{"id":100826,"date":"2021-09-19T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=100826"},"modified":"2021-09-19T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T10:20:00","slug":"josh-alexander-christian-cage-bfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/19\/josh-alexander-christian-cage-bfg\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Alexander to Face Christian Cage at Bound For Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main event for <em>Bound For Glory<\/em> is set. Current X-Division Champion <strong>Josh Alexander<\/strong> will cash in &#8220;Option C&#8221; to challenge <strong>Christian Cage.<\/strong> The two champions will lock up for the IMPACT World Title on October 23rd in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walking_Weapon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Walking_Weapon<\/a> has exercised Option C to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Christian4Peeps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Christian4Peeps<\/a> for the IMPACT World Championship at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoundForGlory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BoundForGlory<\/a> on October 23 in Las Vegas! <\/p>\n<p>Order HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n9B4IhtCWd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/n9B4IhtCWd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MZMfBvgcLm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MZMfBvgcLm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1439425261808734212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Josh Alexander retained his X-Division Title against <strong>Chris Sabin<\/strong> tonight at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/17\/impact-wrestling-victory-road-2021\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Victory Roa<\/em>d<\/a>. It was a hard-fought battle between the current champion and the former eight-time champion Sabin. Both men showed mutual respect at the end of the match, with Sabin extending his arm for a handshake and raising Alexander&#8217;s hand after the match. Cage also retained his IMPACT World Title against <strong>Ace Austin<\/strong> tonight.<\/p>\n<p>As Christian was celebrating the win Alexander&#8217;s music hit and he approached the ring. Josh Alexander stared down Cage and his IMPACT World Title. After an intense staredown, Alexander held his X-Division Title up and yelled &#8220;Option C&#8221;. Alexander will vacate the X-Division Title and challenge for the World Title at <em>Bound For Glory<\/em>. It is a risky move for Alexander. If he loses at Bound For Glory he will lose the X-Division Title that he has held since April of this year. If we wins, he will walk out of <em>Bound for Glory<\/em> the IMPACT World Champion for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Cage<\/strong> was the last wrestler to utilize Option C. He cashed in and was unable to defeat then-champion <strong>Johnny Impact<\/strong> at <em>Homecoming 2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch IMPACT Wrestling on Thursday nights on AXS TV and Twitch.TV as well as all the time on <a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT Plus<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main event for Bound For Glory is set. Current X-Division Champion Josh Alexander will cash in &#8220;Option C&#8221; to challenge Christian Cage. The two champions will lock up for the IMPACT World Title on October 23rd in Las Vegas. BREAKING: @Walking_Weapon has exercised Option C to challenge @Christian4Peeps for the IMPACT World Championship at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":100834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,6],"tags":[1527,7500,2593,3805,3892,4916,5672],"class_list":["post-100826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","tag-bound-for-glory","tag-christian-cage","tag-impact-world-championship","tag-josh-alexander","tag-option-c","tag-tna-x-division-champion","tag-victory-road"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}