{"id":42943,"date":"2019-04-05T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=42943"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:10:46","slug":"wrestlemania-preview-us-championship-samoa-joe-c-vs-rey-mysterio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/05\/wrestlemania-preview-us-championship-samoa-joe-c-vs-rey-mysterio\/","title":{"rendered":"WrestleMania Preview: US Championship &#8211; Samoa Joe (c) vs. Rey Mysterio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luchadore legend\u00a0Rey Mysterio\u00a0looks to defy the odds once more as he takes on the monstrous Samoa Joe.\u00a0 Joe and Mysterio have been\u00a0involved in <strong>SmackdownLive<\/strong>&#8216;s main event scene for months now and have crossed paths in various multi man matches.\u00a0 In March the two began competing over the\u00a0<strong>United States Championship\u00a0<\/strong>as they were two of three people to answer\u00a0<strong>R-Truth<\/strong>&#8216;s open challenge.\u00a0 Samoa Joe would emerge victorious from this fatal four way match as he captured his first main roster Championship in the WWE by pinning <strong>Andrade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42949\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42949\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/Joe-wins-US-title-e1554135936321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A rematch of the fatal four way was made for\u00a0<em>WWE Fastlane\u00a0<\/em>as Joe once again\u00a0emerged victorious\u00a0as he choked Mysterio out in the Coquina Clutch.\u00a0 On March 12th Rey Mysterio teamed with Truth to face Andrade and Joe.\u00a0 Mysterio shocked Joe by picking up the win in the match, which made Joe very, very mad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samoa Joe vows to make Rey Mysterio pay: SmackDown Exclusive, March 12, 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qzO7WUKcKIo?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<p>The next week on SDLive Mysterio announced he would be facing Joe at WrestleMania for the United States Championship and has promised to defeat the &#8220;bully&#8221; Samoa Joe.\u00a0 Joe is a very angry monster on a good day but following surprise defeats\u00a0to Mysterio and\u00a0<strong>Kurt Angle\u00a0<\/strong>will be looking to take out some of his frustrations on WWE&#8217;s biggest little man.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rey Mysterio to challenge Samoa Joe at WrestleMania: SmackDown LIVE, March 19, 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vV068ksqwA?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<p><strong>Prediction:\u00a0<\/strong>While Mysterio is a WWE legend and would deserve one last WrestleMania moment we will probably see Samoa Joe walk out of this one with the championship.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luchadore legend\u00a0Rey Mysterio\u00a0looks to defy the odds once more as he takes on the monstrous Samoa Joe.\u00a0 Joe and Mysterio have been\u00a0involved in SmackdownLive&#8216;s main event scene for months now and have crossed paths in various multi man matches.\u00a0 In March the two began competing over the\u00a0United States Championship\u00a0as they were two of three people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":42952,"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":[2,3],"tags":[886,214,439,1126,396,2102],"class_list":["post-42943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-samoa-joe","tag-united-states-championship","tag-us-champion","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wrestlemania-35"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42943","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=42943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}