{"id":6631,"date":"2015-12-23T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2015-12-29T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:31:03","slug":"first-entry-in-rohs-top-prospect-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/23\/first-entry-in-rohs-top-prospect-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"ROH announces Top Prospect tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3472098911\" 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohwrestling.com\/news\/action-ortiz-first-competitor-tpt-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Ring of Honor announced Wednesday<\/a> the first entrant in their annual &#8220;Top Prospect Tournament,&#8221; which will kick off on the first show of 2016 on January 9 in Concord\/Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>The first entrant is Ben &#8220;Action&#8221; Ortiz, a former MMA fighter who weighs 330 pounds. ROH is equating him physically to Bam Bam Bigelow, Samoa Joe, or Takeshi Morishima.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tournament receives an ROH contract to become a regular part of ROH shows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Top Prospect Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2011 &#8211; Mike Bennett<br \/>\n2013 &#8211; Matt Taven<br \/>\n2014 &#8211; Hanson<br \/>\n2015 &#8211; Donovan Dijak<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3620096359\"><div id=\"pwtor-2275863728\"><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>Ring of Honor announced Wednesday the first entrant in their annual &#8220;Top Prospect Tournament,&#8221; which will kick off on the first show of 2016 on January 9 in Concord\/Charlotte, N.C. The first entrant is Ben <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/23\/first-entry-in-rohs-top-prospect-tourney\/\" title=\"ROH announces Top Prospect tourney\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1231,"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":[5],"tags":[1398,166,167,1397,381],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_roh","tag-action-ortiz","tag-ring-of-honor","tag-roh","tag-roh-top-prospect-tournament","tag-roh-wrestling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ROH_3x21.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}