{"id":26543,"date":"2018-09-23T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=26543"},"modified":"2018-09-23T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:54:08","slug":"chris-ridgeway-wins-international-super-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/23\/chris-ridgeway-wins-international-super-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ridgeway Wins International Super 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Pro Wrestling United Kingdom (IPW:UK)<\/strong>\u00a0celebrated their 14th anniversary on the 22nd of September with a stacked night of wrestling.\u00a0 On that night, they ran two shows, the first being the International Super 8&#8217;s tournament.\u00a0 Previous winners of this include\u00a0<strong>Luke Phoenix, Sammy Smooth, Rampage Brown<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Zack Sabre Jr<\/strong>.\u00a0 IPW&#8217;s 14-year history has seen some of the UK&#8217;s best come through their door and Ridgeway has all the tools to be another one.\u00a0 While Smooth and Phoenix may never reach the level\u00a0of the other two winners, it is huge for any wrestler to join the ranks of World of Sport champion Rampage and New Japan star Zack Sabre Jr.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 matches in 1 day resulting in becoming the 2018 international super 8 trophy winner. @IPWUK <\/p>\n<p>I feel rough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u5haBfiVnA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/u5haBfiVnA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Ridgeway \u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30ea\u30c3\u30b8\u30a6\u30a7\u30a4 (@chrisridgeway__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisridgeway__\/status\/1043592905909256192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the night Chris Ridgeway wrestled three matches in the one\u00a0night first defeating\u00a0<strong>Mike Bird\u00a0<\/strong>before progressing to face future British wrestling legend\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Havoc\u00a0<\/strong>and defeating him in the semi final.\u00a0 In the final, he faced now heel Z-Force champion\u00a0<strong>Jack Sexsmith<\/strong>.\u00a0 With help from Sexsmith&#8217;s\u00a0former partner\u00a0<strong>Rob Sharpe,\u00a0<\/strong>Ridgeway won the International Super 8 and etched his name alongside ZSJ and Rampage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Super 8; 2018\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B92HTatNA1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/B92HTatNA1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Ridgeway \u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30ea\u30c3\u30b8\u30a6\u30a7\u30a4 (@chrisridgeway__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisridgeway__\/status\/1043823461041405952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ridgeway has had a minor breakout in 2018 as he was a finalist in\u00a0<strong>PROGRESS&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>Natural Progression Series, he captured the SWA Championship, the FSW Tag Team Championships and the WLGP Championship as well as having a standout match for\u00a0<strong>Frontline\u00a0<\/strong>against NOAH star <strong>Kenoh<\/strong>.\u00a0 His upcoming match with\u00a0<strong>Timothy Thatcher\u00a0<\/strong>also has potential to create added buzz for the shooter who could close out 2018 with the IPW Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Pro Wrestling United Kingdom (IPW:UK)\u00a0celebrated their 14th anniversary on the 22nd of September with a stacked night of wrestling.\u00a0 On that night, they ran two shows, the first being the International Super 8&#8217;s tournament.\u00a0 Previous winners of this include\u00a0Luke Phoenix, Sammy Smooth, Rampage Brown\u00a0and Zack Sabre Jr.\u00a0 IPW&#8217;s 14-year history has seen some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":26548,"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],"tags":[1900,3479,1772],"class_list":["post-26543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-chris-ridgeway","tag-international-super-8","tag-ipwuk"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543","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=26543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}