{"id":20096,"date":"2016-05-21T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=20096"},"modified":"2016-05-21T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:57:43","slug":"video-will-ospreay-arrives-njpw-mini-doc-reflects-journey-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/21\/video-will-ospreay-arrives-njpw-mini-doc-reflects-journey-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Will Ospreay arrives at NJPW in mini-doc, reflects on journey to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1138215738\" 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>Prior to the start of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament, New Japan released a short-form interview with international star <strong>Will Ospreay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay signed a deal with New Japan this year to become a featured wrestler in the CHAOS faction and in the Jr. Hvt. division. He made a big splash <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/04\/10\/410-njpw-invasion-attack-2016-ppv-report-okada-vs-naito-ospreays-debut-big-title-matches\/\">challenging KUSHIDA for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Title on his first NJPW show in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-documentary on Ospreay followed him from the airport arriving in Japan for the first time to his hotel, where he unpacked and reflected on fulfilling a career dream wrestling in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay noted he&#8217;s only been a pro wrestler for four years and traveled all over the world, while many colleagues in England have been wrestling for a decade and never left the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay got emotional talking about representing the U.K. on a big platform because there is not a major promotion in the U.K., like WWE in the U.S. or NJPW in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay is expected to be a big\u00a0player in New Japan this year, as evidenced by New Japan taking the time to release the documentary introducing Ospreay to the Japanese fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/WOYbDnNHawo<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1184548409\"><div id=\"pwtor-2459885735\"><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>Prior to the start of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament, New Japan released a short-form interview with international star Will Ospreay. Ospreay signed a deal with New Japan this year to become a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/21\/video-will-ospreay-arrives-njpw-mini-doc-reflects-journey-japan\/\" title=\"Video &#8211; Will Ospreay arrives at NJPW in mini-doc, reflects on journey to Japan\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1228,"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":[539,6],"tags":[1482,87,404,488],"class_list":["post-20096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indies-news","category-news_japan","tag-chaos","tag-new-japan","tag-njpw","tag-will-ospreay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NJPWdark_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20097,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions\/20097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}