{"id":21740,"date":"2018-07-08T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21740"},"modified":"2018-07-08T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T15:58:58","slug":"andnew-juice-robinson-wins-iwgp-united-states-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/08\/andnew-juice-robinson-wins-iwgp-united-states-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Juice Robinson Wins IWGP United States Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New<\/strong> <strong>Japan<\/strong> <strong>Pro<\/strong> <strong>Wrestling<\/strong> celebrated the one year anniversary of the IWGP United States Championship and the North American expansion at the same time with a second <strong>G1<\/strong> <strong>Special<\/strong> <strong>In<\/strong> <strong>USA<\/strong>, last night taking place in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. The IWGP United States Championship has now been held by three different men and Juice is finally loose in <strong>NJPW<\/strong> after leaving <strong>WWE<\/strong> <strong>NXT<\/strong> for NJPW in 2015. Juice Robinson had choked previously in big title matches against <strong>Hirooki<\/strong> <strong>Goto<\/strong> for the NEVER Openweight Championship and against <strong>Tetsuya<\/strong> <strong>Naito <\/strong>in great<strong>, <\/strong>valiant efforts\u00a0for the IWGP Intercontinental championship and Robinson wouldn\u2019t let that happen again in his home country. The IWGP heavyweight champion <strong>Kenny<\/strong> <strong>Omega<\/strong> has even mentioned in interviews that Juice Robinson is one of the most endearing face wrestlers on the planet, capable of drawing you in and believing his passion and Juice Robinson did that and more at the <strong>G1<\/strong> <strong>Special<\/strong> <strong>In<\/strong> <strong>San<\/strong> <strong>Francisco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015798713413984256<\/p>\n<p>A spectacle of a video package played before the match and it explained the motivation of both athletes perfectly, Juice Robinson has the heart and &#8220;Switchblade&#8221; <strong>Jay<\/strong> <strong>White<\/strong> wants to stomp it out of his chest. Jay White is no more and \u201cSwitchblade\u201d has taken over. Robinson started the match hot but he was quickly thrown into guardrail\u2019s violently. The challenger from Illinois was already at a big disadvantage by wrestling with a broken hand. Robinson commented on it in an interview, saying \u201cI have 206 bones in my body and this is just one\u201d but commentator <strong>Josh<\/strong> <strong>Barnett<\/strong> wondered if Juice was trying to convince himself or the champion of that. White pried at the fingers of Juice, if Juice Robinson used his cast he would be disqualified at the referees discretion.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealXPac\/status\/1015842667689697281<\/p>\n<p>Even commentator <strong>Jim\u00a0Ross<\/strong>\u00a0took a spill on the floor after Juice was thrown into the railing beside the announce table, encouraging Josh Barnett to get involved. The Kiwi champion would not be deterred but he did take too long to set up Blade Runner. Juice Robinson took a low blow when the referee was distracted but that also allowed Juice to use the cast on White\u2019s head. Juice finally hit Pulp Friction for one of the nights closest near falls. \u201cSwitchblade\u201d went for the finish but Juice saw Blade Runner coming, a victory roll with a bridge for added emphasis put White down for the three-count and the San Francisco crowd was shocked to see a new champion. Other than the <strong>Florida<\/strong> <strong>Championship<\/strong> <strong>Wrestling<\/strong> tag team championship in WWE developmental, this is Robinson\u2019s first championship on his ten year anniversary of being a professional wrestler.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jay White sends Juice Robinson into the barrier and knocks over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRsBBQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JRsBBQ<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshLBarnett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JoshLBarnett<\/a> goes after White <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KJGwJtMzmF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KJGwJtMzmF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Superdrunkmark69 (@cjzer0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjzer0\/status\/1015796636600160256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a feel-good moment and one Juice has certainly earned, the flamboyant one is 29 years old now after being signed to WWE at just 22 years of age. The audience has grown with Juice, he has said NJPW gave him the chance to blossom and gain confidence where WWE didn&#8217;t. Robinson also said in his post-match promo \u201canyone that thinks titles don\u2019t mean anything can burn in hell.\u201d Robinson has won the IWGP United States Championship just one week away from the annual <strong>G1<\/strong> <strong>Climax<\/strong> tournament, stalling White\u2019s momentum and setting his own on fire. Usually the man makes the title, not the title makes the man but this is a rare case where Juice gets the chance to do both and also make the title gain more prestige. It\u2019s not out of the question for Juice Robinson to defend the IWGP United States Championship outside of NJPW for title defenses in America, Juice comes from small Indies like <strong>IWA<\/strong>: <strong>Mid<\/strong> <strong>South <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Border City Wrestling<\/strong>, now he can defend his title in <strong>Ring<\/strong> <strong>Of<\/strong> <strong>Honor<\/strong> <strong>Wrestling<\/strong> and Juice has also wrestled for <strong>AAW<\/strong> <strong>Pro<\/strong> recently. Juice Robinson must also prepare for the new USA Special announced from NJPW this September 30 for <strong>Strong<\/strong> <strong>Style<\/strong> <strong>Unleashed<\/strong> at the Walter Pyramid, the host of <strong>Strong<\/strong> <strong>Style<\/strong> <strong>Evolved<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juice Robinson&#039;s first comments after winning IWGP United States Championship\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0vsEpFYjNAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Japan Pro Wrestling celebrated the one year anniversary of the IWGP United States Championship and the North American expansion at the same time with a second G1 Special In USA, last night taking place in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. The IWGP United States Championship has now been held by three different men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2001,"featured_media":21752,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[1979,272,3021,946,2611,1030,1640,181,248,1285,3019,625,386,385,188,1773,2027,3020,781,1251],"class_list":["post-21740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-aaw-pro","tag-border-city-wrestling","tag-florida-championship-wrestling","tag-g1-climax","tag-g1-special-in-san-francisco","tag-hirooki-goto","tag-iwa-mid-south","tag-jay-white","tag-jim-ross","tag-josh-barnett","tag-jr","tag-juice-robinson","tag-kenny-omega","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-njpw","tag-ring-of-honor-wrestling","tag-strong-style-evolved","tag-strong-style-unleashed","tag-tetsuya-naito","tag-wwe-nxt"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740","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\/2001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}