{"id":139043,"date":"2022-05-06T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=139043"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:59:16","slug":"former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion-will-ospreay-to-make-gcw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/06\/former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion-will-ospreay-to-make-gcw\/","title":{"rendered":"Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion to make GCW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2835893859\" 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>Will Ospreay is scheduled to make his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCWrestling_\">GCW<\/a> debut at the I Never Liked You show on June 19 in Providence. GCW announced the news on social media Friday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*BREAKING*<\/p>\n<p>WILL OSPREAY makes his GCW Debut on June 19th in PROVIDENCE!<\/p>\n<p>Tix on Sale NOW:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oxIYZe0O6p\">https:\/\/t.co\/oxIYZe0O6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GCW presents<br \/>&quot;I Never Liked You&quot;<br \/>Sun 6\/19 &#8211; 4PM<br \/>Fete Music Hall<\/p>\n<p>Streaming LIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiteTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FiteTV<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/En5YPgOMtv\">pic.twitter.com\/En5YPgOMtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCWrestling_\/status\/1522592452053450752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ospreay&#8217;s opponent was not revealed and this is his first-ever appearance for the company. Ospreay has been making the rounds in the United States recently. He appeared on the New Japan Windy City Riot show in a match against Jon Moxley. He also recently appeared for Warrior Wrestling in Chicago in a match against Blake Christian. He&#8217;s scheduled to wrestle Jon Moxley, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Juice Robinson in a fatal four-way match for the IWGP United States Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay is former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and Junior Heavyweight Champion. He&#8217;s the leader of the United Empire faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/05\/video-pwtorch-fireside-chat-5-5-all-things-forbidden-door-presale-tickets-wrestlemania-backlash-more\/\">VIDEO: PWTorch Fireside Chat 5\/5: All things Forbidden Door presale tickets, WrestleMania Backlash, more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3004819958\"><div id=\"pwtor-3219700292\"><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>Will Ospreay is scheduled to make his GCW debut at the I Never Liked You show on June 19 in Providence. GCW announced the news on social media Friday morning. *BREAKING* WILL OSPREAY makes his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/05\/06\/former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion-will-ospreay-to-make-gcw\/\" title=\"Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion to make GCW\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":139044,"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":[2,539,6],"tags":[6460,5941,2149,488],"class_list":["post-139043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-indies-news","category-news_japan","tag-game-changer-wrestling","tag-gcw","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-will-ospreay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/05\/Will-Ospreay-GCW.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043","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=139043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139045,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043\/revisions\/139045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}