{"id":38110,"date":"2019-02-11T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=38110"},"modified":"2019-02-23T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T20:38:22","slug":"andnew-the-switchblade-era-begins-in-njpw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/11\/andnew-the-switchblade-era-begins-in-njpw\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Jay White, The Switchblade Era Begins in NJPW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <em><strong>New Beginnings in Osaka<\/strong><\/em> show on Monday,\u00a0<strong>Jay White\u00a0<\/strong>defeated\u00a0<strong>Hiroshi Tanahashi<\/strong> to capture the\u00a0IWGP Heavyweight Championship.\u00a0 The Switchblade has been steadily built ever since his return from an excursion to be a star for the company and he has now been anointed\u00a0as IWGP Heavyweight Champion, definitively\u00a0beating the former Ace, Hiroshi Tanahashi.\u00a0 White becomes the 8th gaijin to win the belt in history and only the 29th wrestler to hold it in the championships long history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u6700\u5f8c\u306f\u885d\u6483\u306e\u30d6\u30ec\u30fc\u30c9\u30e9\u30f3\u30ca\u30fc\uff01<br \/>\u30b8\u30a7\u30a4\u30fb\u30db\u30ef\u30a4\u30c8\u304c\u68da\u6a4b\u5f18\u81f3\u3092\u4e0b\u3057\u3001\u53f2\u4e0a\u6700\u5e74\u5c11\u306e\u5916\u56fd\u4ebaIWGP\u30d8\u30d3\u30fc\u7d1a\u738b\u8005\u306b!!\u30102.11\u5927\u962a\u7d50\u679c\u3011 <br \/>\u65b0\u65e5\u672c\u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30fb\u30b9\u30de\u30db\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u3067\u72ec\u5360\u8a73\u5831\u4e2d\uff01<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k3nruIFcTb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/k3nruIFcTb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njnbg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njnbg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MhWxRfs4q5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MhWxRfs4q5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u65b0\u65e5\u672c\u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e (@njpw1972) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpw1972\/status\/1094930652514856960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tanahashi loses the championship just weeks after defeating the departing\u00a0<strong>Kenny Omega <\/strong>for\u00a0the IWGP Heavyweight title and made no successful defenses, becoming the first to have that distinction since <strong>Manabu Nakanishi\u00a0<\/strong>in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>To the surprise of no one, White has become the IWGP heavyweight champion and reached the top of New Japan Pro Wrestling.\u00a0 He has been dominant for months now and is set to have a long reign on top fending off the likes of <strong>Tetsuya Naito<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Kazuchika Okada<\/strong>, the newly signed\u00a0<strong>Kota Ibushi\u00a0<\/strong>and maybe Tanahashi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the New Beginnings in Osaka show on Monday,\u00a0Jay White\u00a0defeated\u00a0Hiroshi Tanahashi to capture the\u00a0IWGP Heavyweight Championship.\u00a0 The Switchblade has been steadily built ever since his return from an excursion to be a star for the company and he has now been anointed\u00a0as IWGP Heavyweight Champion, definitively\u00a0beating the former Ace, Hiroshi Tanahashi.\u00a0 White becomes the 8th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":38117,"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":[2,13,14],"tags":[181,385,188],"class_list":["post-38110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-jay-white","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-njpw"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38110","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=38110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}