{"id":33661,"date":"2018-12-28T00:29:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T05:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=33661"},"modified":"2018-12-28T00:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T05:29:53","slug":"andnew-jun-kasai-wins-pro-wrestling-freedoms-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/28\/andnew-jun-kasai-wins-pro-wrestling-freedoms-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Jun Kasai Wins Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS World Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Day at the legendary\u00a0Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, 44-year old Japanese legend <strong>Jun Kasai<\/strong> defeated <strong>Masashi Takeda<\/strong> to win his 4th <strong>Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS<\/strong> King of FREEDOM World Championship at <em><strong>FREEDOMS Blood X&#8217;Mas<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuroresuArtt\/status\/1077920263612841984<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2009 by longtime <strong>DDT Pro<\/strong> and <strong>Big Japan Wrestling (BJW)<\/strong> veteran <strong>Takashi Sasaki<\/strong> in 2009, FREEDOMS has emerged as a vanguard of Japanese hardcore wrestling. Jun Kasai has been a veteran of some of Japan&#8217;s bloodiest battles for the past 20 years, debuting in 1998 and becoming a staple with BJW early on. He&#8217;s also had wars in <strong>ZERO1, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), WRESTLE-1, All Japan<\/strong> and more in his two decades of bloodshed. Aside from being a 4x King of FREEDOM World Champion, Kasai is also a former DDT Pro Extreme Champion, multi-tag team champion in various promotions, and on previous US excursions, won gold with <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)<\/strong> in the CZW Junior Heavyweight Championship, CZW World Tag Team Championship (with <strong>MEN&#8217;s Teioh<\/strong>) and CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gZ8MDCy4wRQ<\/p>\n<p>The same day he won the King of FREEDOM World title, <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> announced that Jun Kasai was returning to the US in February 2019 for a GCW in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOTHING is impossible<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KASAI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KASAI<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>2\/16\/19<br \/>Atlantic City, NJ<br \/>\ud83d\udc12\ud83d\udc12\ud83d\udc12 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fyGD0urGT2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fyGD0urGT2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCWrestling_\/status\/1077731172426366978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Day at the legendary\u00a0Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, 44-year old Japanese legend Jun Kasai defeated Masashi Takeda to win his 4th Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS King of FREEDOM World Championship at FREEDOMS Blood X&#8217;Mas. https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuroresuArtt\/status\/1077920263612841984 Founded in 2009 by longtime DDT Pro and Big Japan Wrestling (BJW) veteran Takashi Sasaki in 2009, FREEDOMS has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":33664,"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":[2151,4053,4054],"class_list":["post-33661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-game-changer-wrestling","tag-jun-kasai","tag-pro-wrestling-freedoms"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}