{"id":54730,"date":"2019-09-23T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=54730"},"modified":"2019-09-28T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T03:46:18","slug":"andnew-aj-gray-wins-glory-pro-crown-of-glory-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/09\/23\/andnew-aj-gray-wins-glory-pro-crown-of-glory-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: AJ Gray Wins Glory Pro Crown of Glory Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an injury to <strong>Glory Pro<\/strong> Crown of Glory Champion <strong>Eddie Kingston<\/strong> before last night&#8217;s Glory Pro <em><strong>Thunderstruck<\/strong><\/em> event, the title was stripped from the &#8220;Mad King&#8221; and in the main event, challengers <strong>Curt Stallion<\/strong> and <strong>Paco<\/strong> were left without a third man in the championship triple threat. Enter <strong>AJ Gray<\/strong>, a last-minute replacement, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/07\/16\/indie-watch-rich-homie-juice-aj-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breaking out in the Midwest for the past few years<\/a>. To the shock of the entire audience &#8211; including AJ Gray himself &#8211; &#8220;Rich Homie Juice&#8221; AJ Gray walked away the new Crown of Glory Champion capping off a stellar 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreGloryPro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WeAreGloryPro<\/a> Crown of Glory Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichHomieJuice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RichHomieJuice<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pUXjeQNy2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7pUXjeQNy2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Carter (@cal3bcarter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cal3bcarter\/status\/1175957387401785344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Southern grappler has become a mainstay in the Midwest, particularly in Indiana, where he&#8217;s the reigning <strong>Paradigm Pro<\/strong> Heavyweight Champion and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/07\/29\/andnew-aj-gray-wins-blp-midwest-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently won the <strong>Black Label Pro<\/strong> Midwest Championship<\/a> as well. He&#8217;s also worked regularly with Ohio&#8217;s <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW)<\/strong>, as well as<strong> IWA Mid South, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Dipped in Gold x Gucci Mane. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7qondllbuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7qondllbuc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJ Gray (@RichHomieJuice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichHomieJuice\/status\/1175944418941120512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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> for 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 catch the replay of Glory Pro <em>Thunderstruck<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/independentwrestling.tv\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at IndieWrestling.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an injury to Glory Pro Crown of Glory Champion Eddie Kingston before last night&#8217;s Glory Pro Thunderstruck event, the title was stripped from the &#8220;Mad King&#8221; and in the main event, challengers Curt Stallion and Paco were left without a third man in the championship triple threat. Enter AJ Gray, a last-minute replacement, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":54734,"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":[4083,340],"class_list":["post-54730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","tag-aj-gray","tag-glory-pro"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730","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=54730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}