{"id":153879,"date":"2023-02-13T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=153879"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:55:10","slug":"takahashi-set-to-defend-iwgp-jr-hvt-championship-against-lio-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/02\/13\/takahashi-set-to-defend-iwgp-jr-hvt-championship-against-lio-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Takahashi set to defend IWGP Jr. Hvt. Championship against Lio Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1189072404\" 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>Hiromu Takahshi&#8217;s next title defense has been made official.<\/p>\n<p>Lio Rush challenged Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Championship at The New Beginning in Osaka on Feb. 11 in a video package that aired after Takahashi&#8217;s tag match on the card. NJPW made the match official today.<\/p>\n<p>Takahashi will now defend the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Championship against Rush at the NJPW Cup 2023 Final event on March 21.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-481326758\"><div id=\"pwtor-3661907951\"><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>Hiromu Takahshi&#8217;s next title defense has been made official. Lio Rush challenged Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Championship at The New Beginning in Osaka on Feb. 11 in a video package that aired <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/02\/13\/takahashi-set-to-defend-iwgp-jr-hvt-championship-against-lio-rush\/\" title=\"Takahashi set to defend IWGP Jr. Hvt. Championship against Lio Rush\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":153880,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/02\/IMG_9537.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153879","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153881,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153879\/revisions\/153881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}