{"id":161596,"date":"2023-07-05T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=161596"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:07:35","slug":"njpw-strong-independence-day-night-2-result-njpw-strong-openweight-champion-kenta-vs-eddie-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/07\/05\/njpw-strong-independence-day-night-2-result-njpw-strong-openweight-champion-kenta-vs-eddie-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW Strong Independence Day Night 2 result \u2013 NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Kenta vs. Eddie Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2919708160\" 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>Eddie Kingston is the new NJPW Strong Openweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston, who has played the perrienal underdog during his career, came through in a big moment and captured his first singles title in NJPW after beating Kenta.<\/p>\n<p>The match started with Kenta using his usual tricks to throw Kingston off his game. A short time later, Kingston went for a chop on the floor, but missed and hit the ringpost. Kenta went after Kingston&#8217;s arm, which he uses for his Backfist finisher, for a long period of time. Eventually Kenta got away from working over Kingston&#8217;s arm and they traded big moves and hard strikes down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Kenta used a ref bump to aid his cause during the match, but Kingston was able to overcome his shenanigans time after time. Kingston hit several backfists, but he couln&#8217;t get the pin. Kingston finally hit Kenta with a Backfist and then he hit the Glorious Driver for the win.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1363985409\"><div id=\"pwtor-1322200950\"><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>Eddie Kingston is the new NJPW Strong Openweight Champion. Kingston, who has played the perrienal underdog during his career, came through in a big moment and captured his first singles title in NJPW after beating <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/07\/05\/njpw-strong-independence-day-night-2-result-njpw-strong-openweight-champion-kenta-vs-eddie-kingston\/\" title=\"NJPW Strong Independence Day Night 2 result \u2013 NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Kenta vs. Eddie Kingston\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":161597,"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-161596","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\/07\/IMG_2458.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161596","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=161596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161598,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161596\/revisions\/161598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}