{"id":103295,"date":"2021-10-28T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=103295"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:47:49","slug":"maasaki-mochizuki-captures-ghc-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/28\/maasaki-mochizuki-captures-ghc-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Masaaki Mochizuki Captures GHC National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Pro Wrestling NOAH&#8217;s most recent show, <strong>Masaaki Mochizuki<\/strong> challenged for <strong>Takashi Sugiura&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>GHC National Championship<\/strong>. This was Takashi Sugiura&#8217;s third title defense and was one of the first matches ever between these two veterans.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of <strong>Go on to the DEMOLITION STAGE<\/strong>, Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Sugiura would put on an emotional contest. The end result would be Takashi Sugiura losing the GHC National Championship to Dragon Gate legend <strong>Masaaki Mochizuki<\/strong>. This marks Mochizuki&#8217;s first singles championship win in <strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH <\/strong>with his last championship run in the company being a brief run as <strong>GHC Tag Team Champion<\/strong> in 2020 with <strong>Naomichi Marufuji.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mocchy_117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mocchy_117<\/a> DETHRONES THE KILLING MACHINE! WE HAVE A \ud83c\udd95 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#noah_ghc<\/a> NATIONAL CHAMPION! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06yx7Oc16C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/06yx7Oc16C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noahglobal\/status\/1453704298676826118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Masaaki Mochizuki is one of the first outside talents to hold the GHC National Championship, with his main affiliation being with <strong>Dragon Gate<\/strong>. After defeating Sugiura, Mochizuki was challenged by <strong>Kongoh&#8217;s<\/strong> leader, <strong>Kenoh<\/strong>, who recently invaded Dragon Gate and threw down a challenge for their tag belts.<\/p>\n<p>Kenoh and Masaaki Mochizuki wrestle against one another in the most recent <strong>N-1 Victory<\/strong>. <strong>Kenoh<\/strong> would defeat Mochizuki to go to the semi-finals and eventually ended as the runner-up of the tournament. This will mark the third singles match between them, with the record between them at <strong>1-1<\/strong> so far. This match will feature two of the hardest <strong>strikers<\/strong> in Pro Wrestling NOAH facing off on a major stage. It was recently announced that this match will take place at NOAH&#8217;s conclusion event for the <strong>DEMOLITION STAGE tour on November 13<\/strong>\u00a0in the <strong>Yokohama Budokan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for 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. You can watch Pro Wrestling NOAH as well as DDT, TJPW, and more on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestle-universe.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\"> Wrestle Universe.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Pro Wrestling NOAH&#8217;s most recent show, Masaaki Mochizuki challenged for Takashi Sugiura&#8217;s GHC National Championship. This was Takashi Sugiura&#8217;s third title defense and was one of the first matches ever between these two veterans. In the main event of Go on to the DEMOLITION STAGE, Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Sugiura would put on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3258,"featured_media":102348,"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":[6975,12,24],"tags":[2629,7026,2182,4782,6814,2525],"class_list":["post-103295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-news","category-noah","tag-andnew","tag-ghc-national-championship","tag-kenoh","tag-kenou","tag-masaaki-mochizuki","tag-takashi-sugiura"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295","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\/3258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}