{"id":69178,"date":"2020-05-24T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=69178"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:33:23","slug":"jon-moxley-vs-brian-cage-announced-for-aew-fyter-fest-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/24\/jon-moxley-vs-brian-cage-announced-for-aew-fyter-fest-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Moxley vs Brian Cage Announced for AEW Fyter Fest 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the media scrum following <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Double or Nothing<\/strong><\/em> on Saturday night, AEW President and owner <strong>Tony Khan<\/strong> revealed that former IMPACT World Champion <strong>Brian Cage<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/05\/23\/brian-cage-makes-aew-debut-at-double-or-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who debuted at the event<\/a> and won the Casino Ladder Match for a shot at the AEW World title &#8211; would get his opportunity at the next AEW special event, the returning <em><strong>Fyter Fest<\/strong><\/em>. He also revealed that Cage in fact signed with AEW this past January, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/12\/report-brian-cage-signs-with-aew\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as we previously reported<\/a>, and that he had been paid during the pandemic while he recuperated from injuries. It appears\u00a0<em>Fyter Fest 2020<\/em> was originally scheduled to take place in London, England this year for the company&#8217;s United Kingdom debut, but the current pandemic halted those initial plans. More details for\u00a0<em>Fyter Fest 2020\u00a0<\/em>will be announced this Wednesday on\u00a0<em><strong>AEW<\/strong><\/em><strong> Dynamite,\u00a0<\/strong>hopefully revealing the date of the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tony Khan says Jon Moxley will defend his AEW World Championship against Brian Cage at Fyter Fest and more info will be released this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DoubleOrNothing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DoubleOrNothing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fightful\/status\/1264414794288939008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barring any matches on AEW television leading up to\u00a0<em>Fyter Fest<\/em>, this will be <strong>Jon Moxley<\/strong>&#8216;s third World title defense since winning the AEW World Championship from <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> at AEW Revolution in Chicago this past February. On April 15, he defended the title against <strong>The Inner Circle<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Jake Hager<\/strong> on\u00a0<em>AEW Dynamite,<\/em> and on Saturday, he defended it against <strong>The Dark Order<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Brodie Lee<\/strong>. This will be the first time that Brian Cage and Jon Moxley have faced each other in their careers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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 catch\u00a0AEW Dynamite\u00a0Wednesday nights at 8pm ET on TNT and\u00a0AEW DARK\u00a0Tuesday nights at 6pm on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the media scrum following All Elite Wrestling&#8216;s Double or Nothing on Saturday night, AEW President and owner Tony Khan revealed that former IMPACT World Champion Brian Cage &#8211; who debuted at the event and won the Casino Ladder Match for a shot at the AEW World title &#8211; would get his opportunity at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":69181,"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":[4677,2,6],"tags":[290,4989,4395],"class_list":["post-69178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-brian-cage","tag-fyter-fest","tag-jon-moxley"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69178","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=69178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}