{"id":128422,"date":"2021-10-13T23:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=128422"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:21:33","slug":"hammerstone-vacates-mlw-national-openweight-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/13\/hammerstone-vacates-mlw-national-openweight-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerstone vacates MLW National Openweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1833105245\" 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>Alex Hammerstone is no longer the MLW National Openweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1448464850426937345<\/p>\n<p>Last week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/08\/10-7-21-mlw-fightland-sages-recap-and-analysis-jacob-fatu-vs-alexander-hammerstone-myron-reed-vs-arez-vs-aramis-vs-tajiri\/\">MLW&#8217;s Fightland special on Vice TV<\/a>, Hammerstone defeated Jacob Fatu to win the MLW World Championship, making him a double champion in the company. 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Hammerstone said winning the National Openweight Championship was the biggest moment of his career until he won the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hammerstone held the National Openweight Championship for over two years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/08\/top-new-japan-pro-wrestling-star-set-to-join-mlw\/\">Top New Japan Pro Wrestling star set to join MLW<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3490430274\"><div id=\"pwtor-1064094996\"><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>Alex Hammerstone is no longer the MLW National Openweight Champion. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1448464850426937345 Last week on MLW&#8217;s Fightland special on Vice TV, Hammerstone defeated Jacob Fatu to win the MLW World Championship, making him a double champion <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/13\/hammerstone-vacates-mlw-national-openweight-championship\/\" title=\"Hammerstone vacates MLW National Openweight Championship\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":58347,"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":[2,6400],"tags":[6624,3285],"class_list":["post-128422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-mlw-news","tag-major-league-wrestling","tag-mlw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/04\/MLW_logo_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128422","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=128422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128425,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128422\/revisions\/128425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}