{"id":55362,"date":"2019-10-03T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=55362"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:34:32","slug":"michael-elgin-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/10\/03\/michael-elgin-noah\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Elgin To Compete For New Pro Wrestling NOAH Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH<\/strong> has increasingly been using its partnerships with<strong> IMPACT! Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> lately with the likes of\u00a0<strong>Rhino <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Alexander Hammerstone\u00a0<\/strong>competing for NOAH recently.\u00a0 They have once again leaned on that alliance to bring in former NJPW titleholder <strong>Michael Elgin<\/strong> to compete for the brand new GHC National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Elgin, who has also competed recently for <strong>Big Japan Wrestling<\/strong>, will take on former four-time GHC Heavyweight champion\u00a0<strong>Takashi Sugiura\u00a0<\/strong>to crown the first NOAH GHC Champion.\u00a0 It is a good match considering Sugiura is also a big powerhouse who takes pleasure in taking and doling out stiff shots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Takashi Sugiura vs KENTA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tzLNbHWBE2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tzLNbHWBE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hisame (\u51b0\u96e8\\Pro-Wrestling Noah in English) (@Hi5ame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hi5ame\/status\/1177919961098051585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/09\/05\/noah-legend-noamichi-marufuji-headed-to-impact-bound-for-glory\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naomichi Marufuji<\/a> coming to IMPACT! soon it looks like NOAH and it&#8217;s US affiliates are strengthening their partnership. This can only be good as it presents the opportunity to see matches like Elgin vs Sugiura which is sure to be a fantastic hoss fight.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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.\u00a0 Subscribe to Pro Wrestling NOAH on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ghcnoah\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youtube<\/a> to see any uploads\/live streams as they don&#8217;t have a VOD service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Wrestling NOAH has increasingly been using its partnerships with IMPACT! Wrestling and Major League Wrestling (MLW) lately with the likes of\u00a0Rhino and\u00a0Alexander Hammerstone\u00a0competing for NOAH recently.\u00a0 They have once again leaned on that alliance to bring in former NJPW titleholder Michael Elgin to compete for the brand new GHC National Championship. 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