee is a former TV champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first title match for the Best in the World PPV on July 11 in Baltimore has been signed! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tony_Deppen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tony_Deppen<\/a> will defend the ROH World Television Championship against former champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dragonlee95?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dragonlee95<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HqeepScfM2\">https:\/\/t.co\/HqeepScfM2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkDAPij4IR\">https:\/\/t.co\/lkDAPij4IR<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROHBITW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ROHBITW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qgT2G49O7m\">pic.twitter.com\/qgT2G49O7m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ROH &#8211; Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringofhonor\/status\/1407405537155858436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Best in the World streams live on PPV from Baltimore on July 11. It&#8217;s the first ROH PPV event that will host fans since the pandemic began in March of 2020. Other matches on the card include Flip Gordon vs. EC3, Silas Young vs. Josh Woods in a Last Man Standing Match, and Jay Lethal vs. Brody King.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/06\/16\/roh-returning-to-philly-for-two-glory-by-honor-events-in-august-gordon-set-to-challenge-for-roh-world-championship\/\">ROH returning to Philly for two Glory by Honor events in August, Gordon set to challenge for ROH World Championship<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2633897503\"><div id=\"pwtor-699717141\"><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>Ring of Honor announced the first championship match for their upcoming PPV event, Best in the World. Tony Deppen will defend the ROH World Television Championship against Dragon Lee. Lee is a former TV champion. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/06\/22\/roh-announces-first-championship-match-for-best-in-the-world-event\/\" title=\"ROH announces first championship match for Best in the World event\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":121023,"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":[2,5],"tags":[2768,166,167],"class_list":["post-121674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_roh","tag-best-in-the-world","tag-ring-of-honor","tag-roh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/06\/ROH-Best-In-The-World.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121674","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121675,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121674\/revisions\/121675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}