{"id":128140,"date":"2021-10-08T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=128140"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:29:56","slug":"top-new-japan-pro-wrestling-star-set-to-join-mlw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/08\/top-new-japan-pro-wrestling-star-set-to-join-mlw\/","title":{"rendered":"Top New Japan Pro Wrestling star set to join MLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3603340783\" 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>Former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, Will Ospreay, will makes his MLW this fall. After teasing a major talent announcement, MLW revealed the news during their special Embedded program with Alicia Atout.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1446301806729080850<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay is the leader of the United Empire faction with Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb. He won the 2021 New Japan Cup to earn a shot at the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. With that opportunity, he defeated Kota Ibushi at Sakura Genesis to win the championship. Ospreay vacated the championship in May due to injury.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/07\/mlw-teasing-major-news-on-vice-fightland-broadcast\/\">MLW teasing major news on Vice Fightland broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4087140938\"><div id=\"pwtor-2946523769\"><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>Former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, Will Ospreay, will makes his MLW this fall. After teasing a major talent announcement, MLW revealed the news during their special Embedded program with Alicia Atout. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1446301806729080850 Ospreay is the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/08\/top-new-japan-pro-wrestling-star-set-to-join-mlw\/\" title=\"Top New Japan Pro Wrestling star set to join MLW\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":115985,"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":[2,6,6400],"tags":[6624,3285,2149,488],"class_list":["post-128140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan","category-mlw-news","tag-major-league-wrestling","tag-mlw","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-will-ospreay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-27-at-8.15.37-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128140","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=128140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128141,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128140\/revisions\/128141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}