{"id":25609,"date":"2018-09-09T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=25609"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:17:13","slug":"el-phantasmo-wins-british-j-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/09\/el-phantasmo-wins-british-j-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"El Phantasmo Wins British J Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second ever British J Cup once again had a lineup of great Junior Heavyweights.\u00a0 New Japan stars\u00a0<strong>KUSHIDA<\/strong>, <strong>Jushin Liger<\/strong>, <strong>Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh &amp; Romero), Tiger Mask\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ryusuke Taguchi\u00a0<\/strong>joined international stars\u00a0<strong>Rich Swann, Bandido<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Flamita<\/strong> as well as British Wrestling regulars\u00a0<strong>Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis, David Starr, Dean Allmark, Kurtis Chapman\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>C<\/strong><strong>hris Ridgeway<\/strong> as well as eventual winner <strong>El Phantasmo.<\/strong>\u00a0 The now annual tournament was won by Jushin Liger last year and is a staple of the\u00a0<strong>Rev Pro\u00a0<\/strong>calendar.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LadyBArtist\/status\/1038864354454765568<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian El Phantasmo has been a regular performer in the UK for over a year now.\u00a0 His hardcore EDM entrance music and party-loving\u00a0aesthetic make him right at home in British Wrestling.\u00a0 Having made his name in\u00a0<strong>ATTACK!,\u00a0<\/strong>he has gone on to perform for\u00a0<strong>Over The Top\u00a0(OTT) Wrestling<\/strong>,<strong> Fight Club: PRO\u00a0(FCP)<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> as well as Rev Pro.\u00a0 Back home in Canada Phantasmo is a three-time\u00a0<strong>ECCW<\/strong> champion.\u00a0 The British J Cup is his first major accomplishment in British Wrestling to date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Match 1 Result: El Phantasmo defeats Liger with a possum roll up. Guaranteed a new British J Cup Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RevPro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RevPro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishJCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BritishJCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LPaiJFiDbO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LPaiJFiDbO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Wood (@DanWood_Adver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanWood_Adver\/status\/1038765813757566978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ELP did not have an easy road to victory in the tournament, in his first round match, he defeated breakout star Bandido.\u00a0 He then defeated legendary figure, and current holder, Jushin Liger.\u00a0 In the final, he would go on to defeat Swann, KUSHIDA and Romero as he became the second ever British J Cup winner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25612\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25612\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Dmqa2-sW0AEVKs_-e1536520514394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Robyn Goding \/ Beyond Gorilla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second ever British J Cup once again had a lineup of great Junior Heavyweights.\u00a0 New Japan stars\u00a0KUSHIDA, Jushin Liger, Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh &amp; Romero), Tiger Mask\u00a0and\u00a0Ryusuke Taguchi\u00a0joined international stars\u00a0Rich Swann, Bandido\u00a0and Flamita as well as British Wrestling regulars\u00a0Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis, David Starr, Dean Allmark, Kurtis Chapman\u00a0and Chris Ridgeway as well as eventual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":25613,"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":[2,13,19],"tags":[2716,1625,190,1477,347,1179,2368],"class_list":["post-25609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-revpro","tag-el-phantasmo","tag-jushin-thunder-liger","tag-kushida","tag-revpro","tag-rich-swann","tag-rocky-romero","tag-super-j-cup"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}