{"id":24027,"date":"2016-06-25T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=24027"},"modified":"2016-06-26T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T05:22:23","slug":"wwes-new-day-njpws-elite-finally-compete-not-wrestling-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/25\/wwes-new-day-njpws-elite-finally-compete-not-wrestling-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s New Day &#038; NJPW&#8217;s The Elite finally compete &#8211; but not in a wrestling ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3500219634\" 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>Tag champions from WWE and New Japan met at a competition in front of thousands of fans on Saturday night. But, the competition was video games, not pro wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>WWE tag champion Xavier Woods and New Japan&#8217;s NEVER Openweight six-man tag champion Kenny Omega met for video game supremacy at the &#8220;CEO 2016&#8221; convention Saturday night in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The battle has been brewing throughout the year. Omega, along with the Young Bucks, named themselves The Elite faction within the Bullet Club and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aLjLZohJouk\" target=\"_blank\">threw out a challenge to the New Day trio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Elite even created\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prowrestlingtees.com\/the-elite-5464.html?gclid=CIeFkqH4xM0CFdcYgQod9xAGCg\" target=\"_blank\">mock t-shirts<\/a> inspired by New Day&#8217;s unicorn theme.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier acknowledged the group Monday night on Raw when he named New Day the &#8220;elite&#8221; tag team in pro wrestling, a dog-whistle to the audience aware of\u00a0Omega and The Bucks calling out New Day this year.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier and Omega then met at the CEO gaming convention to settle things video game-style. 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WWE tag champion Xavier Woods and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/25\/wwes-new-day-njpws-elite-finally-compete-not-wrestling-ring\/\" title=\"WWE&#8217;s New Day &#038; NJPW&#8217;s The Elite finally compete &#8211; but not in a wrestling ring\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24028,"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":[6,3],"tags":[111,115,87,404,3237,71,2385],"class_list":["post-24027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_japan","category-news_wwe","tag-bullet-club","tag-new-day","tag-new-japan","tag-njpw","tag-the-elite","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-tag-titles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/06\/XavierOmega_3x2EventHubs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027","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=24027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24029,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027\/revisions\/24029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}