{"id":152245,"date":"2023-01-10T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=152245"},"modified":"2023-01-10T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:15:09","slug":"jay-white-contract-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/10\/jay-white-contract-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay White contract status update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1102304367\" 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>Jay White reportedly will be out of contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/fightful\/posts\">Fightful Select<\/a> is reporting that White&#8217;s contract with New Japan is coming up and that the company believes they won&#8217;t be able to re-sign him. The report indicates that both AEW and WWE will be top suitors for White&#8217;s services and that there are those within WWE that believe they have the leg up in signing him.<\/p>\n<p>Jay White is a former IWGP Heavyweight and World Heavyweight Champion. He&#8217;s also held the Never Openweight Championship, IC Championship, and the IWGP United States Championship in New Japan.<\/p>\n<p>White worked in the United States last summer with Impact Wrestling. He also made a handful of appearances on AEW television, including a title defense at the Forbidden Door PPV event with New Japan and AEW. On that show, White defended his IWGP World Championship against Kazuchika Okada, Adam Cole, and Adam Page.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, White wrestled Okada at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/04\/1-4-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-17-report-radicans-results-and-analysis-of-entire-card-including-ospreay-vs-omega-white-vs-okada\/\">Wrestle Kingdom 17<\/a> in the main event. Okada won the match and took the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship from White.<\/p>\n<h3>Full Wrestle Kingdom 17 Results<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Catch 22 def. LiYoh \u2013 IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship<\/li>\n<li>KAIRI def. Tam Nakano \u2013 IWGP Women\u2019s Championship<\/li>\n<li>Bishimon def. FTR \u2013 IWGP World Tag Team Championship<\/li>\n<li>Zach Sabre Jr. def. Ren Narita \u2013 NJPW World TV Championship<\/li>\n<li>Tama Tonga def. Karl Anderson \u2013 NEVER Openweight Championship<\/li>\n<li>Shota Umino, Tanahashi and Kenji Muto def. Los Ingobernobles de Japon<\/li>\n<li>Hiromu Takahashi def. Taiji Ishimori, El Desperado, and Master Wato \u2013 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship<\/li>\n<li>Kenny Omega def. Will Ospreay \u2013 IWGP United States Championship<\/li>\n<li>Kazuchika Okada def. Jay White \u2013 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/10\/new-japan-sells-out-major-upcoming-event\/\">New Japan sells out major upcoming event<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1196561353\"><div id=\"pwtor-3267138459\"><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>Jay White reportedly will be out of contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling &#8220;very soon.&#8221; Fightful Select is reporting that White&#8217;s contract with New Japan is coming up and that the company believes they won&#8217;t <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/10\/jay-white-contract-status-update\/\" title=\"Jay White contract status update\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":123144,"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":[6163,2,6,3],"tags":[6121,3059,404,71],"class_list":["post-152245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan","category-news_wwe","tag-aew","tag-jay-white","tag-njpw","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/07\/Jay-White.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152245","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=152245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152246,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152245\/revisions\/152246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}