{"id":114585,"date":"2022-07-15T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=114585"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:27:55","slug":"claudio-castagnoli-interrupts-jonathan-gresham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/07\/15\/claudio-castagnoli-interrupts-jonathan-gresham\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Castagnoli Will Challenge Jonathan Gresham at Death Before Dishonor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fyter Fest edition of AEW Rampage saw <strong>Jonathan<\/strong> <strong>Gresham<\/strong> successfully defend his Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship against <strong>Lee Moriarty.<\/strong> Although Jonathan Gresham was in the mood to celebrate, an interruption from <strong>Claudio Castagnoli<\/strong> put a damper on things for Gresham.<\/p>\n<p>Full spoilers for this edition of Rampage can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/07\/14\/aew-rampage-spoilers-roh-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Claudio Castagnoli Interrupts Jonathan Gresham on Rampage<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ROH<\/a> World Champion Jonathan Gresham is determined show the world that he is, hold-for-hold, the best wrestler in the world. But <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackpoolCombatClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlackpoolCombatClub<\/a>\u2019s Claudio Castagnoli might disagree with that statement. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWRampage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FyterFest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FyterFest<\/a> Night 2 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tntdrama<\/a> right now! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNo2jv7kSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zNo2jv7kSP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1548133130313142272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With his interruption, Claudio sent a message to Gresham. He wants the opportunity to challenge Gresham and declare himself the best hold-for-hold wrestler in the world. Shortly after this encounter, the match was made official. Claudio will challenge Gresham for the ROH World Title at <em>Death Before Dishonor<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The event will take place on July 23rd live from Lowell Massachusets. This will be the second ROH pay-per-view under the ownership of <strong>Tony<\/strong> <strong>Khan<\/strong>. Gresham unified the ROH World Championship with his win over <strong>Bandido<\/strong> at <em>Supercard of Honor<\/em> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gresham betrayed his former protege Lee Moriarty on Rampage and aligned himself with <strong>Tully<\/strong> <strong>Blanchard<\/strong> and <strong>Tully<\/strong> <strong>Blanchard<\/strong> <strong>Enterprises<\/strong>. The turn came as a shock to many as Gresham had been considered the foundation of Ring of Honor and everything that it stood for.<\/p>\n<p>Claudio made his AEW debut at the AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) co-branded event<em> Forbidden Door<\/em>. He defeated <strong>Zach Sabre Jr.<\/strong> in his debut match before going on to be part of Blood and Guts the following Wednesday on Dynamite. Claudio and his fellow <strong>Blackpool<\/strong> <strong>Combat<\/strong> <strong>Club<\/strong> teammates defeated the<strong> Jerhico Appreciation Society<\/strong> in the match titular match. Claudio has a storied history with Ring of Honor and is a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/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. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TBS and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fyter Fest edition of AEW Rampage saw Jonathan Gresham successfully defend his Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship against Lee Moriarty. Although Jonathan Gresham was in the mood to celebrate, an interruption from Claudio Castagnoli put a damper on things for Gresham. Full spoilers for this edition of Rampage can be found here. Claudio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":104655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4677,8],"tags":[543,726],"class_list":["post-114585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-roh","tag-claudio-castagnoli","tag-jonathan-gresham"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114585","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=114585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}