{"id":45365,"date":"2019-05-03T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=45365"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:23:50","slug":"andnew-taichi-wins-never-openweight-championship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/05\/03\/andnew-taichi-wins-never-openweight-championship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW Taichi Wins NEVER Openweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s NJPW\u00a0<strong>Wrestling Dontaku\u00a0<\/strong>show Suzuki Gun&#8217;s Taichi faced NEVER Openweight Champion\u00a0<strong>Jeff Cobb<\/strong>.\u00a0 Cobb won the title from\u00a0<strong>Will Ospreay\u00a0<\/strong>at the G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden on Wrestlemania Weekend. He was making his first title defence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45159\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45159\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/D3myiSlU8AEc3xS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/D3myiSlU8AEc3xS.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/D3myiSlU8AEc3xS-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Taichi Wins NEVER Openweight Championship<\/h2>\n<p>Taichi defeated Jeff Cobb with the Black Mephisto after a long matchup that was much better than Taichi&#8217;s usual output. This is Taichi&#8217;s second run as NEVER Champion after his first one was cut short at 47 days in late 2018.\u00a0 Cobb continues to stay in the malaise of the NEVER Openweight division as he has challenged for this title a few times since joining ROH. Cobb continues to hold the ROH TV Title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hahahaaa!!! Our Emperor Taichi did it !<br \/>\nNew never openweight champion ! ?????<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njdontaku?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njdontaku<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FV3CkmHcQK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FV3CkmHcQK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Comrade Creature (@CreatureOfTurku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CreatureOfTurku\/status\/1124275614716973057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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>At today&#8217;s NJPW\u00a0Wrestling Dontaku\u00a0show Suzuki Gun&#8217;s Taichi faced NEVER Openweight Champion\u00a0Jeff Cobb.\u00a0 Cobb won the title from\u00a0Will Ospreay\u00a0at the G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden on Wrestlemania Weekend. He was making his first title defence. Taichi Wins NEVER Openweight Championship Taichi defeated Jeff Cobb with the Black Mephisto after a long matchup that was much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":26162,"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":[5108,694,2621,188,1866],"class_list":["post-45365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-dontaku","tag-jeff-cobb","tag-never-openweight-championship","tag-njpw","tag-taichi"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365","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=45365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}