{"id":51351,"date":"2019-07-29T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=51351"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T03:57:16","slug":"andnew-aj-gray-wins-blp-midwest-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/07\/29\/andnew-aj-gray-wins-blp-midwest-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: AJ Gray Wins BLP Midwest Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/07\/16\/indie-watch-rich-homie-juice-aj-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising Midwest star <strong>AJ Gray<\/strong> <\/a>ended &#8220;Warhorse&#8221; <strong>Jake Parnell<\/strong>&#8216;s 175-day reign as the <strong>Black Label<\/strong> Pro Midwest Champion to add more Indiana gold around his waist &#8211; Gray is also the reigning <strong>Paradigm Pro<\/strong> Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IWTVonLocation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IWTVonLocation<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParadigmProWres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ParadigmProWres<\/a> champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichHomieJuice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RichHomieJuice<\/a> did exactly what he said he would and defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPWarHorse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JPWarHorse<\/a> to become the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLabelPro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BLabelPro<\/a> Midwest Wrestling Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Now with 2 titles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indiewrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@indiewrestling<\/a> family we get AJ&#8217;s first thoughts post match<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BLPDND?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BLPDND<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GmxOIFz8MZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GmxOIFz8MZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jrose ? (@thisisjrose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thisisjrose\/status\/1155256449632735232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The win was a huge one, as the title changed names following the match. Initially, the title was known as the BLP Indiana State Championship, but going forward it will be now known simply as the BLP Midwest Championship. AJ Gray is the third man to hold the title, following Parnell and inaugural champion, <strong>Kobe Durst<\/strong>. AJ Gray won the title in a hard-fought contest this past Saturday at BLP\u00a0<em><strong>Dragons &amp; Dropkicks.<\/strong><\/em><\/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. You can watch a replay of the BLP\u00a0<em>Dragons &amp; Dropkicks\u00a0<\/em>at<a href=\"https:\/\/independentwrestling.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> IndependentWrestling.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, rising Midwest star AJ Gray ended &#8220;Warhorse&#8221; Jake Parnell&#8216;s 175-day reign as the Black Label Pro Midwest Champion to add more Indiana gold around his waist &#8211; Gray is also the reigning Paradigm Pro Heavyweight Champion. #IWTVonLocation@ParadigmProWres champion @RichHomieJuice did exactly what he said he would and defeated @JPWarHorse to become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":51352,"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":[6],"tags":[4083,2205,4107],"class_list":["post-51351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","tag-aj-gray","tag-black-label-pro","tag-jake-parnell"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51351","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=51351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}